International News

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EUROPE – Canadian singer / songwriter The Weeknd is currently rocking plenty of style and enjoying success, critical acclaim, multiple awards and several hits from his chart-topping third studio album ‘Starboy’ …. propelling him a long way from his underground roots and early anonymous mixtapes uploaded to You Tube in 2010. Lighting for 2017’s ‘Starboy Legend of the Fall’ tour has been designed by Sooner Routhier who picked Robe Spikie moving lights together with BMFL Spots and WashBeams to be at the heart of the rig.

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MANCHESTER, UK – MDG was happy to see the students of London’s premier drama school, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), taking full advantage of the capabilities of one of its ATMe haze generators during their recent production of Rona Munro’s Scuttlers.

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HAMBURG, GERMANY: Knight of illumination award-winning video designer Ben Miles has praised the Avolites Ai R6 media servers in their performance for festival opener Coldplay at the star-studded Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, Germany, ahead of the annual G20 Summit. This year was the first time the event had been held in Europe – and featured performances by world-renowned superstars including Pharrell Williams, Shakira, Ellie Goulding, German superstars Herbert Gronemeyer and Andrea Bourani – all opened by multi-million selling British band Coldplay.

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BOOM, Belgium – Although the main Tomorrowland EDM event in Boom, Belgium once again drew crowds with top EDM artists performing over two weekends in July, the biggest spectacle generating international headlines in 2017 was the fire that engulfed the stage of a “mirror” event in Barcelona, Spain on July 29, forcing the evacuation of 22,000 attendees. A typhoon also forced the cancellation of a similar event in Taiwan.

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[caption id="attachment_278322" align="alignnone" width="800"]DivadloMir Theater gets assist from Chauvet[/caption]

OSTRAVA, CZECHIA – Once the steel and coal powerhouse of Czechoslovakia, the city of Ostrava in the East of the Czech Republic has transformed itself since the fall of communism in 1989 into one of central Europe’s most vibrant cultural centers. In addition to hosting one of the most famous music festivals in Europe in a disused mining complex turned UNESCO World Heritage site (Colors of Ostrava), Ostrava is home to one of the most progressive theatres in the country, Divadlo Mir.

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CROATIA – Lighting designer Miro Hrg from top Croatian rental company Promo Logistika chose Robe BMFL Spots, CycFX8s, LEDWash 600s and MMX WashBeams to light the main conference plenary session for the Microsoft WinDays 2017 conference, staged at the Valamar Rubin Hotel in the beautiful historical city of Poreč in Istria.The four day event comprised a series of lectures, seminars, networking and interactive sessions aimed at Windows developers and administrators and involved two locations – the Rubin Hotel just outside the city center and at the Valamar Isabella Island Resort on the picturesque Island of Saint Nicolas in Poreč Harbor.

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A local magistrate held three companies involved in erecting advertising-clad scaffolding outside a 2012 Linkin Park tour stop liable for the death of a concert attendee after the temporary structure collapsed in high winds.

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GOURDON, France – Authorities investigating the July 19 death of Barbara Weldens while performing at the Festival Leo Ferre held at the Church of Notre Dame des Cordeliers cited an autopsy that confirmed electrocution as the cause of death. Local reports indicated that about 200 people had been attending the concert, and that no other injuries were reported.

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GALWAY, Ireland – The annual Galway International Arts Festival, held this year from July 17-30, is Ireland’s largest cultural event. This year’s lineup features musical performances by Dublin’s own Gavin James, England’s Passenger, original Beach Boy Brian Wilson, and many others. Lighting for the eclectic series of nightly concerts in the festival Big Top is provided by Light Source, with data networking by ProPlex.

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JOHANNESBURG – At the recent the 2017 Mediatech Africa exhibition, Robe’s South African distributor DWR Distribution presented a fully choreographed show staged at their new demo / showroom facility in Randburg, Johannesburg. The fixtures lit up the star of the show — Jeffrey, a robot.

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CARDIFF, Wales – A Zero 88 FLX lighting console has been chosen by Cardiff’s popular St David’s Hall venue, primarily to control lighting for their Foyer Stage (also known as the L3 Lounge). The venue hosts a wide variety of shows and events encompassing all types of live performance, from R ‘n’ B, jazz, folk rock, and classical music to comedy, children’s shows, musicals, spoken word events, conferences, presentations and even darts competitions.

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LONDON  – Jeremy Lechterman and Jackson Gallagher of production design and creative direction partnership FragmentNine selected the dense light beams of the Claypaky Mythos2 to add texture to their lighting design for Mercury Prize-winning indie rock band alt-J in their first arena show of 2017, held at The O2 Arena in London. The design was an upscaled version of the production’s touring lighting design, also by FragmentNine, for The O2 Arena’s 10th anniversary showcase. FragmentNine’s design has since been nominated for a prestigious Knight of Illumination award.

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