BBC Comic Relief’s Glee Club lit with Clay Paky Fixtures

LONDON — Even if the name Sue Sylvester doesn’t yet frighten the life out of you and you’ve never heard of Glee, there’s little doubt you will do soon. As Glee fever sweeps the UK, the hit high school TV drama has inspired British kids to compete in a charity fund-raising spin-off called Comic Relief does Glee Club. The show was aired during Comic Relief Week, when the whole country gets together to entertain each other and raise cash for UK charities.

KINGS LYNN, Norfolk, UK — The Glade Festival, a celebration of electronic dance music festival that started out as a stage at Glastonbury, was staged in Houghton Hall this year, and a key supporter of the 2011 event was Central Presentations Ltd (CPL), which is based in West Midlands and Bristol, UK. CPL coordinated and supplied a full technical production package encompassing video, lighting and sound for the Overkill stage.

LONDON — White Light has recently added 50 Martin Professional MAC III series fixtures to their inventory of Martin Professional lighting gear. The new purchase includes both MAC III Profile and MAC III Performance fixtures, Martin’s 1500W high-output profile moving heads. Lighting professionals will be able to get a closer look at the new MACs, as well as a host of other Martin gear, when the Martin Road Show visits the White Light facilities on Thursday, June 30, 2011.

SYDNEY — With a production valued at over $25 million, Kylie Minogue’s Aphrodite-Les Folies Tour 2011 features over a million moving parts, including 30 high impact water jets, rain curtains, fountains and nearly 600 light sources. The custom stage, which by itself cost over $10 million, is designed to be technically advanced, complex and precise.

LONDON — After his sell-out success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, it was just a matter of time before Britain’s most notorious pub landlord, Al Murray, was given his own TV game show. Now the British stand-up (or rather his beer-swilling alter-ego) is hosting his own pub quiz on UK comedy channel Dave.