International News

LONDON – Robert Juliat will be exhibiting at the 40th PLASA show at London’s Olympia on Stand K38 alongside its exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions. The company’s latest followspot releases will be officially launched at the show: Oz (pictured here) and Alice are 600W LED models offering a cool white source for long and short-throw applications respectively. They are the first professional LED followspots able to deliver a high output comparable with that of 1200W discharge followspots, and offer the same high-quality functionality and characteristics as all Robert Juliat’s Compact followspots.

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LONDON – High End Systems will launch their new SolaFrame 750 automated luminaire at the upcoming PLASA 2017 trade show in London. The company’s Sola Series range of products, which includes the Spot, Frame, Wash and HyBeam lines, is the most fully realized offering of Bright White LED automated fixtures available. The fixture will make its debut on HES Master Distributor AED’s stand C30 at London Olympia on September 17th-19th. The SolaFrame 750 will also appear on ETC’s stand J30.

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EDINBURGH – The festival saw performances from comedians such as Frankie Boyle, Sarah Pascoe and Phil Wang, and was illuminated by Bristol-based lighting company Utopium, who this year utilized a number of new additions to their equipment list. Utopium has once again supplied lighting at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world. The month-long celebration of culture sees thousands of performers take to hundreds of stages all over the Scottish capital with shows comprising of comedy, dance, circus, cabaret, theatre and much more.

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SAN FERNANDO, CA– For the 15th consecutive year, Swedish LD Palle Palmé has provided spectacular lighting for the Diggiloo outdoor summertime tour, with 80 X4 Bar 20’s from GLP dominating the ever-changing stage set. Having worked on the event since its inception in 2003 (when it appeared only in Båstad), Palmé says that despite the number of famous artists appearing all receive equal billing — “and that is the success of Diggiloo.”

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LONDON – Green Hippo is honored to be sponsors of the celebrated Knight of Illumination Awards. The winner of the Green Hippo Television Award for Video Graphic Display will be announced on 17th September 2017 at the 10th KOI Awards, the only awards exclusively dedicated to professional lighting & video designers.The event takes place in London’s Hammersmith Apollo.

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POHLHEIM, GERMANY– Beer, food, folk music and a wide variety of other forms of entertainment are a perfect recipe for a good time. The Licher Wiesnfest Beer Festival has been following this formula successfully since 2009. While Munich’s Oktoberfest is Germany’s most internationally famous beer festival export, this summer event, which takes place near Frankfurt am Main, has been gaining traction since its inception, thanks to its delicious drafted beer and varied entertainment program.

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[caption id="attachment_279038" align="alignnone" width="800"]Justin Bieber plays the Dominican Republic[/caption]

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – When Justin Bieber’s “Purpose” world tour played the Hard Rock Hotel in the Dominican Republic earlier in the year, Dominican-based rental company and Elation dealer BM Eventos was there to supply Elation’s indomitable Platinum Beam 5R™ beam light’s for some classic beam looks. LD Cory FitzGerald had 120 of the pioneering beam fixtures at his disposal to provide eye-catching barrages of thick beams from positions in the overhead rig, stage front, right and left, and from the walkway.

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[caption id="attachment_279025" align="alignnone" width="800"]Over 400 ÉPIX Strip IP in use[/caption]

OOSTEND, BELGIUM – (For Immediate Release) – The largest summer beach festival in Belgium and one of the most popular in Northern Europe, “2 Meisjes op het Strand,” is known for more than just music. Also drawing thousands of fans and attracting a large national TV audience on Flemish network VTM are the breathtaking harbor vistas at the festival site. At this year’s event, Michiel Milbou and his team at Never Fear Shadows did justice to the festival’s music and its surroundings with a stunning stage and lighting design that featured 410 CHAUVET Professional ÉPIX Strip IP fixtures, supplied by Phlippo Productions.

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BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – Four Robert Juliat’s 4000W HTI Lancelot fixtures were the followspots of choice for Frédéric “Aldo” Fayard, the lighting designer behind the prestigious Opening Ceremony of the 17th FINA World Aquatic Championships, which took place in Budapest and Balatonfüred in July this year. The FINA World Championships is one of the biggest sporting events in the world and the largest sporting showcase Hungary has ever hosted. With over 2,500 athletes from 180 countries and 200 events over a period of 17 days, this was a massive undertaking.

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LONDON – Occupying the same position as for PLASA’s inaugural return to Olympia in 2016, GoboPlus.com, will be exhibiting at the 40th PLASA 2017 on Stand B2 in London Olympia (17-19 September). GoboPlus.com is the one-stop online shop for custom and standard metal, glass and plastic gobos, accessories and Rosco E-Colour filter, It will share a stand with its sister company, Cut Colour Plus, the bespoke filter-cutting and comprehensive scroll-making service supplying the entertainment, educational and architectural markets.

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LONDON – At 37 years old, MDG knows all about longevity and the value of creating high quality products for its clients. MDG UK will be celebrating PLASA’s milestone 40^th Anniversary with a selection of its award-winning and world-renowned haze and fog generators. These rock-solid machines continue to cement MDG’s long-standing reputation for the finest and most reliable atmosphere generators on the market. The ATMe™ haze generator, the ME2™ fog generator and the ICE FOG COMPACK™ low fog generator will be shown on Stand D50, alongside theONE™ award-winning dual fog and haze generator, and complemented by theFAN™, the indispensible variable speed digital fan.

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[caption id="attachment_279001" align="alignnone" width="800"]Historic Alejandro Sanz Concert[/caption]

MADRID – Multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy Award winning Spanish singer / songwriter and musician Alejandro Sanz performed a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ show at the Vicente Calderón Stadium in Madrid to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his best-selling and landmark fifth studio album, Más, released in 1997. The production team wanted some spectacular visual moments to make what was already going to be an outstanding show … even more memorable … so the show’s production manager Borja Gonzales contacted stage automation and engineering specialists WIcreations.

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