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Nashville Sounds Go Deep with PixelFLEX LED Video Curtain

Nashville Sounds.

Nashville Sounds Go Deep with PixelFLEX LED Video Curtain

NASHVILLE — The Nashville Sounds enhanced the fan experience during a recent night game by using lightweight and flexible LED video curtain panels manufactured by PixelFLEX. With more than 3,000 fans in attendance for Music Industry Night, a popular promotional event scheduled several times a season that features a pre-game musical performance, the Sounds kept fans in the action throughout the game by delivering video and player information across the PixelFLEX panels in right-centerfield.

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Eddy Izzard.

Renegade Designs Eddy Izzard’s ‘Force Majeure’

LONDON – Nick Gray of London-based creative visual design practice Renegade worked his lighting magic on the latest Eddie Izzard “Force Majeure” arena tour, which has just finished a three month tour around the UK and Europe. It’s the first time that Gray – well known for his work in the fashion world and as LD for rockers Kasabian – has designed lighting for the ‘surrealist’ funny-man, a task on which he collaborated closely with Izzard’s Artistic Director, Sarah Townsend.

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ASL CEO/Founder David B. Scherz with Serafino Melloni, Winkler Multi Media Events

SGM Blasts Off in Switzerland

BASEL, Switzerland – Within five months of taking on the distribution of SGM in Switzerland, the long-serving ASL Electronic has already introduced another stalwart company, Winkler Multi Media Events, who have made a major investment in the Danish company’s LED portfolio.

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Journey at Wembley. Photo: James MacKenzie, courtesy of White Light

White Light Supplies Journey/Whitesnake Arena Tour

LONDON -White Light supplied lighting equipment and solutions for the Journey and Whitesnake 2013 UK Arena Tour. The popular bill featured the two bands, along with musical guest Thunder, together in concert for the first time in the UK. For the tour, which opened in Belfast and finished in London, White Light worked closely with Production Manager Rob Kern and LD Kevin “Deuce” Christopher, supplying a full production service including lighting fixtures, cabling, rigging and power distribution.

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CMA Fest

CMA Festival Shines with Bandit Lites

NASHVILLE – Country music’s biggest stars found themselves awash in the beams of more than 600 moving lights as Bandit Lites and LD Mike Swinford lit up the main stage at the CMA Music Festival. Starting on June 6, the four-day festival featured country music’s hottest stars including Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton and Lady Antebellum taking the stage at LP Field to crowds of more than 162,000.

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Kekul Sheth (Robe distributor IES), Sachin Naik (owner Nitin Speakers & Electrical), Sandeep Bhattad (business partner), Rasesh Parekh (Robe distributor IES)

India’s Nitin Speakers & Electrical Invests in Robe

PUNE, Maharashtra, India – South Indian rental company Nitin Speakers & Electrical has invested in Robe moving lights to upgrade their lighting inventory. Known for many years as a high quality audio rental company and also for building large portable venue superstructures, Nitin Speaker’s & Electrical opened its intelligent lighting division a year ago.

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Vanemuine Teater, the Big House.

Robe Marks Largest Installation of Fixtures in Estonia

TARTU, Estonia – Robe’s Estonian distributor E&T Ltd has completed the largest supply to date of Robe moving lights for a theatre installation. More than 200 fixtures have been delivered to the Vanemuine Teater in Tartu, Estonia’s lively second city and the country’s cultural and intellectual hub. The deal – part of a much wider program in which Robe luminaires have been supplied to all eight of Estonia’s state-supported theatres as part of a major national lighting upgrade – involves a mix of LEDWash 1200, 600 and 300s, MMX Spots, DLX Spots and Robin 600 and 300E Spot and Washes.

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Dave Byars

Avolites Sapphire Touch is Bright on Blur at Coachella

INDIO, CA – UK LD Dave Byars has put his new Avolites Sapphire Touch to work on Brit-pop band Blur’s 2013 tour, which has performed under the stars in venues and outdoor festivals, including Coachella. Byars pre-programmed much of the Coachella lighting on his laptop during the flight to California and then simply plugged his USB stick carrying the show into his Sapphire Touch.

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Stan, the Stand Tall mascot illuminated by MCG Lighting

Project Puts MGC Lighting Head and Shoulders Above the Rest

ESSEX, UK – International lighting distributor, MGC Lighting, has supplied Impact Waterproof Flexistrip lighting for an unusual project involving 2.5 meter (8 ft.) high giraffe sculptures, which are being used to mark the 50th anniversary of Colchester Zoo in Essex. The giraffes have been positioned in various locations around Colchester, as part of the Stand Tall project.

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Jeff Rials. Photo by Paris Visone

Jeff Rials, LD/Lighting Director, Limp Bizkit 2013 Tour

TOUR DATES: April and May in the U.S., June in Europe. Returns to U.S. in fall with new design, much bigger tour.

THE DESIGN: “This is kind of a guerilla run. There’s no production other than a small light sign we had back in 1997 and some white plastic chains hanging everywhere on stage. We are playing small clubs the band hasn’t played in 15 years.”

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