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HSL Solves the ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) So It Goes Equation

LD Andy Liddle used HSL supplied lighting gear

HSL Solves the ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) So It Goes Equation

UK – New Order + Liam Gillick So It Goes … is a bold and original collaboration between gurus of electronic music New Order and conceptual visual artist Liam Gillick, which is orchestrated by Joe Duddell and presented for the 2017 Manchester International Festival on Stage 1 at the iconic Old Granada Studios in the city. Lighting was designed by the band’s long term LD Andy Liddle, with equipment supplied by Blackburn-based rental specialist HSL, project managed by John Slevin and co-ordinated on site for them by Andy Chatburn.

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ESTA’s Happy Hour for Behind the Scenes Returns to Vegas for Fourth Year

NYC – ESTA’s Happy Hour to benefit Behind the Scenes returns for its 4th year as one of the biggest parties of the year and will take place on Thursday, November 16 from 6pm-8pm at the Havana Room located in the Tropicana Hotel. Tickets are only $65 in advance and are on sale now at www.behindthescenescharity.org/btshh  The Happy Hour features an open bar, hors d’oeuvres and music with all ticket sales going to benefit Behind the Scenes, our industry’s only charity specifically for entertainment technology professionals in need due to illness or injury. Since its inception in 2014, ESTA’s Happy Hour for Behind the Scenes has raised over $160,000 in sponsorships and ticket sales.

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ADJ 18P Hex

[caption id="attachment_278047" align="alignnone" width="800"]ADJ's new Par with 6-in-1 LEDs[/caption]

ADJ says its new 18P Hex is the company’s most potent LED-powered Par fixture to date. Designed for use in fixed installations as well as for one-off events and touring productions, the fixture features 12W Hex LEDs, promising vibrant color washes. All-metal construction also makes the fixture well suited for use on professional production projects. Each of the unit’s 18 LEDs incorporate red, green, blue, amber, white and UV elements, allowing for impressive color mixing. Not only can the fixture be used to generate rich primary colors, it can also be used to provide warm amber or cool white washes. The inclusion of UV also means that the fixture can be used for dedicated UV wash effects or to generate UV-infused colors such as electric purple and hot pink.

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Woyzeck, lit with GLP fixtures

Neil Austin Uses GLP X4 Bars and XLs to Light “Woyzeck” at Old Vic in London

LONDON  – Creating a concept to sculpt the air with light, Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer Neil Austin has drawn on the work of early visionaries Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig and the more recent Josef Svoboda to deliver his fractured, abstract and constantly changing masterpiece for the Jack Thorne adaptation of Woyzeck at the Old Vic. He connected their vision with the versatile delivery of GLP’s X4 Bars, which have been his main weapon on this production.

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The festival rig included Strike 4 and Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Photos courtesy Creative BackStage.

Pot of Gold Music Festival

10th Annual Event Gets Versatile Assist from Creative BackStage

It was late March, and the 10th annual Pot of Gold Music Festival outside Phoenix had just completed a successful run. John Garberson, the owner of Creative BackStage, which supplied the lighting rig for the two day event, was in his Chandler, AZ shop talking to friends. “This was a very big deal for us,” he said. “I think it holds a lesson for other small and mid-sized rental houses too. You know, we could not have built this two or three years ago.”

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Lightronics’ AR-1202RTC 12-channel x 2.4kW architectural dimmer.

Lightronics Architectural Dimmers

Lightronics got their start building dimmers, plain and simple. Founder Kevin Nelson was introduced to theater while a young man in school down in Virginia Beach, where he got involved with the audio and lighting gear he used. Eventually he was hired on by a local music store and got hands on work repairing lighting gear. Along the way he started using gear for shows, working long into the night before loading out his gear and going to the next venue the next day. At a point, he realized that dimmers needed to be constructed a bit more ruggedly to endure the rigors of being travelled in a van and be able to perform consistently every day.

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Chauvet Professional Maverick MK3 Wash

Chauvet Professional Maverick MK3 Wash

Chauvet Professional is a top name in entertainment lighting, and the company continues to deliver new and innovative products to the market. Joining the existing Maverick series of spots, washes, and a beam is the brightest of the washes, the Maverick MK3 Wash. In this Road Test, we’ll travel in and around the full-featured MK3 Wash moving head fixture to learn all about it.

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From top to bottom, ATEM Television Studio HD, HyperDeck Mini, Web Presenter and Teranex Mini Smart Panel from Blackmagic Design.

Honey, I Shrunk the Studio

A Look at Four Compact Tools for Video Production

I’ve been using a Blackmagic ATEM Television Studio for a while now, so I was excited to get my hands on the newly released Television Studio HD. Why stop there, though? This month you get a bonus equipment review — I took possession of not only the ATEM TVS HD, but also a HyperDeck Mini, a Web Presenter and a Teranex Mini Smart Panel. Basically, a complete eight-input switching/record/playback system designed to fit in a 1RU space, with the exception of the Web Presenter.

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Fans on Broadway ready for Game 4.

EventPM Lets the Predators Loose on Nashville

Crowd Takes Over Downtown Streets During Team’s Stanley Cup Run

Huge crowds descended upon downtown Nashville during the 30 days the Predators advanced through the NHL Western Conference, with hockey fever building to a frenzy during the 2017 Stanley Cup Finals series in early June. All that took placed in late May and early June, during one of Nashville’s busiest times of the year, with CMA Fest [June 8-11] and the CMT Awards [June 7] and related concerts happening around the same time. Fan fever pitch in the city streets was unlike anything the aptly nicknamed “Nash Vegas” had ever seen before.

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PLSN July 2017 Buyers Guide - Handheld Gadgets

Handheld Gadgets

As I walk along convention floors, I often notice cool little gadgets, from tools to lights to smoke devices and more. Each of these fits a nice little niche in our world of live events. Whether it’s a physical gadget, pressurized effect or an electronic device, we’ve compiled a few nifty devices we felt were worth a look this month.

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