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Elation Supports BME Stage and Next Generation of Lighting Professionals at SXSW

Elation was proud to support the British Music Embassy (BME) stage at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and music festival in Austin, TX. Partnering with the Academy of Live Technology at Production Park, Elation lighting was used to illuminate the stage and artists while serving as a valuable training ground for the next generation of lighting technicians and operators. The BME stage is a high-profile platform at the renowned festival and is run on behalf of the UK Government International Department for Business and Trade. It provides a valuable showcase for the UK’s best emerging acts and has played host to a number of artists who went on to global fame such as Amy Winehouse, Sam Fender, The 1975, and more.Read More »Elation Supports BME Stage and Next Generation of Lighting Professionals at SXSW

ADJ Lighting Announces New Partnership With DWR Distribution in South Africa

DWR Distribution’s Managing Director, Duncan Riley & Product Manager For ADJ, Kevin Stannett

To provide improved support for existing customers and grow the company’s presence in South Africa, ADJ is pleased to announce a new partnership with DWR Distribution. Offering quicker delivery as well as enhanced local technical and sales support for ADJ’s South African customers, DWR is now ADJ’s exclusive distributor in the country for its ‘Select’ range of professional entertainment lighting, LED video and atmospheric effects equipment. A well-established and well-respected company in the local market, DWR Distribution is ideally placed to support existing customers and introduce new integrators and rental companies to the quality, reliability and value offered by the ADJ range.

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GLP Goes Big for Chase & Status and Joel Corry at Radio 1’s Big Weekend

BBC Radio1 Big Weekend 2024,Chase and Status. Photo: BBC Public Service, Sarah Jeynes / Jamie Simonds

GLP’s latest generation products were out in force at BBC Radio 1’s recent Big Weekend, held over the May Bank Holiday at Stockwood Park in Luton, UK. This drew crowds of around 100,000 across and featured as headliners Coldplay, Sabrina Carpenter, and Rudimental. But it was long-time GLP advocate Sam Tozer who again custom-lit the stage for electronic duo Chase & Status, drawing on large quantities of new generation impression X5 IP Bar 1000s, XDC1 IP Hybrid and JDC1 hybrid strobes. Over 160 fixtures were supplied by LCR (Lights Control Rigging).Read More »GLP Goes Big for Chase & Status and Joel Corry at Radio 1’s Big Weekend

BBC Sports Elevates UEFA 2024 Live Broadcasts with ROE Visual LED Technology

BBC Sports is ready to elevate its coverage of the UEFA 2024 Championship with a series of live broadcasts from a remarkable open-air studio in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. This cutting-edge studio, featuring state-of-the-art ROE Visual LED panels, uses advanced virtual production technologies.Read More »BBC Sports Elevates UEFA 2024 Live Broadcasts with ROE Visual LED Technology

Claypaky Volero Wave and Scenius Profiles Go Rinkside for Holiday On Ice ‘No Limits’ Tour

Marking the 80th anniversary tour of Holiday On Ice, the 2023-24 No Limits tour was created by AED Studios in Lint, Belgium and played 174 performances in 21 cities across Germany with Claypaky Volero Wave and Scenius Profiles, from tour lighting provider Rentall Europe, lighting the figure skating spectacular.Read More »Claypaky Volero Wave and Scenius Profiles Go Rinkside for Holiday On Ice ‘No Limits’ Tour

Eurovision Accents Linear Space with CHAUVET Professional COLORado PXL Bar 16

For the 2024 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, the design was based on simple, linear gradients inspired by the vertical lines found on auroras and sound equalizers. The 163-million television viewers who tuned into the Eurovision Song Contest this May were also captivated by a collection of linear patterns as they watched the contest. These linear patterns, however, were more often horizontally oriented, as Senior Technical Director Ola Melzig and the creative team, including Production Designer Florian Wieder and Lighting Designer Fredrik Stormby, accented the lines of the stage in the Malmö Arena in bright, bold and brilliant colors with 524 COLORado PXL Bar 16 motorized battens from CHAUVET Professional.Read More »Eurovision Accents Linear Space with CHAUVET Professional COLORado PXL Bar 16

The Arto of Robe

Arto’s lighting team manager Alain Meys on the left with Mattias Ternoot from Controllux

Arto Company is a rental and full technical production company – lighting, sound, video, rigging etc. – based in Wavre, the French-speaking region of Belgium – and working vigorously across the concert touring, festival, live event, and corporate sectors. Their first Robe purchase was in 2019, and since then the inventory has expanded dramatically with the latest purchases being 16 x iFORTES, 48 x LEDBeam 350s and 18 x Tetra2s, which join over 100 other Robe fixtures in the house, including 24 x ESPRITES, 48 x LEDBeam 150s, 18 x T1 Profiles and two RoboSpot systems.Read More »The Arto of Robe

PRG Relies on Cameo’s New ORON® H2 at OMR Festival in Germany

PRG was one of the first users worldwide to use the Cameo ORON H2 IP65 hybrid moving head with phosphor-laser engine in a live production. The pioneering laser moving head provided spectacular beams and effects on the main stage of this year’s OMR Festival 2024 in Hamburg. PRG and lighting designer Ben Marquardt (QConcept) placed eight ORON H2s on the floor in front of the huge projection screen on which all the talks and presentations in the large hall were projected.

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