LONDON – Nick Gray, the UK’s leading fashion lighting designer once again brought his imagination and flair to the mix for London Fashion Week. Gray brings his distinctive crossover style to the world of fashion show – a dynamic mix of rock ‘n roll attitude, industrial chic and a hint of adventure!
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LONDON – Presented by the Society of London Theatres, the Olivier Awards honor productions opening in London’s West End. In the lighting category, Paule Constable was nominated for her work on The Light Princess at the National Theatre, Paul Pyant for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Peter Mumford for Ghosts at the Almeida and then the Trafalgar Studios, and Tim Lutkin & Finn Ross for Chimerica at the Almeida and then the Harold Pinter Theatre. Lighting designer Michael Hulls was nominated in the Outstanding Achievement in Dance category for his body of lighting work, including Ballet Boyz – The Talent at Sadler’s Wells.
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LONDON — With a big rig for the 2014 BRIT Awards staged at the O2 Arena here Feb. 19, PRG was able to give LD Dave Davey enough firepower and versatility to transform the lighting looks for each of the acts. The artist roster included Artic Monkeys; Beyoncé; Bastille and Rudimental; Pharrell & Nile Rodgers; Ellie Goulding; Katy Perry; Disclosure, Lorde & Aluna George; and Bruno Mars.
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JERUSALEM – Robe continues to be a popular choice for Israel’s top TV lighting designers. A case in point: LD Ronen Najar’s design for the singing contest show, Rising Star. The rig for the first 24-episode series included Robin MMX Spot and LEDBeam 100 fixtures. The show was recorded in the Globus Group Studios in Jerusalem and broadcast on national Channel 2.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – HSL supplied the inaugural BBC Radio 6 Music Festival staged at Victoria Warehouse here, providing gear and crew for both lighting and rigging to meet the needs of the event’s production lighting designer, Tim Routledge, along with producers SJM and BBC Events.
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BRISBANE, Australia — LD Heath Williamson collaborated with Jono Perry, technical director of the Brisbane Festival, on a lighting installation at the heritage-listed Newstead Gas Ring here. The project involved more than 500 Anolis LED lighting fixtures.
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LONDON — ‘Re Present,’ a fashion collective of designers with Scandinavian roots, sponsored a London Fashion Week event at the Danish Embassy here lit by LD Søren Peglau. Peglau used 72 SGM P-5 washlights (recently added to the rental inventory at Hawthorn) and 34 SP-6 SixPack Blinders. Blueprint Event Services also provided nearly 200 SGM LT-200 3D pixel tubes for a chandelier for the main stairwell.
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AMSTERDAM — LD Paul Collison used Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500s, Alpha Wash 1500s and Alpha Spot HPE 1500s to light Travis Pastrana’s daredevil sports troupe, Nitro Circus, at the Ziggo Dome here. The two-hour show offers spectators a mix of top riders performing stunts in motocross, BMX and Skating.
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HIGH WYCOMBE, U.K. — Dry Hire Lighting, based here, added more Robe fixtures to its rental inventory, pushing the company’s cross-rental inventory of moving lights toward the 1,000 mark. The latest order included a mix of Robe Robin Pointes, LEDWash 600s and LEDBeam 100s. Pictured here, from left, are Merrilees and Nic Tolkien of Dry Hire Lighting with Josef Valchar (CEO Robe s.r.o) and Mick Hannaford (CEO of Robe UK).
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