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H2O Festival

H2O Music Festival Just Adds GoVision

DALLAS – Saturday’s H2O Music Festival featured LED video screens from GoVision LP to ensure the thousands of fans could see Tiesto, Weezer, Mana, Juanes, Snoop Dogg and others on the bill. GoVision erected twin 39 ft x 28 ft LED walls on each side of the main stage, along with a split 30 ft x 48 ft upstage backdrop screen, all configured from their inventory of Daktronics PST-12HD tiles.

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Robe ROBIN DLX

Robe Launches 4 Products in US at InfoComm

LAS VEGAS – Robe Lighting is launching four products in the US at InfoComm 2012: ROBIN DLX and DLF, the ROBIN 100 LEDBeam, and the Actor 6 for the theatre, performance and TV/broadcast applications. These and other products will be showcased at Booth #C12402 at the Las Vegas Convention Center June 13-15.

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ZZ Top, 3 Doors Down Cancel Alabama Show Due to Stage Safety Concerns

ATMORE, AL — The “Gang of Outlaws” tour stop at the Wind Creek Casino and Amphitheater set for June 9 was cancelled due to stage safety concerns. The tour’s headliners include ZZ Top, 3 Doors Down and Gretchen Wilson. Roland Castillo of IATSE 134 San Jose, head rigger on the ZZ Top tour, was credited for canceling the show, according to a posting on the website for the Event Safety Alliance (eventsafetyalliance.org).

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Eurovision

Hippotizers Serve Eurovision Song Contest

BAKU, Azerbaijan – Battling it out for Europe’s highest vote, Green Hippo’s Hippotizers were at the core in pulling off a spectacular show at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. This year the content resolution was really pushed for LED screens with 4000 x 3000 pixels being used, along with the outputs of 6 active Hippotizer HDs genlocked together.

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Coachella

Prelite’s Previsualization Helps Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg at Coachella

INDIGO, CA – The annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, with its 24/7 schedule and desert location, poses a challenge for performers and their lighting and media crews alike.  So when the lighting designer, lighting programmer/director and media programmer for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg opted to use Prelite Studios’ previsualization services prior to the show, they gained some distinct advantages.

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Fatboy Slim

XL Video Sets the Scene for Fatboy Slim

BRIGHTON, UK – XL Video supplied 200 square meters of LED screen, cameras, crew and more to Fatboy Slim’s Fifth Beach Bootique show, which was the first entertainment event to be staged at the new Amex Community Stadium at Falmer, Brighton, UK. The wide-screen design created for the stage comprised seven screens. This was a collaborative concept evolved by Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), creative director Tim Fleming, production manager Mark Ward and LD Steven Abbiss.

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