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Norwood Productions Invests in Robe

Chris Norwood (back row, center) and some of his amazing team from Norwood Productions. Photo: By Louise Stickland

“It’s all about the people,” states Chris Norwood of Norwood Productions, explaining his people-first management style, and echoing a phrase actively embraced and promoted by Robe’s South African distributor, DWR. However, good, reliable, and flexible kit also helps a business thrive, and Johannesburg-based Norwood Productions has invested in some of Robe’s most compact fixture ranges to further the company’s growth – starting with LED Beam 100s and now also including LEDBeam 150s and LEDBeam 350s, with some Spikies on order. The Robe purchases – eight of each fixture – are perfect for the current size and scale of the events they are providing with top notch technical production.Read More »Norwood Productions Invests in Robe

Petter Nilssen Chooses MDG Me2 for Postgirobygget Summer Tour 2023

Norwegian band, Postgirobygget (named after Norway’s main post office in Oslo), which began life in 1994 under the name The Pissed Off Sons, quickly gained traction with their debut album Melis, which sold nearly 200,000 copies and spent a total of 70 weeks in the VG Chart. Since then, they have embarked on an annual summer tour, performing at festivals and venues in front of audiences ranging from 2000 to 18,000 people. The band is often rightly dubbed Norway’s summer band.Read More »Petter Nilssen Chooses MDG Me2 for Postgirobygget Summer Tour 2023

Full Color Blinder from ROXX® Lights up the Audience at this Year’s Smukfest

The mood was high at Smukfest in Skanderborg when Denmark’s perhaps most beautiful festival took place on August 2 to August 6. 40,000 guests flooded the festival grounds every day to experience 5 days of performances by great international and Danish artists on the five different stages – and the odd rain shower.Read More »Full Color Blinder from ROXX® Lights up the Audience at this Year’s Smukfest

ADJ Lighting Gets the Party Started at Feest in Het Park Festival

The Feest in Het Park festival (AKA ‘Party In The Park’) is an annual weekend-long celebration hosted in the Reeshofpark, a large public park situated in the suburbs of the Netherlands city of Tilburg. Across two separate stages, more than 70 ADJ fixtures were supplied for this year’s festival by Ultrasound Productions, which utilized both moving heads and static washes to illuminate the performance spaces with vibrant colors and fill the sky above the park with impressive aerial effects.Read More »ADJ Lighting Gets the Party Started at Feest in Het Park Festival

PROLIGHTS on Stage with Blanco’s Innamorato Tour

PROLIGHTS products illuminated the Innamorato Tour of Blanco, the young artist reigning over the Italian music scene. Following the great success of the Blu Celeste Tour, boasting 35 sold-out dates, Blanco has once again astonished his fans with his inaugural stadium tour, securing his position as the youngest Italian artist to perform on these prestigious stages. The awe-inspiring events took place at Rome’s Olympic Stadium and Milan’s San Siro Stadium, where the singer delivered an overwhelming performance, paying meticulous attention to every detail and presenting a setlist that encompassed the best of his repertoire, accompanied by a visually stunning scenography.Read More »PROLIGHTS on Stage with Blanco’s Innamorato Tour

ROE Visual Selected for KBS’s 1st XR Studio

In April, KBS (the Korean Broadcasting System), the national broadcaster of South Korea, has successfully launched its next-generation XR Studio. KBS’s trusted partner, Ark Ventures, chose ROE Visual and Brompton Technology to cater for KBS’s high standards. KBS has been a reliable and trend-setting public media since its establishment in 1927. Seeing the growing XR impact in the global broadcasting industry, KBS decided to create its own and pioneer the way in South Korea. Therefore, found Ark Ventures, Korea’s leading XR and Virtual Production consultant, as their trusted partner.
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Guido Schütz and Patrick Hirt get Versatile with CHAUVET Professional at Monheim City Festival

 

Can anything be all things to all people? Probably not, but that hasn’t stopped Monheim am Rhine from trying. Situated between Cologne and Düsseldorf in Germany, this community of under 50,000 bills itself as the “town for everyone,” and backs up the claim by offering a combination of natural beauty and urban sophistication, ancient ruins, and a thriving modern art scene.Read More »Guido Schütz and Patrick Hirt get Versatile with CHAUVET Professional at Monheim City Festival

ADJ Lighting and LED Video Panels Create The Perfect Storm for Unique Theme Park Attraction

Beat the Storm is a thrilling interactive attraction that allows participants to fight their way through a hurricane. This experience is enhanced by intense lighting effects, created using ADJ LED-powered fixtures, which simulate overhead lightning flashes. In addition, the backdrop to the attraction incorporates a video wall, constructed from ADJ’s Vision Series high pixel pitch LED panels, which displays synchronized visuals of swaying trees and blowing debris to add to the realism of the adventure.Read More »ADJ Lighting and LED Video Panels Create The Perfect Storm for Unique Theme Park Attraction

AOTO Electronics and Mediatrade Oy Transform Finland TV Station with Cutting-Edge XR Studio

In the ever-evolving landscape of television production, the pursuit of innovation drives the creation of captivating content and immersive viewer experiences. Recently, a remarkable collaboration between AOTO Electronics and Mediatrade Oy in Finland has taken this pursuit to new heights. The result is a groundbreaking XR (Extended Reality) TV studio for Grassmark Oy, brought to life with the state-of-the-art CV1.5 series LED panels.Read More »AOTO Electronics and Mediatrade Oy Transform Finland TV Station with Cutting-Edge XR Studio

Elation IP Luminaires Help Hungarian City of Veszprém Celebrate European Capital of Culture

In 2023, the city of Veszprém in Western Hungary and the Bakony-Balaton region is holding a year-long program of events and celebrations as the European Capital of Culture. The Grand Opening of the festivities took place on 21-22 January under the title “Come shine with us!,” a spectacular event with lighting design by Balázs Varga. The LD brilliantly illuminated the occasion using 120 IP65 rated lighting products from Elation Professional.Read More »Elation IP Luminaires Help Hungarian City of Veszprém Celebrate European Capital of Culture

Robe LEDBeam 350s are Ultra Popular in Cape Town

Ultra CEO Costa Champanis and some of his amazing team. Photo by Louise Stickland

Cape Town-based rental and production company Ultra Event Technical Solutions has been extremely busy since the industry re-energized post-covid, a challenging time that nonetheless saw them retain their complete staff through resourcefulness, creative thinking and adapting the facilities and skill base they had to a pandemic economy. Thankfully as soon as the gathering and meeting up restrictions were lifted, “We’ve been absolutely full-tilt,” explained Ultra’s founder and CEO, Costa Champanis. With business roaring back, it wasn’t long before they needed more lights, so Costa made the investment in 24 Robe LEDBeam 350s.Read More »Robe LEDBeam 350s are Ultra Popular in Cape Town