ROSKILDE, Denmark – Building on its 15 year relationship with Roskilde Festival, Mojo Barriers has secured a further three year contract to ensure artist and audience safety throughout the eight day event by providing its Mojo Barriers products. The next Roskilde Festival is set for June 25-July 2, 2016.
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MILAN, Italy – British laser production company ER Productions provided a laser spectacle for the release of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 in early March. The event included more than 220 lasers and 80 fog, haze and smoke machines across six remote locations. At four of the remote locations, ER Productions relied upon WhiteBox F-1 units for wireless control.
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HEMING, Denmark – LD Kristoffer Nielsen, who runs his own rental company, Lystek.dk, now has close to 50 Robe moving lights, including Robe MMX Spots, LEDWash 600s, LEDBeam 100s and CycFX 8 fixtures. He has spec’d them on a variety of theatre, musicals and opera productions including Hansel and Gretel, pictured here.
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BLACKBURN, U.K. – Lighting and visuals specialist HSL is supplying lighting and production rigging for the theatrical staging of Jeff Wayne’s 1978 cult album, “War of the Worlds,” at the Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London, produced by Bill Kenwright. The work is based on HG Wells’ 1879 novel about a Martian invasion and is being played completely with a mix of orchestral and electronic musicians conducted by Wayne himself.
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KATOWICE, Poland – The finals of the 10th Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) season, an electronic gaming tournament sanctioned by the Electronic Sports League (ESL), took place during the IEM Expo at Poland’s Spodek Arena March 4, 5 and 6. The tournament took place in front of 10,000 live spectatores along with 34 million unique viewers logging in from around the world. ARAM handled the planning, design and technical production of all five stages including giant main stage and also 11 trade fairs booths for the three-day event, including rental of lighting, multimedia, scenic, audio, trussing and rigging as well as custom made automation systems.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – XLNT Advanced Technologies will be featuring its CyberHoist II system at ProLight + Sound Frankfurt in Hall 3.0, Booth G73. The CyberHoist II variable speed chain hoist system promises unrivalled reliability; smooth, silent and accurate operation; impressive speed control and matchless safety, specifically designed to manage and accommodate the creative, logistical and physical rigours of automation design for entertainment environments, large-scale events and touring. The company’s products will be featured at Hall 3.0, Booth G73.
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BLACKPOOL, U.K. – Set in 1960’s Yorkshire, Heartbeat is one of the most successful dramas ever to be screened on British television. With 18 series and 372 episodes, the show was regularly watched by more than 14 million viewers and spawned two spin-off series. Now, for the first-time ever, this iconic show is being adapted into a stage production that will visit several venues across the U.K. As the leading lighting supplier to the West End and U.K. touring theatre, White Light is providing the lighting equipment for this world premiere, which has now opened at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Kinesys will exhibit at Prolight+Sound 2016 from April 5-8, Hall 3.0 on stand D15. The company will feature their automation products with live movement demoing Kinesys’ winches and the the integration between automation and media servers. A DST trolley system, built by trussing manufacturer LITEC and controlled by Kinesys, will be featured on stands for both companies. Four key standard Kinesys products will also be highlighted – Libra, Elevation, DigiHoist and Velocity2 (pictured here).
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DALLAS – Syncrolite will be featuring its SyncroMITE Beam fixture (pictured here) at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt along with its first new Strong product, the Blue Box Ballast (B3). Designed to be compatible with all past followspots, the B3 is a road ready upgrade for thousands for Strong followspots around the world. It is the first product to be developed since Syncrolite purchased the assets associated with Ballantyne Strong’s lighting business late last year.
Read More »GLASGOW, Scotland — A woman attending the March 25 Adele concert at the 13,000-capacity SSE Hydro arena in Scotland was hit and injured by a length of chain that dropped from above during the show. The injured attendee was taken to the hospital “as a precaution,” according to a spokesperson for the venue. The chain that dropped appeared to be still hanging from the rigging after the accident, according to Facebook photos. Adele, who kept performing her two-hour set, unaware of the accident, found out about the mishap after the show.
Read More »BRUSSELS, Belgium — Mariah Carey’s current tour through the U.K. and Europe included a March 27 show — on Easter Sunday, and the artist’s birthday — at the Forest National Arena in Brussels, Belgium. There had been speculation that the Brussels show would be canceled after the March 22 bombings that killed 31 and injured more than 300. On Friday, March 25, with the Belgian capital still reeling from the tragedy and the city still on heightened alert — continuing raids and arrests on Friday included a man with explosives in a backpack who was shot and apprehended by police while waiting at a light rail stop — the not-so-surprising cancellation became official.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland – For Scottish-Swedish singer Nina Nesbitt’s latest tour, LD Ollie Wilkinson provided a design that included a variety of fixtures from Chauvet Professional and Chauvet DJ. His rig for the tour, which includes mostly mid-sized venues, includes four Rogue R1 Spots, eight PiXPar 24 par style fixtures and ten BEAMbars.
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