International News

[caption id="attachment_277804" align="alignnone" width="598"]Prolyte expands production[/caption]

LEEK, The Netherlands – Following continued growth, Prolyte Group has solved its need for additional production capacity by expanding its new production site in Piatra Olt, Romania, which was opened in 2016. With this expansion Prolyte has completed an additional 4400 m2 production space to the already impressive facilities. Consolidating all its European manufacturing capacity into an approx. 10.000 m2 facility, Prolyte Group can boost to have one of the largest and most modern production facilities for the manufacture of truss systems. And there’s room for further growth with expansion possibilities till 16.000m2.

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SLOVENIA – Teamwork is a great thing, and this was clearly evident for Slovenia’s 2017 PopRock Festival, a high profile national TV live event broadcast from Ljubljana, where lighting designer Crt Birsa and set designer Greta Godnic worked their creative magic in a special collaboration … with the help of 200 plus Robe lighting fixtures! The PopRock Festival, now in its second year, was staged at the Gospodarsko Razstavisce exhibition centre for the first time, bringing an interesting mix of pop and rock artists and bands who had battled it out to reach the final twelve.

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[caption id="attachment_277790" align="alignnone" width="600"]Winkler Events invests in Atoms[/caption]

SWITZERLAN  – Since investing in more 300 GLP X4 atoms at the end of last year, Swiss company Winkler Multi Media Events, has found that this small lamp from Karlsbad has developed into a versatile contender. The wide application possibilities range from small to large events as well as popular TV shows. Back in February this year, lighting designer Matthias Kern from broadcast service provider tpc switzerland ag used multiples of the X4 atom in gigantic matrix displays at the Swiss ESC (European Song Contest) preliminary voting round. Further assignments followed, most recently the SRF show “I’ll sing you a song” which is running for several weeks.

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[caption id="attachment_277785" align="alignnone" width="800"]Tante Mia Festival in Germany[/caption]

VECHTA, GERMANY – As Ascension Day is a traditional day off for Germans, what better way to spend it then at “Tanta Mia tanzt,” a one-day electro dance music festival with international and regional DJs. Held in the town of Vechta in northwest Germany, Tanta Mia tanzt debuted in 2016 and was back in 2017 with a lineup of EDM and house beat artists playing across multiple stages. The all-day EDM party with its unusual name (“Aunt Mia is dancing”) attracted more than 16,000 visitors this year.

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[caption id="attachment_277782" align="alignnone" width="800"]Johan Kvartborg on the left with "Q" on the right[/caption]

DENMARK – Holstebro Musikteatret in Denmark has invested in 24 new Robe LEDWash 600+’s which will be used throughout their facility, making the production lighting options more dynamic and flexible and saving valuable time during changeovers and technical time. The Musikteatret includes three main venues: a 1200 seater Main auditorium; the Black Box, a flexible space which can accommodate up to 1700 people standing and is where the fixtures will primarily be deployed … and The Hall of Fame bar which is also used for concerts, comedy, dining and events.

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[caption id="attachment_277766" align="alignnone" width="800"]Glastonbury Tower lit with Mavericks[/caption]

GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND – This year’s Glastonbury Festival was “the best yet,” according to organizer Emily Eavis.  It was easy to see why, as a star studded procession of artists from Radiohead, Ed Sheeran and the Foo Fighters to The Sleaford Mods, The XX and Katy Perry appeared on its stages. 

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[caption id="attachment_277763" align="alignnone" width="800"]Hawthorn uses Robert Juliat spots[/caption]

UK – “Robert Juliat is the gold standard of followspots and whenever we’re looking to add more to our inventory, it’s our go-to brand.” So says David Slater, Group Director of Hire for the award-winning, UK-based technical production company, Hawthorn. The company has just expanded its inventory of followspots with a significant purchase of fixtures from Robert Juliat’s exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions, opting to add to their stock of 2500W HMI Cyrano long-throw units and to make a new investment purchase of the LED 300W Roxie. 

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[caption id="attachment_277760" align="alignnone" width="800"]Fineline makes fine use of Martin gear[/caption]

LONDON – Bristol-based Fineline Lighting proves the wisdom of its investment in Martin by HARMAN’s VDO Face 5 HB LED panels by deploying impressive media displays on the two main stages at the recent Love Saves The Day Festival, held locally in the city’s Eastville Park. Specialists in production lighting and visual displays, Fineline has regularly serviced the festival’s requirements for promoters Team Love — again rigging the two premier stages at the sell-out festival and providing kit for the subsidiary stages.

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[caption id="attachment_277757" align="alignnone" width="800"]Starlight Classics 2017[/caption]

SOUTH AFRICA -The most recent RMB Starlight Classics concert, staged at the beautiful, Vergelegen Wine Estate in Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa … was lit by Chris Bolton of Keystone Productions … with a little help from some Robe moving lights! It was Chris’s second year in the creative hot seat – working directly for organizers Jam Events. Last year he and Joshua Cutts of Visual Frontier produced a lighting co-design – and the two are now partners in their brand new visual design venture, Collective Works – however when Starlight came up this year, Josh had other commitments, so Chris added the lighting magic working with his assistant Jade Manicom.

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[caption id="attachment_277743" align="alignnone" width="800"]GLP lends a hand at Climate Planet[/caption]

AARHAUS, DENMARK – A gigantic 24m diameter ‘earth globe’, known as Climate Planet, has been dominating the Aarhus skyline since early June — to coincide with the Danish city being appointed European Capital of Culture. Encapsulated within this giant model of the Planet is a smaller sphere, and as visitors arrive at the spectacular high-tech exhibition on climate change during the six weeks it will be stationed in Aarhus, they will be immersed in a surreal world of twinkling stars, generated by G-LEC Solaris LED balls.

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[caption id="attachment_277736" align="alignnone" width="800"]Metallica Using Lasers this Tour[/caption]

Metallica kicked off their WorldWired stadium tour in the US with a fitting fanfare of lights and lasers. It’s been at least a decade since the band last went on the road in North America and their entrance certainly didn’t disappoint. With no roof over any of the stadium stages, gargantuan screens stretching high into the sky and a mind-boggling pyro display, Metal’s prodigal sons put their trust in Production Manager Dan Braun to coordinate the creative execution of the tour.

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RENDCOMB, U.K. – Theatre lighting designer Andy Webb has specified an Avolites Tiger Touch II as the house-desk at The Griffin Centre, a new £3.3 million state-of the-art performance venue at the Cotswold educational establishment, Rendcomb College. Webb has been involved in the build as technical consultant since 2013, having worked alongside the college for over a decade, supporting the theatrical department and teaching A-Level lighting design.

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