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U2 Celebrates a 1987 Classic and Revives the Joshua Tree Album with Summer World Tour

U2 Celebrates a 1987 Classic and Revives the Joshua Tree Album with Summer World Tour

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LITITZ, PA. -Known for their very intricate, out-of-this-world stadium shows, U2 honors the 30th anniversary of their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree, by taking a robust, cinematic set and the albums legacy hits on the road for a stadium tour across North America and Europe. After reuniting with their fans at iHeartRadio’s Music Festival and Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference, the Irish rockers cemented the idea to celebrate the Joshua Tree album with the Joshua Tree Tour, making it the first time the band has ever taken an entire album from their back catalog on tour.

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G-LEC Solaris Enters the Galaxy At Climate Planet In Aarhus

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AARHAUS, DENMARK – A gigantic 24m diameter ‘earth globe’, known as Climate Planet, has been dominating the Aarhus skyline since early June — to coincide with the Danish city being appointed European Capital of Culture. Encapsulated within this giant model of the Planet is a smaller sphere, and as visitors arrive at the spectacular high-tech exhibition on climate change during the six weeks it will be stationed in Aarhus, they will be immersed in a surreal world of twinkling stars, generated by G-LEC Solaris LED balls.

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Metallica’s HardWired Tour Takes Laser Production to Another Level

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Metallica kicked off their WorldWired stadium tour in the US with a fitting fanfare of lights and lasers. It’s been at least a decade since the band last went on the road in North America and their entrance certainly didn’t disappoint. With no roof over any of the stadium stages, gargantuan screens stretching high into the sky and a mind-boggling pyro display, Metal’s prodigal sons put their trust in Production Manager Dan Braun to coordinate the creative execution of the tour.

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The newly built Griffin Centre will be utilised as a hybrid professional space for live events and as a training centre for the college's theatre students.

Avolites Tiger Touch II Chosen for Griffin Centre Theatre in U.K.

RENDCOMB, U.K. – Theatre lighting designer Andy Webb has specified an Avolites Tiger Touch II as the house-desk at The Griffin Centre, a new £3.3 million state-of the-art performance venue at the Cotswold educational establishment, Rendcomb College. Webb has been involved in the build as technical consultant since 2013, having worked alongside the college for over a decade, supporting the theatrical department and teaching A-Level lighting design.

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Elite Productions Lights Superstars At Soul Beach with Chauvet Professional

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ORANJESTAD, Arube – Too often, events that receive a lot of accolades don’t seem to live up to their press clippings. This was definitely not the case at the 2017 Soul Beach Music Festival in Arubal. Routinely included in the Top Ten lists of Caribbean festivals from the likes of USA Today and Jetsetter Magazine, the five day event exceeded the highest expectations this year, serving up a plethora of performances from superstars like Usher, The Roots and Mary J. Blige in a paradisiacal setting. Adding extra sizzle to the proceedings was the seemingly endless variety of intensely colored big looks that Erik van Oorsouw of Elite Productions created with help from over 100 CHAUVET Professional fixtures.

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New Pneumatic Module Metal from Harting

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With robust metal contacts that can be plugged and unplugged at least 10,000 times, the new Han® Pneumatic Module Metal from HARTING presents another significant cost- and space-saving opportunity to use connectors to streamline flexible production processes with high mating cycles. The Han® Pneumatic Module Metal can withstand pressure up to 10 bars, covering the entire low pressure range. This compares with an upper limit of 8 bars for the existing Han® Pneumatic Module with plastic contacts. 

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Claypaky Brings Theatrical Lighting to ‘Encore Dunhuang’

DUNHUANG, China – A range of Claypaky moving head fixtures created the responsive theatrical lighting for immersive Chinese theatre production ‘Encore Dunhuang’, a ‘walk-in’ theatre show that debuted at the first Silk Road Dunhuang International Cultural Expo. The event’s theatrical lighting design was created by lighting designer Mr Wang Yugang, who specified the Claypaky Scenius Profile, Claypaky Alpha Profile 1200s and Claypaky Sharpy Was he 330s to meet the demands and the scale of the production. Mr Wang Yugang singled out the Scenius Profile specifically for its superior color rendering.

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The lighting was used for a special Easter church service at Glory to Him Church in Ozark, Alabama

Easter Production in Alabama Lit with Elation Fuze, FLX Fixtures

OZARK, AL – Lighting Designer and Vice President at Premier Entertainment Group, Stephen Krietemeyer, designed the lighting for a special Easter church service at Glory to Him Church in Ozark, Alabama, and turned to Elation Professional Platinum FLX™ hybrid moving heads and Fuze Wash Z350™ LED wash light moving heads to fulfill the vision.

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ABCOMRENTS Adds Absen X5 5.2mm Outdoor LED Tiles to Its Technology Rental Fleet

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ITASCA, Ill., — ABCOMRENTS, a leading provider of Digital Signage & interactive technology solutions, has partnered with Absen to bring even more of their products to the U.S. rental market. One of the latest offerings is the Absen X5 LED Tile, a high quality, multipurpose, curvable LED wall tile that is unique in the technology rental industry. The partnership will continue to make innovative technology more accessible to the rental & staging industry nationally.

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Zach Blane Helps Bring ‘Oklahoma!’ to Long Island with Ovation Fixtures from Chauvet Professional

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NORTHPORT, NY – For a production of the popular musical Oklahoma! that ran at the John W. Engeman Theater from May 11 to June 25, LD Zach Blane’s mission was to “support the script and convey the clearest story possible.” He used ten Ovation E-910FC fixtures from Chauvet Professional to create the musical’s sunlit and moonlit scenes.

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