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USA - Bicentennial Park was aglow with the lights from Bandit Lites as the city bid farewell to 2017 and kicked off 2018. Voted the best destination to ring in the new year by USA Today, Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight: New Year’s Eve celebration boasted an estimated 100,000 in attendance.
Following the famed Music City Note dropping at midnight, country music super star Keith Urban took the stage, while earlier performances included Maren Morris, Cheap Trick, Carly Pearce, Jonny P, Larkin Poe, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
In a collaborative effort between lighting designer Erik Parker, production managers Chris Lisle and Mark Anderson and the Nashville Convention and Visitor Corp event producers, the massive event featured spaces built on the previous year’s show with different areas needing various lights, including a selfie station, street arc

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USA - Years ago, Mark ‘Junior’ Jacobson met a Milwaukee band, London USA! Fast forward a couple of decades and Jacobson’s career has soared to great heights as the lighting designer for a number of top artists, including multi-Grammy winning metal giants Tool. This fall, the well-known LD was reunited with his old friends when he stepped up to the FOH desk at the Saloon on Calhoun music hall to run the board for their Not Dead Yet reunion show.
In addition to reuniting with old friends on this warm fall night, Jacobson made some new ones when he worked with the Chauvet Professional Rogue fixtures on LD Glenn Ottenbacher’s power-packed house rig. “This is what I would call a pretty high-energy venue,” said Ottenbacher. “We have a relatively small stage for the level of acts we get in here, so there’s a strong artist-audience connection. I built the ligh

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Israel - Robe Pointe and DL4S Profile moving lights have been installed as part of the spectacular City of David Lightshow - Hallelujah - in Jerusalem, a gripping and intense multimedia experience relating the history of the city which is projected onto the walls of the ancient citadel of King David, surrounded by the associated archaeological site and steeped in history dating back over 3000 years.
Lighting was designed by Micha Margalit and delivered by Danor Theatre and Studio Systems who won a tender issued by the Israel Government Tourist Corporation (IGTC). Further, Danor was also asked by AVS Creative - who co-ordinated all the project’s multimedia aspects and the integration between light, sound and projection - to work on the actual physical lighting installation.
Challenges included dealing with the difficult topography and the specific positions wh

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UK - In December, specialist lighting and rigging provider TSL successfully met the large-scale production requirements and tight deadlines for a festive event with a difference - the UK's largest carol service, staged at the SSE Wembley Arena, London.
Continuing a long-standing client relationship with international Christian church organisation Hillsong, TSL provided rigging and lighting services for London Carols, which saw three back-to-back performances on 17 December, reaching a total live audience of 30,000.
Arena-scale show production always places huge demands on suppliers and crew, and the requirements for London Carols were no different, says Sam Tamplin, managing director of TSL. "We supplied the rigging equipment for all departments, so it was imperative we didn't hold anything up. The load-in schedule was meticulously planned by Hillsong dow

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USA - For the second year running, Houston-based event staging company Stage Directions Inc. provided the creative visuals for the city’s annual Toast to Living Well gala, considered Houston’s largest black-tie event. Held to raise funds for those affected by Hurricane Harvey, this year saw a large Elation lighting package light the variety of gala events.
Stage Directions Inc. was responsible for event staging and media production, working for client ZT Wealth and the Altus Foundation. “We worked closely with the client, as well as décor, and helped contribute ideas to the overall event flow,” states Trent Blake, executive vice president of Stage Directions Inc. “Our main purpose was to maximize the environmental aspects of the event, what the attendees feel, what they see, and what they hear. We used scenic design elements, lighting, video, lasers, and a

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UK - Cirro Lite (Europe) has added Dedolight DLED7 ‘Turbo’ bi-colour kits to its rental fleet. The 4-head kits are colour tuneable from 2700K to 6500K and come complete with four AC controllers plus one extra DC controller and V-Lok battery plate. Lighting stands and gel filter holders are also included in the hard roller kit cases.
Due to its active cooling system the DLED7 light sources have now nearly doubled in output when compared to the DLED4 (40W) units. Although these light heads provide significantly higher light output, the weight of these light heads is still identical with the original DLED4.
The DLED7 light heads are compatible with all the same imaging attachments as DLED4 and classic DLH4 which makes them extremely versatile, says the company. These compact and powerful lighting systems with remarkable focusing capabilities have already become one o

