LONDON — Creative Technology’s London operation announce the expansion of its account management team with the return of Mick Jones. Jones, a 27-year AV industry veteran, started his career at Mediatech AV in the late 1980s and most recently worked for Chaos Visual Productions. He worked previously for CT in the late 1990s.
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LAS VEGAS – For the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival, staged in the MGM Grand here Sept. 19-20, LD Tom Kenny specified more than 500 Robe moving lights, provided by VER. The event, hosted by Ryan Seacrest, featured performances by Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Usher, Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris, Bastille and others.
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NEW YORK, NY – An estimated crowd of more than 400,000 converged in New York City for the People’s Climate March, just a few days before the United Nations’ Climate Summit. Upstage Video partnered with event organizers to be the sole provider of Mobile LED screens and live camera production for the massive march.
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MORRISON, CO — Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre here with a lighting rig from Thornton, CO-based Brown Note Productions that included 22 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 LED-based moving lights controlled by a grandMA2 with NPU. The band’s LD, Saxton Waller, is also including the fixtures, sourced via A.C.T Lighting, in STS9’s fall touring rig.
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READING and LEEDS, U.K. — U.K.-based indie rockers The Courteeners headlined the NME and Radio One stages for this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals. Their LD, Dan Hill, specified a rig of Robe moving lights for the band, performing in support of their new studio album, Concrete Love. Siyan provided the gear for both events.
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MANSFIELD, TX – For Walnut Ridge Baptist Church, Gemini Light Sound & Video installed 74 Showline SL PAR 150 ZOOM Luminaires from Philips Entertainment to suit the tastes of congregants looking for traditional and contemporary worship experiences.
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NASHVILLE — For Garth Brooks’ world tour, with a lighting design from LD Dave Butzler, Bandit Lites came up with a new fixture, dubbed the “Gig Lite” — a bright single source RGBA in a small PAR 30 form factor promising a smooth dimming curve that looked good on camera.
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