LONDON – Leading up to the historic election that would choose Sadiq Khan, London’s first Muslim mayor, SXS Events used 16 Rogue R2 Washes to illuminate the London Mayor’s office, located near the Thames and Tower Bridge. The RGBW LED fixtures were used to wash the entire edifice and draw attention to an HD-projected image displaying the words: “5 May: Have your say.” Khan assumed office May 8.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – DTS Lighting has more details on three of their new products that were unveiled at Prolight + Sound in early April, including their Katana, Core and Nick NRG 1401 fixtures.
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SAN CARLOS, CA – WorldStage San Francisco, formerly Tekamaki, hosted the spring edition of its Technology Open House in its San Carlos, CA location. The semi-annual event brought together the top technical minds from all five WorldStage locations. They demonstrated a cross-section of new off-the-shelf technology, custom technology, and R&D projects from the WorldStage Inventions and Lab teams.
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INDIO, CA. – Elation Professional LED lighting was used in several tents as well as on the Outdoor Theatre at this year’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Elation lights were also used for site lighting including uplighting of the festival’s well-loved rows of palm trees in rainbows of festive color.
COLOGNE, Germany – For the current “Adele Live 2016” world tour, which typically opens with “Hello” and wraps with a final encore of “Rolling in the Deep,” the British vocalist has been able to fill the biggest arenas in the U.K. and Europe, often on consecutive dates. Patrick Woodroffe and Adam Bassett, along with lighting director Roland Greil, have supported the artist with a variety of impressive looks with a rig that includes nearly 100 fixtures from Robe.
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Read More »LAS VEGAS – Selena Gomez embarked on her second solo concert tour, in support of her second studio album, Revival, with a May 6 show at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The tour travels throughout North America through mid-July, when it jumps to Asia for a series of concerts. A leg of shows has also been planned for Europe this fall. Tait Towers is among the production companies supporting the tour.
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SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT — Higher Ground Music Hall, which opened in 2004, is known for bringing in national and international jam band, jazz and indie acts. The venue recently upgraded its lighting rig, adding Rogue R1 Spots, R1 Washes and R2 Washes from Chauvet Professional.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites named Shay Simpson senior accountant. Simpson, who has 13 years of entertainment industry experience, will manage all aspect of the accounting systems while developing and maintaining accounting policies and procedures. She will be based at the company’s headquarters in Knoxville.
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GLASGOW, Scotland – American singer and songwriter Halsey kicked off the European section of her Badlands tour at Glasgow’s O2 Academy earlier this year. Creative Directors of production design company Okulus, Louis Oliver and James Scott, turned to Ayrton once again when creating an adaptable lighting design which could be modified to suit all of the venues in the European tour dates.
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NASHVILLE – PixelFLEX named Intellasound Productions as its newest production rental partner. With its headquarters in Verona, WI, Intellasound Productions has been supplying audio, lighting, staging, backline and touring support for a wide variety of live events, and they have now added FLEXCurve 6mm LED video technology from PixelFLEX to their rental inventory to strengthen their client support nationwide. Pictured here, from left, are Bryan Schalburg, Declan Dwyer, David Maier, Tim Woodworth, and Matt Naselli.
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