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France - Creatiq celebrated 2023 in style as the first company in France to offer Robe’s new compact Painte moving light in a rental fleet based in Noeux-les-Mines in the Hauts de France.
The 12 new Paintes are joined by 16 x new Robe LEDBeam 350s ordered simultaneously to complete a flexible and dynamic new investment package which has already been busy on numerous shows and events.
Driving this move was Creatiq’s Cristophe Pawliszko, now the sole owner of the company he originally founded in 2006, then as one of six partners.
Creatiq supplies full production packages – backline, sound, lighting, structure, stages and video – for a range of shows and events from concerts to corporates, awards shows and other presentations and ceremonies.
Typically, Creatiq will also provide stage, lighting, sound and production design as part of their full produc

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Germany - Cameo will be coming to this year's Prolight+Sound with a packed product offering. The lighting technology brand of the Adam Hall Group will not only present numerous product highlights at its stand (Hall 12.1, B24), but will also organise its own series of live events, the Lumen Being Talks, consisting of interviews and discussion rounds with industry experts and young, up-and-coming minds from the lighting scene.
In addition, trade fair visitors can visit a special Surround Experience at the Adam Hall Group's Experience Centre in Neu-Anspach via a specially provided shuttle.
At the Cameo stand, the focus this year is primarily on outdoor and broadcast applications. Among other things, the lighting technology manufacturer will present its new IP65 moving heads from the OTOS Series, as well as the new, compact S2 IP LED Softlight Panel for use in film,
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Germany - Robert Juliat will exhibit at Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt on the stand of its exclusive distributor for Germany, Lightpower, in Hall 12.0, Stand C60, where it will be presenting a selection of its LED lighting fixtures.
First up is RJ’s award-winning Sully 4C, a range of colour LED profile and Fresnel spots.
Sully Profile (650SX 4C), which was granted the 2022 LDI Award for Best Debuting Product in the Lighting category, is a four-colour (RGBLime), 200W LED profile with a choice of 3 variable zoom options. A wealth of features and control options deliver perfect whites and high quality saturated and pastel colours, all packaged within a housing of renowned RJ build-quality. The coloured-LED compartment – around which the Sully range is designed – also makes it a swift, practical and economic solution to convert RJ 600SX tungsten fixtures to LED.
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UK - Currently running at the Unicorn Theatre, The Three Billy Goats Gruff tells the story of Baby, Middle and Big as they hatch a plan to venture across the bridge to find some grass to eat – but must outwit a horrible troll first. A musical retelling of the classic fable, the show features a score from Olivier Award-winning composers Stiles and Drewe. It features a lighting design by Sam Waddington, who approached White Light (WL) to supply his lighting fixtures.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff marks a welcomed return to the Unicorn Theatre for Sam, who has been lighting shows at the venue since 2017. About this latest production, he explains: “It became apparent from the first read and listen to Billy Goats that the entire vibe is just fun. There’s little call for tip-toeing (except across the bridge, of course), but very much a need to heighten dramatic

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USA - Bandit Lites is providing the lighting for country singer Megan Moroney’s upcoming performances. The singer-songwriter went viral for Tennessee Orange, her ode to a beau that has her questioning her loyalty to Georgia’s Bulldogs.
The music video for her debut Top 20 hit soared with 4m+ views in two months, culminating in Moroney being crowned the winner of the Breakthrough Female Video of the Year category at the 2023 CMT Music Awards on 2 April.
"Thank you CMT so much," said Moroney said while accepting her award at the CMT Awards. "Thank you to my fans. I wouldn't be up here if it wasn't for you all. Thank you to the incredible video team at Columbia for putting this together the day after Christmas. Thank you to the director, Jason Lester for really bringing my ideas to life in this video."
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France - Z Event chose a seasonal theme for its most recent Twitch TV streamed event, which raised funds for charities dedicated to protecting the environment.
During the three-day charity marathon in Montpellier, the wide stage at the 14,000 capacity Sud de France Arena, went through a series of smooth transitions, as it assumed the personalities of winter, spring, summer, and autumn, plus a fifth season called The Hell. The latter being marked by foreboding pyro effects.
The fiery atmospherics for The Hell, along with the evocative looks that set the tone for the other seasons were all part of a dynamic and versatile lightshow created by Jo Martin and powered by a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M and MagicQ 250M.
Working with lighting operator Andreas Monshauer, and video director Ivan Lasgoute, as well as technical directors Pierre Marinier, and William Lecomt, Martin he

