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Steve Bewley Creates The Perfect Stormzy with Ayrton

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UK – “This is the moment that I have been waiting for my whole life. I am now ready to certify my position as a credible artist and someone who is here for the long run.” The grime artist Stormzy was in no doubt about the importance of the Gang Signs and Prayers Tour, in promotion of his debut album, that visited Academy venues across the UK and Ireland through the spring, before culminating in two shows at the legendary London O2 Brixton Academy.

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ETC Eos Ti scary good on Criss Angel’s Mindfreak Live!

[caption id="attachment_280291" align="alignnone" width="800"]ETC Eos Ti scary good on Criss Angel Mindfreak Live[/caption]

MIDDLETON, WI – Criss Angel’s Mindfreak Live! at the Luxor Resort & Casino in Las Vegas upends people’s views of magic and awes spectators with a goth-horror vibe mixed with rock ‘n’ roll spectacle. The production has the largest number of moving lights on the Strip, and combines movers, lasers, video and more into one over-the-top vision. The large number of fixtures and media demands would tax the average console – but not ETC’s Eos Ti.

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GLP JDC1 Creates Special Look For BMW

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SAN FERNANDO, CA  Every two years the automotive industry and an army of auto fans head for Frankfurt. At the IAA Show, everything of importance in terms of automobile and road traffic converges — and the slogan is: Take Notice! The Bavarian car manufacturer BMW had some interesting news to deliver at their booth in Frankfurt and decided to set up the announcement in spectacular fashion. A total of 47 GLP JDC1 hybrid strobes were set around the new car presentation area, ensuring a particularly impressive and abiding memory.

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Lost Lake Festival Launches With Bandit Lites

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PHOENIX, ARIZONA – More than 45,000 people turned out to the inaugural Lost Lake Festival at the Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix, AZ for a three-day extravaganza of music, art, food and games. Superfly, the masterminds behind the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Outsidelands, Forecastle and others, entrusted longtime collaborator Bandit Lites to provide the lighting for the two mainstages, where performances included The Killers, Chance the Rapper, The Pixies, Huey Lewis & The News, The Roots, Dreamcar, Run the Jewels, Odesza and Major Lazer.

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Elite Multimedia Brings The Grid-Iron To The Studio with Monday Night Football

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NASHVILLE, – In the world of sports entertainment, there are few productions as iconic as Monday Night Football.  Broadcast weekly on ESPN during the NFL season to viewers around the world, the televised intro must bring fans into the game with a sense of excitement and anticipation. Wanting to create a unique on-air experience for the latest intro that could combine both the on-field action and in-studio energy, longtime partner HABANA Avenue designed a cutting-edge environment with LED video and lighting supplied by Elite Multimedia.

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ATM Poland Chooses Robe

[caption id="attachment_280279" align="alignnone" width="800"]Wojtek Lampkowski, Emile Dluzewski from ATM with Rafal Rzeczkowski from Robe’s Polish distributor Prolight[/caption]

POLAND – ATM is a leading television production company in Poland with a substantial complex and seven studios in the lively Praga district of Warsaw plus a head office in Wroclaw offering another two expansive studios spaces … all of which are constantly busy. The ATM Group was founded 20 years ago and is now a public company with around 500 employees, a fleet of OB vans, substantial equipment inventories and is servicing a variety of productions from conception to completion across Poland and further afield.

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Philips Lighting’s VLZ Profiles are Picture Perfect for South Africa’s Idols

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Philips Lighting, today announced that its latest lighting fixtures are playing a key role in enhancing the quality of the television pictures for the current series of South Africa’s televised talent contest, Idols. Delivering crisp backlight beams and a high quality key light, the LED-based new Philips VLZ Profile fixtures from Philips Entertainment Lighting are providing a quality of light output that enables even more finely color-balanced television pictures for the latest series.

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Green Hippo Ensures that Lady Antebellum Looks Good

TAMPA – Lady Antebellum, with support from Kelsea Ballerini, is a formidable world tour offering. And SRae Productions with the help of Clear All Visuals was the team tasked with ensuring that the video & lighting lived up to the performers’ expectations. Matt Geasy of Clear All Visuals specified two separate setups, each with a pair of Hippotizer Boreal Media Servers. Both setups were used to feed the LED screens and each one was triggered depending on the performer, switching between two or three outputs.

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The Naked And Famous Take Brixton

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LONDON – When award-winning New Zealand electronic act The Naked And Famous (T/N/A/F) came to London in October at the end of a successful festival season, Entec was delighted to supply the lighting equipment for their special one-off show at the 1,700-capacity Electric Brixton. Liam Griffiths of Stage Techniques has been the band’s lighting designer since they emerged from Auckland with their first major single ‘Young Blood’ in 2010. “I went out on a European tour with them that year and we all hit it off from the start,” says Liam. “I’ve been doing it ever since. They’re a fantastic band to light.”

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d3 Technologies Grows Its APAC Footprint with Grand Opening of Redline’s New Office in Shenzhen, China

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LONDON – Redline, the Beijing-based d3 Sales Partner (Reseller), has expanded with a new office in Shenzhen, China.  The grand opening featured the official launch of d3’s gx range of media servers and Notch generative real-time visual effects in the APAC region. Redline’s Shenzhen office will enable the technical solutions specialists to provide greater support and customer service to a growing roster of clients in South China.  It also establishes a higher profile for the d3 product range in the region.

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CHAUVET DJ To Showcase New Eve Series Fixtures, Along With Atmospherics and Washes At LDI

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LAS VEGAS – A collection of powerful new par washes and atmospheric effects designed to offer cost-effective design solutions for the event lighting market are among the innovative offerings that will highlight the CHAUVET DJ booth (1415) at LDI 2017. Covering a range of color options, the new Eve units include the 130W tri-color Eve P-130, the 140W variable white Eve P-140 and the 150W ultraviolet Eve P-150 UV.

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FLEX Theatre at Carroll College Upgrades to Elation LED Lighting System

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HELENA, MONTANA – The theatre program at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, has been producing wonderful productions for the last 35 years, in spite of entertainment technology that is at least that old. The program recently updated their 120-seat FLEX Theatre with a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient Elation Professional LED lighting system that opens up all new possibilities for student creativity in the new theatre space. Formerly housed in an old gymnasium with a lighting rig made up of antiquated Fresnels, scoops, and ellipsoidals, the theatre department’s move to a new location gave the program the opportunity to reimagine the space using new technology.

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