LONDON – Clay Paky equipment figured heavily in rapper Example’s first arena tour. LD Graham “Grum” Leesmith spec’d 50 Alpha Spot QWO 800 fixtures, along with 30 Sharpys and 20 Alpha Wash 1500s, all from rental house Neg Earth.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Irish lighting rental company Production Services Ireland (PSI) became fully embroiled in the weekend commemorating the centenary of the sinking of the world’s most famous cruise ship: Titanic. They supplied lighting, rigging and crew to three major events to mark this moment in maritime history. On the same weekend, PSI also supplied lighting to three major boxing and wrestling events, so it proved a real brain-teaser for logistics and pre-planning and left PSI’s Belfast warehouse bare.
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DONETSK, Ukraine – CORTMI Ltd. has carried out an innovative lighting installation at a war memorial in their native city using PR Lighting’s new ARC LED 3216, among other lighting. The three LED spotlights have been placed on specially installed masts around the monument, illuminating it with red light to symbolize the bloody years of war.
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LONDON – XL Video continues to supply Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto (MX) world tour, which has stepped up to play stadiums shows in the UK and Europe. The expanded design features XL Video’s new Pixled F-12 LED screen product.
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SUN CITY, South Africa – More than 200 Robe moving lights illuminated 18th annual South African Music Awards show, staged at the Sun City Superbowl. As part of the main design element, LD Joshua Cutts was asked to energize an inflatable set, comprising giant interlocking circles and tubes which spanned most of the ceiling.
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BAKU, Azerbaijan – Battling it out for Europe’s highest vote, Green Hippo’s Hippotizers were at the core in pulling off a spectacular show at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. This year the content resolution was really pushed for LED screens with 4000 x 3000 pixels being used, along with the outputs of 6 active Hippotizer HDs genlocked together.
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TEL AVIV – Netherlands-based Mojo Barriers has appointed Tel Aviv-based Safety Access as its new distribution partner in Israel. The first contract of the partnership is the provision and installation of 400 meters of barrier for the opening date of Madonna’s long-awaited MDNA tour May 31 at Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan Stadium.
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SOWETO, South Africa –The newly built Soweto Theatre, designed by Afritects, opened May 25 with Philips Strand Lighting dimming and Selecon luminaires. The equipment was selected to handle the theatre’s three spaces, which can stage a diversity of performances.
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