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BUCHAREST – The TIMESHIFT festival in Bucharest, Romania was the debut of the largest roof ever engineered and sold by MILOS! The massive MR5 Heavy-Duty roof measured 31 x 18 meters and covered the main stage of the first edition of TIMESHIFT Bucharest Music Festival – an event where technology and music come together to create something groundbreaking! The TIMESHIFT Music Festival was a four-day event held from July 20th – 23rd and featured a total of four stages, with the MILOS MR5 roof covering the main stage.

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UK – Since building the support structure for Mark Fisher’s iconic, fire-breathing cobra at every show on the 1994-95 Voodoo Lounge tour, Stageco has been proud to have a close association with the world’s greatest and most enduring rock’n’roll band, The Rolling Stones. And this year has seen them back on the road with No Filter – yet another spectacular production milestone that has spanned outdoor stadiums and arenas around Europe with Stageco’s expertise close to hand all the way.

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ODENSE, DENMARK – For the past five years, the Danish city of Odense has honored its most famous son, Hans Christian Andersen, with a festival to call his own. With a long list of fairy tales that continue to find their place in the hearts of readers of all ages, it isn’t surprising that the H.C. Andersen Festival enjoys a growing popularity. This year’s festival, held from August 19-26, included over 700 events with the city’s main square the scene of the festival’s nightly show.

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[caption id="attachment_280079" align="alignnone" width="800"]Avolites_WildFruitTent. photo – Chris Jepson[/caption]

BRIGHTON, UK – An Avolites Tiger Touch II console was used to program and control the high-octane lighting design for the renowned Wild Fruit ‘Summer of Love’ dance tent at the famous annual LGBTQ equality and diversity festival, Brighton Pride. The ‘Summer of Love’ tent hosted headline act DJ David Morales and featured sets from Jocelyn Brown, Angie Brown, Rozalla and Prok & Fitch. Providing the venue with a series of intense lighting looks was lighting designer Paul de Villiers who worked closely with Dean Parker of Wilde Ones Event Services who supplied and managed the event.

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DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN – In the downtown area of Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, a new venue is redefining standards of clubbing and evening entertainment. Loft is a “club,” if you can describe it as such, that combines a bar, restaurant, cafe and dancefloor over two stories.  Russian installation specialist Muztorg.PRO has provided Loft with a light system that’s as versatile and exciting as its entertainment options with a package that features 16 Rogue R2 Spot, 16 Rogue R2 Wash and 8 ÉPIX Bar Tour fixtures from CHAUVET Professional.

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EUROPE- Lewis Hamilton recently unveiled the new 217mph Mercedes – and the $2.72 million road car is already sold out. A total of 6 full-color 25watts PHAENON X AT laser, 5 full-color 12watts PHAENON X Mini laser and lots of mirrors with different shapes and customized mounts formed an imposing laser grid, effectively showcasing the new features of the Mercedes-AMG Project ONE.

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ROMANIA – Internationally acclaimed DJ David Guetta used the Claypaky Scenius Spot as the exclusive lighting fixture in his bespoke diamond-shaped festival rig at the launch of Romania’s inaugural TimeShift festival. The large-scale dance festival was held at Bucharest’s Romexpo arena.Spanning four days in July with acts across four themed stages, TimeShift hosted over 100 electronic and alternative musical artists, including Faithless, DJ Snake, Orbital and David Guetta.

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BELGIUM – The band at the heart of popular Belgian TV series Ghost Rockers – produced by Studio 100  and syndicated throughout Europe – hits the road for a series of gigs around Belgium this autumn … complete with a fresh rock-tastic lighting design by Belgian design studio Painting with Light’s Paco Mispelters. One of Paco’s starting points was the practical consideration of different sized venues on the tour, so from the outset, the look and the lighting rig had to be scalable.

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UK – English singer-songwriter and global superstar, Ed Sheeran’s current world tour in support of his third studio album ‘÷’, is a huge 187-date tour which started in Turin, Italy in March 2017, and will play stadiums across Europe, North and Latin America, Asia, and Australasia before returning for a second European leg throughout summer 2018. This is a mammoth adventure by the solo singer whose every move on stage will be followed by two of Robert Juliat’s heroic Lancelot followspots, supplied by UK-based lighting hire company, Lights Control Rigging (LCR).

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DURBAN, South Africa – Vidya Vox, born in India and raised in Virginia, has been captivating fans around the world via YouTube with her unique music, which started with a mashup of Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” with traditional Hindi and Tamil music in 2015. The artist is now on tour in support of her first EP, Kuthu Fire, lit with a Chris Reade and Jay Ballinger-designed light show that features a Maverick MK2 Spot, Rogue R2 Wash and Strike 4 fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

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[caption id="attachment_279976" align="alignnone" width="800"]Bergen Airport gets an assist from AVStumpfl[/caption]

WALLERN, AUSTRIA,-  In August 2017, Avinor opened the new terminal at Bergen Airport in Flesland, Norway. Construction has been ongoing since 2014. Designed to be modern, spacious and logical and feature a wider range of restaurants and shops, the new terminal adds 63,000 square metres of space to the existing 22,000 square meters. It also benefits from state-of-the-art video provided by audiovisual systems integrator Stagelab with Bright Norway, and powered by AV Stumpfl’s Wings Player Pro and Avio Master show control system.

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LONDON -“The ethos at the heart of Specialz is the company’s completely open nature to a designer’s ideas and concepts.  Backed up by a breadth of experience, skill and, what could be best described as industry savvy, Dave and his team offer a unique service to us as a client.”  states Cate Carter , who needs little introduction as one of busiest and most successful LDs over the last decade; her portfolio is long and illustrious with the likes of Editors and Ellie Goulding currently out on tour.  Carter’s company, Bryte Design is a design production house run in conjunction with her business partner, lighting designer Mike Smith and Visual Producer Pablo Beckett.

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