PILTON, UK – Over 200,000 people attended Glastonbury 2025, an impressive number indeed, but not nearly as great as the 21 million who tuned into the BBC’s coverage of the iconic festival, plus the untold millions more who engaged on social media. Tim Fawkes was very mindful of both when he ran the show he […]

LOS ANGELES – Maybe it’s a coincidence… or some sort of karma… or perhaps it’s the psychological effect that a big flip of the calendar has on people… who knows? For whatever reason, though, the turn-of-the-last-century shook up a lot of things, among them was metal music, as a generation of new bands redefined the […]

HUNTINGTON, WV – Jennifer Lucas says she loves a challenge. Good thing… because not long ago, she and her team at Star Design Lighting got one, when they were asked to light a gala for Saint Mary’s Medical Center. This was no ordinary fundraiser either, but a highly imaginative event, built around a “Cosmic Odyssey” […]

LONDON – Asked to describe the kind of lighting look his client Halestorm wants, Rodger spells it out in four unambiguous words “classic rock show aesthetic.” Pugh, the owner of Dveus Designs is delivering that in emphatic fashion for the award-winning hard rockers global tour. His industrial floor package is supporting the band’s hard-driving music […]

The answers to life’s biggest questions are often hidden in humour, or so a wise old wag once said. We’re not sure about that, but what we can say, with absolute certainty, is that excellent advice about lighting design definitely comes across loud and clear when it’s wrapped up in funny and clever stories… Talking […]

Back in high school, we all had our absolute favorite albums, the ones we played over, and over, and over again without end until adulthood intervened. For most of us, those records continue to play themselves in our mind on occasion long after our high school days are over, giving rise to some great memories. […]

Oftentimes, this column is devoted to LDs who have enjoyed fruitful collaborations with their clients over a number of years. But at some point, every long-term creative partnership starts out as a new relationship. So, we asked ourselves, how does a successful connection between a designer and a band begin in the first place? This […]

SAN DIEGO – Creative Energy Knows No Bounds… That time-honored aphorism wasn’t coined for Tash Sultana, but it certainly could have been. A musical force, as much as a performer, the multi-instrumentalist from Australia takes audiences on a wonderous joy ride that follows no road map as it winds its way along its captivating journey. […]

LONDON – An album for people who love hard rock of bygone eras… That was how one admiring music critic described “Dreams on Toast,” the March 28th released album from The Darkness. It’s a description that accurately sums up the essence of this iconic British band. Their dramatic stage presence and irreverent (but funny) antics […]

LONDON – Minutes…hours…days… weeks… all the familiar markers of time quietly vanish in the vast, stark expanse of the desert, where past and present drift together in the thin night air. It is impossible not to be swept up in the stories told and retold under the stars in such a place. Zeynep Kepekli certainly […]

QUÉBEC – “We never do anything traditional. We never go through the front door. It’s always the back door, or an open window or something.” Smash Mouth frontman, the late Steve Harwell described the iconic band’s approach to making music in a CNN interview. Not surprising from a guy who once ate 20 eggs on […]

NASHVILLE  – There is a reason why physicists have defined time and distance in terms of light. Given that it appears to be everywhere at once light is uniquely qualified to reflect the passage of time over remarkable journeys. Matthieu Larivée and the team at Lüz Studio channeled this power when designing the production for […]