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Robe is Hot at Medusa Festival

Spain’s Medusa festival offers a sizzling DJ line up from all around the world embracing a lively mix of dance genres in a fantastic seaside location at Cullera beach in Valencia by the mouth of the Jucar River. The 2023 event was enjoyed by over 250,000 people across 6 days of sun, smiles, and superlative music. This year’s main stage production and lighting design by Eduardo Valverde and a team from his design studio Experiencias Visuales (EV) included 72 MegaPointes and 12 BMFL WashBeams. These lights were at the heart of a spectacular visual environment created for this key area of the festival, which featured five stages of entertainment action.Read More »Robe is Hot at Medusa Festival

NicLen Expands its Inventory with Astra Hybrid330

NicLen has expanded its rental park by acquiring Prolights’ Astra Hybrid330. Provided by Lightpower, the official PROLIGHTS distributor in Germany, this hybrid LED moving head offers a versatile range of applications and effects, establishing itself as the latest multifunctional moving head of choice for the German rental company.Read More »NicLen Expands its Inventory with Astra Hybrid330

Andrew Liddle Lights New Order European Tour with Elation Excalibur

Photo by Warren Jackson

Andrew Liddle, the longstanding Designer for New Order since the band’s emergence from Joy Division in the early ’80s, turned to Elation’s powerful Proteus Excalibur narrow-beam moving head to create stunning, laser-complementary lighting on the band’s recent tour across mainland Europe and the UK. Recognized as one of the most influential bands of its era, New Order continues to enhance its legacy, captivating audiences with a timeless fusion of music and visually gripping performances.Read More »Andrew Liddle Lights New Order European Tour with Elation Excalibur

Lighting for the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site – Cameo illuminates the Blower Hall at Völklingen Ironworks

Around 100 years ago, the gigantic blower engines at Völklingen Ironworks pumped compressed air into the ironworks’ blast furnaces. Today, the flywheels rising from the ground are illuminated by spotlights and serve as a fascinating backdrop for exhibitions and other events lasting several months. In 1994, Völklingen Ironworks was added to the UNESCO list of World Cultural Heritage Sites and, with its numerous halls and open spaces, has developed into a European center for art and industrial culture. In order to be able to flexibly illuminate the exhibitions in the Blower Hall, the supporting company invested in a modern lighting technology setup consisting of Cameo P2 FC LED profile spotlights and ZENIT W300 LED Wash Lights in 2023.Read More »Lighting for the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site – Cameo illuminates the Blower Hall at Völklingen Ironworks

Robe Has Big Presence at Lollapalooza Berlin

The 2023 Lollapalooza Berlin event at Olympiapark in the heart of the city was notable for a sizzling artist lineup as well as being a major Robe moving light installation, with almost 500 Robe fixtures – over 75 on the Alternative Stage, over 125 on Main Stage North and over 250 on Main Stage South, plus some on Perry’s stage. Lighting production was delivered to the Main Stage North by rental specialists TSE, Main Stage South by Media Resource Group (MRG), Alternative Stage by Sound Projekt (SPS) and Parry’s stage by Colour Sound Experiment.Read More »Robe Has Big Presence at Lollapalooza Berlin

Summer Well Festival Brought to Life by Over 300 GLP Fixtures

One of Romania’s most popular festivals, the three-day Summer Well event, recently celebrated its 12th edition in spectacular style. Promoted by SC Livada Advertising and held annually on a picturesque 24-hectare meadow and forest site outside Bucharest, Summer Well peaked last year when Arctic Monkeys were headlining. However, it emulated this success in 2023 when Florence and the Machine, Röyksopp, and Yungblud headed a line-up of 30 artists, featuring both international bands and DJs.Read More »Summer Well Festival Brought to Life by Over 300 GLP Fixtures

Robe for St Stephen’s Day Spectacle in Budapest

Robe moving lights were used in three major locations for the massive 2023 St. Stephen’s Day celebrations in Budapest, Hungary, a public holiday celebrating the foundation of the Hungarian state more than 1000 years ago, which this year attracted over 1.5 million spectators to the banks of the Danube River watch the main large format projection and drone show. Multiple events were staged throughout the country’s vibrant and beautiful capital city on the day, with technical production – lighting sound, visuals, staging – for the 2023 event coordinated and delivered by the Visual Europe Group (VEG), working with 12 sub-companies.Read More »Robe for St Stephen’s Day Spectacle in Budapest

Valentin Lemarquier Adds to Nuit du BAL’s Electric Mood with CHAUVET Professional

Wine is king in France…unless one happens to find oneself in beautiful Hauts-de-France near the border with Belgium. Thanks to its Flemish roots, the region has a strong beer culture, as evidenced by its myriad local microbreweries. Bière à Lille, a week-long festival in Lille, France celebrates this tradition with dozens of special events and samplings from over 80 different breweries. Among the highlights off the festival this year was Nuit du BAL, an electro pop show headlined by Martin Solveig, listed by the UK’s DJ Magazine as one of the Top 100 DJs, along with Upsilone, Miel de Montagne, and Victor Flash.Read More »Valentin Lemarquier Adds to Nuit du BAL’s Electric Mood with CHAUVET Professional

The FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2023 Illuminated by Prolights Fixtures

The FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2023, hosted at the Constanța Masters in the City Park Mall, was illuminated by a lighting setup composed of Prolights products. For its inauguration in Romania, the FIBA 3×3 World Tour attracted sixteen top-level teams from around the world who competed for the championship title.Read More »The FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2023 Illuminated by Prolights Fixtures

Mexican Eco Theme Park Xcaret Invests In 500 ADJ LED Video Panels

Offering a unique mix of stunning natural scenery, exciting activities and cultural displays, Xcaret is one of Mexico’s leading tourist attractions. At the end of 2021, the park’s technical team upgraded a problematic projector-based video system in its main Tlachco Theater with ADJ LED video panels. The new setup not only improved the clarity of the video content shown as part of the venue’s resident production but has also proven to be far more reliable than the previous system, following over a year of continuous use across daily shows. Here’s a video overview of this project:

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Royal Danish Opera Invests in Robe FORTES

Royal Danish Opera’s Chief LX Sune Schou on the left with Martin Braad from Light Partner

The Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen has invested in 80 new Robe FORTE luminaires in a package featuring 32 FORTE Profiles, 34 FORTE Fresnels, 4 FORTE FollowSpots and 10 iFORTE (IP65 rated) moving lights, as part of a technical upgrade to ensure that this high- profile venue can offer its productions and creative teams the most appropriate and sustainable technologies to create and craft their art.Read More »Royal Danish Opera Invests in Robe FORTES