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Dominican Republic - More than 50,000 fans packed the Dominican Republic's Olympic Stadium in November to experience The Festival Presidente, the Caribbean's largest international music festival.
On the festival's opening night, Latin music star Gabriel performed in front of epic LED screens displaying florid, fast-paced graphics, powered by Avolites' Ai R8 media servers.
Yamil Charif of YC3 Lighting Design worked with a team of South American creatives, including lighting design partner Richard Vincens, to create the vivid Gabriel set. He initially programmed it using an Ai template at his Miami studio using dummy content before the real content, designed by a team of animators, was delivered just days before the event.
With a team of people inputting ideas and many last-minute developments, Charif needed to continue programming the R8 servers right up u

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UK - White Light has announced the signing of a five-year in-house supplier contract with The Mermaid London.
The contract, which begun on 1 January, will see WL work alongside The Mermaid London to improve existing equipment as well as introduce new lighting, audio, video, rigging and staging technical solutions and products to enhance the venue’s event production offering. To complement the supply of equipment WL will be appointing a specialist project manager to handle all enquiries and manage the day-to-day technical support required on events.
Richard Wilson, director at White Light, comments: “We are delighted to be working with The Mermaid London. Along with our expert technical teams, we will complement this fantastic venue with the installation of improved technical production equipment. Further technical support for clients will also be available from our

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Europe - In response to the news that the EU is once again contemplating banning the use of tungsten halogen light bulbs in entertainment lighting, the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) is co-ordinating a high-speed effort to gather reasons as to why this ban should not move forward, particularly from those who would be materially affected by such a ban, in time to create a formal response before the end of the proposal’s consultation period on 26th January 2018.
“The ban is not strictly new,” notes acclaimed, award-winning lighting designer Michael Hulls, who is leading the effort as a continuation of his earlier ‘Save Tungsten’ campaign. “The EU has been moving towards banning the use of all tungsten light sources for some years. However, theatre lighting has, until now, had an exemption from this ban. This exemption is what the EU is now proposing to end

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UK - City Theatrical has reduced the price for the student license of its Moving Light Assistant software. The application can be used from the pre-production phase for planning and designing the moving light rig to producing the final documentation of the programming. The student license enables all features of the application for a period of three years from purchase and can be installed and activated on two computers. The application is now available in Europe for £20 or in the Americas, Asia and the Middle East for $25.
“Moving Light Assistant is being used for many large-scale repertory theatres for managing the moving light focuses of their productions,” said Andrew Voller, creator and developer of Moving Light Assistant and freelance lighting designer. “Lowering the Student Licence pricing is aimed at allowing students easy access to learn and use this softwar

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USA - Lighting designer Herrick Goldman used Elation Professional’s Artiste DaVinci LED moving head spot for colour and visual effects on a Syracuse Stage production of The Wizard of Oz and praised the award-winning luminaire as a flexible workhorse that performed a number of duties throughout the show. “The DaVinci took so much of the work load I could have saved the time and energy of hanging 25% of the light plot,” the LD stated.
The family favourite musical, which ran from 29 November to 7 January, was directed by Donna Drake, and was Syracuse Stage's holiday co-production with the Syracuse University Department of Drama. It is the story you know well but is told in a new way with tumbling and flying elements from acrobats turned actors from New York’s 2 Ring Circus.
Although the Syracuse Stage theatre houses 100s of conventional fixtures along wit

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UK - Working with set designer Joshua Grace and lighting director Gurdip Mahal, LED Creative played a part supporting the crew at A Night for the Emergency Services, a seasonal celebration and show of appreciation for the work carried out by the nationwide heroes in uniforms.
Filmed in front of a live audience at The London Studios, host Ashley Banjo was joined by high-octane dance troupe Diversity to introduce and share performances by talented members from all sectors of the emergency services.
Created around Grace’s linear installation awash with movement and intense colour, the set incorporated the LED Creative BYTE Pixel Control System matched with an array of the company’s Sigma Sparkle Wands which the designer suspended across the entire stage to add crisp, highly controllable accents and depth to the performance.
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USA - When the young man who celebrated his bar mitzvah at Georgetown’s upscale Park Hyatt was born in 2004, Pac-Man was about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Such is the staying power of the video game invented by Toru Iwatani, that the youngster opted to build his reception around a Pac-Man theme. Digital wall images of the yellow circular figure with the gaping mouth adorned the reception area, as did representations of the game’s famous labyrinth.
To create a classic video arcade atmosphere in the reception area and accentuate the digital Pac-Man images that decorated it, the event organizers draped the walls in black. This created a stunning effect, but it also made it challenging to colorize the room’s dining tables. Eric Hertsch of John Farr Lighting Design successfully met this challenge with the help of Chauvet Professional Ovation E-910FC ellipsoidal fixtu

