LONDON — Mood, drama, invention and Robe moving lights were at the heart of the elegant, intricate lighting design created by Rich George from 3DL&S for jazz-pop singer and songwriter Jamie Cullum’s Momentum tour, which recently completed its first U.K. leg before heading to Europe. Leeds, U.K.-based Zig Zag Lighting is providing the gear.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. — LD Nick Richings specified Showline’s SL PAR 150 Zoom luminaires for the current musical tour of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. White Light is supplying the gear for the tour, with stops at theatres across the U.K. including Glasgow’s King’s Theatre, the Bristol Hippodrome and the Liverpool Empire. The tour will continue through May 2014.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — dbn Lighting, based here, once again supplied lighting and LED screens to the Warehouse Project (WHP), a series of EDM events founded by Sacha Lord-Marchionne and Sam Kandel. WHP operates for two regular nights each week from September to New Year’s Eve on a timeline coinciding with university and college schedules. It attracts international EDM DJs and live acts and sells out months in advance. This was the second year the club has operating out of the Victoria Warehouse venue in Trafford Park. dbn’s Pete Robinson has been involved with WHP from the start. This year he created the production and lighting design for all three rooms in the space.
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PIGEON FORGE, TN — AV Concepts worked with the Dollywood theme park here and Fred Blurton Productions to integrate holographic technology into its first production of Dollywood’s A Christmas Carol as part of the annual annual Smoky Mountain Christmas presented by Humana celebration. Adapted from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the show, which debuted Nov. 9, includes four holographic characters.
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AUSTIN, TX — LD Marty Postma, who has been tinkering with the idea of wrapping and enveloping the rock band Alice In Chains with a lighting rig that surrounds them “like a shell” for several years, got the chance to “make it happen on a large scale” with gigs earlier this year. The fixtures specified for these shows centered on gear from High End Systems, including their ShowGun, Cyberlight 2.0, Intellaspot and TechnoArc units.
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AUSTIN, TX and NORTH CREEK, NY — Barco Lighting Systems’ Austin, TX-based subsidiary, High End Systems (HES) named Creative Stage Lighting (CSL) a Major Axon HD Reseller. CSL and its network of local resellers throughout the U.S. will offer HES’ Axon media server products to their end user customers.
Read More »HAMBURG, Germany — Rasta Thomas and Adrienne Canterna, the husband-and-wife team behind the Bad Boys of Dance company (BBD) and its Rock the Ballet productions, are taking a new rock ballet, and update on William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, on the road in Germany. LDs Patrick Woodroffe and Roland Griel included 16 Clay Paky Sharpy Wash fixtures in the production’s lighting design. Showconcept supplied the gear.
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