BLACKBURN, U.K. – HSL provided lighting, Kinesys automation, projection and LED video to support LD Andy Liddle's design for U.K. and European legs of the recent tour for Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark (OMD).
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MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government sponsored a range of festivities celebrating 200 years of independence and the 100-year anniversary of the Mexican revolution, culminating in two separate events held in the main plaza of the capital, El Zócalo.
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STRATFORD UPON AVON, U.K. – The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) reopened recently after a major renovation that created a new main auditorium with a thrust stage and updates to the adjacent Swan Theatre, with a colonnade connecting the two. Stage Electrics played an extensive role supporting the sweeping upgrade.
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LONDON – JLS, the U.K. boy band first thrust into the limelight as finalists on The X-Factor talent show in 2008, have since sold 1.3 million albums worldwide and are now performing before screaming fans in support their second release, Outta This World.
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PARIS – LD Nik Evers specified 120 GLP Impression Zooms for Volkswagen Group Night, an event staged on the evening before the 2010 Paris Motor Show, Mondial de l'Automobile, got into gear.
Read More »DURBAN, South Africa – Gearhouse South Africa supplied sound, lighting, video equipment plus crew for the South African leg of Indian singer/musician A R Rahman's Jai Ho world tour. For the outdoor Durban show, the company also furnished a stage/roof system.
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REGENSBURG, Germany – The Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation recognized the research team based here for Ostram Opto Semiconductors with the Beckurts Prize for their work in researching direct green semiconductor lasers.
Read More »AMSTERDAM and HONG KONG – Royal Philips acquired privately-owned NCW Holdings LTD (NCW). Headquartered in Hong Kong and with a manufacturing subsidiary in mainland China, NCW is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of LED, conventional entertainment lighting and lighting control solutions for global markets. No financial details on the transaction were disclosed.
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WEST YORKSHIRE, U.K. – Milos UK designed, manufactured and installed a super grid with three moving sub-grids, a pile winding winch movement system and a full set of blackout drapes for Milton Studio One on the campus of the University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, U.K.
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JOHANNESBURG – Philips Entertainment Lighting named DWR Distribution as exclusive distributor in South Africa for its Selecon and Strand branded products. DWR is already the exclusive distributor in the region for Vari-lite.
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LONDON – HSL is supplying lighting gear and crew for the Foals' Total Life Forever tour across the U.K. and Europe. LD Davy Sherwin's goal was to make the rig for the show look bigger than it actually is with a floor-oriented show and lots of anthemic beam looks – a scheme that has proven to work well with variable-sized venues.
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LONDON – The worlds of British and rock ‘n' roll royalty collided in mid-November, and while the Prince's Trust Rock Gala 2010 didn't generate enough goodwill to keep a mob angered by tuition price hikes from rocking the Prince of Wales' Rolls Royce a few weeks later, its purpose was to raise funds to help young people find jobs in the recession-racked U.K.
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