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Squeek Lights illuminates Coheed and Cambria Tour with Elation’s PARAGON
Coheed and Cambria at The Resch Center in Green Bay, WI, on June 7, 2025, for The Infinite Arc Tour, with lighting design by Ben Jarrett. Photographed by Sarah Hess for Squeek Lights.
Lighting designer Ben Jarrett of Squeek Lights has created a striking lighting design using Elation’s PARAGON
For the recent US leg of Coheed and Cambria's 2025 tour, the PARAGON M played a central role in shaping visuals. New Jersey-based Squeek Lights provided all the lighting, video and rigging for the tour, while Jarrett designed the full production to support the band’s sci-fi-inspired stage.
Elation’s new flagship LED profile series, PARAGON, is the result of years of development and designer feedback – and Squeek Lights was quick to see its potential. “PARAGON really checked all the boxes for us,” commented Victor Zeiser, managing partner at Squeek Lights. “It’s an extraordinary fixture. It includes a number of cutting-edge features and its versatility as a multi-purpose light is very attractive. It does everything we need it to.”
The co-headlining tour with Mastodon featured 34 PARAGON M fixtures. Jarrett tapped into the PARAGON’s multi-functionality, using the fixtures as spots, gobo projectors and mid-air beam lights. In a monumental feat, Jarrett used PARAGON’s dual rotating gobo wheels, animation wheel and advanced framing shutters to highlight a towering inflatable character with animated light play.
The fixture’s 37,000-lumen output, high build quality and IP54 rating made it a reliable choice across a range of environments. “It’s very bright – we’re getting more output than a 1000W discharge fixture,” Jarrett said. “We’ve been indoors, outdoors and in dusty fields – six weeks in, and they’ve handled it all.”
As Coheed and Cambria prepare to extend the tour through Europe and into a summer leg, the PARAGON setup is expected to come along for the ride.
The same power and flexibility seen on tour were also showcased at the National Medal of Honour Museum, where Elation’s PARAGON M fixtures and new Proteus Atlas played a key role in the lighting design.
Find out more about Elation’s PARAGON at elationlighting.com/collections/paragon
