MELBOURNE – A cast of Vari-Lite-VLX Wash luminaires have been installed as part of a AUD$136 million ($143 million USD) revamp of Melbourne’s Hamer Hall theatre. The technical team chose the VLX Wash luminaires following a shoot-out between the Vari-Lite fixtures and other brands.The fixture’s ability to color match with conventional luminaires was a key factor in the decision.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Tait’s Pixel Tablets helped ring in the New Year on Brazil’s Copacabana beach. To accompany live performances for the evening, there were 11,000 tablets mounted to 242 nets and installed on either side of the stage to extend it another 137 feet.
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BRISBANE, Australia – Australia’s annual 30-night Brisbane Festival last fall featured 32, 292 sq ft of lighting, visible for more than 6 miles throughout downtown Brisbane’s business district. A LumenRadio system distributed control data wirelessly to all lighting elements of the event. Sponsored by Santos GLNG City of Lights and designed by John Rayment, the festival’s lighting was provided and installed by Chameleon Touring Systems.
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LONDON – LD Ed Warren turned to Martin Professional’s MAC Viper Profile for Mumford & Sons’ dates in the UK and Ireland recently on their extended “Babel” world tour. UK-based Neg Earth provided the gear, which also included MAC Auras.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – Ljubljana-based rental company Event Lighting has invested this past year in the newest Robe Robin range. Most recently their inventory now includes the first MMX WashBeams in Slovenia. The fixtures have just been delivered via Robe’s distributor MK Light Sound, also based in Ljubljana.
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MOSCOW – Jennifer Lopez performed recently in Russia, giving LD Sean Burke the chance to try out Martin Professional’s new MAC Viper Profile from rental company Euroshow. He tested it out for the St. Petersburg show, and liked it so much, he included them in the rider for the singer’s next performance in Kiev.
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LONDON – Martin Professional’s new VC-Dot LED string was used to line the 14-meter high (46 ft) “Giganta” take off ramp on Nitro Circus Live’s recent European tour. LD Paul Collison specified the string of LED Dots as accent lighting on ramp edges to replace the fragile LED tubes used on previous tours. Neg Earth provided the lighting.
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LONDON – Entec Sound & Light continued its long working relationship with The Bootleg Beatles, a recognized tribute band to the legendary British musical group. The touring show started off largely in ‘monochrome’ to mimic the minimal stage/effects lighting that would have been available when the band’s career kicked off back in the 1960s, and exploded into colors and projections during the psychedelia era as the show’s musical repertoire progressed into the band’s later works. Entec has provided technical production for the band since 1994, playing to old and new generations of Beatles enthusiasts.
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LONDON – Cinimod Studio in conjunction with Prolyte Group’s Special Projects Division, Litestructures, have delivered the most epic of public lighting installations to mark the launch of the Halo 4 Xbox 360 game. Agency AKQA (acting on behalf of Microsoft/Xbox) commissioned Cinimod Studio to create the illuminated structure – based on the Halo 4 Glyph symbol – which would fly over London. Cinimod Studio turned to Litestructures to help bring their concept to life.
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LONDON – Deep Purple lighting designer Louis Ball has just given Martin Professional’s new MAC III AirFX lighting fixture a thorough workout on the band’s November/December European arena tour. Ball, who has been with Deep Purple since 1984, put the fixtures through their paces with a trim height of 10 meters (32 ft.) giving ample room to see what the fixtures could do. There were 24 MAC III AirFX paired with MAC III Profiles across an upstage, midstage and downstage truss with one AirFX on each side of the downstage floor used as side light. TDA Rental supplied the fixtures.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – Slovenia welcomed the 2012 festive season in style at the Red XMas Party, one of the country’s largest and hottest dance events, at the Arena Stozice in Ljubljana. Event Lighting supplied the lighting rig, which featured 70 Robe moving lights at its core. The design was based on a plot by Van Buuren’s LD André Beekmans, and operated by Michael Seeverens, both from Netherlands-based The Art Of Light.
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ST. PETERSBURG – Martin Professional’s new 1000-watt MAC Viper Profile moving head made its Russian debut Oct. 6 with the rock band Leningrad. LD Elena Morozova created some special looks for the first 10 MAC Viper fixtures delivered to Russia. The show at the sports complex Yubileyny was arranged by the company Euroshow.
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