Adele’s highly anticipated residency in Munich, Germany, has not only pushed the boundaries of live entertainment but has also officially broken records. Solotech is proud to have been the official video supplier for the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® achievement of the Largest Continuous Outdoor LED Screen (temporary), a groundbreaking feat in live event production.
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This year marked the third consecutive time that Laserimage has collaborated with Eurovision, further solidifying themselves as a leader in live TV laser show technology. Laserimage deployed a fleet of their 15 RGB projectors with Pangolin FB4 control hardware and Pangolin DiscoScan Lenses.
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Twenty One Pilots kicked off their 70+ date “The Clancy World Tour” at Denver’s sold-out Ball Arena. More than performing a concert, the band is treating fans to a musical journey of epic proportions on this tour. Lighting and production designers Tyler Shapard and Dayne deHaven of District 5 got into the narrative spirit of this tour, creating a show that (like the music of their clients) was deep, multi-layered, and constantly evolving. Their design includes 63 CHAUVET Professional STRIKE Array 2s supplied by Solotech.
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Beckhoff USA opened a new office in the Atlanta area. Located in Alpharetta, GA, the new facility will serve as a home base for local sales and support engineers as well as a regional hub for training, seminars and other business activities.
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Princess Cruises’ brand new Sun Princess ship set sail on its maiden voyage in mid-2024 with a totally re-imagined AV system. Multiple LED walls are installed throughout the vessel, all of which are driven by Hippotizer Media Servers.
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The skies over Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, Montana came alive with a one-of-a-kind drone sky story during country music star Tyler Childers’ concert. Nova Sky Stories, the global pioneer drone light company supported Childers’ show to surprise fans with a true spectacle from the stage to the night sky to celebrate the closing night of his U.S. tour.
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Award-winning lighting designer Sooner Routhier has been working with Coldplay since 2019 and, keeping with the effort of Coldplay’s in ushering in a new era of sustainable touring, she chose to light the band’s “Music of the Spheres” world tour using greener, more eco-friendly fixtures. The lighting vendor for the tour is a long-time partner, Upstaging.
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For more than 20 years, the Airbeat One Festival has entertained fans with the harder side of electronic music with an event that features cutting-edge stage design, epic light shows and leading international DJs. Airbeat One 2024 was recently held where Lighting Designer Christopher Rostalski, CEO of CR Lichtdesign, used 130 Claypaky Tambora Linear 100 LED pixel-mapping bars for versatile lighting effects and artistic set decoration.
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Open Beatz is the largest open-air festival for electronic music in southern Germany. 2024 performers included Afrojack, Nicky Romero, Felix Jaehn, Lilly Palmer, and many more. Eventures GmbH was responsible for the lighting, sound, and video equipment on the three largest stages. Lighting Designer Tobias Reinartz (visualprime) worked with the new Cameo ORON® H2 Hybrid Phosphor Laser Moving Heads for the first time.
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Recently, the Musée de l’air et de l’Espace, located next to the Paris-Le Bourget airport, sparkled during Cercle Festival 2024. At the center of the festival was a stage set up under the fuselage of Air France’s prototype Concorde, supersonic jet airliner, with the dancefloor located in in the museum space around the aircraft. Enhancing this immersive setting on a multitude of levels was an inspired lighting design by Steph Viallon that featured 55 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M motorized strobe-washes provided by Magnum.
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The Star Theatre, the main venue at The Star Performing Arts Centre, has invested in a quantity of Ayrton Huracán Wash fixtures supplied by Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for the region, Total Solution Marketing. The Huracán Wash units will become a fixed installation as part of the permanent lighting rig and mark the second investment in Ayrton for the venue.
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Based in San Diego, California, turnkey production design studio and rental company Maktive says it is “dedicated to bringing the GLP fixture experience to the masses.” The company has been quick to back up this pledge by ordering large quantities of the German company’s latest generation of IP65-rated fixtures, all on the advanced X5 platform.
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