The LaBarberas – Stacey and his oldest son Skylar, who has his own production design company and is the tour’s co-designer and lighting / media programmer on the road – specifically spec’d 88 of these fixtures as they wanted a new IP Rated luminaire that literally washed, twisted and flashed, explained ON Services’ senior Account executive for touring & national lighting, Donny LoDico … “so we...
Metallica’s phenomenal record-breaking M72 stadium tour continues to play sold-out venues across Europe, supporting their eleventh studio album, 72 Seasons. It started in Amsterdam in April 2023 and continues to delight Metallica fans around the globe. The tour features an impressive 120-foot-wide, in-the-round stage designed by Dan Braun, including a centre-ring pit area and a spectacular...
Robe lighting was proud to be a technical partner for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), staged with all the glamour, glitz, energy, sparkle, sheer Eurovision joy and superlative production values you would expect … last weekend at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria. The 70th edition of the world’s best-known international pop extravaganza was organised by the European Broadcasting...
Iconic Czech rock band Lucie celebrated their 40th anniversary with incendiary concerts in four major cities around the Czech Republic – one in Brno, one in Ostrava, two in Prague, finishing up at the LOGSPEED CZ Aréna in Plzeň – all sold out. The technical production was coordinated and managed by SMART Production, headed by Josef 'Pepa' Ženíšek. The band’s lighting designer is Lukáš Patzenhauer...
Legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famers Def Leppard – one of the biggest-selling rock artists of all time – played 12 incendiary sold-out shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, complete with a spectacular new visual and lighting design created by Montreal-based Luz Studio. On Luz’s lighting rig were some core Robe products, including WTF! IP rated LED strobe-wash-blinder fixtures...
John Featherstone and his daughter Hailey Featherstone, both of US-based visual design studio Lightswitch, have imagined the stunning lighting design for legendary film composer Hans Zimmer’s current “The Next Level” world tour. Hailey is out on the road as lighting director, together with 225 x Robe moving lights and 13 x RoboSpot Systems, among other lights. Robe was a go-to choice for John and...
This includes 128 x Robe Pointes and 109 x BMFL WashBeams which are right at the centre of a complex and eye-catching rig. The tour kicked off with 5 large stadium dates – all completely sold out - in Italy for which the set and video was designed by Igor Ronchese from Tekset based in Paderno Dugnano. It now continues in the U.S. where Pausini has a massive following especially amongst the...
Associate LD and lighting operator Manfred Nikitser from MANIK Show Lighting, Vienna, is running the lighting for the current touring schedule together with Rainer Becker. The summer shows are a mix of festival and own-headliners, 90% of the time using local productions matched as closely as possible to their generic spec. Robe’s BMFL Spots are among a number of primary moving light fixtures on...
Production designers Daniel Slezinger and Justin Roddick have embraced this eclectic theatrical mix of spectacle, mood and thought provoking performance since 2012, and the first time they saw TØP play at 12th & Porter, a Nashville club they owned at the time. Taking it from a US trailer tour to a sold-out multiple truck arena / amphitheater world tour, they have spec’d nearly 180 Robe fixtures...
These were supplied - together with other lighting including 24 x Robe Pointes - by leading Danish rental company, Comtech, based in Copenhagen which has invested heavily in Robe over the last year. The Arena accommodated a wide variety of bands over the four day festival – from breaking talent to established headliners like Slayer, PJ Harvey, New Order and James Blake, with a total of 21 acts...