GLASTONBURY, U.K. – Following a successful event at last year’s festival, XL Video, working with Technical Producer, Nick Diacre, has once again produced a significant achievement in 180? live mapping for Shangri-La’s Heaven Stage at the Glastonbury festival 2015.
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ITALY – Italian superstar Vasco Rossi is currently engaged in his summer Live Kom 15 stadium tour which is completely sold out, and will see the legendary singer play to nearly 1 million fans, with another stunning lighting and show design by his long term LD, Giovanni Pinna featuring Robe BMFLs.
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FLAGSTAFF, AZ – Brothers Gow LD Matt Collier added Chauvet’s Rogue R1 Spots to its travel rig for the band’s “Bring the Heat” Tour.
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WORLDWIDE – Todd Rundgren “Global” album release tour LD Martin Thomas selected Robe gear for the tour’s lighting array.
Read More »LONDON – d3 Technologies have signed an exclusive reseller agreement with publitec, the Herdecke, Germany based AV-distributers and media server specialists, making publitec the exclusive reseller of d3 products for Germany, Austria and Switzerland starting immediately.
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SOUTH AFRICA – Madame Zingara’s South African traveling theatical experience recently celebrated its 15th year of production with an all-new technical upgrade from Gearhouse Splitbeam that featured a light & audio array featuring gear from Meyer Sound, Martin, Sennheiser and Robe.
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U.K. – Track systems specialist Triple E has loaned a quantity of ERAIL track and components to Taking Part at London’s Young Vic Maria studio theatre for a production called The Remarkable Case of K.
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U.K. – Technical theatre student Bradley Allen has used an Avolites Titan Mobile armed with the new Titan V9 operating system to light a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Colchester Institute.
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I have always had an affinity for strobes. Ever since I got into this biz, I have been fond of all kinds of these fixtures and watched them grow in wattage from small Xenon gas discharged units to Lightning Strikes to LED models that are just blinding. Strobe lights originated in 1931 using flashtubes with energy supplied from a capacitor, similar to a battery, but capable of charging and releasing energy much faster.
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There are a lot of great things about running a magazine publishing company. For one thing, it gives you a medium to engage in discussions with others when you have an important topic on your mind that you feel is beneficial to share with others. Through the years, when I have penned a publisher’s note, it has always been about something in our industry. However, this time I am going off-script. I want to chat with you about an organization I have become aware of that is doing very good work for sick children around the country that you might want to know about.
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Tony Award winner Scott Pask has tackled set design for large theatrical productions many times before, not to mention juggling multiple projects. He had five shows open this spring on Broadway, including the highly acclaimed Something Rotten!, the hilarious musical comedy about the birth of the musical genre in the Puritanical world of South England in 1595. The show was nominated for ten Tony Awards and won one for Best Featured Actor for the exuberant Christian Borle, and it is a true crowd pleaser that lovingly sends up the beginnings of musical theater through a satirical Shakespearean lens.
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“Since I started working with The Rolling Stones back in 1982,” says longtime lighting designer and show director, Patrick Woodroffe, “the background to the planning for a tour would always be the same. The band would get together and ask a question. ‘Should we go on tour?’ If the answer was ‘Yes,’ they would then commit to a year and a half on the road, and we’d be off. Mark Fisher and I would design a production, spending millions and millions of dollars on the grounds that this would be amortized over 160 performances or whatever. But they don’t work like that now.”
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