International News

LONDON, U.K. – Boston USA based Lighting Designer Jeff Maker relished the chance to use 135 Robe moving lights including 18 x BMFL Spots for a super high profile and very special one off / DVD shoot show at Wembley Ariana, London, UK, for lively US punk rock band, All Time Low.

BRISTOL, U.K. – Clocking up a landmark quarter of a century of business in the industry, lighting, rigging and visuals rental company Fineline celebrates its 25th glorious year in 2015, with a schedule that is already action packed with a wide range of work from music tours and festivals to corporate events.

LONDON — Lively US pop punk band All Time Low recently played an incendiary show at London’s Wembley Arena – one the biggest gigs of their career to date – that was also recorded for a future live DVD.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Along with those gearing up for the NAB show in Las Vegas this week with broadcast-specific AV products, much of the entertainment lighting and video industry’s attention will be focused on the massive Prolight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt. The PL+S/Musikmesse show floor is open April 15-18, and many of the exhibitors there provided a sneak peak at what to check out during the show.

BRIGHTON, U.K. — Lighting designer James Reed has chosen to use an array of the latest addition to the Showline eSERIES, the SL eSTRIP 10, for punk rock legends The Stranglers’ ‘March On’ UK tour.

LONDON — For Kings Place, a venue with 420 and 200 seat performance spaces, head of lighting Alexander Allen upgraded the lighting system with Robe DL Series LED fixtures, chose for their quiet operation along with their color mixing capabilities, tungsten light quality and energy efficiency.

MANILA, The Philippines – For a 1,760-seat theatre at Solaire resort and casino, Coherent Design, a Las Vegas-based theatrical consulting group, specified an ETC lighting system that includes an ETC Sensor3 power control, a Unison® Paradigm architectural system, and an Eos Ti entertainment-lighting control system.

FRANKFURT, Germany — GLP will present the latest additions to its impression range of LED moving lights at the Prolight+Sound trade exhibition taking place April 15-18, 2015 at booth #11.0, B17.For the first time in Frankfurt, the German company will showcase its new impression X4 Bar 10 and impression X4 Bar 20 fixtures. Alongside these, GLP will be showing its very latest fixture to join the range, the fully pixel mapping impression X4 L, and also previewing its new impression X1 (pictured left) for the first time anywhere in the world.

COLOGNE, Germany – coolux, the company behind Pandoras Box media servers, announced plans to present its latest software and hardware advances at the 2015 Prolight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt (April 15-18 ) and NAB show in Las Vegas (April 13-16), this year as a subsidiary of Christie, which announced its purchase of coolux in January.

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius – For a recent James Blunt concert at the 3,500-capacity Swami Vivekananda Centre (SVICC) near Port Louis, Mauritius, promoter Music Machine & Immedia and lighting & visuals director Glen Johnson used a rig provided by Impact Production that included BMFLs and other Robe fixtures.

GUANGZHOU – For the fifth year in a row, PR Lighting displayed its wares at the GET Show here, this time with a double booth. GET Show 2015 was held April 5-8, 2015.

FRANKFURT, Germany – Flightcase and loudspeaker component manufacturer Penn Elcom will be highlighting its efficiency-and-productivity boosting Case Automation machine on stand D20 in Hall 9 at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt this year.