24 May 2013

KOI Awards to be staged at London's ExCel

UK - The Knight of Illumination Awards has revealed details of this year's much anticipated glittering ceremony in London. For the first time London ExCel's Platinum Suite will host the KOI Awards. The event will kick off at 18:30 on Sunday 6 October to allow plenty of time for networking between old friends and colleagues. As is traditional the Awards coincide with the opening day of PLASA London, which also takes place at ExCel for the first time this year. "Last year, hundreds of top creative lighting professionals donned their ... More >>

Dirty Rigger links with K-Teg in Belgium

Belgium - A key player in the European flight case market K-Teg, has recently agreed a new distribution deal with Dirty Rigger to stock an extended selection of the rigger gloves & accessories range. "Over the past year we have received a lot of positive comments from our clients about the Dirty Rigger range," says K-Teg's Joeri Swennen. "Confident our customers would benefit, we decided to stock a much wider selection from Dirty Rigger's tool pouch, rigger gloves and accessories range and display them in retail store for customers to ... More >>

Orbital tours with Dreamgirls in the US & Japan

USA - Orbital Sound reports that it is currently out on the road with the Big League Productions' US national tour of the hit musical Dreamgirls, with the 21-week show schedule ending up on another continent this August - in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Sound design on the show is by Matt Geasey and Mike Tracey, with Orbital contracted to supply and support the show's state of the art sound system. Dreamgirls' big sound is delivered by the d&b audiotechnik V-Series speaker system, chosen for its compact yet extraordinarily ... More >>

White Light solutions for Bowie V&A show

UK - White Light's range of entertainment services made the company a suitable choice to supply production solutions for David Bowie is, the latest exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The expansive retrospective, which opened in March, is the fastest selling exhibition in the museum's history, bringing in crowds as diverse as the experience itself. David Bowie is combines lighting, video, and physical elements with the dramatic and distinctive sounds of Bowie's music to create a larger-than-life sensory ... More >>

Clay Paky A.ledas light Helene Fischer Show

Germany - More than five million viewers followed the second Helene Fischer Show on television during the Christmas season. Andrea Bocelli, David Garrett, Ricky Kam, Loreen, Unheilig, Andreas Gabalier and others performed during the show, produced by Werner Kimmig GmbH TV Produktion. It goes without saying that such a line-up of artists requires a professional set, which LD Jerry Appelt created with a lighting design he put together in part using equipment from the Lightpower stock. The lights he used included 20 Clay Paky A.leda ... More >>

Tait customised staging for Muse world tour

UK - Working alongside Creative Director, Oli Metcalfe, as well as Production Manager, Chris Vaughan, TAIT provided both custom and rental elements for Muse's stunning stadium tour which opened in the UK this week. Tait provided a large 61m by 17.6m rolling main stage for the production, with a thrust extending out 26m to the B-stage. The main stage and thrust were finished with specially treated marine wood, paired with a quartz treatment to prevent water damage and provide texture. Two key performance areas were finished with a high ... More >>

Aqaba church installs Dynacord and E-V

Jordan - The success of Jordanian Dynacord and Electro-Voice partner Advanced Solutions continues apace, the latest instance being an installation in a newly built house of worship in Aqaba. The Stella Maris church in the coastal resort on the Red Sea has been fully equipped by Advanced Solutions with sound reinforcement systems from Dynacord and Electro-Voice. Two years in the construction, the church was dedicated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem in mid-December. The nerve centre of the multi-zone installation in the Stella Maris church ... More >>

Flashline delivers for Emeli Sandé

UK - Turbosound's Flashline speaker system delivered the sound for Emeli Sandé's Hammersmith Apollo show at the conclusion of her warmly received seven-date UK tour. The Flashline line array system - designed to deliver hi-fi sound to large audiences using paper cone midrange transducers to deliver beautiful vocal frequencies - was specified by Sandé's live sound engineer Darren Connor, and supplied by Mansfield-based Entertainment Sound Specialists (ESS) via Britannia Row Productions. Connor deployed a configuration of 11 ... More >>

PWS turns up the volume at Hangout festival

USA - As some of music's biggest names came together for the fourth annual Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque Sound company and experts in supplying and supporting wireless systems for live and broadcast events, was busy providing frequency coordination for all the artists and media outlets in attendance at the event, the nation's largest beach bash. Billed as the first and only event of its kind, the Hangout Festival is a three-day music party staged on the white sand beaches ... More >>

UT graduates shine with Bandit Lites

USA - On the second week of May, thousands of students walked across an iridescent stage to receive the culmination of hard work: a degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Bandit Lites, a longtime supporter of the university, provided the lighting for the momentous occasion. While some graduation ceremonies may consist of a stage, house lights and a crackling PA system, Bandit created a stunning production complete with illuminated backdrops, moving lights and GRNLite technology in sync with the university's green ... More >>

Clear-Com Tempest makes life easier

Australia - The P.A. People have been discovering the benefits of their Clear-Com Tempest Wireless Intercom System on a couple of recent major gigs: Sydney New Year's Eve Celebrations and the How To Train Your DragonAustralian / New Zealand and US tour. For Sydney's New Year's Eve Celebration, The P.A. People provided data and communications including Clear-Com Eclipse Matrix, V-Station Panels, and Tempest Full Duplex for communications, network time-code, audio transport and much more. Throughout the various key sites ... More >>

XL Video LED for Rent concert tour

UK - The Award-winning Broadway musical, Rent, was first workshopped in New York in 1993. To celebrate this 20 year landmark, a new concert production under the direction of Daniel Wood recently toured around the UK. With packed houses and standing ovations nightly, it's no surprise that additional dates are already set to take place in the Autumn. The production, designed by Ben M Rogers, included LED display solutions from XL Video, used to frame the performance as well as the option to integrate live camera footage and ... More >>

Philips Vari-Lites at The Colosseum

USA - Inside the Caesars Windsor Hotel and Casino in Ontario, Canada, is the state-of-the art venue The Colosseum. As 5,000-seat, multi-functional performance house with the largest retractable seating configuration in North America and approximately 500 fixtures in the air, The Colosseum is the largest of all Caesars venues in both Canada and the United States. Behind the scenes, production supervisor Dan Leroux has at his disposal an arsenal of creative tools to bring to life the myriad of performances. So when he was looking to bring ... More >>