LONDON — Diversity, a team of breakdancers that won the Britain’s Got Talent competition, have been touring U.K. arenas with a lighting design by Neil Trenell. HSL-supplied Showline SL NITRO 510 fixtures from Philips Entertainment Lighting complement the pyro with bursts of intense light.
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MILAN, Italy — Piazza della Scala, near Milan’s opera house, lit up with a holiday-themed son et lumière show titled Polvere di Stelle (stardust). It ran Dec. 16-Jan. 7. Working for the Milan City Council and others, show designer Sebastiano Romano used seven Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s to project images of stars along with greetings in different languages over the entire square and on the façades of surrounding buildings.
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LONDON — U.K. pop band JLS completed a five-year chart-topping run with a sold-out U.K. arena tour. The tour, titled, “Goodbye – The Greatest Hits,” featured a lighting design by LD Dave “Bickie” Lee. He used 28 of Robe’s Pointe fixtures.
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LONDERZEEL, Belgium — Painting With Light worked with LD Luc Peumans on the visuals for a new music quiz-and-talent show, Sing That Song. It was recorded in front of a live audience at Londerzeel Studios and broadcast weekly on Belgium’s national TV channel, VRT. The grandMA2-controlled lighting rig included 38 Clay Paky Sharpys, 12 Robe LEDWash 600s, 72 Showtec Spectral M800 LED fixtures, 45 Fresnels (1K and 2K) and 24 Showtec Active Sunstrips.
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LONDON — Basement Jaxx toured U.K. venues in November and December including Brixton Academy, Apollo Theatre Manchester and Glasgow Academy with visual support from Jonathan ‘Leggy’ Armstrong and Clay Paky fixtures from Neg Earth. Armstrong specified Sharpy, Sharpy Wash, Alpha Spot QWO 800 and Alpha Wash 1500 fixtures for the rig.
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SOUTH KIRKBY, Yorkshire, U.K. — Backstage Academy hosted a series of educational sessions for students attending the National Skills Academy’s Creative Choices event at the O2 Academy Sheffield Jan. 10. The event provided students with information about career opportunities in the backstage live events sector.
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LONDON – Multi-award-winning lighting designer Rick Fisher chose ETC’s Source Four LED CYC adapters for a production of Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line at the Hampstead Theatre in London.
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MONTREUX, Switzerland — Riedel Communications noted that the Montreux Music & Convention Centre (2m2c) used a Riedel MediorNet video and data signal transport network solution during the 47th Montreux Jazz Festival, the second largest annual jazz festival in the world.
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