Live Music & Concert Lighting
Concerts, gigs and tours — from intimate rooms through to arenas. Design, programming and operation.
What it covers
Music lighting lives and dies on timing. The job is to know the set, know where the moments are, and make sure the light arrives with them — not a beat late.
- Song-by-song look design across the set
- Programming to the running order, with cues that hold up when the set changes
- Operating live — busked to the band, or run to timecode where the show is locked
- Working with the venue or supplier rig, or specifying one
- Support for support acts and shared-rig nights
Busked or timecoded
Most live music sits somewhere between the two. A tightly produced show with backing tracks can run to timecode, so every hit lands identically. A band that stretches an outro or drops a song wants the show busked — structured cues, triggered live, so the lighting follows the room instead of fighting it. Both need the same groundwork: clean palettes, sensible cue stacks and a show file that is quick to change.
Rooms of every size
The same set might play a 200-capacity club and a 2,000-seat theatre in the same month. Designing for that means deciding early what the show cannot lose — the key looks, the silhouettes, the big moment — and letting everything else flex.
Related work
Got a show coming up?
Send the dates, the venue and a running order — you'll get a straight answer.