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Germany – One of the leading rental suppliers in Germany, btl next GmbH, has recently chosen to modernise its dimming inventory with 40 modules of GEN VI dimming from Australian manufacturer, LSC Control Systems. The Düsseldorf-based company made this major investment through LSC’s exclusive distributor for Germany, LMP Lichttechnik.
Julian Siewertsen, head of btl next’s lighting department, says: “Due to the huge changes in the requirements for dimmers and current distribution, it was clear to us that we had to replace our old system - which technically still dims using the simple phase control and can therefore not replace a real fixed current distribution - with a more universally applicable product.”
As well as its dimming function, GEN VI can also be used as a full-featured power distributor. Each channel can be configured separately as a (real) relay

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Italy - A2A organised an event to celebrate Bergamo Brescia, Italian Capital of Culture 2023. Light is Life was born with a double awareness: the first was an environmental purpose, aiming to involve the territory's productive energies and use renewable sources; the second had a social aspect, through its support for Banco dell'Energia, a foundation of philanthropic organisations with the objective of helping people in difficulty by carrying out projects linked to the fight against energy poverty.
The festival, powered by renewable energy sources and installations designed according to energy efficiency criteria, took place in various symbolic locations in the city which took on the role of open-air art galleries. The heart of the event was the castle of Brescia, a fortification of medieval origin, erected on the Cidneo Hill, in which no less than 15 lighting installations w

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South Africa - Robe Tetra2s supplied by Gearhouse Splitbeam have made their debut on Ben Elton’s rock musical, We Will Rock You which opened at the Teatro at Montecasino, Johannesburg in March, moves to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town in May 2023 and visits a few other countries as part of the world tour. Gearhouse Splitbeam has supplied all technical elements, lighting, rigging, AV (projection and LED) as well as the main PA system.
Gearhouse Splitbeam has played an instrumental role in the entire production right from the start, with the show kicking off in Singapore and the Philippines, to its current full houses in South Africa and then ending in Israel. The company’s managing director, Alistair Kilbee, is also the tour technical director who is heavily involved with the crewing for the full tour as well as the local crew in South Africa.
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Mexico - Luke Stratton didn’t have to read between the lines when he saw the creative brief for The Smashing Pumpkins’ The World Is A Vampire festival, which took place in early March. He knew that the stage was going to be massive.
“When I got the stage dimensions from the promoter and the lighting inventory list, I knew we were going big,” said Stratton. “Our trim wound up being about 60ft to the steel and the stage itself was about 90 by 70ft, so yes, it was quite large.”
As the lighting designer and director for the multi-Grammy-winning band, Stratton, is accustomed to turning massive stages into tight, cohesive panoramas that reflect his client’s powerful, edgy music.
“In the past with the Pumpkins we’ve used tall vertical trust towers with a graphic overhead rig, so I wanted to build on that for this show,” said Stratton. “This being p

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Poland - GLP has entered an agreement with AV Light to be a strategic partner in the Polish market. As a result of the collaboration, GLP devices will be easily available to Polish customers.
AV Light is a new brand established by Rafał Mrzygłocki and Michał Mrzygłocki, who are the owners and CEOs of Aram - offering design and production services as well as A-Rental - the largest dry-hire house in Eastern Europe.
AV Light will focus purely on sales and distribution, with a dedicated team closely working with Polish clients. Ultimately, the brand will offer devices of various brands. The Mrzygłocki brothers believe that adding a pure distribution to their group is a perfect addition to their service portfolio.
“We have decided to focus on the GLP brand as it is one of the most prominent lighting brands in the entertainment industry. What is also importan

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Germany - With the release of the impression X5 wash light, German manufacturer GLP – German Light Products provided one of the most high-profile product launches of the past year.
At this year's Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt, GLP will showcase various extensions to the series at their booth (12.1 C30/31). As different as the devices are, they all share the X5 features. In addition, they can be seamlessly combined with each other to help users achieve even greater consistency in terms of colours and white light.
In the winter of 2022/2023, the X5 Compact was launched as the first addition to the series. Equipped with seven powerful 40W RGBL LEDs, GLP's new iQ.Gamut colour algorithm and a super-fast 16:1 zoom mechanism – which allows a penetrating 3.5° parallel beam as well as a homogeneous wash of up to 60° – the X5 Compact achieves the same high X5 standard in

