International News

ITALY – The Champions League final in Milan was not just a sporting event for soccer fans. During the UEFA Champions Festival 2016, from 26 to 29 May, there was a whole host of entertainment, including meetings, exhibitions, shows and events. There was everything you can imagine before the final kick-off at San Siro.  The Opening Ceremony took place on the evening of 26 May with a gala event in which some great past champions also took part. During the Champions Festival evening shows, Clay Paky took the field with its lights: 28 Alpha Beam 300s and 15 Alpha Spot HPE 700s.

TAIWAN – Looking for a recognized brand to reflect the company’s high quality reputation, Heng Mao selected Prolyte to supply B100RV truss for its expanding rigging department. Heng Mao is one of the main players for rental of truss constructions and hardware integration in the event and touring industry in Taiwan. With a wish to grow and further expand their business, they were looking to invest in truss with a high loading capacity for their rigging department.

DUISBURG, Germany — For puppet comic Sascha Grammel, whose latest show debuted early this year and has since been broadcast from the Theater am Marientor in Duisburg, Germany,  P2 Veranstaltungstechnik has been providing a rig centered on Clay Paky fixtures. The setup includes 16 Clay Paky B-EYE K10 Easy units and 54 Clay Paky B-EYE K20s, with one grandMA2 light and two grandMA2 full-size lighting desks with two MA plus MK2 Video Processing Units (VPUs) and two MA Network Processing Units (NPUs) for control.

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands – For Dutch performer Guus Meeuwis’s four sold-out show at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven, LD  Marco Driessen from creative lighting and visual design practice, The Art of Light used 360 Robe moving lights. The fixtures lit up the set designed by Ronald van den Bersselaar of BEEO.

ESTORIL, Portugal — For the rollout of Pirelli’s latest tire offerings, Newtonlab’s Lucio Ferreira turned to LD Giovanni Pinna for a lighting design assist. The event’s lighting, staged at the race track in Estoril, Portugal, included Clay Paky’s bright, sharp and quick Sharpy fixtures. Musical Box VR provided the gear.

WELLINGTON, NZ – When the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo came to the Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2016, production supplier, MJF Lighting decided the scale of the production warranted new followspots and invested in four Robert Juliat Merlin 2500W HMI followspots specifically for the spectacular show.

PETERBOROUGH, U.K. – Key Theatre replaced its tungsten Fresnels with 36 energy-efficient Philips Selecon RAMA LED Fresnel luminaires to save on power and add functionality to the lighting system. The new fixtures were supplied and fitted by Stage Electrics, whose technical sales consultant, Andy Elsegood, recommended the RAMA LED Fresnels as a crisp, white LED solution for the theatre’s range of stage lighting requirements.

MANCHESTER, U.K. – Parklife, formerly known as The Parklife Weekender, is an independent music festival held annually in Manchester. This year’s event saw 140,000 people attend the two day festival held on June 11-12. dbn Lighting were back in Heaton Park, where they supplied lighting, rigging and LED screen to five out of the eight main performance areas – including the Main Stage, Stage 3 (The Rotunda), Stage 5 (Elrow), Stage 6 (The Colonnade) and Stage 8 which was hosted by two pumping club nights MTA and MK.

SYDNEY — For Vivid Sydney 2016, the Star hotel and casino presented roof-mounted beams from 36 Clay Paky SuperSharpys, protecting each fixture from the elements with Clay Paky Igloos. Show Technology supplied the gear, with technical manager Mike Gearin working with Bruce Dwyer to put the system together. Thirty-six IP-rated ShowPro LED Flood EX36 were positioned between the Supersharpys for color wash.

PILTON, U.K. – The the lineup of folk/roots bands performing at the Glastonbury Festival’s Field of Avalon performance area, GLS Lighting provided a rig that included a collection of Rogue and Strike 4 fixtures from Chauvet Professional. The GLS team, headed by Wil Thomas and John Curtis, flew 12 Rogue R1 Beam, 8 Rogue R2 Wash and 8 Rogue R2 Beam fixtures on the upstage truss.

NOVE MESTO na MORAVE, Czech Republic – Robe sponsored the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships held in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic, part of Robe’s 2016 ‘Working with Winners’ initiative. Robe partnered with leading Slovakian rental company Q-99 for the 2016 Championships to supply over 100 of the latest Robe moving lights – Squares, BMFL Blades and BMFL WashBeams, Pointes and ColorStrobes – to the event’s entertainment stage.

MOSCOW— For Red Bull Wrong Side, a touring show featuring Jack’s Garret, a nine person modern dance troupe, LD Evgeny Romakhin worked with a Martin M6 console to provide a special mood for each moment of the original, jointly choreographed work. The six-month tour culminated in a sold out series of shows at Moscow’s Pushkin Drama Theatre. Romakhin’s Martin-controlled rig also included Martin lighting fixtures: 38 MAC Aura XBs, 18 MAC 700 Profiles, two Atomic 3000 DMXs and a MAC Viper Profile. Russia-based Laser-Kinetics supplied the gear.