"The addition of Astera to our current portfolio significantly enhances our sales outlook as it allows us to provide an even more comprehensive array of audio/visual solutions to our customers," commented John Salisbury, associate director at Bluebottle. "We are committed to bringing this expanded offering to new and existing customers while also ensuring they receive the same level of service and support that they always
Tom Warden, project manager for IPS, explained the choice of Chauvet Professional. "The most important thing was that Chauvet guarantee all panels go through a rigorous quality control. UK-based spare parts and support made this a safe choice. And the product features were appealing, with the high resolution pixel pitch, intelligent rigging system and easy to use inter-panel connections."
Chauvet's service scored high with IPS at every point of contact, "Chauvet offered a demo and relatively short lead time for delivery to fit in with our pr
Bushell's stage lighting worked seamlessly with the multi faceted set, devised by set designer Richard Stembride, and the on-stage video content. Combined, these factors brilliantly echoed the bombastic mood of the band's art-house electronica with the mass enthusiasm of the crowd.
Nevertheless this show has been no easy ride for the creative team, which has seen them deliver a complex show design capable of fitting into every kind of venue from big US sheds, to European arenas and weekend music festivals, often with limited time and not alwa
LumenRadio, working with Enttec and Sylvania Lighting Australasia provided a wireless control scheme to update the building facade lighting and add color controls, wireless monitoring and integration into the building LAN. Enttec supplied the LumenRadio products along with a selection of their Aleph product portfolio to the project, which installed during the heat of the Australian summer.
Steve Furzey, technical manager at Sylvania Lighting Australasia commented, "The LumenRadio products are well constructed, simple to setup,
Schoeman is head of lighting at Carnival City and lights many performers visiting the venue with a schedule that includes a steady flow of international artists.
For Tamia, Schoeman had a free rein to come up with the design, and started with the music, which embraces multi genres including R 'n' B, pop, hip hop soul, neo soul and gospel jazz - and so has a wide dynamic range for lighting as well as the performance.
"R 'n' B / pop suggested to me lots of crystal pastel colours, gobos and texturing and flowing movement so that's the way it went. It was huge fun lig
Having been approached by production manager, John 'Lug' Zajonc and tour manager Nick Cua, Halpin was soon discussing concepts with the artist himself. "He wanted this show to look unlike anything he had done before - moving away from the traditional imagery of country music and into something more modern looking." He also wanted to display abstract 'light and shape' imagery and integrate the lighting with a multiple LED screen canvas."
To help him implement this, Halpin, in conjunction with lighting director Pat Brannon, selected 134 of GLP's impression X4 LED moving heads to create a highly imaginative lighting dynamic.
Along with colleagues
These were the first major music events in Bristol's Harbourside for 10 years: open air concerts featuring Paolo Nutini on 25 June, with The Pogues 26 June and the promoters have since announced their intention to establish an annual Bristol Summer Series event.
The stage was framed by a tall ship, the Kaskelot, where Paolo Nutini played a combination of his hits with tunes from his latest album Caustic Love to a sell-out crowd of 5000, while The Pogues were also a huge hit, attracting 3500 people who danced the night away to Irish punk-folk classics.
Utopium's Colin Bodenham and John Newman combined their skills to design and deliver the stage lighting
Martin Werner, CEO at Laserworld, has overseen several acquisitions and new foundations of companies in the Laserworld Group in the past years, where he sees an obvious trend: "In an increasingly difficult niche-market, consolidating is essential to configure in a way to be competitive and at the same time provide products that perfectly meet the requirements of the customers. Achieving this in such a specialized industry like ours is only possible with a strong team of highly qualified individuals; Laserworld provides the ideal framework for this."
The company network already spans the whole world. The various companies maintain their independence, identity
PLASA Focus provides visitors with the opportunity to check out the latest products from some of the biggest names in entertainment technology. Companies already signed up to exhibit include: d&b audiotechnik, Chauvet Professional, TMB, Altman Lighting, Drape Kings, Harrington Hoists, Lightronics, Elation Professional, and Big House Sound, among many others. With many other applications being processed, companies interested in exhibiting are advised to move quickly to secure a spot.
Running alongside the exhibition is the PLASA Professional Development Programme which offers attendees free access to seminars. The program
Today he owns and manages five very successful venues in the city, one of which is Europa Night Club situated in Sunnyside. Europa has been going strong for the past eight years and the time recently came for Mike to up his game and upgrade the sound and lighting for the venue, making it on par with international specs.
He started with the audio system and involved Wild & Marr who did what they do best!
DWR Distribution was approached to manage the lighting upgrade. Schalk Botha from DWR worked with Mike and Henno van Wyk, regionaly manager for JMVR, on the solution to highlight the key areas.
After a few meetings and demos the choice was made. Robe's Robin 100 LEDBeams and Robin CYCFX 8's have been install
With the Tabernacle's heritage came beauty and workmanship, including the decorative timber ceiling. Intricately worked and carved, the timber inlays are original to the Tabernacle and are a masterpiece of an almost lost art. Beautifully restored, they are a highlight of a visit to the theatre. But how do you run a functional lighting rig and grid without blocking the view of the ceiling?
Working with Darlinghurst T
Along the production journey, as technology evolved into LED, so Cohen encountered the world of the GLP impression series - using both the original impression 90 and 120 RZ zoom as well as the Volkslichts. But it was the later introduction of the X4 that confirmed his love affair with the impression LED platform.