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USA - LD Matthew Ardine transformed a Kia Motors America dealership into a large-scale lighting display for a 2017 holiday season TV commercial.
Set to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s version of Christmas Eve in Sarajevo, the ad featured masterful pacing from subtle car headlights to a massive 65,000 DMX-channel paragon of holiday lighting highlighting the showroom building and surrounding landscape. Featuring nearly 500 various lights communicating over two V-LAN groups, with a total of 75 Ethernet devices, the network relied heavily on its nerve centre, four ProPlex EZ-LANs.
“The EZ-LANs were easy to use and kept costs down,” says Ardine. “EZ-LANs formed the backbone of the network, shuttling the two VLANs around the location. From the EZ-LANs we cascaded to other switches and we had no network issues. We created two versions of the 30-second commercia

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Austria The Men's World Cup Night Slalom is the biggest party in the Alps, attracting 50,000 spectators and skiing enthusiasts annually to Schladming-Dachstein at the end of January.
Lighting designer Daniel Reistenhofer from D-TWO Stage&Light Creations was asked to light the 2017 season opening event and he enlisted the help of over 100 Robe moving lights - 74 x Pointes and 34 x BMFL WashBeams.
Event organisers, Leutgeb Entertainment Group and the Planai Hochwurzen Bahnen Gesellschafft, saw some of Daniel’s other stage designs and wanted something totally different to what had been done before.
The format was similar to a large EDM event, a large stage - 40 x 24m - was set up next to the Planai ski slope - normally the finish line for the Night Race - and around 16,000 people packed in to enjoy the start of December opening event and the international line

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UK - Ambersphere Solutions is gearing up to welcome visitors to PLASA Focus at Glasgow’s SECC. At Stand C1, the team will be on hand to discuss and demonstrate a selection of new products from the premier manufacturers Ambersphere is proud to represent.
Ayrton’s new LED Ghibli spot fixture received its worldwide debut on the Ambersphere Stand at PLASA London 2017, with the fixture now shipping it is already getting people excited about just how much is in one light. Featuring a huge even output as well as a rich feature set, lighting designers have asked for. PLASA Focus Glasgow will give you a chance to get hands on and see for yourself what all the talk is about.
Clay Paky are about to break the myth of bigger is better with the launch of the Axcor 300 range. Showing for the first time at a UK show will be the Axcor 300 Spot and Beam. These two LED fixtures brin

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UK - Powersoft Quattrocanali amplifiers are providing the beating heart of a new entertainment experience in the UK.
Created by the award-winning producers behind the BBC series and arena show Walking With Dinosaurs, the Dinosaurs In The Wild production (read a detailed report in LSi September 2017) uses the latest in AV and animatronic technology to generate a realistic, interactive walk-through back to the Late Cretaceous period.
Central to the successful creation of TimeBase 67 (built by Chronotex Enterprises) is the sound and lighting design along with the animatronics and the latest in 3D AV technology. The accent is on authenticity and accuracy.
There are three elements to this mix of t

