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Metallica Making a Movie? Hartley in “Hell on Earth,” LDs and Emmys and More…

LD Lee Rose lit the Daytime Emmy Awards

Metallica Making a Movie? Hartley in “Hell on Earth,” LDs and Emmys and More…

Metallica in Movie Rehearsals

Longtime Metallica LD John Broderick is in San Francisco with the band, building the show for a film to be shot “sometime” next year, he said. The 3D show is apparently too big to take on the road. Rehearsals are going for a few months, said to be a composite of all the best show gags in Metallica’s history of touring. Apart from that, the band plays upcoming shows in San Francisco, New York’s Yankee Stadium, Brazil’s Rock in Rio and India. “Nothing new about the designs there, just a continuation of their international stadium dates they do every year lately,” Broderick said.

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Illustration by Andy Au

Working on Tomorrow’s Gig Today

I’m starting to feel like the Lincoln Lawyer. The guy that works out of the back of his town car. Except that, on show days, I set up shop in the back of a tour bus. Or a hotel room if I’m lucky. Summer is my busiest time of year. While I am out running one tour, I am busy working on others. There are several steps to the process before I actually run the first show of a tour. First, I must submit an idea I have along with artistic renderings to get the gig. Then I must finish drawing the CAD drawings to get them to the lighting/set/video vendors. Follow that with some pre-programming of lighting cues on a visualizer, and then make it to the actual rehearsals.

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Ian Kirby

SGM Names Ian Kirby Head of Sales in U.K.

SEVINGTON, U.K. — SGM named Ian Kirby head of sales in the U.K. Kirby was recruited by Peter Johansen, SGM’s director of R&D and Strategic Sales Development. Years ago, the two had been colleagues at Martin Professional; and Kirby had originally set up Martin Professional’s U.K. operation.

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Fort Sumpter lighting installation

Lighting Display Marks 150 Years Since the Start of the U.S. Civil War

CHARLESTON, SC — The Lowcountry Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration, in association with the Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie Historical Trust, recently marked 150 years since the first cannonball was fired to start the Civil War. To symbolize that solemn occasion, Production Design Associates (PDA) used two Strong Brightlight 7000 Xenon searchlights that split into two, marking the division of the nation. The display could be seen in the night sky for miles around.

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American DJ H20 DMX PRO

American DJ H2O DMX PRO

American DJ’s H20 DMX PRO flowing water effect provides users with a variety of rippling liquid images in six dichroic colors – orange, green, blue, yellow, purple and white. There are also two separate glass effects wheels, each projecting a different water pattern.  Since the color wheel itself is independent, users can select one color or have a rotating rainbow of all six dichroic colors. Other features include 0-100% dimming capabilities and two replaceable beam angle lenses (34° and 52°) with focus control. The unit comes with a 50W LED source rated for 30,000 hours of use.

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SGM seminar at Halilit

SGM Names Halilit Distributor for Israel

TEL AVIV, Israel — SGM named Halilit as its exclusive distributor for Israel. Halilit, founded by the Greenspoon family in 1941, is now in its third generation and operates as an importer, distributor and retailer. Halilit has worked for 20 years with SGM’s parent company, RCF.

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