LOS ANGELES — Days after Fyre Festival organizers Ja Rule and Billy McFarland postponed their April 28-30 and May 5-7 event indefinitely, attorney Mark Geragos filed suit on behalf of plaintiff Daniel Jung, one of the attendees affected. The suit, which alleges fraud and breach of contract, seeks class action status and damages of more than $100 million.
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MANCHESTER, NH – Crossing genres in lighting is nothing unusual for Morgan Cerovski. The technical director at the 880-seat Palace Theatre, Cerovski is accustomed to having his rig light theatrical productions on weekends and then turn around with virtually no changes to serve up eye candy for a visiting band on Monday. Such was the case on March 10 when the Palace stage welcomed the Red Hot Chili Pipers after just completing a Friday-Sunday run of the musical Hairspray.
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ESPOO, FINLAND – The Claypaky Sharpy and A.leda B-EYE K20 were used to create the stunning lighting looks that backed the ten talented hopefuls competing to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 at the country’s national Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) ‘New Music Competition’ held in the Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo. Leading Nordic event, experience and entertainment service provider Bright Group designed and supplied UMK’s light, video and set design.
LOS ANGELES – When a projection systems upgrade was required for the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA), Electrosonic was asked to design, install, program and commission projection and AV equipment for the Robert E. Petersen Theatre and the Great Moments exhibit. Electrosonic replaced the aging projector in the Robert E. Petersen Theatre with a 12,000 lumen Christie HD laser phosphor projector which displays three looped videos on the screen.
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CALIFORNIA – Across Eastside Christian Church’s three Southern California campuses, lighting is used to help congregants take a respite from their hectic life and open up to new possibilities. “The lighting helps create the atmosphere to allow people to let their guard down and relax,” explains Cameron Bentley, Eastside’s Production Engineer and Lighting Director. “Our hope is that the lighting, the band, and the sound will then fade away and what’s left is the message of God.”
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USA – Multi award winning American rock band Panic at The Disco continue their ‘Death of a Bachelor’ tour in the US with a striking production design created by Matt Larivée of Montreal-based creative practice Luz Studio, who worked closely with the band’s lighting designer, Alex Specht. Together they specified 50 x Robe BMFL Spots, 10 x CycFX8s and six PATT 2013s which are prominent on the rig.
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SYDNEY – Located on Cocktail Bay overlooking Darling Harbour, Home is Sydney’s only true superclub. Built in the late nineties, the club features over three levels of purpose-built clubbing space. With a capacity of 2100, the venue is one of the largest in the southern hemisphere. Incorporating innovative creative design and with four venue areas, including a luxurious rooftop terrace, featuring both indoor and outdoor areas, Home lends itself perfectly to all aspects of entertaining.
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – Elite Events recently added another 700 metres of ProCable 18X1.5 assemblies to their already significant inventory of the popular six-circuit cables. TMB’s distribution partner, Lexair Entertainment of New South Wales is the provider for this and other top quality TMB products in Australia and New Zealand.
THE EXUMAS, Bahamas — The promotional hype for the inaugural Fyre Festival, which was set to take place on two weekends April 28-30 and May 5-7 2017 on an island in the Bahamas, promised a sun-kissed paradise with bikini-clad models, first-class accommodations, gourmet dining and non-stop music from headliners including Blink-182, G.O.O.D. Music, Major Lazer and more.
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ZAGREB, Croatia — To give Croatian pop artist Ivan Zak big looks on his biggest show yet, a one-off show in Zagreb Arena filled with 18,000 fans, LD Sven Kucinic used 20 Robe BMFL Spots, 48 Pointes and 16 MMX WashBeams supplied by rental company Eldra.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Staging Concepts, a provider of portable staging equipment, will open a new location in Minneapolis on May 11. The new facility is at 8400 Wyoming Avenue North, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55445.
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Eurolite’s TMH-X25 Zoom, featured at Prolight+Sound 2017, combines the capabilities of a moving head fixture with a matrix effect and beam spot fixture. It resembles a matrix effect on the base of a moving head with a 5 x 5 matrix of individually controllable RGBW LEDs. The fixture can be controlled by DMX or Art-Net.
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