TENERIFE, Canary Islands – The dance floor at the Butterfly Disco Pub in the Playa de las Americas resort area on Tenerife, Canary Islands collapsed at about 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 26, injuring 40, according to reports. Of 22 transported to the hospital from the venue, two sustained serious injuries.
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ISRAEL – Iranian born Israeli singer, songwriter and superstar Rita Yahan-Farouz is back on the road after a break of five years, complete with a new album, “Transparent Miracles”, and a fabulous new lighting and visual design by Ronen Najar, featuring Robe Spiiders and BMFL Spot moving lights. Rita is one of the best known and loved contemporary singers in Israel. Her tour cycle is scheduled to last around three years and she will take her unique blend of pop, rock and dance, some of it laced with Persian influence – to her hordes of fans.
AUSTRALIA – Since 1984, Grouse Lighting Aotearoa in Wellington, New Zealand, has been renting high-quality lighting gear locally and nationally for everything from weddings to grand opera. With services spanning design, installation, production, and operation, their lighting control platform needs to be fast, efficient, and scalable. That’s why managing director Allan McShane has made Grouse Lighting a High End Systems Hog house for coming onto eight years.
SAN FERNANDO CA,– Paris lighting designer Pierre Claude has created a highly original concept for evergreen band Phoenix, based around multiples of GLP’s versatile X4 Bar 20 batten. His scalable rig saw as many as 76 of the award-winning fixtures used at Paris’ flagship venue, AccorHotels Arena, during the long-serving indie pop band’s latest tour to promote their new album Ti Amo.
HAMBURG, Germany – A concert featured on Germany’s ZDF honored “99 Luftballons” singer Nena on her 40-year career milestone with a show staged at Hamburg’s Mehr! Theatre on Sept. 22. The special featured a set by Jürgen Hassler and lighting design by Manuel da Costa along with a parade of celebrity well-wishers. The rig included GLP impression X4’s and X4 Bar 20’s along with 44 of the company’s recently-launched JDC1 hybrid strobes.
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PARIS – Thirty-Six Robe BMFL Spots were workhorse moving lights on the recent Rolling Stones ‘No Filter’ European tour, part of a spectacular and epic lighting design created by Patrick Woodroffe. Patrick and associate designer Terry Cook of Woodroffe Bassett design (WBD) worked closely with stage architects Stufish on developing the show’s overall aesthetic.
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LONDON – U2 give special performance on Nov. 11 at Trafalgar Square in London. The free show for 7,000 fans took place on the eve of London’s first opportunity to host the MTV European Music Awards for 21 years. Stageco supported both the Trafalgar Square concert and the 24th annual MTV EMA’s at SSE Arena, Wembley, where the Irish four-piece were honored with the coveted Global Icon award.
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – LD Durham Marenghi used more than 800 Claypaky fixtures to deliver the two large-scale lighting designs for the opening and closing ceremonies on Sept. 17 and 27 for the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG), produced by Balich Worldwide Shows, held this year at the Olympic Stadium in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
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PARIS – The Fun Radio Ibiza Experience, staged earlier this year, featured EDM artists including Robin Schultz, Nervo, Sam Feldt, W&W and headliners, Afrojack and Hardwell. Show director Romain Pissenem got an assist from Paris-based Ayrton in the form of more than 200 Ayrton lighting fixtures, including 100-plus MagicBlade-FX, 50 MagicPanel-FX and 50 MagicDot-XT fixtures.
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RIO – Four Robert Juliat Lancelot 4K HTI followspots took pride of place front-of-house at Brazil’s Rock In Rio Festival this summer. Held over two weekends at the Cidade do Rock at Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Olímpico da Barra, this amazing festival saw headliners Aerosmith, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Bon Jovi, Maroon 5 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers play to over 700,000 during seven fantastic nights.
LONDON, UK, – The new Hippotizer + range of Media Servers, launched at LDI today, brings a host of added benefits to the maker’s powerful machines, and the first UK outfit to take delivery of the latest models is Anna Valley. Anna Valley has provided both fixed installation and rental services to the event, retail, corporate and entertainment sectors in the UK for over 25 years.
BARCELONA – Green Hippo announces the appointment of Earpro as its distributor in Portugal and Spain. This announcement heralds a further exciting addition to the Green Hippo distributor ranks and, with immediate effect, Earpro will put its considerable commercial weight and industry experience behind taking Green Hippo’s award-winning line of real-time video playback technology into these two valuable markets.