Clay Paky Brights on 4U Rage Festival

In South Africa, school’s out and it’s time to party for the next two weeks. The 4U Rage Festival marks the end of the school year, and an estimated 80,000 kids will visit the resort town of Balito to celebrate. Hirezone supplied the lighting for the main dance floor at the Sound Factory in Balito which included two 6m Prolyte H30v Circles and Clay Paky Sharpies. “This was an opportunity to play with a massive rig on consecutive nights to packed houses and some of the best music on offer,” said LD Bradley Bruchhausen. “The ClayPaky Sharpies are awesome fixtures – they make any stage look epic.”

The first full production tour by trip hop trio London Grammar featured a new GoldPix 77 LED surface. This is a 500 X 500 mm panel populated with 7 x 7 warm white LEDs with very narrow beam optics, which is incredibly light, robustly built and ideal for touring and making a high visual impact. The tour’s stylish and off-beat visual design was created by Steve Bewley, who rose to the challenge of producing a scalable and flexible rig that would look good wherever they played.

The closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics wrapped up the most expensive games yet with a dynamic forest of light, which was created and built by set and stage designer, TAIT Technologies, and programmed by creative UK collective, Immersive. The design by Danielle Finzi Pasca was comprised of a custom LED product which was flown from a complex flying system rigged above the field of play. “At Immersive, we strive to work at the forefront of project design alongside clients that not only have the vision to see the idea but also the technical know-how to deliver them,” said project manager Mark Calvert.

As Chinese New Year celebrations kicked off around the world, Robe Lighting was involved in some of the highest profiles shows around the world including the massive celebrations in London’s Trafalgar Square. The event featured an afternoon of onstage entertainment culminating in a massive son et lumière extravaganza finale show to welcome the Year of the Horse. Three straight trusses were dead-hung below the roof of the 15 metre wide Star Events Alpha Stage to provide all the onstage lighting positions, to which were added eight each of Robe’s ROBIN Pointes, ROBIN MMX Spots and ROBIN LEDWash 600s and 16 x ROBIN LEDBeam 100s. For general washes, they added in some 2K fresnels.