GLP’s largest Coachella deployment at 2025 festival

GLP fielded its large ever deployment of fixtures at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival for the recent 2025 event – including all its latest in-demand touring products. Various stages – including the main stage and Sahara tent, as well as the Yuma club tent – were awash with GLP fixtures specified by international LDs, adding extra floor package drama to the existing generic house rigs.

The industry was eager for a first look at the might of the super-powerful MAD MAXX – used by Dan Norman with rapper Travis Scott on the main Coachella Stage – while production designer Rob Sinclair gave a sneak preview of the JDC Burst 1 in a taste of what to expect on Post Malone’s upcoming tour. Not to be outdone, Fragment Nine made use of GLP fixtures with its design for first night headliner Lady Gaga. However, much focus was given to GLP’s recently released JDC2 IP across the festival site.

Sara Landry performed at both the Sahara and Do LaB stages, debuting her Eternalism show on the former stage, with Elliott Mountford (from the collective Ti22 Design) overseeing the lighting direction. He made full use of 80 JDC2 IP, a fixture also used abundantly by Alexander Hesse (from A Light Production) to highlight Brazilian electronic producer Alok’s show.

Elliott Mountford used the JDC2 IP to animate a design created and programmed by Joe Allan at High Scream (which was also responsible for another of Mountford’s charges, Chase & Status).

Alex Hesse, another Coachella veteran, had a similar experience with JDC2 IP as he prepares for a massive Alok show at Sao Paolo’s 40,000-cap. Pacaembu Stadium with 900 fixtures, including vast quantities of the JDC2 IP. Three symmetrical rows of 13 JDC2 each, supplied by Maktive, were hidden behind the grille façade of the massive riser, programmed in amongst a unique display of tight choreography from a team of 45 dancers.

Elsewhere at the festival, Stephen Lieberman of SJ Lighting, who has been involved with the event in various design capacities since 2002, lit the Yuma stage, using 140 X4 Bar 20s and 34 JDC1s. SJ Lighting also used the X5 IP Bar on the LED wings of the Quasar Stage. Felix Lighting provided his inventory.

Others who carried GLP fixtures in their armoury included Parker Genoway, with LISA (Sahara Stage), and Jonny Kingsbury, with Charli XCX (Coachella Stage).

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Photography © Felipe Miranda