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USA - Heavy metal band August Burns Red is currently touring the USA and Canada in celebration of its 20th anniversary. At the heart of lighting designer Carlos Katsurayama’s rig for the shows is a wall of 32 ADJ Jolt Bar FX LED wash/strobe fixtures, which provides a flexible backdrop to the band’s high-octane performances.
Arranged in five continuous rows, which frame the musicians’ performance space, the Jolt Panel FX fixtures are used as the visual anchor for the production, generating a wide variety of distinctly different effects throughout the band’s energetic 1.5-hour headline shows.
Formed in 2003, and hailing from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, August Burns Red is a Grammy-nominated rock band that has enjoyed consistent success over its 20 year history, having released 10 studio albums and more than 20 singles, which is being celebrated on the current 46-dat

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UK - The Darkness and Black Stone Cherry recently completed a co-headlining UK arena tour. This also united two lighting designers who were working together for the first time and 132 x Robe moving lights plus three RoboSpot systems supplied by lighting vendor Zig Zag Lighting.
Lighting designers Mark Scrimshaw (Black Stone Cherry) and David Garcia (The Darkness) pooled their specs, ideas and imaginations to create an overhead lighting rig that would work for both LDs and their respective artists, based on what Zig Zag largely had available from stock.
Throughout this process, Zig Zag's Neil Hunt incorporated their ideas into a single WYSIWYG plot until the final design evolved – ensuring everyone was “on the same page” when it came to the tight build schedules.
To give both LDs sufficient daily programming time, the whole flown system had to be clear of

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Europe - Lightware Visual Engineering has announced the Lightware Education Audiovisual Developer (LEAD) programme to provide exclusive benefits for educational institutions. LEAD, available globally, was established to support the specific needs of schools by providing a reliable, consistent solution for campus-wide connectivity.
To reach the hands of educational institutions globally, Lightware has developed the LEAD programme. LEAD provides education facilities with resources and benefits to create a standardised, campus-wide solution. The programme offers includes Lightware consultancy and project design assistance, proof-of-concept tests and demonstrations, training for technical staff, comprehensive technical support, and extended warranty services. Notably, Lightware will extend the standard three-year warranty throughout the entire partnership agreement.
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USA - For its opening weekend in mid-February, The Venue at Thunder Valley Resort Casino debuted in a big way with sold-out shows by big-name acts the Eagles, Bruno Mars, and Santana.
Located in Lincoln, California, just northeast of Sacramento, the resort’s recently constructed $125m, 4,500-seat entertainment venue boasts state-of-the-art entertainment technology including over 300 Elation Professional lights supplied and installed by Sacramento Production & Lighting (SP&L).
Dion Cook, president/CEO at SP&L, has collaborated with the casino for the past 11 years to equip the resort’s former outdoor performance stage with cutting-edge lighting. For the new 150,000sq.ft indoor venue that has replaced the outdoor amphitheatre, Cook specified a modern, flexible lighting package based around Elation’s Artiste series fixtures. “I wanted the horsepower t

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USA - Disney’s Hercules, a new musical inspired by the company’s 1997 animated feature, debuted at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey recently with more than 60 Ayrton Eurus S fixtures obtained from 4Wall New Jersey taking centre stage. Eurus S is a multi-function profile luminaire especially designed for stage applications. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America.
Disney’s Hercules tells the tale of the Greek mythological hero in a dynamic new musical production featuring all the hit songs from the film as well as numbers written especially for the stage. It opened on 16 February at the Paper Mill Playhouse, one of the oldest regional theatres in the country.
The production marks the third time that lighting designer Jeff Croiter has chosen Eurus S for theatrical musicals, increasing the numb

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Qatar - Qatar Vision has selected Claypaky lighting fixtures for a number of its most high-profile projects. The Doha-based firm offers a comprehensive slate of event production, technical integration solutions, marketing, creative design, video production, information technology and large-scale branding to a roster of world-class clients.
“We count on Claypaky to help us deliver successful events time after time,” says Qatar Vision CEO/managing director Sharif Hashisho. “Claypaky fixtures often dominate our lighting rigs and give us the innovative and versatile performance we need for top-level projects.” Hashisho often serves as creative concept designer and executive producer for Qatar Vision projects.
For example, the 25th anniversary of Qatar Airways was celebrated in spectacular style at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha with top government officials

