HALIFAX, U.K. – New levels of color and imagination graced the familiar landmark of the Halifax Transmitting Tower in a special one night light installation. Called “Ploughcroft Eco Northern Lights,” it was designed by James Bawn. The display brightened the 150-foot-high relay mast located on the top of Southowram bank, which overlooks the Yorkshire, U.K. town of Halifax.
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EUROPE – Lighting designer Tom Campbell has used Showline’s powerful LED strobe, the SL NITRO 510C, to add vibrancy and punch at key moments on Australian progressive rockers Karnivool’s European tour.
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NABEREZHNYE CHELNY, Russia — Artem Sagaidak, resident LD at Batyr, a nightclub/karaoke bar, and also the winner of a lighting design contest staged by Martin Professional in 2013, used the company’s MAC Viper AirFX, transformed the look of the venue with two MAC Viper AirFX fixtures, a M2GO unit and fog and haze. The venue owners are now considering adding the gear to their visual tool kit.
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DUBAI, UAE – Robe continued its high-impact international trade show strategy at the Dubai International Conference & Exhibition Centre for PALME Middle East 2015. The company presented their largest booth to date at this show, and it turned out to also be the largest booth on the show floor, according to the company.
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AUSTRIA – A selection of Avolites gear including Tiger Touch II and Expert Pro consoles with Titan Wings hit the slopes of Mayrhofen, Austria for the mountain-top mayhem of alpine music festival Snowbombing.
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DERRY, Ireland – LD Conleth White and Just Lite choose Robe to supply lighting for the Irish premier of “Titanic Dance”.
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NEWPORT, South Wales – Following the success of last year’s annual conference, accounting specialists Tax Assist again turned to Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) to deliver full technical production and design – sound, lighting, video, rigging and staging – for their 2015 event, which had the added resonance of also being their 20th anniversary.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Lighting rental and technical event production specialists Blue Parrot have joined Martin Professional’s UK dealer network, adding 12 new Martin MAC Quantum Profile moving heads to their Edinburgh-based rental inventory, which also includes 30 MAC Aura washes, 24 MAC 101s and MAC Vipers (Profile, Performance and Wash DX models).
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SINGAPORE – For the primetime broadcast of Asia’s Got Talent at the Singapore-based AXN TV network studios, Showtec Group provided 50 Wonder LED Wall Washers from DTS Lighting.
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MEXICO CITY – The Robe Stage at the 2015 Sound Check Xpo in Mexico City featured the latest Robe technology, including BMFL Spots, Pointes, LED Beam 100s and 1000s, LEDWash 1200s and 600s, miniPointes, ParFects and CycFX 8s.
Read More »PLYMOUTH, U.K. – S+H Technical supplied starcloth, soft goods, and video products for the 2015 Herald Business Awards, which were staged at the Plymouth Pavilion April 23.
Read More »MOSCOW, Russia – For a Valentine’s Day 3.5-hour dance event that drew more than 17,000 Muscovites to the SC Olympisky, LD Konstantin Gerasimov of 4DProject used an array of Clay Paky fixtures supplied by Arlecchino Techno to deliver an electric party atmosphere. The rig including 92 A.leda B-EYE K20s, 71 Alpha Spot 1500s, 72 Sharpys and 36 Sharpy Washes. Pavel Shchelkanov created video content for the event. All the lighting and video was completely time coded, with the sound and show program by Nikolay Zinovenko.
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