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Chauvet Lights Rebelution‘s Count Me In Tour

Chauvet Lights Rebelution‘s Count Me In Tour

For Rebelution’s Count Me In Tour, LD Kenny Gribbon used Chauvet Legend 412 fixtures to tie together the lighting and backdrop. “The design of the backdrop and stage and lights was a collaborative effort with all crew and band’s ideas coming together,” said Gribbon. “As far our vision for the design went, we considered color mixing one of the most important aspects of the show.  We wanted colors to draw you in just like the music does. I was really impressed with the color mixing of the Legends.  Another feature that really stood out about the Legends for me was the quickness of the pan/tilt.”

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Robert Juliat Lancelot Lights Lanxess Arena, Cologne

COLOGNE, Germany – The Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany has acquired four Robert Juliat Lancelot followspots. “We chose the RJ Lancelot products because we were not completely satisfied with the American manufacturer we worked with before and therefore preferred to use a European product,” says Lanxess Arena’s technical manager, Martin Rebiszewski.

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Robe Lights Top Gear Live European Tour

LD Steve Sinclair used nearly 200 Robe moving lights to light the Europen tour of Top Gear Live. The Robe fixtures were 38 x LEDWash 600s, 12 x LEDWash 800s, 40 x LEDWash 1200s and 36 x MMX WashBeams all from Robe’s ROBIN series, together with 36 ColorSpot 1200E ATs and 16 x ColorWash 1200E ATs. The main aesthetic challenges include lighting lightning fast moving vehicles and illuminating a large – 27 metres wide by 53 metres deep – stage area keeping it edgy, exciting and theatrical – and also providing the drivers with enough light to perform safely!

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Joel Reiff with his short story collection

Joel Reiff: Paperback Writer; Ravitz at the Drive-In

In between tours, over the past few decades, LD Joel Reiff has been writing. He selected 14 of his favorite short stories for his first published paperback, 14 Shorts and Other Dirty Laundry. PLSN found Reiff on the road with Peter Frampton, soon to head out again with Jason Mraz in August, to answer a few questions about his literary aspirations and inspirations.

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Illustration by Andy Au

The SWAT Team

As the summer goes by, I find myself playing lots of festival shows. Concerts put on with multiple stages, spread across a gigantic fairground. While festivals like these are really nothing new, the sheer number of them showing up in different cities is staggering. They are all huge, they all have to provide an infrastructure of a small city for a few days. And they all need a lot of employees to put it all together. But most of all, they need the SWAT team.

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The Santa Fe Opera Adds Hippotizer Rackoon Media Servers

SANTA FE, NM – Barbizon Light of the Rockies has provided the Santa Fe Opera with five Hippotizer Rackoon media servers, four Panasonic 20K projectors, and a remote Zookeeper PC for networked Rackoon control.  The first show this season to use the new media server system was Carmen, followed by a double-bill, The Impressario and Le Rossignol.

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The Prodigy at Sonisphere Festival Add Impact with Showline Strobes

KNEBWORTH, UK – Seeking to create a spectacular end to the Sonisphere festival’s opening day, LD Andy Hurst reworked an earlier design for The Prodigy. “The design concept was based on an air hanger for a Harrier Jump Jet,” explains Hurst. “We took the idea from their 2013 New Year’s Eve show at the O2. It was a favorite for the band, so they asked me to adapt it to our festival run this summer.” The revised design rigged the 84 SL NITRO 510 and 72 510C strobes in mixed groups of 10. His design saw them blast white and colored light over the audience, generating an electric rave atmosphere.

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Universal Event Production Supplies Lighting, Video Gear for Nike Pop-up Store

LONDON – Universal Event Production supplied full technical production to the Nike Phenomenal House, a one week only pop-up experience to celebrate football, street culture and style, music and fashion. For video, UEP flew six 60 inch plasma screens as a seamless 3×3 LED wall in the main space and supplied a 2 x 3 meter 3.9 mm LED wall, both of which received live camera feeds. The main football field was lit with 16 Robe LEDWash 600 and 12 Robe ColorSpot 1200 E AT moving lights plus a number of conventional fixtures.

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Journey and Steve Miller Band Tour Rig Includes Vari-Lite Gear

Faced with the challenge of sharing the same rig for two iconic bands, LD Kevin Christopher chose 38 VL3500 Wash and 25 VL3000 Spot luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite to be the lighting backbone for the complete tour. “In the design for the Journey tour, we have a large video wall that we treat as a surface for I-MAG, so I knew we needed automated lighting that could punch through the intensity of the video wall,” began Christopher. “During the design process, we looked at several luminaires for the job, but at the end of the day, we found that the power, performance and reliability of the VL3500 Wash and VL3000 Spot luminaires were second to none.”

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