NUERBURG, Germany – The Rock am Ring festival at the Nuernburgring race track, a three-day festival held June 2-4 featuring headliners Rammstein, Die Toten Hosen, and System of a Down, was cut short by authorities on Friday, June 2 due to concerns of a possible terror threat before Rammstein could take the stage.
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NASHVILLE – Summer is off to a full swing, with massive tours hitting the road, meaning Bandit Lites has again invested in increasing its already expansive touring inventory, this time purchasing Robe PATT 2013 fixtures. While harkening back to vintage, broadcast lighting looks, the elegant design of the Robe PATT 2013 provides a new element of mood and stage lighting, all the while considering the need for lighting designers to utilize fixtures that will not only meet the booming retro-style trend, but also provide warm tungsten eye-candy looks.
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MUNICH, Germany – Astera, a Germany-based manufacturer of wireless professional lighting products, named Inner Circle Distribution (ICD) as its exclusive U.S. distributor.
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LONDON – Philips Vari-Lite’s new VL1100 LED luminaire makes its debut at the 2017 ABTT Theatre Show, set for June 6-7, 2017, at Alexandra Palace in London. The fixture is touted for setting a new standard in high quality LED moving head spotlights for stage and television applications.
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MOSCOW – Claypaky’s SharBar, the LED-based multi-beam effects light fixture, made its debut in Russia on a live concert by the band, My Michelle, at the Moscow-based Volta Club. LDs David Misakyan and Dmitry Buryak designed the lighting for the band, led by singer-songwriter Tanya Tkachuk.
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BIRMINGHAM, U.K. – ‘Heaven on Earth’, which will be touring U.K. arenas between Dec. 4 2017 and May 12, 2018, will feature a lighting design by LD James Bawn. The show, focusing on the biblical tale of Adam and Eve, is relying upon Avolites technologies for lighting and video support. The large-scale musical is produced by Eden International Productions. It was written by Sara Jeffs and directed by Racky Plews, with an original musical score and arrangements by Geoff Alexander.
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LONDON – Singer/songwriter Banks toured Europe and the U.K. earlier this year with a lighting rig supplied by Neg Earth Lights that included 13 Robe Spiiders (and one spare). LD Ali Pike designed the show, which traveled from Antwerp, Belgium on Feb. 24 to London on March 13. The tour, in support of last year’s Altar album release, is now underway in the U.S. and Canada through late June. Banks then heads to Australia before heading back to North America, the U.K. and Europe for another run of shows later this year.
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LOS ANGELES – TMB’s ProPlex Cat5e portable cable reached a significant milestone last month when total sales of the flagship product in the ProPlex data cable range, since its introduction at the turn of the century, reached 15 million feet. At more than 2,840 miles, that’s enough cable to stretch from Los Angeles to New York.
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif — Cartoni USA and Manios Digital & Film will demonstrate the latest additions to Cartoni’s award-winning line of camera accessories at two events this weekend in Hollywood. Lambda 25 3rd Axis is an innovative, new accessory for Cartoni’s Lambda 25, the industry standard nodal fluid head for specialty pan and tilt shots. The new attachment allows operators to perform complete 360° rotation on a third axis, making it ideal for shooting underslung off a jib arm, dolly, crane or slider.
AUSTIN, TX——Projection screen manufacturer Screen Innovations (SI), was founded in 2003 with one simple goal: to bring the big screen experience out of the dark. Based on the belief that two-piece projection was the best way to enjoy a truly immersive viewing experience, founder and CEO Ryan Gustafson led the small company to quickly establish a name for itself in the big screen market. In 2008, he achieved that goal with the introduction of the first iteration of Black Diamond® technology, the world’s first optically-based screen to reject ambient light from all directions.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – Ariana Grande and others will perform at the “One Love Manchester” benefit concert set to take place June 4 at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester, England. Tickets, some of which were offered to attendees of the May 22 concert at no charge, have sold out.
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LONDON– d3 Technologies will introduce its new gx range to the US market at InfoComm 2017, June 14-16, in the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando. The d3 team, who will be in Booth 4069, will also display their popular pro range. Prototypes of the gx range were previously shown at Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt, 2017. The new media servers are designed to facilitate generative content, which is becoming a progressively important part of live show design.
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