MELBOURNE, Australia — Peter Mumford’s Helpmann Award winning lighting design for King Kong The Musical includes ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ profiles and Vari-Lite VL3500 units, among other gear.
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GEEL, Belgium — Lighting Designer and operator David Smeets of TCF placed Robe moving lights at the heart of his design for the Main Stage at the 2013 Reggae Geel festival, held Aug. 2-3. Headliners included Pentateuch, Iba Mahr & Dubtronic Kru, Ironites, Freddie McGregor and many more.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — LD Declan Randall is using Philips Vari-Lite’s VL3500 Spot Luminaires and customized gobos for the Johannesburg production of Starlight Express. Theatre lighting supplier Gearhouse Splitbeam provided the fixtures for the production, which played at The Mandela, Joburg Theatre.
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ZURICH, Switzerland — The 22nd Street Parade drew nearly 1 million revelers into downtown Zurich on Aug. 10 with Bob Sinclar, Fedde Le Grand, Nicky Romero, Westbam, NERVO and others performing on eight large stages, 30 music trucks and additional areas next to the festival site. Laserworld added to the visuals at the event.
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DURBAN, South Africa — For a June 14 Zakes Bantwini concert at the Durban ICC commemorating the June 16 1976 Soweto Uprising, a.k.a. Youth Day, Simon Hampton from production company Black Coffee handled both the set and lighting design and included Clay Paky fixtures in the rig. Black Coffee worked with Mayonie Productions and the Ethekwini Municipality on the show.
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HERTFORDSHIRE, UK — For the Electric City portion of the Eastern Electrics Festival, staged at Knebworth Park here Aug. 2-4, Smash Productions provided technical production, stage and architectural lighting and video designs. The design objectives for Smash’s Tim Smith and his team included creativity and energy efficiency, all on a relatively tight budget. Smash worked with George Made That on the project.
Read More »OXFORD, U.K. — Philips Selecon and Selecon dealer Lancelyn Theatre Supplies, with locations in Oxford and Wirral, are offering a series of hour-long Q&A sessions focusing on LED technology. Called Learn Educate Discover (LED), the Sept. 19 seminars, at 2:30, 4:30, and 6:30 pm, will explore the pros and cons of LED lighting and address the issue of using LED alongside traditional tungsten fixtures.
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, U.K. — For this summer’s Global Gathering festival, staged at Long Marston Airfield here July 26-27, ElectricFly brought Avolites lighting consoles to the party. Among the Avo consoles provided: two Sapphire Touch desks — one each for two of the event’s main arenas.
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BOOM, Belgium — Some 250 Robe moving light fixtures were deployed site-wide at the 2013 Tomorrowland EDM festival, which drew close to 180,000 EDM fans to De Schorre National Park here from July 26-28. ID&T served as event organizers and Jurgen Nuytemans and Christophe Van Den Branden oversaw technical and artistic direction for a long list of top DJs on 14 live stages.
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HIGH WYCOMBE, U.K. — Dry Hire Lighting has become the first UK rental house to take delivery of Showline’s new LED linear SL BAR 640 luminaire. The company plans to soon offer the SL BAR 660 as well.
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