International News

UK – The Barn on the Farm is one of the growing number of independent events that now populate the UK summer festival calendar.  Since 2010, the event has grown year on year and now presents a broad spectrum of up and coming artists on multiple stages with pro-audio systems and professional lighting rigs.  Lighting designer, Bryan Leitch was approached to submit design proposals for all three stages.

SINGAPORE – K-Pop boy band Big Bang brought there show to Singapore Indoor Stadium, in front of thousands of enthusiastic fans. Showtec provided more than 110 RAPTOR moving heads from Italian lighting manufacturer D.T.S. for the event.

EDINBURGH, Scotland – One of the latest additions to the Philips Strand Lighting line of consoles, the NEO, made its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut, taking up residence for the duration of the arts festival in venue C south.

MILTON KEYNES, U.K. – This year marked the third Electric Daisy Carnival in the U.K. Electric Fly supplied an Avolites Sapphire Touch and Pearl Expert as back up to the neonGARDEN stage, operated by Ross “Dubstick” Chapple. Over at the Pepsi Max cosmicMEADOW stage, Ben Hyman operated a Pearl Expert with the new compact Quartz consoles as backup.

BORAS, Sweden – The Stadsteater in Borås, Sweden was looking to replace some of their old color scrollers. They opted to upgrade the house rig with 19 Robe LEDWash 800s – 10 for the 500 capacity main house, and nine for the smaller 100 capacity studio space. LD Michael Dimle says the theater’s management is very pleased with the results.

MOSCOW – Lighting designer Roman Stolyarov used a wide range of Clay Paky fixtures to create unique lighting looks during global cosmetic company Oriflame’s annual awards ceremony and banquet. More than 3,000 employees attended the event, which was lit with 34 x Alpha Spot 1500 HPE, 28 x Sharpy Wash 330, 50 x Sharpys, 81 x Shotlight Wash and 24 x Stormy CC fixtures from Arlecchino Group.

LONDON – This is the year that iconic crooner Frank Sinatra would have celebrated his 100th birthday, and to mark that milestone, Sinatra – via 3D rotoscoped imagery and never before seen video – is on stage once again at the London Palladium, starring in Sinatra: The Man & His Music. The sleek, cutting edge production, mounted by Producer Karl Sydow, takes place 65 years after Sinatra played his first gig outside the U.S. Technical Performance and Presentation, the London-based representative for RC4 Wireless, stepped in for a wireless assist.

NEUSTADT-GLEWE, Germany — The Airbeat-One festival happens yearly since 2002 on the private airfield of Neustadt-Glewe in North Germany and is held by the rental company Music-Eggert. There are several floors where a lot of EDM fans can listen to several styles of their favorite music. The Main Floor this year alone was equipped with various Clay Paky fixtures. The event was held from July 16-19, 2015.

SLOVENIA – Leading Slovenian lighting designer Crt Birsa was asked to create a dynamic production lighting scheme for the main stage at the 2015 Schengenfest event, Slovenia’s largest festival, staged at Vinica, Bela Krajina and attracting up to 10,000 music fans each day. They enjoyed a series of rousing performances from a selection of top international artists and local heroes including Rudimental (DJ set), Asian Dub Foundation, Magnifico, Siddharta Stahlzeit and Guano Apes.