LONDON – For American punk pop band All Time Low’s recent U.K. tour, Boston-based LD Jeff Maker specified more than 80 moving lights from Robe. The rig included 54 Pointes, 12 LEDWash 600s and 12 LEDBeam 100s, all from Robe’s Robin range. Maker credited the gear for helping meet the challenge of scaling the light show to different-sized venues.
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OXFORD, U.K. – An evolution of their summer festival floor lighting package, the design for The Foals current world tour relied exclusively on lighting and lasers. The starting point for the design was the entwined cobra / Buddha backdrop created by Leif Podhaksky. HSL supplied the equipment to bring LD Davy Sherwin’s vision to life.
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Chauvet Professional’s COLORdash Par-Hex 12 light contains 12 10-watt “Hex” LEDs, each with six colors – red, green, blue, amber, white and UV. The addition of UV lets the light to function as a straight ultraviolet light or, alternately, be used to produce an iridescent sheen.
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LAS VEGAS – Christie has joined HDBaseT Alliance and integrated the technology into its Q series projectors allowing for all-in-one connectivity between HD video sources and remote displays through a single cable. Powered by the Valens chipset, HDBaseT has become a global digital connectivity standard with a large and varied product ecosystem that includes video distribution equipment, displays, projectors and AV receivers from more than 90 manufacturers.
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NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — ProTapes & Specialties promoted Dennis Mirabella to director of the company’s Arts & Entertainment Business Unit. Mirabella, a 32-year company veteran, has served the company in a variety of roles, most recently as business unit manager. In his new role, Mirabella will oversee the A&E business unit and also serve on the company’s Operations Management Team (OMT).
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MICROH Group, one of the leading Canadian suppliers of professional lighting and trussing solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Showtech Distributors as distributor for the US market for its MICROH PRO, MICROH DJ, Motion Screens and Tour Truss product lines.
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In cooperation with the Italian Lighting Designers Network, Clay Paky makes the Ventura Lambrate district shine during Milan Design Week with a series of temporary lighting installations. The NaturaLED lighting itinerary aims to guide visitors through a true lighting experience involving variations in light intensity and color.
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Elation Professional’s new DW Fresnel and DW Profile offer variable white light for broadcast or theatre environments. Their output is adjustable from warm white tungsten to cool white daylight, and beam control via zoom and beam framing/shaping make them highly effective directional white light luminaires. Powered by a 250W, 100,000 hour white LED engine, they feature low-noise cooling for operation in noise sensitive environments.
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Billed as The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show, Brit Floyd has performed to over one million fans around the world since its first show in Liverpool in 2011. The lighting design by Dave Hill incorporates Elation’s Platinum 5Rs into the trademark Pink Floyd arch and circle light show. Used as part of the floor package are 8 Elation Design Spot 1200C’s, a hybrid spot/wash fixture. “The optics are excellent,” said LD Stu Dingley, “often rivalling output from other fixtures with larger apertures and lamps. We noticed this especially on the shows where we had to hire in an alternative floor package.”
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This year marks the fifth year for the First Night Riders charity motorbike tour which raises money for The Theatrical Guild. Established in 1891, TTG is dedicated to looking after theatre personnel who, due to a variety of circumstances, need educational sponsorship, counselling, or welfare advice, in order for them to regain employment in the theatre industry. This year’s tour takes place June 20-23.
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