On December 26th and 27th, Dallas, TX held its fifth annual EDM festival – Lights All Night. The festival, for the past few years, has been held at the Dallas Convention Center and features giants of the EDM industry. This was another great year for Lights all night- this year they brought in some amazing artists paired with some newer talent as well. This wider variety of artists brings fans not just from Dallas, but from all over.

The convention center is a great venue for this festival – it’s indoors and the set up of the stages was well coordinated. There are two main stages and two smaller stages – both are “silent” stages where fans get to experience the artist’s music through Bluetooth headphones. And the venue can hold all the fans in a comfortable manner and gave them room to dance freely and not feel too cramped.

Both nights of the festival were quite successful, the artists were great and brought a lot of energy to the venue, and the stages design were set up very well. The lights were coordinated and synced with the music as well. Overall the show had another successful year. Concert goers have a lot to look forward to next year – perhaps another great set of artists!

Night 1 – December 26th 2014

Artists: Colton Carlyle, Bboy Morris, Billy the kid, Teezy, Gamma, Zeke &Zoid, The Hi Yahs, Zander, Closed Caption, Jesse Hutton, Trill Wave, Demarkus Lewis, Justin Jay, Arkoou, Brazzabelle, Andrew Rayel, Dj Musterd, Sunny & Ryan, Grizzley, Oliver Heldens, Chromeo DJ Set, Nick Van House, Wishfm, Destructo, Tchiami, boys noize, Zedd and Skrillex.

Main stage at Lights All Night

Brazzabelle pumping the crowd on night one

Destructo performing on the main stage

Destructo backstage

Andrew Rayel

Andrew Rayel

Tchami

Tchami

Sunnery James and Ryan Marciano

Amazing crowd at lights all night

Skrillex

Skrillex

Zedd

Zedd heating up the stage

Zedd ending the show on night 1 with a huge blast!

Night 2 -December 27th 2014
Artists: Moneta, Hicks with sticks, Crod, Raging Pandas, Lady Parts, Jack Bass, Jayceooh, Black Frames, Wall, Pass the 40, Hunter Vaughan, Mscls, Left/Right, Christian Martin, Surain, Whyel, Audien, 12th Planet, Paper Diamonds, Seven Lions, Zed’s Dead, DJ Snake, Paradise, Firebeatz, The Chainsmokers, Odesza, Disclosure dj set, and Armin Van Buuren.

Paradise starting night 2 off with a blast

Firebeatz

Firebeatz rocking out

Audien

Andrew of the Chainsmokers geting some major air

The Chainsmokers making good use of the stage

Front and center

Paper Diamond

Paper Diamond showing his appriciation to the crowd.

Alex of Paper Diamonds. He

Seven Lions

Jaming out to the seven lions set

Crowd surfing during the Seven Lions set

Disclosure performing one hot set

Disclosure

Armin Van Buuren making sparks fly on stage

Armin Van Buuren

Armin Van Buuren ending the show with a blast!

Article and Photographs by Mehreen Rizvi.