SYDNEY – Indie dance trio RÜFÜS recently embarked on their latest Australian tour, with lighting designers Matthew James Smith and Lynden Gare of Colourblind incorporating some Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s into their production for one of the first times in Australia, impressing audiences with the fixtures’ never-seen-before effects.
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SPOKANE, WA — LD Seth Jackson recently used 14 of Robe’s CycFX 8 fixtures on the upstage truss for Alice Cooper’s Raise The Dead ’tour, which also included a number of dates as special guests on Mötley Crüe’s All Bad Things Must Come To An End farewell tour. The CycFX 8 units traveled in Tyler Truss sections and were used for scenarios where space was too tight onstage for any ground-rows to up-light the backdrop … as well as to provide a unique reveal ensuring Cooper’s show had its own distinctive look and feel. The CycFX 8s were supplied by Bandit Lites.
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CLEVELAND, OH – Vincent Lighting Systems (VLS) announced the launch of a new web store at https://shop.vls.com. The redesigned shopping platform offers expanded descriptions, more powerful search results and lower prices on its most popular items.
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LOS ANGELES — The original spot for the 1980s/1990s nightclub, The Roxbury, the namesake for the Will Ferrel-Chris Kattan film, A Night at the Roxbury, is now occupied by a new meeting space, Project LA. (The Roxbury’s owner has since reopened another club, also called the Roxbury, at a different location a few miles away). For Project A, V Squared Labs’ Vello Virkhaus provided a design that includes Martin VC-Strips.
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BERLIN, Germany – More than one million visitors came to the German capital on the weekend of Nov. 9 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall in Berlin. One of the many highlights of the events planned to celebrate this occasion was the festival held at the Brandenburg Gate. Here the focal point – besides stars such as Udo Lindenberg, Peter Gabriel, Clueso and the Fantastischen Vier – was a gigantic LED video wall from XL Video.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Greenpeace launched a highly visible and eye-catching campaign at the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark using SGM’s G-Spot LED moving head to project onto four wind turbines. Greenpeace’s project leader Esben Sloth explains: “We wanted the light projection to be very accurate, with sharp lines and figures, in order to make the wind turbines look like a graph.”
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LONDON – Embracing the “less is more” approach, LD Mark Wynn-Edwards is lighting electronic duo Lamb with just 11 Robe Pointes. His lighting inspiration came from the stark monochromicity and ‘reality’ of black & white cinema, and much of the set is lit in white. “This show is really all about lighting the ‘negative’ spaces on the stage,” he says.
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DUBLIN — For Imelda May’s six-week trek to a variety of venues in the U.K. and Europe, LD James O’Neill turned to a lighting rig supplied by Northolt, U.K.-based Entec Sound & Light that included Robe LEDBeam 100s, LEDWash 600s, Showtec Sunstrips 2-Lite Moles and a single Vari*Lite VL3000 Spot fixture at FOH. O’Neill used Avolites’ Tiger Touch II console with a wing to control the rig, which also included Martin MAC 700 Profile moving lights for some shows. Entec also sourced a shimmering silver / gold drape which was used in the larger venues.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Slovenian singer Magnifico performed with the Serbian Army Orchestra for a sold-out show at the Križanke venue in Ljubljana. The show was part of the annual Druga Godba Festival which features numerous local and international artists, many who are paired up for unique and interesting onstage collaborations – like this one. The lighting rig, which needed to illuminate more than 40 people on stage, include 20 Robe Pointes, 12 LEDWash 600s and eight ColorWash 575 XTs.
VIENNA, Austria – Die Große Chance (A Great Opportunity) is one of Austria’s leading talent competitions. The 2014 final, staged in Studio 1 at national broadcaster ORF’s HQ in Vienna, was lit by lighting director Thomas Kruder who used nearly 300 Robe moving lights, including eight of Robe’s new Bright Multi-Functional Luminaires (BMFLs). The rig also included 133 Pointes and 146 LEDBeam 100s. Vienna-based rental company Supporting Role supplied the fixtures.
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