LONDON – Clay Paky is thrilled to be celebrating its 40-year milestone at Plasa 2016 and welcomes visitors to the Clay Paky Universe, inside the Ambersphere Solutions area, inviting you to get up close and personal with its broad portfolio of trailblazing creative tools.
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LONDON – It’s mid-afternoon on Saturday, Sept. 10, and Stageco’s crew are present in a damp and virtually empty Wembley Stadium as Billy Joel sound checks with his band. A living jukebox, Joel plods through classic after classic, none of which are his own. “Ground control to Major Tom,” announces the singer with a Bowie impression so on the money that even the most cynical head is turned.
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PHILADELPHIA – The festivities for the 2016 Democratic National Convention extended well beyond Wells Fargo Center, with lighting transforming some of the city’s many landmarks. Starlite Productions was tasked with creating a patriotic ambiance for two of them with the help of Clay Paky Mythos lighting fixtures. The company was commissioned by The Lighting Practice to light 30th Street Station, Amtrak’s main railroad station in Philadelphia. The Lighting Practice and Center City District also commissioned Starlite to illuminate the iconic, clock tower perched atop City Hall.
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LONDON – With four sell-out shows, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe treated fans with a number of well-known hits and newer releases at London’s Royal Opera House. As one would expect from the Pet Shop Boys, the first-class set and spectacular production design by Es Devlin didn’t disappoint, providing the audience with a visual feast worthy of the highbrow location.
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UK – The Sherlocks are an Indie band from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Consisting of two sets of brothers, they have already made significant waves in the music industry, having performed at both the Leeds and Reading Festivals along with playing the world’s largest music festival, SXSW, in Texas. The band is currently embarking on a UK tour, visiting venues up and down the country.
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HOUSTON – Full service production company GVPmedia, Inc. utilized the multi-functionality of Elation Professional’s Platinum FLX™ moving head on the AAU Junior Olympic Games Celebration of Athletes, The opening ceremony style event was held at the M.O. Campbell Center in Houston on July 31st and GVP produced the entire show from start to finish including designing the entire set, developing the run of show, and creating custom videos and content.
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NYC – High End Systems, a Barco Company, will be hosting an open house at The Pershing Square Signature Center in The Ford Theater September 21 & 22 from 10 am – 4 pm each day. Over the course of 2 days, experts will be on hand to demonstrate the capabilities of High End Systems current line-up of products.
LAS VEGAS – The Event Safety Alliance (ESA) and the Entertainment Services and Technology Association (ESTA) have agreed on a joint copyright that will allow a second edition of The Event Safety Guide to be developed as an American National Standard (ANS). To take on the project, a new working group is being created within ESTA’s Technical Standards Program (TSP) called the Event Safety Working Group (ESWG). Leading the new group will be co-chairs Dr. Donald Cooper, Executive Director of the ESA, and Richard Nix, Special Project Manager for ZFX, Inc.
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CZ – The global launch of Robe’s highly anticipated new product and “Next Big Thing” – the Spiider – will take place at www.spiider.cz tomorrow morning – Thursday 15th September 2016 at 12 noon. (CET – Central European Timezone). following an innovative and fun teaser video and a huge amount of chatter that helped ramp excitement within lighting and visuals communities.
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NASHVILLE – For Toby Keith’s “Interstates & Tailgates” tour, which includes more stops at festivals and fairs this year along with standard amphitheater dates, LD Seth Jackson worked with Bandit Lites on a gear package that includes a lighting pod approach that could easily scale up or down with the needs of each tour stop. The trek runs through mid-October.
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LOWELL, MA – In 1975, Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio held a gathering for young worshippers. The organizers of that event could scarcely have imagined that there would one day be 40 Steubenville Youth Conferences in 11 states. Nor could they have envisioned the kind of dynamic and richly textured stage presentation that engaged thousands of young people at Steubenville East, which was held recently at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Tsongas Center.
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Vectorworks’ 2017 release included English versions of its Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Designer and Fundamentals software products. Ten additional language releases will follow in the coming months.
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