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Philips Lighting’s VL6000 Beams Cut Through Rock For The Scorpions

Philips Lighting’s VL6000 Beams Cut Through Rock For The Scorpions

[caption id="attachment_281708" align="alignnone" width="800"]Philips VL6000 Beams light The Scorpions photo by Manfred Nikitser[/caption]

WORLD – – Philips Lighting (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that its unique stage lighting fixture, the Philips VL6000 Beam, is delivering a powerful impact for the Crazy World concert tour by German heavy metal band, The Scorpions.The power and quality of the output from the 36 Philips VL6000 Beams solves several challenges for The Scorpions’ lighting designer, Manfred Nikitser. His lighting fixtures need to provide enough punch to cut through the light from the LED screens on the stage, and be strong enough to deal with long throw distances, as the lighting trusses are trimmed at between 10m and 14m above the stage. 

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Heroes Not Hard To Find in Las Vegas

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LAS VEGAS – AV Vegas provided sound, lighting & backline for the “Next From Nashville” stage at the Route 91 festival. Our stage finished an hour before the festival ended on Oct 1 and our crew was busy striking our gear when the shooting began. Two trucks had already been loaded and the lighting was mostly packed and riggers were taking motors down when concert goers began running towards our stage to get away from the shooting. Everyone has seen the story on TV. It was awful and I won’t recap it here.

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Courtney Barnett And Kurt Vile Tour With Bandit Lites

[caption id="attachment_281700" align="alignnone" width="645"]CBKV image by John Shore[/caption]

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Following the October 2017 release of their collaborative album Lotta Sea Lice, Courtney Barnett, a Grammy nominated Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett, and American singer-songwriter Kurt Vile hit the road for a co-headlining tour with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. Taking into account that almost each of the venues on the tour featured a solid in-house over head rig, Lighting Designer Nicholas Beachen designed a floor packaged that made each room look specific to a CBKV show.

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Chip Self Keeps El Monstero Fresh With New CHAUVET Professional Maverick Pyxis

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ST. LOUIS – Fans who pack the Pageant Theatre to capacity for six or seven El Monstero shows every holiday season never quite know what to expect. Certainly, they’re re going to hear spot-on renditions of The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon and other Pink Floyd classics, but beyond its iconic music, this Christmas tradition in America’s heartland is full of delightful visual surprises. Drawing on a cast of up to 75 characters, the annual tribute show in St. Louis has been coming up with novel and enthralling dramatizations and set designs every year since it was started by members of different local bands in 1999.

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Green Hippo Storms it at Star Wars Premiere

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LONDON – The Royal Albert Hall rolled out the red carpet for the European premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on Dec. 12, and Green Hippo technology was there in force. Digital Insanity provided content creation and playback solutions for the premiere of the latest in the Star Wars franchise, and the team again relied on Green Hippo to help it create a spectacular event.

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JS Event & Media Technology invests in PR Lighting XR 440 BWS

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KASSEL, GERMANY – Kassel-based event service provider JS Event & Medientechnik recently invested in 24 x XR 440 BWS moving heads from PR Lighting, responding to the ever-increasing quality demands of events of all sizes. This was the company’s first investment in PR Lighting technology, and all fixtures were supplied by Focon Showtechnik, PR Lighting’s German distributor. Since being set up in 1999, the highly trained craftsmen at JS Event & Media Technology have been managing the technical requirements of events of all sizes, from large-scale projects to congresses and weddings.

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Robert Juliat Cyrano Performs at Dubai’s La Perle by Dragone

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DUBAI – At the end of August an exciting event took place at Al Habtoor City in the heart of Dubai. La Perle, the spectacular new acrobatic water show from Franco Dragone, opened its doors for the first time in a purpose-built, 1300-seat, theatre designed by renowned set designer, Jean Rabasse, and executed by Khatib and Alami Architects and theatre consultants Auerbach Pollock Friedlander. Robert Juliat is proud to be a part of it, with four of its Cyrano 2500W HMI chosen as La Perle’s followspots.

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Analog Way AV Processors Manage LED Screens at the 17th FINA World Championships in Budapest

[caption id="attachment_281688" align="alignnone" width="800"] 17th FINA World Championships and World Masters Championships[/caption]

BUDAPEST – When the 17th FINA World Championships and World Masters Championships, the biennial aquatics and water sports competitions, were staged in Budapest, Hungary, an array of Analog Way AV processors made a splash managing multiple LED screens in different locations through a single system. Giant Unilumin LED screens were mounted in five sports venues and were integral to every competition.  AV Spring Ltd. supported the operations team with engineering plans for the AV systems and provided technical training for key personnel.

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Avolites gives the magic Tiger Touch to Cinderella this Christmas

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UK – Oh no they didn’t! Oh yes they did! The lighting team at The Grand Theatre Blackpool is using an Avolites Tiger Touch II console to control the magical light show for the historic theatre house’s star-studded Christmas pantomime performance of fairy-tale classic, Cinderella. The show marks the 21st anniversary of production company, UK Productions, one of the country’s leading musical theatre and pantomime production groups. On board for this year’s celebratory performance was lighting designer Andy Webb, who has worked with UK Productions for the past three years on their festive Blackpool shows.

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Elation Sponsors Stage Lighting Super Saturday 2018.

NYC – Elation Professional is proud to be participating in the Stage Lighting Super Saturday workshop taking place on Saturday, January 13th at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts located at 721 Broadway in New York City. Elation will be contributing to the event by demonstrating lighting techniques using some of its latest lighting innovations. 

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