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Toby Keith Delivers with Sold Out Shows in Las Vegas

Toby Keith recently returned to the stage with three sold out shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM this December. The two-hour performance featured a lighting system designed by The Darkroom Creative and provided in part by Bandit Lites. Keith was recently honored with the Country Icon Award at the People’s Choice Awards and released his 100% Songwriter album in November to critical acclaim.Read More »Toby Keith Delivers with Sold Out Shows in Las Vegas

Astera NYX Bulbs help with Sculptural Solution

Forty Astera NYX Bulbs were central to a stunning kinetic light sculpture that was created for London-based creative agency Audience’s design for a recent Deloitte Shared Services Conference (SSC) staged at the Bella Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark. Audience’s project director for the event, Neil Scrivener, working on it for the third year, explained that the Deloitte team wanted the SSC’s plenary sessions to be staged in the round, which presented challenges for both set and scenic designs as nice clean 360° sightlines are vital.Read More »Astera NYX Bulbs help with Sculptural Solution

Stage and Lighting Design for ‘The Eurovision Song Contest’ 2024 Revealed; Fredrik Stormby Announced as the Lighting and Screen Content Designer

Fredrik Stormby from Sweden-based design studio Green Wall Designs, has been revealed as the Lighting and Screen Content Designer for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden. Stormby will join the senior production team along with Production Designer Florian Wieder, to help create, design, and deliver a large-scale and spectacular show to a global audience of over 160 million.

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GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre Boosts Robe Inventory

GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre. Photo by Louise Stickland.

GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre (GR) is a bustling 23-hall venue operating in the middle of the Slovenian capital, hosting a variety of national and international expos and trade fairs. It is also used for television productions, special live events, and some music concerts.Read More »GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre Boosts Robe Inventory

Alec Morris Uses Obsidian NX1 Console on Steve Hackett ‘Foxtrot at 50’ Tour

Alec Morris from Anthrolight Productions in the UK embarked on a North American tour this fall with English guitarist and ex-Genesis member Steve Hackett, illuminating the performances using an NX1 lighting console from Obsidian Control Systems. The 31-show tour, Foxtrot at 50, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Genesis’s Foxtrot album, kicked off on October 3 in Montreal and concluded on November 18 in Los Angeles. It marked Morris’s first time designing and operating lighting for the legendary guitarist, with Tour Manager Adrian Holmes overseeing the logistics.Read More »Alec Morris Uses Obsidian NX1 Console on Steve Hackett ‘Foxtrot at 50’ Tour

Robe PAINTES the Globe

The Globe is a 2,200 square meter multipurpose event venue at the heart of Durban’s award-winning Suncoast entertainment and leisure complex in South Africa. It’s one of KZN’s and the country’s most popular event spaces … and recently took delivery of new Robe PAINTE and LEDWash 600+ moving lights. The new fixtures are part of an ongoing upgrade program that ensures the venue systems stay abreast of the latest and most appropriate production technologies to offer their clients and guests, and were delivered by Robe’s South African distributor, DWR.Read More »Robe PAINTES the Globe

PROLIGHTS Mosaico range turns Sondrio into a captivating Forest of Lights 

Sondrio has been transformed into an enchanting Christmas landscape with a mesmerizing light show, made possible by the PROLIGHTS Mosaico range image projectors. The project, managed by the communication agency Sviluppo Creativo and the rental company Liteo Tech, turned Campello square into a captivating snowy setting with projections of the Enchanted Forest, created using the PROLIGHTS Mosaico and Mosaico L projectors.

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Joker Out for Robe

Slovenian indie rockers Joker Out are the hottest musical act of the moment in this lively, beautiful, and dynamic European country. Formed in 2016, 2023 has been a mega-busy year with lots of touring shows, representing Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK, and recently playing a show-stopping sold-out performance at Ljubljana’s biggest arena venue, Stožice, which was lit by Klemen Krajnc, part of the Blackout design studio. This was an all-Robe moving light rig – with 100 Robe luminaires breaking down as 32 MegaPointes, 64 Spiiders, 19 LEDBeam 150s, and 13 FORTES plus a quantity of strobes and LED floods.Read More »Joker Out for Robe

Lighting Designer Joshua Schultz Goes Full-Ayrton with his Rig for The Turnpike Troubadours’ U.S. Tour

Country-bluegrass band The Turnpike Troubadours are continuing their hit U.S. A Cat in the Rain Tour with Ayrton Zonda 9 FX and Zonda 3 FX LED moving head washes, Bora LED beams, and washes, and Khamsin LED profiles dominating the rig. The tour, which kicked off last summer, follows the August release of the band’s album of the same name.  It wraps at the iconic Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, TX just before New Year’s Eve.Read More »Lighting Designer Joshua Schultz Goes Full-Ayrton with his Rig for The Turnpike Troubadours’ U.S. Tour

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Ceremony Shines with 4Wall and CHAUVET Professional

Four hours and twenty-two minutes is quite a long time; about an hour longer than it takes to fly from New York to Miami, almost twice as long as the average NBA game, and even longer than Bruce Springsteen’s longest show, a four-hour-and-six-minute performance that took place in Helsinki in 2012.Read More »Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Ceremony Shines with 4Wall and CHAUVET Professional