LONDON – LD Al Gurdon designed this year’s Brit Awards at London’s O2 Arena with close to 200 Clay Paky Sharpys in the rig. Performances featured Adele, Rihanna, Blur, Coldplay, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Olly Murs and Florence and the Machine. Gurdon says he’s been using the Sharpys for about six months now, and the fixture’s flexibility gave him a number of different looks for each artist.
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NEW YORK – Next stop on Elation Road Show’s new product tour is May 15 at Barbizon Lighting in New York. Attendees can benefit from hands on demos and product presentations (including TVL LED panels and floods for broadcast operations), and there will be refreshments, door prizes and more. The event is set for noon to 6 pm at Barbizon Lighting, 455 W. 55 St., NYC.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – LDs Mohamed Hussain and Mohamed Maznavi of MOS Sound & Light featured 120 Robe moving lights at the heart of their lighting design for Billy Ocean’s recent show at the Exhibition and Convention Centre. MOS has been offering Robe products for the past 10 years in its rental inventory.
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LOS ANGELES – Brit Floyd is finding fans worldwide in their recreation of Pink Floyd’s sound and live performance. The FIX8Group designed the touring production, with a light show designed by FIX8’s Neil Trenell. Tour lighting vendor Performance Lighting is supplying the equipment, trying for the first time Elation Professional’s Platinum Beam 5R moving head fixtures.
Read More »INDIANAPOLIS — Members of the Event Safety Alliance, including founding members John Brown of Brown United, Inc. and Jim Digby, production manager for Linkin Park, met April 23 with Indiana governor Mitch Daniels and state safety officials to discuss ways for the entertainment industry and government to work together in the interest of life safety. The meeting included officials from the NFPA, IATSE, IDHS, IOSHA and Daniels’ staff.
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LONDON, UK – Philips Selecon and Strand Lighting distributor, Architainment have completed an installation project for ITN at the new, remote controlled Channel 5 News Room in London Bridge. Dealing with the issues of low ceilings and an insufficient power supply led to the LED solution including Selecon PL1s, ColorKinetics ColorBlastTRXs and ColorKinetics iW Blast units.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Pete’s Big TVs is providing video production/projection, equipment and crew for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band’s “Wrecking Ball” world tour. Pete’s Big TVs is providing its new DigiLED MC7 high resolution LED panels – with no radio frequency interference – that were built for The Boss.
Read More »INDIANAPOLIS — Reports by Witt Associates (Washington, DC) and Thornton Tomasetti (New York) cited “ambiguity of authority” and inadequate wire and concrete anchor reinforcement as key factors in the Aug. 13, 2011 staging collapse at the Indiana State Fair that killed seven and injured 40. Both reports were released April 12. Also last week, Sugarland band members provided private video depositions from West Virginia that appear to contradict the testimony of the fair’s executive director, Cindy Hoye, according to published reports. The state fair’s chairman, Andre Lacy, saying he would rather put a higher priority on a safer future than on assigning blame for past events, has chosen not to accept Hoye’s repeated offers to resign from her position.
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