What are your favorite light shows from a concert/festival/etc

Over the many years I've attended gigs, I'd say a few light shows really stand out:

The Orb - Orblivion 1997 tour
Daft Punk - Human After All 2006 tour (the pyramid)
Pretty Lights - Free Press Summerfest 2012
Flaming Lips - Embryonic 2010 tour

of course, Mötley Crüe 1987 had a giant inflatable motorcycle, strippers, and Tommy Lee spinning around 360 degrees in a drum kit, but their light rig was meh, LOL

inb4 ae

All I need is music, maybe a strobe if you want to sweeten the deal.

Strobes are pretty rad.

ryoji ikeda

squarepusher with his ufabulum set up

  On 2/20/2016 at 2:17 PM, Gocab said:

All I need is music, maybe a strobe if you want to sweeten the deal.

 

Strobes are pretty rad.

Add enough fog so you can't even see the artist/DJ (or other people) and I'm good.

I can only remember one actual lightshow so I'm guessing I don't usually go to concerts or whatever that have lightshows. Anyway it was pretty decent lightshow for an ambient musician whose name I can't remember now.

I vaguely remember seeing Fatboy Slim in Brixton where he was in a big screen and they gave out glasses that refracted the light so it made loads of smiley faces. That was better than Amon Tobin's box thing.

The best would be Underworld during Moaner, around the 3 minute mark, obviously a simple set-up but it was fucking intense.

Green lasers and mirror ball pendulums. Aphex Twin at the Barbican 2010.

Jean Michel Jarre. Everybody knows about the guy's love for light show, lasers everywhere, smoke effects etc etc but it was great nonetheless.

Justice during the Audio Video Disco made something interesting : they kept the same scenery as their last tour but added lights within the actual setup and it was great as well !

Also : I'm very jealous about you Rubin having seen Daft Punk live !

  On 2/21/2016 at 11:13 AM, StocKo said:

Jean Michel Jarre. Everybody knows about the guy's love for light show, lasers everywhere, smoke effects etc etc but it was great nonetheless.

 

Justice during the Audio Video Disco made something interesting : they kept the same scenery as their last tour but added lights within the actual setup and it was great as well !

 

Also : I'm very jealous about you Rubin having seen Daft Punk live !

Yeah I saw that Justice tour as well, very cool

glad to see Pretty Lights live up to their name

  On 2/20/2016 at 4:12 PM, tec said:

I vaguely remember seeing Fatboy Slim in Brixton where he was in a big screen and they gave out glasses that refracted the light so it made loads of smiley faces. That was better than Amon Tobin's box thing.

 

The best would be Underworld during Moaner, around the 3 minute mark, obviously a simple set-up but it was fucking intense.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ1mNNzi9aw

I love Moaner, you just need to forget that it was licenced to the Batman and Rovin movie. Great video clip by the way, strobe and smoke is the way

  On 2/22/2016 at 12:40 PM, fletcher said:

 

  On 2/20/2016 at 4:12 PM, tec said:

I vaguely remember seeing Fatboy Slim in Brixton where he was in a big screen and they gave out glasses that refracted the light so it made loads of smiley faces. That was better than Amon Tobin's box thing.

 

The best would be Underworld during Moaner, around the 3 minute mark, obviously a simple set-up but it was fucking intense.

 

I love Moaner, you just need to forget that it was licenced to the Batman and Rovin movie. Great video clip by the way, strobe and smoke is the way

 

Really? Fucking hell. Yeah it's sweet, dunno who filmed it but I'm fairly sure that's my mate swaying in front of them.

stars of the lid with luke savisky playing about 8 16mm film projectors - various loops with homemade filters attached to them.. i think it was 2002

Rammstein's pyrotechnics were pretty awesome.

  On 2/21/2016 at 8:01 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

glad to see Pretty Lights live up to their name

His music is standard American EDM fare, but that stage set up cost a pretty penny

I haven't been for any of these but they look so dope.

Robert Heneke's Lumiere II

I have many happy memories of Awakenings light/fireworks shows. Especially in de Westergas.

Quite intense when you're in front.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcso5rZl4x8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJTHL-5sDbE

NIN

Slipknot (seriously, haters gonna hate, but if you haven't seen their recent live show you have no authority to criticise)

  On 2/23/2016 at 7:48 AM, kichiguy said:

 

yeah Robin Fox's show is probably the best audio/visual synchronisation I've seen

I'm digging the current Four Tet set up. Its relatively accessible materials, humble but very clever and well integrated.

radiohead 2012. them floating screens.