LONDON – For a recent Avicii tour, tour director Curly Jobson and production manager Robin Scott relied once again on HSL Group for HSL lighting equipment and crew. The show was designed by Simon Barrington and Ian Tomlinson and directed live by video artist/VJ Harry Bird. It included lighting, video visuals, pyro, special FX and lasers, complementing Avicii’s performance in real-time.
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LAS VEGAS – Design firm Fine Design Associates used equipment provided by 4Wall Las Vegas to light the trade show booths and events of eight prominent manufacturers at the 2014 CES show here earlier this year. Canon USA, Motorola, Ricoh, Panasonic, Samsung, Hisense, Monster Products, and Funai all featured lighting experiences at their booths or events created by the Fine Design Team.
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CLEVELAND – NPI Audio Visual Solutions, a systems integrator based here, recently invested in its first Vista Systems Spyder X20 for use in live events and for its demo room where the company showcases equipment for permanent installations. NPI serves customers nationwide with a primary focus in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia.
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ATLANTA – For the Passion 2014 Atlanta Conference, which drew more than 20,000 university students to Philips Arena here in mid-January for a weekend of worship and teaching, LD Ed White used an octagon of 16 moving video screens as both a scenic and narrative show element. Bandit Lites provided the gear for the event, which was followed by a second event at Toyota Center in Houston in mid-February.
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DALLAS – A new and improved Big Tex was back welcoming guests to the State Fair of Texas last year. The iconic giant cowboy figure, which had been greeting fairgoers since 1952, was destroyed by fire near the end of last year’s State Fair. The rebuilt Big Tex is even bigger, and enhanced this time around by SRO Associates and Texas Scenic and their use of Alcorn McBride’s V4 Pro frame-accurate controller and AM4 Digital Audio Machine.
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WEST LONDON – Entec Sound & Light supplied a full production package for the 2014 Bhangra Showdown staged by Imperial College’s Punjabi Society. The vibrant event was a full-on dance competition that showcased the color, style and energy of Bhangra, with eight of the best university Bhangra dance teams in the UK battling for the title. Entec has been involved since the start of the show in 2008.
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Read More »TA’ QALI, Malta — The lighting support structure for a concert version of the Maltese rock opera Gensna fell at 10:50 a.m. on March 17 and injured four crew members. One of the workers, Emanuel Ronayne, 48, received life-threatening injuries to the chest; the other injuries were not life-threatening. The accident occurred at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre here. Of the four crew members injured, Ronayne and one other were hospitalized; the two others were reportedly treated on site for bruises and shock.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — The 2014 edition of Prolight + Sound finished strong after four days on March 15, with 897 exhibitors from 42 countries on par with stats from the 2013 event (901 from 41 counties) despite the 2014 event’s month-earlier time frame. Combined with Musikmesse, there were a total 2,242 exhibitors from 57 countries, with a total 110,000 visitors from 142 countries attending the March 12-15 event.
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TEXCOCO, Mexico — The two-day Hell and Heaven Metal Fest that had been scheduled to take place March 15 and 16 at the fairgrounds in this Mexico City suburb has been canceled. State officials cited public safety as the reason for pulling the plug, but town officials and concert organizers, including town spokesman Francisco Vazquez, speculated that politics and economics might have played a role.
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