Kimarius Abrahamsen Creates Magic for Award-Winning Cezinando with MagicBlade-FX

Norwegian lighting designer, Kimarius Abrahamsen, chose Ayrton MagicBlade-R and MagicBlade-FX lighting fixtures as the main structural elements of his design for Cezinando’s tour and summer festival appearances, […]

Louis Oliver picks Ayrton Khamsin, Bora and Mistral for Shawn Mendes: The Tour

Shawn Mendes: The Tour hit the road at the beginning of March on a 9-month, 105 date world tour under a lighting rig which comprises Ayrton Khamsin-S, […]

Kurt Wagner frames Michael Bublé with Ayrton MagicDot-SX

Michael Bublé’s world tour, An Evening With Michael Bublé, in celebration of his 10th studio album, #❤️ (Love), marks the singer’s long-awaited return to touring after a […]

Ayrton MagicBlade™R key to Haywyre’s Discovery + Form Tour

American musician, music producer, composer and DJ, Martin Vogt – known by his stage name of Haywyre – hit the road this February with his Discovery + […]

Ghibli makes its debut at Garsington Opera

Founded in 1989, the annual Garsington Opera Festival takes place over seven weeks in June and July at the Wormsley Estate, home of the Getty family, amid […]

What Now for Ayrton? MagicBlade-FX tours with Sylvan Esso

One of indie pop’s most exciting young bands, Sylvan Esso, is making waves on both sides of the Atlantic, having played top venues across North America last […]

Premier Global Production provides Ghibli for Brett Eldredge’s The Long Way Tour

As soon as Nashville-based Premier Global Production took delivery of 26 Ghibli™ fixtures, Ayrton’s first LED spot luminaire with a factory-equipped framing system, they quickly sent them […]

AYRTONLIVE ISSUE 13: Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Welcome to AyrtonLIVE 13!   It’s been a busy year for Ayrton with more new products and more great projects from the many talented lighting designers who, […]

Ayrton MagicPanel™-602 in the frame for Shania Twain

Canadian singer songwriter and all round ‘Queen of Country pop’, Shania Twain, is hitting the road with her long-awaited Shania Now tour. Twain has wowed audiences in […]

MagicDot-Xt Diamond Formation for Lenny Kravitz’s Raise Vibration

The Lenny Kravitz 2018 Raise Vibration tour, in support of his new album of the same name, kicked off earlier this year in Mexico City. The long-awaited tour from singer, […]

Dan Hadley Rocks MagicPanel-Fx with Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold Tour

Iconic American rock band, Foo Fighters, will soon wind down their 18-month Concrete and Gold world tour which launched back in May 2017 at BottleRock Festival in Napa Valley in […]

Ayrton lighting fixtures define looks for Vince Staples and Tyler, The Creator

Currently performing at festivals across Europe, American rap and hip hop artist, Vince Staples, spent the first quarter of the year in the USA opening for headliner, […]

Ayrton adds architecture to Appelt’s Eurovision splendour

Ayrton is extremely proud that lighting designer, Jerry Appelt, chose more than 700 Ayrton fixtures for his stellar design at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Appelt chose […]

Ayrton’s new Ghibli™ LED spot luminaires join Kieran Healy’s lighting rig for “American Idol”

After 15 seasons on FOX, American Idol moved to ABC this year where the show’s longtime lighting designer, Kieran Healy, added 50 Ghibli fixtures, Ayrton’s first LED […]

Church Delivers Serenity of Summer for Korn with Ayrton

Korn lighting designer, Thomas ‘Church’ Christmann is no stranger to the world of Ayrton. “On my first outing with Ayrton fixtures I was really impressed with the […]

Maroon 5 Head to Mandalay Bay with Ayrton MagicBlade-R

American pop-rock band, Maroon 5, well known for hits including Harder to Breathe and Moves Like Jagger, with their latest album Red Pill Blues released in November, […]

Yves Aucoin Puts Celine Dion in the Frame

This summer’s Celine Dion LIVE 2017 tour, in support of her 2016 French-language album Encore un soir, took the Canadian songstress on a 25-date tour of Europe […]

Show must go on. #SaveStageLighting

For commendable environmental reasons, the EU commission is intent on revising all the standards affecting entertainment lighting products. Since 2003, with technology, ecology, stage design and product […]

Ayrton Appoints ACT Lighting as Exclusive Distributor for the United States

It is with great pleasure that Ayrton announces the appointment of ACT Lighting, Inc. as its new exclusive distributor for the United States, with effect from 10 […]