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USA - Muse’s 2022 Will of the People LP took an unsparing look at a looming post-apocalyptic world though its words and music. The same compelling force can be felt throughout arenas today on the multi- Grammy winners current tour in support of the album, not just in the British rocker’s shredding riffs and mind-bending electronics, but also in a powerful production design that is generating so much attention in the press.
A collaboration between creative director and co-production designer Jesse Lee Stout and lighting designer and co-production designer Sooner Routhier, the thought-provoking visual panorama does more than merely support the music on stage. It also creates an all-embracive environment that works with the band’s performance to burnish itself into the audience’s collective consciousness.
Discussing the design, Stout noted: “The band and

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UK – The London Football Awards, an evening of celebration for the city’s footballing heroes, was staged at London’s Roundhouse in March. The popular event, now in its eighth year, enjoyed some well-controlled visual displays thanks to the Vista by Chroma-Q lighting control system provided by A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET).
Lighting designer Robert Price was called in by production company Spotlight Sound to look after the lighting, working closely with project manager Chris Wisbey. A Vista user for over 10 years, Price has used the control platform on projects ranging from theatre and opera to live music, television and corporate events.
In preparation for this event, he created a detailed Capture file, for both previsualisation and the generation of the lighting plans and paperwork. He says: “On the programming side, I spent about half a day setting

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Australia - Björk’s sonically immersive Cornucopia theatre masterwork played a four-night residency at the recent Perth Festival in Western Australia. It delighted fans and was staged in a purpose-built 5,000 capacity pavilion in Langley Park, ensconced amid a ‘cybersonic Garden of Eden uniting nature and technology’.
The tour’s lighting is co-designed by UK-based creatives Richard White and Bruno Poet, and for the Perth shows, equipment was supplied by local rental company Showscreens, including several Robe moving light fixtures from their extensive inventory.
Gracing the rig were 18 x Robe BMFL Blades, 20 x BMFL Spots,15 x BMFL Wash Beams, 30 x Spiiders and 12 x LEDWash 600s plus two more BMFL WashBeams on RoboSpot systems that are specified for the whole tour.
“Showscreens were an excellent choice of rental partner and came up with a great

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China - A spectacular opening night in November heralded the launch of the Forever Club in Wuhan, China’s biggest nightclub project in 2022. Situated in the Xintiandi business district of Wuhan, Forever uses fashion, art and music to create ‘a new entertainment landmark’. In keeping with the rest of the décor and ceiling creations, Forever has also invested in KV2 Audio’s flagship VHD5. This marks the second VHD5 installation in a Chinese nightclub, the first being at Taxx II in Shanghai in 2021.
Financed by Chinese entertainment giant, Noah’s Ark Group, Forever Wuhan is a 5,000sq.m venue consisting of three main areas: the principal 2000-capacity ‘house style’ hall, a smaller ‘hiphop’ area, and several private KTV rooms. The main hall contains some breath-taking trussing structures, sophisticated lighting and 3D effects as well as the KV2 VHD5 system whic

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Italy - Bringing with him knowledge accumulated over more than 30 years in the industry, Fabio Deambrogio has joined ADJ Europe in the role of business development manager for the Italian market. Working alongside ADJ's existing sales representatives in Italy, Fabio will focus on expanding the company's market penetration in the country's rental and production sectors.
Having worked as a sound engineer and lighting production manager, most recently for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Fabio has first-hand experience of the production/rental business. He also has an extensive background in manufacturer sales, with a rich network of contacts built up across significant stints working for a number of major players in the professional audio and lighting industry.
“I am very pleased and honoured,” declares Fabio “that ADJ Group has chosen me to collaborate o

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UK - Anna Valley and Garden Studios are partnering to set up a new virtual production studio in central London. The announcement follows the companies’ collaboration on the recent SMPTE Virtual Production Showcase that took place at Garden Studios and featured an LED volume by Anna Valley.
Together, the companies are providing a 150sqm+ volume and supporting crew and technology at Garden Studio’s facility in the heart of London’s film community.
Anna Valley has an extensive inventory of ROE’s acclaimed Black Pearl BP2V2 ‘film-centric LED panels’ and facilitates a range of pop-up and hosted virtual production studios for television, corporate and film clients. Garden Studios is the largest-scale film studio in central London with a total footprint in excess of 300 000sq.ft and five sound stages totalling over 48 000sq.ft.
They’re also no strangers to
  1. IP-rated Elation lighting for We Belong Here
  2. Ayrton Mistrals turn the spotlight on Underoath
  3. Bandit and Eric Cathcart light Love Rising
  4. WL joins Shirley Valentine in the West End
  5. Robe on time for Gibonni Zagreb shows
  6. Ayrton Khamsin and Domino light Adele in Vegas
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