NEW YORK – Charles Bonfante, a drummer whose group, Reservoir Dogs, stages tribute shows featuring hits by Pink, is touring with a rig that includes 32 Rogue fixtures and other gear from Chauvet Professional. The Design Oasis is supplying the fixtures.
LONDON – David Cameron has announced the government approval of 59 group standards for ‘Trailblazer’ apprenticeships, as part of its commitment to supporting three million new apprentices in the UK by 2020. Supported by key industry experts, this new initiative launches the first apprenticeship as a Live Events Rigger, the development of which has been facilitated by NRAG (National Rigging Advisory Group).
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Martin’s RUSH MH 6 Wash, the newest moving head in Harman’s RUSH by Martin series, is available for pre-order and expected to ship late September.
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LONDON – South London based technical production and design specialist Presentation Rentals has re-branded as PR Live.
PRAGUE – The Vivaldianno Project – featuring classics played in a unique classical rock style – is a crossover musical concept evolved by Italian violinist Jaroslav Sveceny and Czech rock keyboardist Michal Dvorak. The latest touring version of the show played five large arenas in the Czech and Slovak Republics with a full Robe moving light rig supplied by rental company Q-99 from Slovakia. Martin Hruska designed the lighting looks.
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WALLERN, Austria – When experiential event production agency Media Apparat took on the technical aspects of Pioneers Festival in June 2015, the new multimedia control and display capabilities of AV Stumpfl Wings Engine Stage and Fullwhite screens were put to a real-world test.
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Artistic Licence is offering its Micro-Scope Manicure, a service for its Micro-Scope 3a DMX tester.
Zylight’s F8-200 LED Fresnel is designed for location shoots or studio installations. It is to be featured at at IBC2015 (Stand 11.E38), which runs Sept. 11-15 at RAI Amsterdam.
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BERGAMO, Italy – Clay Paky relayed comments made by LD Giovanni Pinna, who has lit Giovanni Pinna since 1991. Clay Paky fixtures accounted for more than 25 percent of the total number of moving lights in use for Pinna’s concerts this year. The rig included Clay Paky Sharpy spotlights (54), Sharpy Wash 330s (50) and Alpha Beam 1500s (24).
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LEICESTERSHIRE, U.K. —LD Steve Bewley is the first to tour the UK and Europe with Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures, using over 100 units for British rock-band, Enter Shikari, in support of their new album, The Mindsweep. Bewley has truss-mounted 84 MagicBlade-R fixtures behind the band in a curved wall which splits horizontally to adapt his design to fit any size of venue. The band is pictured here at the Download Festival, held in Leicestershire, U.K. in June.
GREENFORD, Middlesex, UK – Lights, Camera, Action named Spencer Newbury International Business Development Manager. Newbury, pictured here, left, has 25 years experience as a lighting technician. In the last seven years, he developed business for Litepanels in the EMEA and APAC Regions. With him, pictured right, is Nick Shapley, Managing Director, LCA.
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Timecode Systems Ltd.’s B:LINK is a new RF network that augments the company’s tools for wireless timecode-sharing.