LOS ANGELES – Country superstar Eric Church’s Holdin’ My Own tour begins to create an immersive experience for fans as soon as they enter the concert venue. Forget standard house lights. The first thing that strikes visitors when they walk into the arena, whether it’s Barclay Center in Brooklyn or Staples Center in LA, is […]
SUNRISE, FL – Legendary designer Butch Allen, who is known almost as much for his flamboyant verbal style as his killer lightshows, was characteristically unabashed when recounting the start of his work on the current 98 Degrees MY2K Tour. “This is one in a series of shows I’ve proudly designed with my friends at FACULTY […]
If the clothes do indeed make the man, as the old phrase goes, what does that say about Butch Allen? The renowned designer has been known to make a sartorial statement or two in his stellar career, from donning a bunny outfit while touring with alternative rockers Garbage a decade ago, to wearing a controversial […]
LOS ANGELES – When you have only one trailer for a high-profile tour, every fixture you load into it had better count. Butch Allen, the 2014 Parnelli Award Lighting Designer of the Year who has toured with a long list of superstars from Van Halen and Jennifer Lopez to Metallica and Usher, demonstrated this principle […]