PERU – The Live Rock music festival is claiming to be one of the world’s highest rock concerts, as it was held at 14,435 ft above sea level. The design featured PR Lighting fixtures from PR’s distributor Layset; the event drew more than 35,000 attendees.
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STOCKHOLM – Swedish singer songwriter Petra Marklund has been touring with a stage set fabricated largely from more than 3,000 SGM LED Balls (LB-100) rigged as an overhead, interactive spatial canopy. Originally designed as a video light curtain, with low-resolution 120mm pixel pitch, the LB-100 display is made up from long strings, each containing seven white semi-transparent LED balls. Each sphere contains two RGB LEDs to create a 3-D effect when viewed through 360 degrees.
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SCHLADMING, Austria – Wireless Solution Sweden AB, manufacturer of the W-DMX wireless DMX technology, worked with Ampco Flashlight Rental to use the new Wireless Solution W-DMX G4 system on the FIS Alpine Ski World Championship 2013 Opening Ceremony. The W-DMX G4 system controlled moving lights, LED fixtures and conventional lighting fixtures at the event Feb. 4 in Schladming, Austria.
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AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands’ new multi-use indoor arena Ziggo Dome has been outfitted with more than 400 ETC Selador LED fixtures. Ziggo Dome’s facilities manager Ruud Bongers says, “We were keen to include a lighting scheme that extended from simply onstage to the whole arena, making the house lights part of the show lights. At the touch of a button, we can make the house lighting change color, brighten, or dim; and it can all be done from one of nine touch panels located around the building.”
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PERTH, Australia – Australian AV company Scene Change have added 12 GLP Volkslicht zoom LED moving head fixtures to their lighting stock. The fixture has a motorized zoom, changing its beam size from 10 to 26 degrees, while maintaining a strong output.
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LONDON – LD Mark Henderson chose Clay Paky Sharpys to deliver the ‘concert performance’ lighting in a stage production of The Bodyguard at London’s Adelphi Theatre. The show is based on the original film, made famous by Whitney Houston.
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LEEDS, UK – New sessions have been added to the free program of seminars, demonstrations and tutorials April 30-May 1 at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2013, at the Royal Armouries at Clarence Dock in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
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LONDON – XL Video supplied LED screens, projection, camera, PPU and screen management system for The BRIT Awards 2013 at London’s O2 Arena. It’s the eleventh consecutive year that XL (and production manager Paul Wood) have been involved as video supplier for the event.
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SALVADOR, Brazil – Rental company Luzbel Iluminacao supplied more than 150 Robe moving lights for the 2013 Summer Festival de Salvador. Luzbel purchased the latest Robe fixtures to use them on the four-day event.
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LONDON – UK lighting rental company Neg Earth Lights invested in five new Kinesys DigiHoist controllers and two remote handsets, which went directly out on Muse’s ‘The 2nd Law’ world tour, together with a Kinesys K2 control and Elevation 1+ automation system that they already owned.
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