PARIS — The Eagles of Death Metal were able to return to Paris for a Feb. 16 concert performance at the Olympia music venue — free to survivors of the terrorist attack at the Bataclan on Nov. 13, 2015. But their 23-date “Nos Amis” tour of Europe, planned from Feb. 13 to early March, was cut short after singer and guitarist Jesse Hughes sustained a torn tendon in his finger.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Swiss digital signage software specialist Navori Labs will release new modules for its QL digital signage engine this May. They promise to strengthen robustness for content management and delivery over large digital signage networks. The new QL Load Balancing, Failover and CDN modules, to be shown at Digital Signage Expo (March 16-17, Las Vegas Convention Center, Booth 2218), are intended for digital out-of-home networks comprised of 1000 or more Windows or Android media players. As pictured here, Navori Labs’ CDN module establishes a connection between QL Professional and Microsoft’s Azure global cloud network.
Read More »NEW CASTLE, PA – Pyrotecnico has invested in consoles from MA Lighting. The company took delivery of two dot2 core consoles with four dot2 F-wings. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America. Pyrotecnico plans to use the dot2 cores for DMX-controlled flames, CO2 jets, confetti and streamers, and DMX-driven laser technology for upcoming shows.
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PHILADELPHIA – For American rock band Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, which performed at the Fillmore in Philadelphia to ring in 2016, LD Jason Liggett used Elation Professional’s eMOTION moving head digital light. The eMOTION is Elation’s new plug and play DMX moving light with an on-board media server developed in cooperation with High End Systems. Utilizing only 32 DMX channels (54 in extended mode), it houses royalty-free digital art and videos with the ability to upload custom content.
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JOHANNESBURG – For the new 3,000 capacity auditorium at Rivers Church’s Sandton Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, technical manager Ed Helliwell opted to install a Robe-centered rig. There are now 18 LEDWash 1200s, 10 Pointes, eight DL4S Profiles and eight miniPointes. They join 26 LEDBeam 100s purchased a few months earlier from Robe’s South African distributor, DWR.
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SANTA CLARA, CA – At Super Bowl 50, there was no shortage of temporary broadcast studios and stage structures to accommodate all the sports media covering the big game. Filmwerks International, based in Rocky Point, NC, handled the design, construction, and power for many of the studios. Filmwerks used nearly 1,000 pieces of ModTruss to erect seven broadcast structures including multiple NFL Network Super Bowl structures in the Media Center, field location, and at the Super Bowl City main entrance. Filmwerks also built the CBS Sports’ Stadium location and provided additional support for the flying camera systems.
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SALT LAKE CITY – USITT’s 2016 Annual Conference & Stage Expo comes to Salt Lake City March 16-19. More than 5,000 members of the production industry are expected to attend the event, which promises to turn the Salt Palace Convention Center into a spectacle of lights, projection, costumes, props, sound and special effects from fog to flying.
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Blizzard Lighting expands its TOURnado family with the IP 65 rated TOURnado CSI COB. The fixture lets users add very bright Ultra Violet light with a wide 60° beam angle thanks to its installed 100W UV color COB LED. COB technology provides very intense light, which is produced via multiple small LED chips that are packaged together into one tiny, yet very powerful module.
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FARMINGDALE, NY — Group One Limited tapped Sound Vision Marketing to serve as the latest independent sales representative for its elektraLite division. Tyler Wise, Group One’s national sales manager for the brand, made the announcement. Sound Vision Marketing Managing Partners Tim Dykes (left) and Victor Clites (right), who are now servicing the elektraLite brand in Florida and Puerto Rico, are pictured here.
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MARBURG, Germany – Every year, during Marburg b(u)y Night, Marburg city center lights up: more than sixty public and private buildings become the stars of the show, and the shops stay open until midnight. The centerpiece of the event this year was the “Blickpunkt Schloss” project: the medieval landgraves’ castle was lit up on the hour and half hour starting from 6 pm with a time coded light and music show. Flashlight Veranstaltungstechnik GmbH saw to the event’s lighting needs. LD/programmer/operator Sebastian Haffer used 39 Clay Paky Mythos units with a grandMA light and onPC command wing for control.
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TRENTO, Italy – Singer/songwriter Nek toured through his native Italy in October, November and December on his “Prima di Parlare” (Before You Talk) tour. Sponsored by Radio Italia, the shows featured a set by Giò Forma’s Claudio Santucci that included a large LED wall and a lighting design by Francesco De Cave. The LD chose Clay Paky fixtures in the rig, including Sharpys and Alpha Spot HPE 700s, supplied by Agora.
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FRANKFURT – Philips Entertainment Lighting noted Pro Light + Sound highlights for 2016 that include the first Platinum lamp-based luminaire in the company’s formerly LED-only Showline group – the SL HYDRUS 350. The SL HYDRUS 350 will be joined by some of the latest Philips Showline products, including the SL PUNCHLITE 220, the SL STRIP 10IP, SL BAR 510 and the SL BEAM 300 FX.
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