TORONTO – Canadian new wave /indie band, Metric, recently completed a tour in support of their fifth album, Synthetica. LD Ian MacDonald designed the lighting to be diverse to scale from 1,000-seat theaters to arenas and amphitheaters. This tour involved five different set-ups, each including GLP’s new Spot One LED moving heads.
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LONDON – LD Nick Gray used Clay Paky Sharpys to welcome VIPs for the James Bond film release of ‘Skyfall.’ Gray’s concept was to use lighting to create an environment of “mystery, action and intrigue” to mirror the Bond film. The gala was held at London’s Tate Modern museum.
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ANTWERP, Belgium – Phlippo Showlights has increased its inventory of Robe moving LED lights with more Robe LEDWash fixtures – all to service current work. The latest investment of 32 Robe LEDWash 300s, 32 LEDWash 800s and 120 LEDWash 1200s boosts their Robe LED fixture stock to more than 450 units.
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HIGH WYCOMBE, Buckinghamshire, UK – Lighting rental company Siyan has invested in additional Robe MMX Spots to keep up with the demand and to prepare for a busy upcoming calendar of shows. Half of the new 24 MMX fixtures went directly out on tour. Nick Valdez explains, “The MMX Spot has become increasingly popular this year, I keep getting very good feedback from users and they are appearing more frequently on specs.”
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LONDON – British rockers Level 42 celebrated the 25th anniversary of their hit-producing album Running in the Family with a performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall. LD Yenz Nyholm’s design included 12 Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 700s.
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OSLO – Lighting director Nick Collier chose Philips Vari-Lite VL3000 Spot luminaires for the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert to honor Nobel laureates on Dec. 11 at the Oslo Spektrum Arena. Collier has taken over the lighting design duties from original designer Al Gurdon. Performers included Jennifer Hudson, Kylie Minogue and others.
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STOCKHOLM – Swedish LD Henrik Lundin, a member of the Stockholm-based company Satellite Live, he recently been touring with eight of SGM’s new X-5 LED strobes. They were provided from the new office, SGM Sweden, headed by Mikael Uddh. “Because we were often visiting clubs with limited access to power, the X-5, with its low power draw when compared with the traditional energy hungry xenon sources, became a natural choice,” he says.
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SUTTHAUSEN, Germany – Robe CitySkape 48 and CitySource 96 and Anolis Inground 12 RGB LED fixtures illuminate a collection of art and sculptural works in an event called Iktomia. The art installation includes a garden, a gallery, an event location and the renovated old Railway Station in Sutthausen near Osnabrück, Germany. It was part of the artist’s master design plan that Iktomia should come alive after dark as well as being appreciated during the daylight hours, and so he approached German distribution company LMP to help specify the appropriate fixtures for the lighting design.
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COPENHAGEN – LD Kasper Lange used Clay Paky Sharpys in his design for the Danish Music Awards 2012, held in November in Copenhagen and aired on TV2. Copenhagen-based Litecom supplied the fixtures, which were used throughout the show and to a big effect for Danish singer Aura.
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FLORENCE, Italy — For a theatrical touring production of Nascosto Dove c’e piu Luce (Hidden Where There Is More Light) featuring Italian actor/comedian Gioele Dix, set and lighting designers Francesca Pedrotti and Carlo Signorini chose Quadro L16 fixtures from RED Lighting as an integral part of the production’s abstract design.
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – Rotterdam-based rental company Peitsman Licht en Geluid (Light & Sound) has purchased Robe’s latest Robin DLX Spot and DLF Wash fixtures, becoming the first DLF users in the Benelux region. Of the new purchase, 10 DLFs and six DLXs went straight out on tour with Percossa, a high energy percussion ensemble now touring Benelux and France.
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MAIDSTONE, KENT, UK – More than 1,000 LED light sources from SGM have brought the new 1800-capacity Wonderland nightclub to life in Maidstone, Kent. Commanding the focus of attention is an overhang comprised of 225 of SGM’s 1-meter length pixel tubes interspersed with 784 LED Pix pixel cubes.
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