ABU DHABI, UAE — The 2017 International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) took place in Abu Dhabi Feb. 19-23, including an elaborate combination of musical and military spectacles with a performance stage measuring 250 by 60 meters used for a dramatic portrayal of live combat. Protec and various subcontractors supported the event for a third time.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. – Adlib continues its work with top comedians having just supplied full production – sound, lighting and video – for Jack Whitehall’s sold out, three week ‘At Large’ UK arena tour. The Liverpool based company was delighted to be on the road with one of the UK’s most exciting and successful talents having previously supplied production for his ground-breaking 2014 arena tour which was staged in the round.
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KANNOT JUNCTION, Israel — The wedding industry in Israel is a highly competitive sector with rivalry among the top venues to offer the best facilities, making good technical production in the main reception rooms an absolute key to ensuring each event is trending. So when Nesher Edri launched his new enterprise Lara, he specified 60 Robe VIVA LED spots. For this venture he has used his experience, knowledge and enthusiasm from running another leading wedding venue, Signal – where he originally started as the sound and light jockey – to ensure LARA would be a premium choice for The Big Day.
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HAMBURG, Germany — The Hamburg, Germany-based rap trio, Beginner, have been touring in support of their new album, Advanced Chemistry. LD Bertil Mark’s lighting design relies extensively on GLP products, including the company’s GT-1 and impression X4 fixtures.
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LONDON – Drake’s 2017 “Boy Meets World” tour, on the heels of his successful “Summer Sixteen” tour last year, has been impressing audiences in the U.K. and Europe this year. After a Jan. 28 show at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Drake performed a series of shows at London’s O2 Arena and other big venues in the U.K. and Europe before returning to the Ziggo Dome later this month.
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LONDON – Colour Sound Experiement delivered equipment for a recent U.K. tour by d’n’b music producer Wilkinson. The series of sold-out gigs were slated ahead of the release of the artist’s planned April 2017 release of his album, Hypnotic. LD Sam Tozer designed the visuals for the tour.
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SYDNEY — TMB, distributor of Firefly FloppyFlex LED neon products, noted that 285 meters of the product was incorporated into Woodroffe Bassett Design’s looks for Adele on her current tour of New Zealand and Australia. Tait supplied the product for the tour leg, an extension of Adele’s Live 2016 trek (now called Adele Live 2017), which began Feb. 28 and runs through March 26. The tour also includes confetti effects from Quantum SFX.
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NEW PROVIDENCE, The Bahamas — Paul Francis Aranha, owner of Spectrum Light and Sound, used a variety of fixtures from Chauvet Professional for special events linked with Tiger Wood’s Hero World Challenge, a fundraiser for the Tiger Woods Foundation that took place at the Albany resort in the Bahamas in early December.
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BRISTOL, U.K. — Hundreds of aspiring young engineers and roboticists took part in a science and technology challenge at the University of the West of England in Bristol. The finals of the First Lego League Challenge: Animal Allies were held in the university’s Exhibition and Conference Centre on Feb. 26. Evans Audio Visual Staging teamed up with Utopium to supply sound and lighting to the event, which was part of a global Lego-based robotics contest, and featured tens of thousands of young people.
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LAGOS, Nigeria — For the 11th year, thousands gathered in the Nigerian capital for a gospel and praise event. The most recent of these, “The Experience 11: Revealing Jesus,” drew up to 500,000 to Tafawa Balewa Square for gospel music performances that stretched late into the night. Producers House on the Rock once again turned to Stephen Davies of UK-based Subfrantic Production Services for an assist with the lighting setup, which included Sapphire Touch and Tiger Touch II consoles from Avolites.
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RUST, Germany – Swiss artist DJ BoBo is celebrating his 25th anniversary on stage by touring the grand new show, Mystorial. From April 2017 it will visit Switzerland, Austria and other parts of Europe, including 24 arenas in Germany, before heading down to South America. But it has already received its world premiere during a two-week opener at the vast Europa-Park amusement park in the town of Rust in southwest Germany, where a new arena has been built specially to host the production.
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UK – Knight of Illumination (KOI) Awards is powering up in preparation for its luminous tenth anniversary event this September. Billed as the ultimate showcase of lighting and video design achievement in the UK, the Awards is already receiving outstanding nominations in lighting and video design as international creatives and industry supporters push to see their favorite works of 2016/17 take home a KOI sword this landmark year.
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