LONDON – UK-based LD Derek Jones had a busy autumn season with two legendary British artists, Cliff Richard and The Hollies. With both tours overlapping, Jones bought a new Vista S1 out on The Hollies, while he called on Lars Kristiansen to operate Cliff Richard and the Shadows on his Vista S3.
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SERIATE, Italy – Singapore’s AVALON boasts the largest club installation of Clay Paky Sharpy moving beam lights. The new celebrity playground features 24 Clay Paky Sharpy, 18 Alpha Spot HPE 700, 4 Alpha Spot 300, and 4 Alpha Beam 300 luminaires, run by a grandMA ultra-light console (with 26 units of MA 2Port Nodes) to handle the multiple DMX universes used in the overall lighting scheme. There are plans to install more Clay Paky fixtures in the second phase of the lighting design for the future.
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DALLAS – So successful was the 2011 tour that this year Roxette will embark on yet another ‘Round the World’ popfest with another 65 shows planned for 2012. LD Calle Brattberg will be with them, again using Philips Vari-Lite VL3000 Spot luminaires as the backbone of the design.
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PHILADELPHIA – The 2012 Long Reach Long Riders (LRLR) announced their 2012 eight-day motorcycle ride starting Aug. 3 in Seattle, WA. The group raises money for two charities: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, and The ESTA Foundation’s Behind the Scenes. This year’s ride promises “some of the finest scenery” ever and a fun way to raise money for the two charities.
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AUSTIN, TX – High End Systems’ new trackspot Bolt LED luminaires modernized the eletronic music club “Modernes” in Bremen, Germany. For nearly 20 years, the club has used six original High End Systems trackspot fixtures. Replacing them out with the trackspot Bolt – a full-featured, 3000 lumen moving-mirror fixture powered by an LED lighting engine – reduces their power consumption while offering them the long-lasting lighting they wanted in a lighting rig.
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LAS VEGAS – Every year it happens. Industry folks talk about the production wins and losses of the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Call it Monday morning quarterbacking; we express our cheers and jeers about the show. This year, PLSN and Stage Directions turn Monday morning quarterbacking into a simultaneous, live-as-it-happens Sunday event with the live tweeting during the Halftime Show.
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Belgium-based LD Luc Peumans specified 62 Robe ROBIN 600 LEDWash fixtures for the current Holiday on Ice ‘Speed’ tour. One of the creative starting points for the lighting design was making sure that the lighting fused and flowed harmoniously with the industrial toned space age set – designed by award winning stage/set designer Bart Clements. Belgium-based rental company Phlippo Showlights MC is supplying the lighting equipment.
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WALLINGFORD, CT – The Metropolitan Opera at New York City’s Lincoln Center now has four new Robert Juliat Victor 1800W followspots in its inventory, as specified by Patrick Eagleton of Contemporary Lights & Staging. The fixtures join other Robert Juliat fixtures, the RJ 2.5W Profiles, already in-house.
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AARHUS, Denmark – Kazakhstan marked its 20th year of independence on Dec. 1 with a celebration at the Republic Palace concert hall in Almaty. The renovated venue features a new design with the latest in Martin Professional lighting technology. LD for the anniversary show was François Guillet of Lumières Utiles in France, with gear provided by the APM Group, Martin Professional’s distributor in Kazakhstan.
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Christie’s new JumpStart software offers a fast, intuitive way to put high resolution content onto multi-display or tiled digital signage, such as Christie’s MicroTiles. Combining user-friendly JumpStart software with HP hardware, Christie JumpStart enables users to position and play back a wide range of content including video, graphics, applications, Blu-ray and DVD movies, remote video sources, color swatches and text.
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LONDON – LED lighting fixture manufacturer Prism Projection has appointed UK-based White Light as its exclusive European distributor. White Light already served as Prism’s exclusive UK distributor over the past few years, so this expanded agreement came forth during discussions at LDI 2011.
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