ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – The Rolling Stones played a successful show at the Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, N.Y. last month and were paid handsomely for their work. Unfortunately the same can’t be said for about 100 stagehands employed to set up the production for the show. The union is telling people they were shocked when some of their members’ paychecks bounced.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Awards set for the Rio Hotel & Casino on Oct. 24 will begin as usual with a cocktail reception before all the envelopes are opened and winners announced, and this year the festive mood will continue after the event with the first official Parnelli After Party. The Parnelli After Party will take place in the same Rio ballroom where the show has just finished, noted Marshall Bissett, chairman of the Parnelli Board of Advisors.
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NEW YORK – For Keith Urban’s performance as part of the The Today Show Summer Concert Series, LD Peter Greenbaum used LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional including Nexus 4×4 LED panels and Next NXT-1 moving LED fixtures. WorldStage provided the gear.
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LIVERPOOL, UK – Adlib has been gearing up as the U.K. production company continues to support the popular sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys through projects that include a live arena tour that continues through year’s end and also a live DVD shoot planned for September. Adlib also made a major investment in new Absen high definition LED screen, Sony broadcast cameras and Prolyte pre-rigged trussing in time for the first leg of the tour in the spring.
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USA – Arguably one of the greatest rock bands of all time – with their instantly recognizable hard driving guitar power chords, screeching acerbic lyrics about life on the edge and renowned for some of the most awesome high-energy live performances in the history of the genre – rock gods AC/DC are once again taking the world by storm with their “Rock or Bust” stadium tour. The North American leg began with a show on Aug. 22 in Foxborough, MA’s Gillette Stadium.
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STATELINE, NV – For a Reggae festival featuring Iration at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in the Lake Tahoe area, lighting designers Chris Brodman and Cullen Noon, working for LIT Lighting (Phoenix, AZ), included 16 COLORbar SMD fixtures from Chauvet in the rig.
Read More »CHICAGO – RGB Lights, Inc., which recently moved to a new location in Chicago (6045 N. Keystone Ave., Chicago, IL 60646) reported a successful open house event to help launch the new facility.
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WYOMISSING, PA — Building 24, a live entertainment and club venue located inside a large indoor entertainment facility called The Works, has enjoyed the benefits of an Elation lighting system since being installed in 2010. Five years on, the venue was looking to upgrade and add to their lighting system and again chose the Elation brand.
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NASHVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites provided the lighting for rising country star Tyler Farr’s summer tour. The Missouri native is out promoting his sophomore album, Suffer in Peace, in between touring with friend and fellow Bandit client, Jason Aldean.Lighting director Logan Foote used Bandit’s GRNWashes, GLP X4S’s, Martin Atomic 3000 Strobes and a Grand MA Command wing to light the ‘Redneck Crazy’ singer.
Read More »AARHUS, Denmark — Although the headquarters for its Martin lighting unit will remain in Aarhus, Harman International announced Aug. 5 that the production facility for Martin lighting products in Frederikshavn, Denmark will close and operations there will shift to Hungary. Martin’s smoke machine factory in the U.K. would not be affected by the relocation. Harman noted that the Frederikshavn factory will remain in operation for at least six months as the transition takes place.
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LOS ANGELES – Felix Lighting was called upon to provide gear for the kineticFIELD main stage at the 2015 Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Las Vegas, as well as the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara for the West Coast leg of the Grateful Dead’s landmark “Fare Thee Well” shows. The LA based lighting company invested in 60 of Robe’s BMFL moving lights – 48 BMFL Spots and 12 BMFL Blades – for their busy rental stock.
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