The Maatea (main) Stage at the 2026 Moorea Festival in France featured an impressive array of international electronic and EDM artists and an equally dazzling lighting design by Loic Esparraga – of Paris-based design studio MIND – with 48 x Robe GigaPointe moving lights at the core of the aesthetic. The festival, which started in 2024 and is growing and developing each year, was staged in the...
Slovenian lighting and visual design studio Blackout created and delivered an outstanding 360-degree lighting show for popular young Croatian singer Jakov Jozinović, who played two sold-out nights at the Stožice Arena in Ljubljana. The team was led by Blackout’s Crt Birsa and included two of his colleagues, Klemen Krajnc and Anze Trstenjak, and they had just 16 days between getting a decision on...
Mojo Rental Southeast Europe from Croatia were the first company in the Balkans to invest in Robe’s new GigaPointe laser-phosphor source multipurpose luminaire, with a purchase of 24 fixtures. These were delivered – direct from the factory in Czechia – to the get-in of two massive shows at Zagreb Arena for Croatia’s latest pop and internet sensation, Jakov Jozinović. The GigaPointes were right at...
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...