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AC/DC Rock or Bust Tour Includes Batten Fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Photo by Ralph Larmann

AC/DC Rock or Bust Tour Includes Batten Fixtures from Chauvet Professional

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Everything about the AC/DC Rock or Bust Tour 2015 is big with a capital B, from the stadiums across Europe and North America where the band played, to the fan interest (the group set a world record selling more than 300,000 tickets in 77 minutes at one German venue), to the beefy lighting design. The Woodroffe Bassett Design rig centers on high-output discharge lamp moving fixtures along with an assortment of blinders, video panels and other fixtures including COLORado Batten 144 Tour fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

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Vasco Rossi Concert in Italy Relies on BroadWeigh Load Monitoring System

Vasco Rossi Concert in Italy Relies on BroadWeigh Load Monitoring System

BARI, Italy – The Stadio San Nicola, a 58,000-capacity venue used most often for soccer games, recently hosted a Vasco Rossi rock concert organized by Live Nation Italy. Colin Luke, senior project manager at Oswestry, U.K.-based Load Cell Rental, was asked to supply a way of monitoring the stage weights during the build. Luke and Load Cell Rental supplied a 20 cell BroadWeigh system.

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Blackout continued its longstanding relationship with Somerset House, supplying rigging and drapes for this year’s Summer Series and Film4 Summer Screen events in July and August 2015.

Blackout Provides Staging, Rigging for Somerset House Concerts, Outdoor Cinema

LONDON – Blackout continued its longstanding relationship with Somerset House, supplying rigging and drapes for this year’s Summer Series and Film4 Summer Screen events in July and August 2015. Blackout worked alongside production manager Jon Howes, within a team of contractors, who year on year collaborate with the venue’s management and sponsors. The team work to facilitate both events and aid Somerset House’s transformation into an iconic concert setting and then an open air cinema.

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Cape Rep Theatre Uses Elation Platinum Profile 35 Pro Fixtures to Light 'Evita'

Cape Rep Theatre Presents “Evita”

BREWSTER, MA – Lighting designer Herrick Goldman recently designed Evita at the Cape Rep Theatre and turned to Elation Professional’s Platinum Profile 35 Pro moving head light to create the compelling mood lighting. Herrick and his associate Susan Nicholson designed both the lighting and the projections for the critically acclaimed production, which is directed by William Roudebush with scenery by James Dardenne.

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Dave Matthews Band tours with Robe BMFLs, photo by Adam Kaplan

Dave Matthews Band Tours with Robe BMFLs

OMAHA, NE – Lighting and visuals designer Fenton Williams and co-LD / programmer Aaron Stinebrink again collaborated to produce a new production design – incorporating lighting, set and video – for the current Dave Matthews Band (DMB) U.S. summer tour. For the first time, they specified Robe’s BMFL Spot fixtures, 22 of which are being supplied by the tour’s lighting vendor, Theatrical Media Services (TMS) from Omaha, Nebraska.

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival Includes 'Animotion' Pairing Live Music, Digital Art. Photo by Ross Ashton

Edinburgh Fringe Festival Includes ‘Animotion’ Pairing Live Music, Digital Art

EDINBURGH – The latest AniMotion live painting, digital art and music show is being presented by Aurora Nova at George Herriot’s School as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The power of original painting created in real-time and projected onto architecture accompanied by live music is a collaboration between projection artist Ross Ashton, percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and visual artist and painter Maria Rud.

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Current RMS - Cloud Rental Software

Current RMS – Cloud Rental Software

Current RMS is cloud-based rental management software designed specifically for rental businesses in the AV, Production and Events sectors and lets users create proposals, send invoices, keep track of inventory and coordinate logistics. The cloud-based system provides the freedom to manage your rental business from any device and location, with the ability to access and use vital rental processes outside of an office environment, instantly improving customer response rates.

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Colour Sound Lights 2015 Secret Garden Party with Close to 500 Moving Lights. Photo of Zola Blood by Danny North

Colour Sound Lights 2015 Secret Garden Party with Close to 500 Moving Lights

HUNTINGDON, U.K. – Colour Sound Experiment continued its frenetic 2015 summer festival season supplying lighting to 12 major stages, 24 smaller performance areas and 8 bars at the 2015 Secret Garden Party (SGP) event staged in Abbots Ripton near Huntingdon, UK. Colour Sound’s crew of 22 were chiefed by James Hinde and Alex Ryan. Robe, Clay Paky, SGM, Chauvet and other fixtures were controlled with Avolites consoles. Colour Sound also provided its own Green Hippo controlled BT-6 6 mm LED screens for the festival.

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