Nine Inch Nails 2014 Tour Lit with Clay Paky Sharpy, Sharpy Wash Fixtures

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – For a string of European  shows in May and June before the band’s swing through North America later in the summer, LD Paul Guthrie used Clay Paky Sharpy and Sharpy Wash 330 fixtures to light the band. Guthrie noted that LD LeRoy Bennett had specified the gear for the original tour design, and Guthrie praised them for their features and performance.

LONDON – Lighting designer Louis Oliver of Okulus has chosen to use Showline SL NITRO 510C fixtures to add colour and strobing to his ethereal lighting for a special, one-off Chvrches show at London’s Brixton Academy. As the Scottish electro-pop trio has only played four dates in the UK since forming two years ago, they wanted to make sure the Brixton show was as audience captivating as possible. To that end, Oliver specified 17 of the Showline strobes from HSL to bring more than one strong look to his design.

PADUA, Italy – Fifty Robe LEDWash 600s were used for a week long installation to celebrate the inauguration of the new Biodiversity Garden at the well-known Orto Botanico di Padova (Padua Botanical Gardens) in Padua, Italy. The opening event was lit by Lorenzo Lissandron, a freelance LD and technician who undertakes all architectural lighting schemes for the University of Padua.

LONDON – Philips Vari-Lite is backing up the introduction of its VL4000 Spot fixtures with fixture-specific training sessions. One of these recent workshops took place at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) led by Coral Cooper, a veteran Vari-Lite trainer for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) customers. There, the VL4000 Spot luminaires were disassembled to the sub-assembly level to demonstrate ideal maintenance techniques. Cooper also explained the VL4000 Spot luminaire’s broad range of features, informing the end users and potential customers at the session on how to use them to their advantage.

MELBOURNE, Australia – Mint Lighting Design and ENTTEC transformed the forecourt and main terminal façade at Melbourne Airport with a dynamic lighting installation. The project has 12 individual sites programmed as one to create an intricate, synchronized light show with more than 40,000 pixel requiring 57 universes of control. The projected involved more than 2,140 individual components.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – After four years, the largest world exhibition of performance design is set to flood the center of Prague. The event spans 11 days and will feature 64 national expositions and more than 500 live events at more than 100 locations in the center of Prague, drawing an expected 50,000 visitors.

AMSTERDAM – In Dec. 2013, Stage Technologies’ sister company Delstar Engineering was commissioned to provide a huge scenic structure for the set of Anne, a new play about the life of Anne Frank. Produced by Imagine Nation, with set design by Bernhard Hammer and directed by Theu Boermans, the play is performed at the new Theater Amsterdam, a purpose built venue in the Westerlijke Houthavens district of Amsterdam.

BERLIN, Germany – A celebration at Brandenburg Gate commemorating the dismantling of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago included a light show designed by Bjorn Hermann that included GLP fixtures. Some 8,000 helium balloons were released. Hermann, commissioned by show director, Sven Sören Beyer of phase7, used GLP’s X4 impression LED fixtures to help light up the night sky. Mediapool Event Services GmbH supplied the fixtures, complementing the gear supplied by PRG for the main event.