Friday, November 25, 2022
After a two-year, pandemic-related wait, the The Weeknd’s 19-date North American After Hours Til Dawn Tour, surpassed even the loftiest expectations. This was plain to see (and hear!) from…
SOURCE: PLSN at 10:01AMIntelligent, enigmatic, and hugely talented, the music of Phoebe Bridgers has been captivating an ever-growing fanbase since her first album release in 2017, with Lighting Designer Spike Kie…
SOURCE: PLSN at 09:13AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
Lighting Designer Ty Veneziano uses multi-functional moving head to customize design on co-headlining tour with Alice in Chains. Lighting vendor is Bandit Lites.
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:47PMMonday, November 21, 2022
To provide My Chemical Romance with immersive and stylized lighting for their highly-anticipated world tour, lighting production house Penlight designed a custom-built rig featuring Martin P…
SOURCE: PLSN at 06:55PMIt is with great sadness that the Showlight Committee announced the postponement of Showlight 2023. The popular quadrennial networking event was due to take place May 20-23 in Fontainebleau,…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:32AMSunday, November 20, 2022
ETC presented Behind the Scenes with a check during LDI for $26,493 representing proceeds from sales of the company’s iRFR and aRFR (Radio Focus Remote) applications. Since the launch of t…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:36PMFriday, November 18, 2022
Fans from Aruba, Bonaire, and as far away as Suriname came to see Grammy winning singer Burna Boy at the Curaçao Festival Center in late October, but they would have missed much of his supe…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:57AMMaintaining that delicate balance between enigmatic, arty, alternative popularity and success, the much anticipated Twenty One Pilots Icy tour hit the road this summer, offering Lighting Des…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:43AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
Bandit Lites has been nominated for the Concert Visuals Company of the Year at the 34th Annual Pollstar 2023 Awards. The awards will be held during the Pollstar Live! Conference in February …
SOURCE: PLSN at 06:04PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
Nearly 45 years after founding Belgian event staging pioneer Stageco, Hedwig De Meyer is stepping down from his leadership role, and has named Hans Willems as Stageco Belgium’s new executi…
SOURCE: PLSN at 02:04PMWhat do Kix Brooks, Vince Gill, Randy Owens, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton and Michael T. Strickland all have in common? Each has been awarded the prestigious CMA Foundation Humanitarian Award.…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:24AMSaturday, November 12, 2022
Lighting Designer Scott Holthaus, assisted by Cort Lawrence, provided Alice in Chains with a multi-faceted lighting design featuring 40 CHAUVET Professional fixtures, which like the rest of …
SOURCE: PLSN at 10:37AMFriday, November 11, 2022
Lighting design is an art. It’s also a wonderfully lyrical and creative form of reflecting music visually. Nate Haber of Extraterrestrial Visuals knows all that, but beyond these qualities…
SOURCE: PLSN at 09:45AMThursday, November 10, 2022
Lighting comedy is serious business for Marc Wasserman of 3 With 1 Grab Productions. In recent years, the Manhattan-based designer has lit major tours by Nick Cannon as well as shows by Mo…
SOURCE: PLSN at 09:47AMWednesday, November 9, 2022
When Luke Combs finally hit the road again for his What You See is What You Get tour in 2021, he was happy to be back in the spotlight after the collapse of his 2020 tour due to the pandemic…
SOURCE: PLSN at 03:48PMCountry super star Maren Morris is out on her 2022 Humble Quest Tour with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. The 45-date production, named for her most recent album Humble Quest, l…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:25PMEighty-eight Ayrton MagicPanel-FX multi-function luminaires, controlled by a grandMA3 lighting console, play a key role as Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Tour gets underway this fall. The Ayrt…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:22AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
“Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey,” Jon Bon Jovi once said. His fellow Garden State rocker, The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon, would likely agree with that description, so too …
SOURCE: PLSN at 02:44PMThe 11th Annual Touring Career Workshop (TCW) at Nashville’s SoundCheck rehearsal studios attracted 350 attendees who gathered to participate in workshops and hear from top experts from a …
SOURCE: PLSN at 01:31PMMonday, November 7, 2022
U.S. rockers Panic! at the Disco kickstarted their highly anticipated Viva Las Vengeance arena tour at Austin, TX’s Moody Center in September, with a ’70s and ’80s rock-influenced high…
SOURCE: PLSN at 05:48PMFans didn’t stay in their seats for long when Breaking Benjamim took the stage on their recent tour with Alice In Chains. The multi-platinum rockers from Pennsylvania opened their show wit…
SOURCE: PLSN at 05:47PMMonday, October 31, 2022
Design firm Darkroom Creative is handling lighting design, set design and video content for Walker Hayes’ Glad You’re Here Tour and has employed Elation Professional’s compact Smarty H…
SOURCE: PLSN at 10:02AMJoe Beardsmore and Jonny Gaskell channeled the immense power of contrasts when designing the light and video show for David Gray’s recently concluded U.S. leg of his White Ladder: The 20th…
SOURCE: PLSN at 09:11AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
Old time country is in good hands with ACM and CMA award-winning singer/songwriter Jon Pardi, whose classic country sounds on his Ain’t Always the Cowboy Tour are complemented by lighting …
SOURCE: PLSN at 10:52AM“You better check your email right now!” Patrick Dierson is no stranger to getting text messages like this when he’s on a job site, especially when he’s overseeing the production des…
SOURCE: PLSN at 09:51AMTuesday, October 25, 2022
The University of Tennessee in Knoxville held its annual celebration of illustrious alumni at 2022 Alumni Awards Gala. Bandit Lites donated a lighting system for the event, which honors alum…
SOURCE: PLSN at 04:04PMMonday, October 24, 2022
Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys has embarked on her sixth concert tour playing 31 dates in North America and 21 in Europe on the Alicia + Keys World Tour. The show, which celebrates the 15-tim…
SOURCE: PLSN at 06:54PMPLSN magazine has added a text-to-speech audio player to its website. Readers and subscribers of PLSN can now enjoy listening to the magazine — including features, news stories, and more o…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:49AMFriday, October 21, 2022
A casual observer might describe Rowdytown as a “concert,” but the event’s organizers, the electronic music duo Big Gigantic, and their legion of fans, prefer “party,” a term that …
SOURCE: PLSN at 03:58PMThursday, October 20, 2022
Country star Walker Hayes is out on his first headlining tour with a lighting package supplied by Bandit Lites. The viral ‘Fancy Like’ singer released his third album “Country Stuff”…
SOURCE: PLSN at 04:28PM Back in 1959, a Dayton, Ohio man named Ermal Fraze forgot to bring his can opener to a family picnic. Desperate to enjoy his favorite beverage on that hot day, he had to resort to opening…
SOURCE: PLSN at 09:47AM 
