Multigenre English musician Jacob Collier is back on the road for a grand world tour to celebrate his DJESSE album series. The show features an energetic lighting design harnessing the rich colors of the VL2600 range of luminaires from Vari-Lite.
Expanding ADJ’s groundbreaking Hydro Series of powerful, reliable, and affordable IP65 rated moving heads, the new Hydro Beam X12 is a nimble fixture that outputs an intense, razor-sharp beam. Ideal for generating aerial effects at concerts, tours, festivals, and dance events, it combines the punchy Philips® Platinum 12R LL MSD 6,000-hour discharge lamp technology with a carefully curated selection of beam-shaping tools that include motorized focus and a dynamic 24-facet prism. Here’s an introductory video on the Hydro Beam X12 from ADJ:
The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery Musical Drive during the Platinum Jubilee Celebration “A Gallop Through History”.
This year marks the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and in honor of the historical anniversary, the United Kingdom is holding several events celebrating her 70-year reign. At The Royal Windsor Horse Show in May, Elation Professional had its own workhorse on display albeit not of the equine variety. PRG provided a full lighting rig for the event that incorporated 171 Elation Proteus Maximus™ IP65-rated LED moving heads as the key luminaire in the design.Read More »Workhorse Proteus Maximus™ on Display at The Royal Windsor Horse Show
At stand E5, everything centers around the color lime this time – and for good reason
When GLP gave a world premiere to the impression X5 at this year’s Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, it established the new lime chip – which was quickly revered by LDs everywhere. An accompanying campaign entitled Our Lime makes the Difference helped reinforce the message about the expanded color palette.Read More »GLP Promises Lime with Everything at PLASA Show
Never permit a false dichotomy to rule your life, Pablo Picasso once declared. Sage advice, as the heroine Elle Woods proves with such panache in Legally Blonde, the Laurence O’Keefe-Neil Brown musical, inspired (like the film before it) by the Amanda Brown novel about a vapid California sorority girl who metamorphizes into a Harvard Law student. Defying stereotypes and reconciling supposed oxymorons, Elle proves that a woman can be both pretty and smart, as well as colorfully free spirited and intensely focused while making this incredible transformation.Read More »Adam King Calls on CHAUVET Professional to Balance Looks for Mountview’s ‘Legally Blonde’
Scan Files Can Help Wireless System Operators Prepare for a Location or Venue in Advance
Lectrosonics is announcing a Radio Frequency Scan Database for those using wireless microphone systems anywhere in the world. The database hosts scans from in .sdf (Wireless Designer scan data file) or .csv (comma separated values – a common standard) formats. These files can be used to populate frequency coordination software for analysis purposes and to know what a given RF landscape looks like. While anyone can peruse, search, and download the available scan files for their own use, registered users can also upload files for others to access. RF spectrum scans from Hollywood, Singapore, Vancouver, New York, Belgium, and Rio de Janeiro already populate the database.Read More »Lectrosonics Announces Global RF Scan Database
Ayrton, which celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year, will be exhibiting its latest ground-breaking LED lighting products on the stand of its exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions (Stand C11). New for this year and being exhibited for the first time in the UK are Cobra, Zonda 9 FX, and Domino LT. All three of these products have enjoyed phenomenal success on the plethora of tours and festivals that have taken place worldwide since their launch.Read More »Ayrton Brings New Products to PLASA 2022
The new SolaPix 19 XT wash luminaire, an IP 65 rated SolaPix 19 from High End Systems
ETC introduces the High End Systems SolaPix 19 XT wash luminaire, an IP 65 rated SolaPix 19 designed specifically for indoor and outdoor events. It utilizes a weatherproof housing and sealed glass front lens to deter the ingress of dust, water, and other liquids.Read More »ETC Launches SolaPix 19 XT, an IP65 Rated Luminaire
The new long-throw 800W Arthur LT followspot from Robert Juliat will be on display at PLASA
Robert Juliat will be exhibiting at PLASA Show on Stand C11 with its exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions. Robert Juliat will present Sully LED fixtures, including profile and Fresnel spots, in warm and cool white LED (Sully White), and the new 4C colored LED models (Sully 4C) which were first seen at Prolight + Sound earlier this year.
“Valjak I Prijatelji” (Valjak & friends) was a special show staged in Pula, Croatia, in the city’s Arena Roman amphitheater venue and dedicated to Aki Rahimovski, lead singer of legendary Croatian rockers Parni Valjak. The enigmatic front man died suddenly and unexpectedly in January at age 66, just ahead of a major tour, leaving everyone deeply shocked.Read More »Parni Valjak Rocks Pula Arena with Robe