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Robe Spiider

Robe Spiider

Robe Spiider

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Robe is a top name in entertainment lighting and they continue to deliver new and innovative products to the market. Robe has their successful line of LEDWash and LEDBeam fixtures. In 2016, they released their first “LED WashBeam,” called the Spikie (See Road Test, PLSN, Nov. 2017, page 72). After its immediate success, Robe began developing a second LED WashBeam fixture, the Spiider. Let’s explore this fixture to learn why it’s different from the competition.

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Paying to Play

A new trend has emerged in the concert touring world where opening acts are paying a main act to get on the bill and play at a concert. Gone are the days of a management team making deals to get a band as an opening act; now it is simply who has the cash to play.

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The Who performs 'Tommy' at Royal Albert Hall in London

Tommy Lights ‘Tommy;’ Vegas Gigs; LDs for Sheeran, Spoon, Evanescence, Lady A and More

Lighting designer Tom Kenny filled us in on The Who’s two special dates at the Royal Albert Hall recently, saying it was the first time The Who have played the iconic rock opera Tommy in its entirety in 28 years. Though the band originally billed it as an acoustic performance, they decided in the end to plug in to be more faithful to the 1969 version. On The Who’s website, it was noted: “Our own Tommy (Tom Kenny, lighting designer) made the room look amazing, using every surface as a screen and bouncing light everywhere, not just onstage. What an environment.”

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Illustration by Andy Au

Be Kind to Your Friends in the Shop

I’m a firm believer that people who have spent time in the shop have a better understanding of the lighting business than those who have not. I am lucky enough to have spent four knuckle-busting years in the shops of Vari*Lite, Morpheus and Cinelease. I was there to receive hand written shop orders, assemble gear, tech lights and repair rain-drenched VL6s and Mac 2Ks that came back from multiple Olympics from around the globe.

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Syncrolites in use on 2016 Desert Trip stage

Desert Trip Not on the Festival Agenda for 2017

LOS ANGELES — Desert Trip, the two-weekend classic rock festival that was self-mockingly referred to as “old-chella” by some of the performers onstage, will not be a regularly scheduled annual event, according to Goldenvoice CEO Paul Tollett, in an interview with Billboard magazine.

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Photo by Madis Kirkmann

Puppet Theatre in Estonia Lit with Robe’s DL4S Profiles and DL4F Fresnels

TALLINN, Estonia – Robe’s DL4S Profiles and DL4F Fresnels – 52 in total – have been specified and installed at the new Nuku (Puppet) Theatre in Tallinn. This world famous theatre has just opened a completely new space – formally an outside courtyard – at its theatre complex in the heart of the picturesque and vibrant Estonian capital. The project is one of the latest in a number of high profile theatre installations of Robe DL series LED moving lights around the world.

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ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium at Coachella's Sahara stage

Dave Taylor Runs Empire of the Sun Coachella Show with ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium

INDIO, CA – Empire of the Sun performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s Sahara Stage with artistic flourishes that included glowing pyramids and a six-pronged stage element cradling a white orb. The light show featured a blend of bright white light and vivid colors, programmed and controlled by Dave Taylor, who used a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium console.

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PRG Supports Bon Jovi Tour with Scenius Spots, grandMA2 Consoles

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NEW YORK – Bon Jovi’s “This House Is Not For Sale” tour opened with select dates in the U.S. Canada and the U.K. last fall, and recently completed another leg earlier this year from Feb. 8 (Greenville, SC) to mid-April, finishing with two shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden. PRG supplied the tour rig, which included 36 Claypaky Scenius Spots, controlled by Joe Bay, lighting director and programmer, who used a grandMA2 Full lighting console for control.

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