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.
