SYDNEY – More than 200 Robe moving lights were used on the 2012 Australian International Motor Show for 10 of the highest profile car stands. Clifton Productions supplied lighting for the event at the Sydney Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour.
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LONDON – Longtime Muse LD Oli Metcalfe is the first LD to use the new High End Systems Hog 4 control system. During a string of shows in the UK and Europe, Metcalfe swapped his Full Boar console for the new Hog 4 desk. The designer says he enjoys the extra real estate afforded by the Hog 4, but appreciates the familiar ergonomics of the Hog family of control systems. While getting up to speed with the Hog 4 was effortless for Oli, this tour is Muse’s most complex production to date, with control and networking perfection being integral to its success.
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NORWICH, UK – The biggest display yet of SGM’s LT-100 3D pixel tubes has appeared at Wonderland Norwich, a new nightclub. The club’s motif, a twist on Alice in Wonderland, includes 220 of SGM’s 1-meter long pixel tubes suspended above the dance floor. An additional 66 strings of SGM LB-100 LED light balls shine along the length of the display from the ceiling.
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LONDON – Lighting designer Yenz Nyholm used his Avolites Tiger Touch to help reignite the memories of Level 42 fans when the band performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall. He programmed both the lighting and the video through his Avolites’ Tiger Touch 6.1, which now features enhancements and updates that have advanced the console’s capability. He said, “The best thing for me is the cue stacking. You can display your cue list and each individual cue’s parameters on the screens, but better still you can go in and change every parameter without having to be in the cue itself. This has been a massive time saving device.”
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KIEV, Ukraine – When Jennifer Lopez’s “Dance Again” world tour performed a show Nov. 13 in Kiev, Ukraine, local production company Feyeria helped out. Feyeria was responsible for most of her technical production at the Ukraine Palace of Sports.
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MANCHESTER, UK – Lighting and rigging company dbn supplied stage lighting for the city’s 2012 Festive Season lighting switch-on. dbn’s Andy Kennett designed the lighting, making sure to light the audience as well as the stage action and to create effects that involved everyone as a whole. This is also why there was a concentration of beam type effects in the design to skim over the audience and also to highlight some of the buildings.
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COPENHAGEN – LD Kasper Lange used a large Martin MAC rig that included Martin Professional’s new MAC Viper Profile for the 2012 Danish Music Awards at the Forum in Copenhagen. “We needed a small and powerful lamp that could cut through the massive audience light,” Lange said. The event was broadcast live in Denmark.
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BRISTOL, UK – JLS, UK’s hot boyband, headlined the charity concert for The Mall at Cribbs Causeway’s Christmas Lights switch-on in Bristol earlier this month. Stage Electrics supplied the fully equipped tunnel stage with complete event lighting. They also supplied and installed a temporary outdoor ice rinks with more than 1000sq m (10,764 sq ft) of real ice.
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