Lighting Design Associates

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FROM THE VAULTS!

A selection of  show  pics 

from 1975 -2000

Aladdin 1975

My first professional gig!

Slane Castle Ball Summer 1978

This was a test run for Rupert and me to see how things might go. We started the business 2 months later.

Bernard Griffin joined about a year later.

Dance Dance Dance! Nov. 1978

My first professional Dance Show.

The hit of the Dublin Theatre Festival

Choreography: Mavis Ascott (left)

Stage and Location Lighting, started by Rupert Murray and me in November 1978, with an office in my house and a store in my neighbours garage at the princely rent of £10 per week!

Project Dark Space 24 hour non-stop Festival. Our first official contract.

Also famous for an appearance by U2, watched by Paul McGuinness, who signed them shortly after.

Carnsore Anti-Nuclear Rallies ‘78+’79

Our first outdoor festivals.

I helped Christy Moore dig the lime-pit toilets! I’d forgotten my shovel, so he lent me his!

Paul Brady

Planxty

The Bothy Band

 Clannad

Chuck Berry

Barry Moore + Eamon Murray

Stockton’s Wing

 Paul Brady

Clannad

Chuck Berry

Photo Colm Henry

Stockton’s Wing

Ballisodare 1977-81

A seminal event which I got involved with in ’79 and forged connections with so many great musicians and crew, Great times.


Early Stage and Location clients included

U2, Clannad and many local bands

U2 c.1980 around the time I lit their first National Stadium gig.

Clannad’s set-up 1984

National Concert Hall

Clannad’s National Stadium 1984 (Enya on keys)

Joe Ely 

John Prine

Wilko Johnson & Joe Ely

Don Everly

Marty Robbins, Philip Donnelly, Guy Clarke

Lyle Lovett & John Prine

Lyle Lovett & John Hagen

THE SESSION 1988

The first concerts ever in The Point.

Joe Cocker  National Stadium 1980 

Van Morrison RDS 1984 

Castlebar 1982 

Castlebar 1982 

Ian Dury Castlebar 1982 

Dalymount 1983

Dalymount 1983

Pic. D McAreavey

Dalymount 1983

Pic. D McAreavey

Ray Charles, Tramore 1993

Ray Charles, Tramore 1993

Fleadh Mór Tramore 1993

What a bill!

Pavarotti RDS 1990

Pavarotti RDS 1990

Placido Domingo 

The Point 1991

Concert for Somalia 

The Point 1990

Clancy Brothers Reunion 1984

Country Festival, 

The Point c.1989 

Emmylou Harris

National Stadium 1984

Italia ’90 RDS

Italia ’90 RDS

Bryan Ferry, RíRá c.1996 

Hugh Cornwell, RíRá c.1996 

Custom House illuminations, 

1991 (LD Bernard Griffin) 

Something Happens, 

7 Bands on the Up, SFX 1989 

7 Bands on the Up, SFX 1989 

James Brown, The Point 

1991 (LD Paul O’Neill) 

James Brown, The Point 

1991 (LD Paul O’Neill) 

The 4 of Us, 7 Bands 

on the Up, SFX 1989 

ZZ Top, SFX 1983 

 (Their LD) 

Rory Gallagher, College Green 1992 (LD John Holland) 

Rory Gallagher, College Green 1992 (LD John Holland) 

Rory Gallagher, College Green 1992 

(LD John Holland) 

Lighting Design Associates 

1 St. Catherine’s Rd, Glenageary, Co. Dublin, A96 W598, Ireland. 

Telephone: +353 1 280 5386 

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e mail: leonardlighting@me.com

Lou Reed Liss Ard 1998