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Denmark - The Live Company AS showcase event co-hosted with Chroma-Q enabled rental production clients to experience the multi award-winning Color Force II LED cyc, wash & effects light.
Leading lighting designers and specifiers from all sectors were invited to Tivoli in Copenhagen, one of Denmark's most prestigious entertainment resorts. Delegates got hands-on with Color Force II, followed by dinner and a show, where they were able to see it in action during a performance of The 35th Crazy Christmas Cabaret Show - Planet Rump - The Farce Awakens.
Freelance lighting designer Mark P Jones, who attended the event commented: "Having a history of using and specifying Chroma-Q products, it's great to see that Color Force II builds on the reputation of the original fixture - the output, colour range and stability on camera make them a great lighting tool."
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South Africa - The Acts Christian Church in Midrand has invested in two Robe Spiiders that will work alongside their current Robe rig.
When it comes to mission work, Acts Church reaches out to people with Acts of Love, whether it’s providing toilets to a needy community, setting up a library, giving food to the homeless or preparing gifts for senior citizens and children over the Christmas period.
With a North and South Campus to accommodate the increasing congregation which is now just short of 6 000 people, the church has five Sunday services (three at North campus and two at South Campus with an additional evening service held at the North Campus once a month) and hosts various events from children’s productions to conferences that cover topics such as Business Excellence, Bible studies or fasting periods. The auditorium has also doubled up as a venue to assist

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UK - Based on the world renowned 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith, Strangers On A Train is a spine-chilling tale that tells the story of a fateful encounter between two men in the dining carriage of a train crossing America.
Originally seen in the West End, the production is now being revived and is touring across the UK. Starring television favourites Christopher Harper, John Middleton and Hannah Tointon, it is adapted by Craig Warner and directed by Anthony Banks. As a leading supplier to touring productions, White Light is providing the lighting equipment.
Strangers On A Train sees the creative team from last year’s production of Gaslight reunite, which WL also supplied. The lighting designer for both is Howard Hudson, who says: “The set for Strangers On A Train is built on two levels and relies on a lot of projection to suggest the

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UK - Global brand experience agency Jack Morton Worldwide once again organised London’s New Year’s Eve firework display – an event which it has produced for 14 consecutive years. Contributing to this year’s event was a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium console, which was used by lighting programmer Paul Cook to control the 18-universe lightshow that supported the firework display.
The display, which took place over the River Thames and the Coca-Cola London Eye, is a global showcase for the city, reflecting its dynamism, creativity and openness. The show was seen by millions of people on BBC One and live by over 100,000 people in viewing areas on the banks of the River Thames.
Synchronised and triggered by GPS to Big Ben’s chimes, the 12-minute show lit up the River Thames with 2,000 lighting cues and 12,000 fireworks producing 50,000 projectiles. The FOH station

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Europe - GearSource has added Jeroen Knol to its business development team. Jeroen is based in Europe and well networked in the European markets, having worked the last 12 years with two of the world’s largest industry-related companies. He will bring his network and relationship management skills to GearSource Europe.
Along with Jeroen in Europe, the company’s US-based business development and operations teams will support everything from listings to orders, logistics and more.
GearSourceEurope.com now operates as a fully integrated and secure e-commerce platform, built on the company’s redeveloped engine, G-Suite offering users even more power than ever before.
“In developing G-Suite, our technology team has once again raised the bar. G-Suite will help us remain the largest name in used gear – globally,” says Marcel Fairbairn, CEO of GearSource.

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UK - Chroma-Q will showcase their latest award-winning LED lighting solutions for theatre, rock 'n' roll, corporate and architectural applications at PLASA Focus Glasgow 2018 (stand C2).
Sharing a premium feature set which includes homogenised optics, extremely bright and uniform output, colour consistency, theatrical grade dimming and ultra-quiet operation, colour-mixing models on display include the multi award-winning Color Force II LED cyclorama, wash & effects light; the Color One 100X LED PAR; and the multi award-winning new Inspire XT LED house light. Also showing is the Space Force variable white LED soft light.
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UK - Tasked with creating a fresh regime of visual anarchy for Prodigy’s most recent tour, lighting and set designer Tim Fawkes chose to work with rental specialist HSL as suppliers of lighting and a crew who were chiefed by Matt Brown.
Tim took a brief from the band and long-term manager John Fairs. This led to the development of four custom semi scenic old-style searchlight assemblies upstage, with big hexagonal outer shells and packed with more modern lightning technology. These, together with three scenic CCTV camera towers were the main set pieces,
”The underlying idea was to create a scene of dystopia on stage,” explained Tim. The set was built by Stage One. Tim devised the shape and size of the searchlight housings which he modelled and tweaked in WYSIWYG before finalising. They were a compromise between being tourable, relatively light at under 300kg each
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