Welcome to AyrtonLIVE 14!

This issue of AyrtonLIVE gives a snapshot of our global reach with stories coming from the US, Australia, France, Norway, Spain and the Canary Islands, as well as a couple of world tours.

Cat Strom sends us two stories from Australia with tours from The Rubens and Parkway Drive looking resplendent with Mistral-S, Bora-S and Ghibli.

Spain turns up the heat for their Christmas festivities in the Canary Islands and goes for all out colour with Ghibli on their top musicals.

Ghibli features once again, this time alongside Mistral on Jason Isbell’s Ryman Residency, while Kimarius Abrahamsen parties in Norway with MagicBlade-FX on Cezinando’s tour.

There were more global travels for some of our MagicPanel-FX and MagicDot-R fixtures on two world tours from Keith Urban and Michael Bublé. Both very different in nature, yet each choosing to use our products to create their defining looks.

Finally, we return to France with SoundLightUP’s brilliant review of French pop star Calogero’s tour and an interview with young lighting designer, Vincent Lérisson.

Enjoy the read!

Other news

Ayrton MagicDot Neo deliver classic Rock’n’Roll looks for Canadian band TRIUMPH’s 50th anniversary tour

Canadian hard-rock power band TRIUMPH has begun its 50th Anniversary Tour with Ayrton MagicDot Neo providing powerful beam effects on stage.  Toronto-based Phase 3 AV is the tour’s lighting and video vendor supplying 80 MagicDot Neo from its inventory of 100 MagicDot Neo fixtures. 

Ayrton Diablo takes to the nunnery for Centre Stage London’s Sister Act

Centre Stage London’s production of Sister Act at the John McIntosh Arts Centre is the latest in a 60-year history of large-scale musicals produced to a high professional standard by this non-professional theatre group. Lighting designer, Ben Sassoon, has lit many of them, but this is his first time using Ayrton Diablo fixtures, which he specified after seeing lighting designer, David Howe’s, use of them on the West End production of A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.

Ayrton celebrates 70 years of Eurovision Song Contest with Tim Routledge’s lighting

Broadcast by ORF, Austria’s public broadcaster, from the Vienna Stadthalle on 12th, 14th and 16th May 2026, the world’s largest televised live music event, the Eurovision Song […]

Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club takes Ayrton Rivale Profiles Into The Woods

The young and ambitious team at Stage-Mate was responsible for the lighting design and brought a set of Ayrton MagicDot Neo fixtures for the new tour. We spoke with lighting designer Wout Panis about his vision and his choice of Ayrton.

MEROL kicks off festival season at Paaspop with Stage-Mate and the Ayrton MagicDot Neo

The young and ambitious team at Stage-Mate was responsible for the lighting design and brought a set of Ayrton MagicDot Neo fixtures for the new tour. We spoke with lighting designer Wout Panis about his vision and his choice of Ayrton.

Ayrton Veloce support magician Shin Lim’s “Limitless” in new lighting rig at the Palazzo Theatre, Las Vegas

Award-winning lighting designer, Howard Harrison, has chosen Ayrton Rivale Profiles as his only moving lights – amounting to 95% of the entire rig – for the West End transfer of Shadowlands which has just opened in London’s Aldwych Theatre.