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The Prodigy at Sonisphere Festival Add Impact with Showline Strobes

KNEBWORTH, UK – Seeking to create a spectacular end to the Sonisphere festival’s opening day, LD Andy Hurst reworked an earlier design for The Prodigy. “The design concept was based on an air hanger for a Harrier Jump Jet,” explains Hurst. “We took the idea from their 2013 New Year’s Eve show at the O2. It was a favorite for the band, so they asked me to adapt it to our festival run this summer.” The revised design rigged the 84 SL NITRO 510 and 72 510C strobes in mixed groups of 10. His design saw them blast white and colored light over the audience, generating an electric rave atmosphere.

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Universal Event Production Supplies Lighting, Video Gear for Nike Pop-up Store

LONDON – Universal Event Production supplied full technical production to the Nike Phenomenal House, a one week only pop-up experience to celebrate football, street culture and style, music and fashion. For video, UEP flew six 60 inch plasma screens as a seamless 3×3 LED wall in the main space and supplied a 2 x 3 meter 3.9 mm LED wall, both of which received live camera feeds. The main football field was lit with 16 Robe LEDWash 600 and 12 Robe ColorSpot 1200 E AT moving lights plus a number of conventional fixtures.

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Journey and Steve Miller Band Tour Rig Includes Vari-Lite Gear

Faced with the challenge of sharing the same rig for two iconic bands, LD Kevin Christopher chose 38 VL3500 Wash and 25 VL3000 Spot luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite to be the lighting backbone for the complete tour. “In the design for the Journey tour, we have a large video wall that we treat as a surface for I-MAG, so I knew we needed automated lighting that could punch through the intensity of the video wall,” began Christopher. “During the design process, we looked at several luminaires for the job, but at the end of the day, we found that the power, performance and reliability of the VL3500 Wash and VL3000 Spot luminaires were second to none.”

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Harrington Hoists TNER 3-Phase Hoists

Harrington Hoists TNER 3-Phase Hoists

The TNER Series of theatrical chain hoists offer the latest technology for handling audio, stage and theatrical equipment. Available in capacities of 1/2 to 2 tons, these high-quality 3-phase, low-headroom units provide reliable performance in theaters, concert halls, and arenas. TNER hoists have industry accepted speeds and conveniently fit in standard road cases. They meet CE Declaration and comply with German regulation BGV-D8. Other features include reliable braking (no brake disc to replace); upper/lower limit switches; and ease of changing between 208/230 and 460 volts.

For more info, visit harringtonhoists.com.

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XL Video Supplies Robbie Williams Tour

XL Supplies Video for Robbie Williams Tour

XL Video supplied a custom video solution and crew for Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways tour. The set included an impressive 22.8 metre wide by 10.8 metre high upstage scenic LED wall made up from XL’s Pixled F-12 product. There were also side screens for IMAG made from Radiant MC-7T. Three Barco 40K HD projectors were used to beam material onto a massive drape, and content was programmed and run via a Catalyst media server. The projection was fed via a d3 media server system.

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Chauvet EPIX 2.0 Used for Pixel Mapping at Grosvenor House Event

LONDON – Bringing dazzle to one of London’s most high-profile venues, Storm Events used Chauvet’s EPIX 2.0 to achieve a glittering pixel-mapping effect. “We joined all of the EPIX units end-to-end in twos, and spaced them at 250mm across the set,” said Production Director Andy White, noting that a total of 80 strips and bars were used.  “Our design alternated strips and bars back and forth with the strips set slightly higher than the bars to create a 2.3m high continuous image.  Using Kling-Net we were able to map the entire image in about 30 minutes.”

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Clay Paky Gear Lights Sforza Castle to Tell the Story of Milan

Clay Paky Gear Lights Sforza Castle to Tell the Story of Milan

MILAN, Italy – Tracing Milan’s history back to the Belle Époque, the “Castello di Carta” (Paper Castle) project transformed the Sforza Castle with lights, music and projected images from the “Achille Bertarelli” print collection. Twenty-three Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s were used to illuminate the façades by shaping light beams and projecting multiple dynamically transforming images and geometric shapes.

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Bandit Lites Supplies Lights for Bonnaroo

MANCHESTER, TN – Another Bonnaroo has come and gone and Bandit Lites played a key role in one of the season’s premier festivals. Bandit chair Michael T. Strickland stated “Bandit Lites is very proud to be part of the phenomenal production team that Lambda Productions assembles every year. The entire event is first class and run like a well-oiled machine. We look forward to being part of this world class event for years to come”.

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