PRAGUE – Robe was a proud sponsor of the 2016 Signal Festival of Light, staged over four days in and around Prague in the Czech Republic. Twenty-three original and innovative pieces of light art drew estimated crowds of up to 400,000 into the city to enjoy the event which started in 2013, and is now recognized as one of the biggest as well as one of Europe’s foremost festivals of light.
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BIRMINGHAM, UK – Specialz, a Birmingham-based production design and specialty manufacturing company, took up a challenge posed by Coldplay and LD Paul Normandale to take the inclusive Xyloband crowd lighting idea one step further for the band’s performance at the Glastonbury Festival’s main Pyramid stage this past summer. They turned to Specialz for help in creating a festoon that could fully support over 500 LED balls without being attached to the structure. Each LED ball was programmed, tested and charged, before being secured into its holder and then rigged onto the outer staging.
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NEWCASTLE, UK – There was a time, over a century ago, when northeast England was the crucible of the burgeoning railroad industry. Nowhere was this more evident than in Newcastle, UK. The rail industry has long since faded into the past, but now the area behind Newcastle’s main station, or “Stevenson Quarter,” as it is known, has come roaring back as a dynamic, hip multi-use urban space that features upscale hotels, over 340,000 square feet of office and retail space, and a hot live music and art venue called the Boiler Shop.
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BRAZIL: World acclaimed lighting designer Durham Marenghi used over 850 automated fixtures from leading Italian entertainment lighting brand Claypaky in his theatrical lighting design for this year’s Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the Rio Olympics in Brazil last October. The equipment was supplied by Italian rental company Agora and was managed by Nicola Manuel-Tallino and Giulio Rovelli.
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DUBLIN – Irish lighting designer Conor Biddle, known for lighting some of the largest acts in dance and electronica, selected an array of Claypaky moving heads to illuminate the return of Ireland’s mega-rave, the Winterparty, at Dublin’s 14,500-capacity venue 3Arena. Biddle employed 12 x Mythos, 12 x A.leda K20, 16 x A.leda K10 and 19 x Sharpy which were provided by Dublin-based sound and light specialist Session Hire.
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SEOUL- Grammy-nominated, industrial hard-rock legend Marilyn Manson returned to Seoul for the first time in eight years as part of his solo world tour, delivering an energetic show at the Yes24 Live Hall. Lighting designer Corey Stewart drove the performance’s intense lighting using an Avolites Pearl Expert console and wing. For the South Korean date, Stewart hired the console from Seoul-based rental company TKLS. His dynamic rig consisted of Claypaky Sharpys, Martin Mac Viper Profiles, Martin Atomics and Fay Blinders.
BOLIVIA – Top Bolivian rental and production Company Spectrum, based in Cochabamba in the center of the country nestled in a valley amidst the magnificent peaks of the Andes mountain range has invested in 12 x Robe LEDBeam 1000 fixtures and 16 x Pointe multi-purpose moving lights.
ROTTERDAM – The MTV Europe Music Awards delivered another spectacular production November 6th at the Ahoy Rotterdam Arena in The Netherlands. Europe’s favorite artists were honored and a star-studded line up of today’s hottest acts, performed on a massive stage lit by top lighting designer Tom Kenny. Included in the correspondingly large visual package was Elation Professional ACL 360 Matrix™ LED moving head panels, which Kenny employed throughout the show.
DE PANNE, Belgium – Creative lighting and visual design practice Painting with Light is delighted to be able to add its own touches of magic and excitement for thrill-seekers enjoying ‘Heidi The Ride’, the new 71 km/h wooden roller coaster due to open April 1, 2017 right at the heart of Heidiland, a new area at the Plopsaland De Panne theme park in Belgium.
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CAPE TOWN SA. – The main venue for the massive triannual Every Nation Conference organized by Every Nation Church – at the 5000 capacity Grand West’s Grand Arena in Cape Town, South Africa – provided an ideal opportunity for lighting designer Alan Muller of FX Unlimited to use Robe Spiiders for the first time. It was in fact the first live show in SA to use Robe’s brand new LED washbeam product launched last month!
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DUBLIN, Ireland – Electronic dance music lighting designer Conor Biddle specified an Avolites Sapphire Touch console to power his beat-perfect, immersive design for Winterparty ’16, which returned to Ireland’s 3Arena in October after a 12-year hiatus. Inspired by the lighting at Las Vegas super-clubs, Biddle designed an intense, high-production show to celebrate the mammoth dance event’s welcome return, which saw an epic line-up including Skream, Matador and Sven Vath.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Auckland Live is a busy umbrella organization running all the live performance venues in New Zealand’s largest performing arts and convention center complex … right in the heart of the city. Their existing stock of Robe moving lights is now boosted with the addition of 44 new LED moving lights – 12 x DL4S Profiles and 32 x LEDWash 800s to help them illuminate all the various events at a multitude of venues.
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