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Hawthorn Invests in Robert Juliat Followspots

Hawthorn Invests in Robert Juliat Followspots

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UK – “Robert Juliat is the gold standard of followspots and whenever we’re looking to add more to our inventory, it’s our go-to brand.” So says David Slater, Group Director of Hire for the award-winning, UK-based technical production company, Hawthorn. The company has just expanded its inventory of followspots with a significant purchase of fixtures from Robert Juliat’s exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions, opting to add to their stock of 2500W HMI Cyrano long-throw units and to make a new investment purchase of the LED 300W Roxie. 

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Fineline Feels the Love for Martin by HARMAN Face 5

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LONDON – Bristol-based Fineline Lighting proves the wisdom of its investment in Martin by HARMAN’s VDO Face 5 HB LED panels by deploying impressive media displays on the two main stages at the recent Love Saves The Day Festival, held locally in the city’s Eastville Park. Specialists in production lighting and visual displays, Fineline has regularly serviced the festival’s requirements for promoters Team Love — again rigging the two premier stages at the sell-out festival and providing kit for the subsidiary stages.

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Robe Catches the Starlight Classics

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SOUTH AFRICA -The most recent RMB Starlight Classics concert, staged at the beautiful, Vergelegen Wine Estate in Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa … was lit by Chris Bolton of Keystone Productions … with a little help from some Robe moving lights! It was Chris’s second year in the creative hot seat – working directly for organizers Jam Events. Last year he and Joshua Cutts of Visual Frontier produced a lighting co-design – and the two are now partners in their brand new visual design venture, Collective Works – however when Starlight came up this year, Josh had other commitments, so Chris added the lighting magic working with his assistant Jade Manicom.

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Kinesys Stages Demo Day in Canada

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TORONTO – Automation specialist Kinesys is staging its first product awareness demonstration in Canada – on July 8th for one day only – to make people aware that Kinesys products have ‘officially landed’ in Canada and are available for immediate rental from Drifter Rigging. The Demo Day is a collaboration between David Bond, who runs Kinesys’ US operation and Mark “Drifter” Desloges from Drifter Rigging, a new rental operation recently established in Toronto, with a selection of Kinesys kit. It will be held in a warehouse facility at 100 Carson St. Unit A Etobicoke, Toronto, M8W 3R9.

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Morris Highlights Hall & Oates 2017 Tour with Mozarts and IMS

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LOS ANGELES – Daryl Hall and John Oates kicked off their 2017 summer tour last month at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The whirlwind tour across America’s heartland includes 30 dates through July.  The lighting design team of Matt Geasey and Jesper Luth specified 140 Solaris Mozart fixtures, as well as 600 IMS Mk2 RGBW lamps on 12 110-foot festoon strings, all provided to the tour by Morris of Nashville. 

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U2 Celebrates a 1987 Classic and Revives the Joshua Tree Album with Summer World Tour

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LITITZ, PA. -Known for their very intricate, out-of-this-world stadium shows, U2 honors the 30th anniversary of their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree, by taking a robust, cinematic set and the albums legacy hits on the road for a stadium tour across North America and Europe. After reuniting with their fans at iHeartRadio’s Music Festival and Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference, the Irish rockers cemented the idea to celebrate the Joshua Tree album with the Joshua Tree Tour, making it the first time the band has ever taken an entire album from their back catalog on tour.

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G-LEC Solaris Enters the Galaxy At Climate Planet In Aarhus

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AARHAUS, DENMARK – A gigantic 24m diameter ‘earth globe’, known as Climate Planet, has been dominating the Aarhus skyline since early June — to coincide with the Danish city being appointed European Capital of Culture. Encapsulated within this giant model of the Planet is a smaller sphere, and as visitors arrive at the spectacular high-tech exhibition on climate change during the six weeks it will be stationed in Aarhus, they will be immersed in a surreal world of twinkling stars, generated by G-LEC Solaris LED balls.

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Metallica’s HardWired Tour Takes Laser Production to Another Level

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Metallica kicked off their WorldWired stadium tour in the US with a fitting fanfare of lights and lasers. It’s been at least a decade since the band last went on the road in North America and their entrance certainly didn’t disappoint. With no roof over any of the stadium stages, gargantuan screens stretching high into the sky and a mind-boggling pyro display, Metal’s prodigal sons put their trust in Production Manager Dan Braun to coordinate the creative execution of the tour.

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The newly built Griffin Centre will be utilised as a hybrid professional space for live events and as a training centre for the college's theatre students.

Avolites Tiger Touch II Chosen for Griffin Centre Theatre in U.K.

RENDCOMB, U.K. – Theatre lighting designer Andy Webb has specified an Avolites Tiger Touch II as the house-desk at The Griffin Centre, a new £3.3 million state-of the-art performance venue at the Cotswold educational establishment, Rendcomb College. Webb has been involved in the build as technical consultant since 2013, having worked alongside the college for over a decade, supporting the theatrical department and teaching A-Level lighting design.

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