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Robe Visits the Palace

Robe Visits the Palace

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LONDON – Palace are a much anticipated four piece indie blues rock band from London about which there’s lots of anticipation and excitement and an acclaimed debut EP, “Lost in the Night”. Lighting designer Steve Bewley – well known for this work with Enter Shikari, London Grammar, Dizzee Rascal, Tinie Tempah and a string of other interesting alt artists –- was asked to light a recent showcase gig at the Electric in Brixton, London, for which he chose to use an all-Robe floor package which was supplied by Dragonfly Lighting.

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ADJ Penta Pix

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ADJ’s Penta Pix LED effects fixture uses 15W 4-IN-1 RGBW LEDs mounted behind ACLs (Advanced Collimator Lenses) to emit five ACL style beams in a fan formation. Offering red, green, blue, and white color mixing, the fixture creates sharp 6 degree beams for a classic “fingers of light: look, either in plain white or an array of colors and chasing patterns. The fixture is designed with clubs, venues, touring productions, and one-off events in mind. Designed as a slim central unit with the five lens assemblies attached to the front in a fixed fan pattern, the Penta Pix promises easy setup, and the lenses are positioned in an equally-spaced arc. Each of the five individual lenses can then be angled on its X-axis, adding further versatility to the Penta Pix effect.

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August Burns Red Tours with Squeek Lights-Supplied Rogue Fixtures

[caption id="attachment_274525" align="alignnone" width="800"]Squeek Lights Comes on board with August Red[/caption]

LANCASTER, PA — For Christian metalcore band August Burns Red, which has been touring recently to promote the 10th anniversary of their Messengers album release, LD Victor Zeiser and Squeek Lights made use of Rogue R1 FX-B and Rogue R1 Spot fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

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Prolight + Sound 2017: Winners of Opus – German Stage Award Announced

[caption id="attachment_274522" align="alignnone" width="800"]Rea Garvey at Get Loud Open Air Festival[/caption]

FRANKFURT – Two projects have been chosen for this year’s Opus – German Stage Award. An Opus in the stage and lighting design category honours the ‘Get Loud Open Air Tour 2016’ by Rea Garvey. Additionally, an award is to be given in the Technical Realisation category for Ulrich Rasche’s production of Schiller’s ‘The Robbers’ at the ‘Residenztheater’ in Munich. Opus is one of the foremost awards in the field of theatre and stage production and will be presented during Prolight + Sound, International Fair of Technologies and Services for Entertainment, Integrated Systems and Creation, in Frankfurt from 4 to 7 April 2017.

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Elation Professional Now Offering ArKaos Pro Products in Europe

EUROPE – Elation Professional is pleased to announce that the company is now offering the complete ArKaos product line of software and media servers in several European countries and serve as the main value-added dealer of ArKaos Pro products in the UK. ArKaos professional solutions for the show and lighting market are used all over the world by leading designers and rental companies. Elation Europe’s first opportunity to represent the ArKaos Pro product line will be February 7-10 at the ISE trade show in Amsterdam on Elation Stand 12-F40.

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Spotlight on MILOS roofs

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CZECH REPUBLIC – The quarterly spotlight series from MILOS continues with a focus on temporary roofs! From January until the end of March, MILOS will release a total of four technical videos from their experts Marc Hendriks (A4I R&D Director) and Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Tripp (A4I Technical Director). The videos will cover a range of important information about temporary demountable outdoor structures, such as applicable regulations, loads, the effects of wind, etc.

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Putting LED into the Magic Lamp

[caption id="attachment_274514" align="alignnone" width="800"]Robe lights working in production of Aladdin[/caption]

BLACKPOOL, UK – Lighting designer Andy Webb seized a recent pantomime production of “Aladdin” staged at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool, UK as the opportunity to design an all-LED moving and specials lighting rig which was all Robe. Andy had been working on an LED lighting concept for the last two pantomime seasons … with an increasing percentage of the rig becoming LED, and this year he felt the time was right to make a complete switch to LED moving lights and specials.

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VER Expands, Staffs Up with Orlando and Chicago Lighting Hubs

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ORLANDO and CHICAGO — VER announced a major expansion of its lighting division in early February with the addition of Orlando and Chicago as full-support lighting locations. This follows VER’s opening of a full-support lighting department in their London branch last fall. New hires include John “JP” Pratt and Anthony “Looch” Ciampa in Orlando and Ryan Bundy and Terry Heisler in Chicago, for VER’s new 94,000 square-foot location near Midway Airport.

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Times Square Lighting Debuts CELESTE Houselight

[caption id="attachment_274505" align="alignnone" width="150"]Celeste is available from TSL[/caption]

STONY POINT, NY – Times Square Lighting’s new 88 Watt CELESTE is a powerful LED house light that features multiple dimming options including DMX, 010V, leading edge and trailing edge. The CELESTE utilizes a single COB array that can produce up to 10,000 lumens. Multiple optics are available, between 11° degrees and 90° degrees.

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Elite Multimedia Makes An Investment in Claypaky Scenius UN1CO Luminaires

[caption id="attachment_274502" align="alignnone" width="800"]Claypaky Scenius UN1CO Luminaires hit the shop[/caption]

NASHVILLE, – Elite Multimedia is proud to announce that they have become the first North American live event production provider to make an investment in Claypaky Scenius UN1CO luminaires. Working with importer and distributor A.C.T Lighting, Elite Multimedia chose to acquire the 1400W Spot, Wash, Beam and Profile fixtures for their powerfully creative lighting capabilities, and they are currently being installed in the lighting design of a large-scale, multi-national tour. 

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