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The Rock Carnival in NJ Rolls with Pulse-Supplied Avolites Consoles

The Avo lineup included a Pearl Expert with Touch Wing (Stage A), a Sapphire Touch (Stage B) and a Tiger Touch on a smaller stage featuring mostly rock tribute acts.

The Rock Carnival in NJ Rolls with Pulse-Supplied Avolites Consoles

CLARK, NJ – For the Rock Carnival, staged Sept. 18-20 at Oak Ridge Park in Clark, NJ, Pulse Stage Lighting provided an Avolites console for every stage. The acts included Godsmack, Slash, Stone Temple Pilots, Anthrax, Sevendust and dozens of other hard rock bands; the Avo lineup included a Pearl Expert with Touch Wing (Stage A), a Sapphire Touch (Stage B) and a Tiger Touch on a smaller stage featuring mostly rock tribute acts.

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Lyon Equipment is using the ModTruss rigging structure for theatre, Police and entertainment Work at Height and rescue training courses.

Triple E Supplies ModTruss to Lyon Equipment for ‘Work at Height’ Training

CUMBRIA, U.K. Triple E has supplied a 12″ ModTruss Rigging Structure to Cumbria, U.K.-based Work at Height specialist Lyon Equipment for use as a platform for its Work at Height and rescue training. As well as being the UK and Ireland distributors for Petzl Equipment and many other leading brands, Lyon Equipment’s premises offer a large purpose-built training center from where it provides a wide variety of training courses

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Wassershow Visuals in Wolfsburg Lit with grandMA2-Controlled Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy Fixtures. Photo by Ralph Larmann

Wassershow Visuals in Wolfsburg, Germany Enhanced with grandMA2-Controlled Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpys

WOLFSBURG, Germany – Andreas “Mini” Mertens used grandMA2 consoles to control the visuals once again at this year’s Wassershow at the Autostadt. The French themed show featured a combination of fire, water, video, lights, lasers and music. A total of four grandMA2 light consoles, 3 grandMA2 full-size consoles and 1 grandMA2 fader wing were used to control the lights, pyrotechnics and fountain effects. The moving lights included 50 Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330s and 20 Clay Paky Mythos units.

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At The Fellowship Ministries’ Two Rivers Campus, LD C. Andrew Dunning of Landru Design specified a Jands Vista system to provide simple yet powerful control for the worship services within the church campus' 400-seat worship space. Photo by Wayne Terrell

The Fellowship Church Opts for Jands Vista Lighting Control

NASHVILLE – At The Fellowship Ministries’ Two Rivers Campus, LD C. Andrew Dunning of Landru Design specified a Jands Vista system to provide simple yet powerful control for the worship services within the church campus’ 400-seat worship space. Dunning sourced the Jands Vista system via Josh Holowicki of lighting sales and production company E2i Design.

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Rudimental Tours U.K. with Lighting from Colour Sound Experiment. Photos by Louise Stickland

Rudimental Tours U.K. with Lighting from Colour Sound Experiment

LONDON – Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting and rigging for the most recent Rudimental UK tour, renewing their long-term working relationship with designer Jonny Gaskell. His multi-layered scenic and lighting design has been delighting audiences throughout the year, taking several Hackney, London E8 landmarks around the world … culminating in a show at Alexandra Palace.

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HRS UDC-210 panel

Video Technicians Using HRS UDC Panels for Corporate Events

SEATTLE – Video technician John Cocci has invested in a second UDC button panel event controller from High Resolution Systems (HRS) to use for live corporate shows.  Cocci added the UDC-400 to his equipment inventory, which already features a UDC-210 he purchased earlier.  He has provided video support for the producers of corporate events for Google, Cisco, Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks, Burger King, Discovery Network and others.

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Blizzard lighting & ModTruss Booth

Blizzard Lighting and ModTruss Combine Forces at LDI

LAS VEGAS – Thousands of people descended upon the Las Vegas Convention Center last week for the annual LDI convention. One of the most talked-about booths combined the top of the line eye candy as well as professional lighting products for the stage from Wisconsin based Blizzard lighting to go along with a unique and original truss structure that only ModTruss can erect.

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In Memoriam - Alan Escombe (pictured here with Rock-It Cargo crew members, far right)

In Memoriam: Alan ‘Esco’ Escombe, 1945-2015

BYRON BAY, Australia — In a recent posting on their Facebook page, Rock-It Cargo noted the passing of Alan “Esco” Escombe. Escombe, who joined Rock-It Cargo in 1985, joined the company after touring as a bass player with The Shake Spears in the mid-1960s and Fynn McCool in the late 1960s-early 1970s. A recent photo of crew members during load-out after a Paul McCartney concert in Hamburg, Germany shows Escombe at far right.

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