BUCHAREST, Romania and NANNING, China — A pyro-sparked fire and limited egress turned a 400-capacity nightclub into a deathtrap in Bucharest, Romania. Goodbye to Gravity band members were among the 60 killed and 154 injured. Separately, a structural collapse killed a crew member and injured 13 others during setup for a show at the Guangxi Sports Center in Nanning, China that was to feature pop vocalist Jolin Tsai.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – HSL is supplying lighting equipment for the Bill Kenwright production of ‘The Glenn Miller Story’, currently touring the U.K. with veteran entertainer Tommy Steel in the lead role. The show features another impressive lighting design by theatre LD Nick Richings.
RANDBURG, South Africa – Penmac, a live event, staging and multimedia company in South Africa, is making use of the Calibre LEDView530 scaler/switcher.
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ORLANDO – Entertainment Technology Partners (ETP) announced its acquisition of Columbia, MD-based EventEQ. EventEQ will join LMG, LLC and Premier Event Technology as ETP’s third platform company. BJ Singh, CEO of EventEQ, is pictured here, left, with Les Goldberg, CEO of ETP and LMG.
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ATHENS, Greece – 360 Event Agency turned to Austria-based AV Stumpfl for a four-by-30-meter Curve screen recently. It was used for presentations at an international conference of a Fortune 500 client’s major event in Athens, attended by 500 participants from 28 countries.
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CHICAGO – Justin Litterio, an 15-year entertainment technology industry veteran, has joined JR Lighting Design, Inc. full-time as Systems Integration Manager. Most recently, Justin has toured with Panic! at the Disco as Master Electrician, Head Rigger, and Lead Video Technician. He formerly worked for Windy City Music, Inc. serving in multiple key roles over the past nine years.
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ZYWIEC, Poland – For Meskie Granie, a six-stop festival tour culminated in Zywiec with a show drawing 10,000, Pawel Pajak (AKA Spider) from Fish Eye once again served as lighting, video and set designer. Spider specified 100+ Robe fixtures including 33 miniPointes, 16 LEDBeam 1000s, 18 CycFX 8s and 42 LEDWash 800s. Robe’s Polish distributor Prolight and local production company Transcolor supplied the gear.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ – For Dakota, a full service restaurant and bar located in the heart of Scottsdale’s thriving Entertainment District, Elation dealer Fyxx Entertainment installed Platinum Profile LEDs, which are versatile enough to help the space transform from dining to dancing. The project is one of several in the Phoenix area where Elation fixtures have been deployed within the last 12 months.
BUCHAREST, Romania — A fire sparked by pyro effects during a performance by heavy metal band Goodbye to Gravity ignited foam decor and raced across the ceiling within the crowded Colectiv nightclub at about 10:30 p.m. Oct. 30, filling the venue with smoke and fumes. About 400 people were in the club at the time of the fire. Sixty were killed, including all but one of the band members, according to news reports.
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MARGATE, Kent, U.K. – tvOne, a leading provider of video conversion and AV signal distribution technology, recently named Denise Nemchev CEO. Nemchev will lead the company’s executive team, which includes David Van Horn, CFO; David Reynaga, CTO; and Andy Fliss, VP of Sales and Marketing.
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Flex Rental Solutions released Flex 4.12.0 to customers on October 20, 2015. The release included several new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. Updates made to the header block were well-received by customers. The new feature of virtual packages now getting an auto check mark when their child elements are checked was so well received that it resulted in a round of applause at the company’s recent Flex User Conference in Las Vegas.
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