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Celebrating 50 Years since 'Pet Sounds" debuted

Brian Wilson’s ‘Pet Sounds’ Celebrates 50th Year, Tours with Bandit Lites

NASHVILLE – Fifty years ago, songs from the Beach Boy’s innovative Pet Sounds album hit airwaves. This year, in addition to re-releasing the album, Brian Wilson has embarked on a celebratory tour that features a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. With a set list that features the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist performing Pet Sounds in its entirety with band member Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin (along with other selections from the illustrious careers of the Beach Boys and Wilson), the tour announced it will be continuing into 2017.

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Royal Marty

ZFX Names Royal Marty Director of eZ-Hoist Line

LOUISVILLE, KY – ZFX named Royal Marty director of its eZ-Hoist division. Marty, who previously worked at Creative Conners as Product Engineer and at JR Clancy’s Mechanical Engineering Department, will oversee business development, product design, technical support, and marketing for eZ-Hoist.

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Multi Sizzle product

Rose Brand Inc. Introduces Sizzle, Multi Sizzle and Dark Iridescent Showstopper Fabrics

SECAUCUS, NEW JERSEY – With the release of the 2017 Rose Brand Catalog, the company rolled out Sizzle, Multi Sizzle and Dark Iridescent Showstopper Fabrics. These metallic fabrics are all flame retardant and lightweight. The Sizzle knit fabrics dazzles in 7 vibrant colors- royal, turquoise, red, black, silver, gold and fuchsia; and the Multi Sizzle fabrics come in combinations of royal/turquoise/gold/silver, gold/silver, red/gold/silver and red/royal/turquoise.

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Celestial Candyland at Houston Airport

InLight Gobos Works with Artist Jay Shinn at Houston Airport

DALLAS, TX. – InLight Gobos has recently completed two projects for Artist: Jay Shinn. The permanent installations were done in the Houston Intercontinental Airport. The first is named: Celestial Candyland, 2016. It is 15 x 150 ft. printed fabric images with choreographed projected color sequence, repeating loop, 10 LED projectors each with custom glass gobos and keystone correction. The second is named: Candyland Landing, 2016. It is 15 x 45 ft. printed fabric images with choreographed projected color sequence, repeating loop, 3 LED projectors each with custom glass gobos with keystone correction.

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Abel Pintos in Argentina

Abel Pintos’ Buenos Aires Concert Looks Feature Next NXT-1 Panels

BUENOS AIRES  – For a recent concert featuring Argentina-based singer-songwriter Abel Pintos, Deligio-Producciones Técnicas provided Next NXT-1 moving LED panels from Chauvet Professional. Lighting designer Pablo Deligio, who co-owns the production company with his father Nestor Deligio, arranged 20 of the NXT-1 panels in four rows on a center stage truss grid for Pintos’ concert at Luna Park in the San Nicolás neighborhood of Buenos Aires. 

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Avolites Ai version 10

Avolites Ai version 10

Avolites is gearing up to launch the latest update to its Ai software – Ai version 10 – which will see an overhauled user interface for a more intuitive experience and new features developed for the real world demands of Coldplay’s video-heavy A Head Full of Dreams 2016 tour, and Las Vegas nightclub JEWEL – the latest addition to the Hakkasan Group of premium nightlife experiences.

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BridgePoint Church in St. Petersburg, FL

A.C. Lighting Inc. Supplies Jands and Chroma-Q Solutions for BridgePoint Church to Meet Ministry Goals

ST PETERSBURG, FL –  – BridgePoint Church in St. Petersburg, Florida has set the goal of reaching the entire St. Petersburg peninsula by planting ten campuses over ten years. To achieve this, BridgePoint needs to be relevant to the community and fully enable their volunteers. Jands Vista lighting control systems and Chroma-Q Inspire house lighting, recommended and installed by Pendley Productions (based in Cumming, GA) – and supplied by A.C. Lighting Inc. – are playing a role in achieving this goal.

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Hardwell performs in New Delhi with PR Lighting fixtures

PR Lighting Puts Hardwell Center Stage In New Delhi

NEW DELHI. India – Modern Stage Service (MSS) recently supplied all technical production, including sound, trussing, LED wall — and PR Lighting fixtures — for a major concert by one of the world’s leading DJ/producers, Hardwell. This took place at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium sports arena in New Delhi. MSS supplied 20 XR 200 parallel beams for the Dutch electronic music star Appearing on his I AM Hardwell tour, the Dutch electro star performed before a sold out crowd of 15,000 people.

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The fixtures were ordered by Datalinks

Large PR Lighting Inventory Arrives In Burkina Faso

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkino Faso, Africa – PR Lighting fixtures reach some parts of the globe that other brands do not. One of the more obscure locations is Burkina Faso, the tiny landlocked country in West Africa. From there, sound engineer Henri Damien runs the successful pro-audio importation and technical supply company Datalinks, from his base in the capital, Ouagadougou.

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From left, Peter Rieck, Henry Jenkins and Wynand Veldsman

New Rental and Production Company in South Africa Opts for Robe Pointes and Spikies

PRETORIA, South Africa- Event Lighting is a new rental and production company near Pretoria, South Africa, offering lighting equipment and design services. It was founded by Peter Rieck of Rieck’s Lighting and Henry Jenkins of Eventech. The joint venture has started with an investment in Robe fixtures including 12 Robe Pointes and 24 Spikie fixtures, Robe’s new small, super-fast LED WashBeams. The company also has an inventory of LED PAR cans. They sourced the fixtures through DWR Distribution.

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