Yoann Pelletier on tour with Gérald de Palmas in a forest of MagicDot-SX

For the tour of artist Gérald de Palmas, the lighting designer Yoann Pelletier had the task of creating a visual design using only light, breaking with the […]

Ayrton Honoured at LDI 2017 Awards for Most Creative Use of Light

Ayrton was delighted and proud to receive the LDI 2017 Award for the Most Creative Use of Light at last week’s LDI Show in Las Vegas. The […]

AYRTONLIVE ISSUE 12: The Chainsmokers MDNO Tour

Welcome to AyrtonLIVE12! We have a whole swathe of stories for you involving our lighting fixtures so let’s jump right in! We kick off with a preview […]

Robbie Williams Heavy Entertainment

Robbie Williams’ latest European tour took in all points east and west of the continent throughout the summer, culminating in two shows in the Russian cities of […]

Thinking inside the box… Ayrton throws light on The Chainsmokers Memories…Do Not Open tour

Grammy Award-winning artist producer duo, The Chainsmokers, aka Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, embarked on their first arena tour earlier this year, visiting 36 cities across North […]

JUSTIN BIEBER’s PURPOSE REVEALED by Cory Fitzgerald

Justin Bieber’s third world tour, Purpose, in support of his album of the same name, brings with it a new approach to mark the artist’s freshly reinvented […]

New Ayrton fixtures for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary Tour A modern twist on some old favourites.

Classic American blues rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers celebrates its fortieth anniversary and thirteen studio albums with their current 5 month (53-date) tour of the […]

Ayrton brings glamour to Germany’s Next Top Model

Ayrton MagicPanel-FX, AlienPix-RS and MagicBlade-R fixtures starred alongside the catwalk models during the grand finale of Germany’s Next Top Model on 25 May 2017. The spectacular, full-scale […]

Jean-Philippe Bourdon on Mission: Les enfoirés At the Zénith theatre in Toulouse, France

Lighting designers, like sailors, live away from their families and homes, sharing war stories over a glass, as the legendary old navigators told fantastic tales of their […]

Vitalic and Ayrton go on Tour with a spacecraft! At the Aeronef Lille Venue in France

French electro musician Vitalic is out on tour, and the All Access Design group have conjured an outstanding scenic design concept: a luminous, moving “space oddity” suspended […]

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE DIG YOUR ROOTS while MagicBlade™R flourishes

The multi award-winning country duo, Florida Georgia Line, took their third album Dig Your Roots on a 69-date tour across America in 2016 with a show that […]

Ayrton Celebrates 15th Anniversary with new products – and an Award – at Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt 2017

Ayrton celebrated its 15th anniversary at Prolight + Sound with new products, new staff and a prestigious PIPA Award in the Light FX category for its MagicBurst™ […]

AYRTONLIVE ISSUE 11: KoЯn tours Europe

Welcome to AyrtonLIVE issue 11. First and foremost in this issue we pay tribute to our dear friend Valère Huart Gyors, who left us in early February […]

LEROY BENNETT GOES ONE ON ONE with MagicPanel™R

Paul McCartney’s One on One tour started in Fresno, California in April 2016 since when it has clocked up 41 shows, to date, across North and South […]

LADY GAGA ROCKS SUPER BOWL LI with a little help from Ayrton

On 5 February Houston, Texas played host to the NFL’s Super Bowl LI, fought out between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons at NRG Stadium. […]

Ayrton fixtures praised by Church on KoЯn European tour

Grammy-award-winning, nu metal band, KoЯn, embarks on a tour of mainland Europe in March, starting in Zurich and culminating in Slovakia in April, with a set that […]

TRIBUTES TO VALÈRE

From SoundLightUp.com The Ayrton team has just announced the terrible news – brutal and irrevocable – that Valère has died. Silence… incredulity… an icy chill spread through […]

Dimitri Vassiliu takes WildSun™K25 on tour with French band LES INSUS

After playing France’s small/medium concert venues and festivals, French rock band LES INSUS, made up of former members of Telephone – Jean-Louis Aubert, Louis Bertignac et Richard […]

AYRTONLIVE ISSUE 10: HIGH SCREAM CREATES USHUAÏA’S Wow factor with Ayrton

Welcome to AyrtonLIVE10, the tenth of our news magazines, which showcases Ayrton products and some of the great projects they appear in around the world. Firstly, we […]

Ayrton’s MagicDot™-R ‘robot army’ energises the Eurovision Song Contest

The 2016 European Song Contest provided lighting designer, Fredrik Jönsson of Eyebrow Designs, Sweden, the opportunity he’d been waiting for: to specify and deploy Ayrton’s MagicDot™-R fixtures. […]