"I saw the X4 for the first time on the GLP stand at LDI when Mark Ravenhill showed them to me. The technology and co
This year's edition of the event, which has raised well over a $1m annually since it began in 1999, also brought something else to the area - big name entertainment in the form of Lady Antebellum. The multi-Grammy winning, platinum recording artists performed before over one thousand invited guests at the Rhode Island Convention Centre, illuminated by a zesty lightshow created by Derek Iorfida, using a variety of Legend moving head fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
"This is a major event throughout the state," said Iorfida, president of JDI Productions in Johnston, Rhode Island. "The gala at the convention tops off a charity golf tournament that generates a lot
Show designer Andy Hurst has developed the latest spectacular look for the band who are playing a series of festival headliners and own shows throughout Europe across the summer, where they are maintaining their reputation for high production values and epic visual and sonic experiences.
HSL is also supplying a standard 'floor specials' lighting rig for the entire tour which is being used in conjunction with a festival / venue 'house' rig at all gigs and which is built to Hurst's specification.
HSL's project manager Mike Oates comments, "We love working with the Prodigy. They are one of the most innovative artists and put huge
Before deciding on the Altman fixtures, Paul Hornsby, lighting systems manager at Royal Opera House, researched several technologies and product options. With the Linbury hosting a wide variety of performances during the regular season as well as private events and functions, it was essential that the new lighting fixtures provide a wide array of colours without compromising on brightness.
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Some 20,000 fans gathered at the park to witness live the success of the German team on the big screen. Complementary lighting effects from Elation Platinum Series, Design Series and LED moving heads, along with Elation LED Par lights and white light luminaires were used to decorate the open air park and provide a festive atmosphere for the gathering of friends and fans.
Lighting designer for the Kick and Groove event was Sebastian Gross, who commented on his lighting requirement, stating, "I needed lights that were
As a premium media production organisation - one of the most prolific in sub-Saharan Africa - they are backed by their own cutting-edge production inventory to service their studio work - and this includes nearly 50 discharge and LED moving heads from Chinese manufacturer PR Lighting.
As they gear up for season seven of MTN Project Fame West Africa they will again turn to their large stock of XS 1200 Beam, XL Beam 300, XR 300 Beam, XR 200 Beam, XPar 360, XLED 1037, PR 5000 Spot and XR 230 Spot.
Both MTN Project Fame West Africa and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? are recorded
The new Tobin Center rises behind the façade of the former San Antonio Municipal Auditorium along the famed River Walk downtown. The 1,750-seat multi-purpose house will be the home of the San Antonio Symphony and other resident companies; its inaugural 2014-15 season will feature such diverse performers as comedy legend Bill Cosby, radio icon Garrison Keillor and "The Prairie Home Companion" and the Scottish Ballet's production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
The four-level H-E-B Performance Hall is the largest of the Tobin Center's performance spaces; it has installed four Cyrano 2500W HMI followspots whose narrow beam angle makes them the perfect
Luxeon CoB with CrispWhite Technology was developed specifically for retail applications including downlights and spotlights where the truest colour representation is desired by store owners and retail customers. CrispWhite is offered throughout the Luxeon chip-on-board (CoB) line of arrays. These arrays feature the highest combination of efficacy and lumen density in the industry, with a lumen range of 1,000-10,000 lm and typical efficacy of 100 lm/W.
Thousands of show attendees including lighting professionals and designers got a sneak peek at CrispWhite's light spectrum at LightFair International 2014 and the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition earlier this month.
"We displayed sat
Three years after successfully integrating the impression 90s (and Zoom) into The Script's show design, his company MIRRAD, which he runs with experienced co-lighting designer Bryan Leitch and Dave Cohen, specified 60 of the German manufacturer's popular X4 moving heads. The inventory was supplied by PRG after first providing a demo of the fixtures.
Technology has advanced a long way in three years, and Thompson admits, "I'm really loving the X4 . . . I feel that GLP has made another huge leap with this new range. Combining both power and effects, this range has really come into its own."
The London-based band, fronted by Dan Smith, has been playing a range of successful shows, including the massive C
The Group has seen a steady increase in demand for cross-border services in recent years, in line with the escalating interest in the African continent as an event destination. Gearhouse regularly services events in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Seychelles, Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Brunei, Tunisia, Congo, Namibia, Egypt, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Zambia and Tanzania - amongst others.
Now, Gearhouse is able to provide West African events with the same level of technical services as would be available in any other major event destination, both quickly and cost effectively, the company says.
Heading up the new company are Bil
Bergenbier is one of the leading Romanian beer brands and its tour features the top musical trends and bands in Romania and expects a total audience of 500,000 visitors.
The mission for FIVE'S has been to select the most sustainable technology to support this show concept, and for this general manager Andrei Popea and his team decided to include six SGM G-Spot moving heads, four P-5 wash lights, 12 X-5 white LED strobes and 12 SixPack blinders.
Opting for an SGM LED solution has its clear benefit
Temple Media invested in large quantities of XR 200 Beam and XLED 1037 washlights. In fact they deployed 20 of each at this event to meet the imaginative stage design conceived by the company's CEO, Dan Chiorcioiu, (formerly director of photography on TVR, Romanian National Television) and Ramon Barbu, Temple Media's in-house LD for the show - which included a performance by Romania's leading pop rock band, Holograf.
This time around the rental company provided all staging and technical infrastructure, including a full lighting manifest and d&b sound system, in conjunction with with Iasi-based rental company, Tricorp Events (
The A.Leda B-EYE is the latest LED effects light to be released from Clay Paky and has already accrued a PIPA 2014 award for best light, as well as industry awards at both LDI 2013 and PLASA 2013. Lighting designer Petter Nilssen of Norway based distribution house Elektrik Solutions specified 12 of the B-EYE K20s from rental outfit Spekter A/S for use on his vibrant lighting design for Norwegian pop-stars Postgirobygget.
"We needed a fixture that was easy to tour but also gave us unique looks at all the places we visited," explains Nilssen. "The A.Leda B-EYE K-20 really is the fixture Postgirobygget and I have been waiting for. It is such an incredible fixture that we
