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Third Eye Blind Rocks with Clay Paky and grandMA2 on Festival Tour

Third Eye Blind Rocks with Clay Paky and grandMA2 on Festival Tour

As Third Eye Blind hits the road across America, Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE K20 lights and a grandMA2 light console are hitting the road with them.  LD Mitchell Schellenger created a look that echoes the sunset set times of some of their gigs.  “The B-EYEs have a nice big head so their look is perfect for our sunset theme,” Schellenger says.  “The show color scheme starts more bright CTO Amber and works its way toward a deeper orange.  The B-EYEs’ awesome effects give the show the ability to progress visually through that minimal color scheme.” 

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GLP Impression X4 Rises Up for Tim McGraw

For Tim McGraw’s Sundown Heaven Town 2014 tour, production designer Baz Halpin created a set “moving away from the traditional imagery of country music and into something more modern looking.” To implement this, lighting director Pat Brannon selected 134 of GLP’s impression X4 LED moving heads to create a highly imaginative lighting dynamic.

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World Cup Viewing Party in Germany Lit with Elation Fixtures

NUREMBERG, Germany – Some 20,000 soccer fans celebrated Germany’s victory over Argentina in the World Cup final at an open-air viewing party near Nuremberg Airport here July 13. Event technology supplier sld mediatec, based here, provided LD Sebastian Gross with Elation Platinum Beam 5R Extreme and Platinum Spot 35 Pro moving heads, Rayzor Q7 LED moving heads, Design Beam 1200C and Design Spot 575 moving heads, ELED Tri Par 56 LED par lights and white light TVL 3000-II DWs.

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Arcade Fire's Reflektor tour

As Arcade Fire Reflektor Tour Ends, LD Chris Bushell Credits Avo Gear

LONDON – Faced with delivering a complex show design capable of fitting into every kind of venue, LD Chris Bushell turned to Avolites’ Sapphire Touch console for Arcade Fire’s Reflektor tour. He explains, “I needed a console that would allow me to recreate my design as quickly and efficiently as possible in each space. Luckily the Avolites Sapphire Touch not only manages to do what all other desks do, but it’s also packaged in a much easier to access and more intuitive platform, which means I can focus on the creative side of my job rather than the number crunching aspect.”

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Astera Names Bluebottle Exclusive Australian Distributor

RUDESHEIM, Germany – Astera named Bluebottle as the exclusive distributor of Astera’s wireless event lights in Australasia. Bluebottle is based in Melbourne, Australia, and will serve mainland Australia, New Zealand and other Australasian islands. Bluebottle has been working with Astera since 2010 and this partnership will serve to enhance the sales, distribution and support of Astera’s wireless event lighting range in the Australian market.

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Czech thrash metal band SKWOR performs with TD Promo-supplied Robe lighting fixtures.

TD Promo Lighting Czech Rock Bands with Robe Fixtures

PRAGUE — TD Promo has been supplying Robe moving lights for three Czech rock bands bands this year. All have been performing throughout the Czech Republic, with a few gigs in Slovakia as well. They include Mandrage from Pilzen (LD Tomáš Karban); Divokej Bill from Úvaly near Prague (LD Matej Mantlik) and thrash metal outfit SKWOR (LD Martin Samecky), pictured here.

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