TAIPEI, Taiwan – Capping a 34-year singing career that included 60 albums and eight Melody Awards, Jody Giang performed 25 concerts lit by Tokyo based Mitsumasa Hayashi, whose rig included 46 Robe Pointes.
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TOWNSVILLE, Australia – Lighting technician Nate Leslie has been putting the eight new SolaSpot Pro CMY fixtures from High End Systems to good use at Townsville’s 967-capacity Civic Theatre. Graeme Hicks of Entertainment Production Supplies worked with Leslie in selecting the gear.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – LD Robb Jibson of So Midwest, Inc. used a Jands Vista S3 console and two Jands D1 Playback Processors for Fall Out Boy’s recent swing through the U.K. and Europe this fall.
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LONDON – Popular indie rockers The Vaccines are on the road again continuing their ‘English Graffiti’ album campaign, with lighting designed by Dan Williams and gear supplied by Colour Sound Experiment.
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HERTFORDSHIRE, U.K. —The main hub of the BBC’s 2015 Children in Need telethon was again Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, where the marathon 7 hour live broadcast on BBC One helped raise an 37 million pounds for the fundraising campaign. S+H Technical supplied 350 square meters of its animation cloth and 50 square meters of its RGB Star cloth product to the event.
Read More »LONDON – Organizers of the Green Events & Innovations Conference (GEI), the UK’s leading conference for sustainability at live events, have announced the overall theme of the 2016 edition as “challenging the status quo.” GEI takes place March 3, 2016 at the Royal Garden Hotel, and is produced by AGreenerFestival, Bucks New Uni and the ILMC.
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HEIST-op-den-BERG, Belgium – Engineering and automation specialist WIcreations is supplying multiple automation elements and control to the Rester Vivant tour by French performer Johnny Hallyday, who is known for impressive live shows and a great rapport with fans over his six-decade career.
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PARIS – In the aftermath of the terror attacks, noted French showman Johnny Hallyday performed three impressive shows (with more to come) at the AccorHotels Arena. The Paris dates were part of the current Rester Vivant (Staying Alive) tour, lit by LD Dimitri Vassiliu.
Read More »BEIJING — A wooden stage estimated to be about 10 feet above the floor below gave way during a Nov. 28 choral performance with dozens of singers at Beihang University’s school of aeronautical engineering. Most of those on stage at the time fell; 25 were hospitalized. An LED screen also toppled over and fell to the lower level from one side of the stage.
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DARLING, South Africa – Lighting designers Willie Botha and Matthew Meyer have employed an array of Philips Showline SL NITRO 510 LED strobes to give extra eye candy and punch to the tenth edition of Rocking The Daisies festival. Kilowatt AV supplied the dozen LED strobs for the ‘Electronic Dome’ EDM stage.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Robe’s Slovenian distributor, MK Light Sound, provided four LEDWash 600s and nine LEDWash 800s for Ljubljana City Theatre in the country’s capital.
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SHANGHAI, China – Christie showcased its visual solutions for the media and entertainment industry at the NAB Show Global Innovation Exchange, which was set for the Shanghai International Convention Center (SICC) from Dec. 3-4.
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