NEW YORK –– For the U.S. leg of their tour, British rock/emo band Basement relied on LD Lenny Sasso to complement the music with a dose of visual energy. Sasso used Chauvet Professional’s Rogue R2 Wash moving LED fixture to achieve the desired looks.
VISTA, CA – Power Plus Productions (P3) named industry veterans Roger Lee and Zachary Brush account executives. They report to P3 president Lane Rickard.
KERKRADE, The Netherlands – Elation Professional B.V. announced that Dennis Scipio joined Elation Europe on Oct. 1 as a new Key Account Manager. Also joining Elation on October 1st and working as the European office’s new office assistant is Nancy de Lang. Joining Elation in August as an assistant in the company’s marketing and graphics department is Carola Ludermann.
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LONDON – PLASA Show 2015 is just a few days away, but the organizers are working right up to the wire to bring in the best speakers for the PLASA Professional Development Program. Four new sessions have just been announced, respectively addressing lighting, sound and video.
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LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. named Aaron Hubbard as the company’s new sales person for the Western Region. Hubbard was most recently Director of Business Development for Clearwing Productions, based in their Milwaukee office.
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SUN VALLEY, CA – October will mark one of GLP’s busiest periods ever — on both sides of the Atlantic — as the German company and its U.S. subsidiary sets out for trade shows in London and Las Vegas.
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LONDON – Lighting designer Ed Warren is using a large number of newly developed LED PAR can frames from LED design and manufacture house Light Initiative (LI) to add an extra punch to his design for Mumford & Sons’ world tour and headline festival dates.
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NASHVILLE – More than 2,500 people attended Nashville’s third annual Music City Food + Wine Festival. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the festival, which took place Sept. 19 and 20. Following a survey of the site, Bandit Vice President Mike Golden and Project Manager Shawn Lear recommended a circle truss as an architectural focal point, using lights to create the appearance of festoons. Clay Paky Sharpys lit the tops of the tents around the grounds, while GRNLite Pars and VL 3500 Washes provided general color wash of the audience.
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UK – For Steve Angello’s show at the Size Matters arena at Creamfields 2015, lighting designer Jon Trincas worked with an upstage wall of light coming from 48 Robe PATT 2013 luminaires.
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UK – For Eric Prydz’s EDM set at his own ‘Pryda’ stage at Creamfields this year, Avolites Ai servers and an Arena console powered more than 100 light fixtures, including Clay Paky Sharpys, Robin LEDWash 600s, and various strobes, wash and blinders all supplied by Colour Sound Experiment.
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