Club Lighting and Concert Lighting

As someone who produces house music and DJ's I'm constantly in clubs and going to music festivals and one thing that absolutely makes or breaks the experience is the lighting. Lighting is a huge part of the experience because it adds mood and atmosphere, especially in a club setting. What impresses me most is that lighting isn't necessarily planned beforehand, reason being that all DJ's mix according to the crowd vibe, therefore there are no planned moments or planned cues so the lighting designer must improvise and just like the DJ feel the crowd and gauge where they're at and cue lighting in the moment accordingly. There is a huge respect for lighting designers of all trades and while stage lighting and concert lighting are two very different entities they both enrich and add to the experience of going out.