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5 Star Flies High at Farnborough Air Show
5 Star Cases exhibited for the first time at the biennial Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) in Hampshire, UK, to boost its presence in the aerospace sector. FIA is an iconic global aviation event with a prominent position on the international aerospace calendar. 5 Star’s booth was designed and manufactured in-house, featuring a stylish, fresh corporate [...]
Robe Helps Light 2010 World Cup Closing Ceremony
Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 2500E ATs and REDWash 3●192s were a major feature of the spectacular lighting design by Tim Dunn and Hugh Turner that caught the eye of a global TV audience and the 95,000 excited vuvuzela blowing football fans who packed into Soccer City Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg ahead of the 2010 FIFA World [...]
What’s La Source For Fontaine Is La Source For DiGiCo
Opened earlier this year, La Source is a multi-function arts venue in Fontaine, south east France. As a brand new facility, the technical infrastructure was designed to be as high quality as possible. It was with this in mind that three DiGiCo SD8s were specified for its two biggest spaces. Comprising three spaces, the ‘Big [...]
Sennheiser UK cements South West relationship at Glastonbury
Sennheiser equipment has been a major component of Glastonbury’s audio set up for a number of years and the Festival’s 40th Anniversary, held in late June at Pilton, Somerset, once again saw the company’s products play an important part in proceedings. When South West Audio approached Sennheiser UK for support in supplementing some of their [...]
ETC announces distributorship in India
Responding to the increased demand for its lighting products and technical expertise worldwide and now specifically in the growing Indian market, lighting, control and dimming manufacturer ETC has chosen long time US dealer Barbizon Lighting Company as its official distributor in India. With its newly established office in the city of Bangalore, Barbizon Lighting is [...]
Northern Light Events and C venues Green up their Act at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Events division of Northern Light is working with one of the biggest venue producers on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – C venues – to ‘green-up’ the latest addition to its stable of festival venues – C aquila. Head of hire and events for Northern Light, Nick Read, has teamed up with C venues production [...]
Get W.I.S.E to Tea O’clock on the White Light Stand at PLASA 2010
PLASA 2010 will see Women in Stage Entertainment (WISE) – an organization established to address under representation of women in the entertainment technology sector – host Tea O-Clock, on the White Light stand, Earls Court 2 from 4 -6pm daily. Olivier award winning lighting designer and co-founder of WISE, Paule Constable, discusses: “Each day WISE [...]
New Independence with Martin M1 Lighting Console
Martin Professional’s new M1 lighting controller was recently used to control a large LED lighting system for “Independence Eve,” a patriotic concert celebration held in Denver, Colorado’s historic Civic Center Park. Full service LED lighting company Blazen Illuminations of Loveland, Colorado produced the lighting for the event. Blazen owner Nate Webb, who served as lighting [...]
Stage Electrics LED video screen works perfectly in a Glass Atrium
Stage Electrics recently supplied Beyond Certainty Ltd a high performance LED video screen during the month of June. The 3.1m x 2.4m indoor screen was ground stacked on a stage in the visually stunning glass atrium built on the terrace at Devonshire Terrace restaurant, located in London in the City financial area. The screen was [...]
World Cup Closes in With First Large Format Projections in South Africa
The Closing Ceremony for the FIFA 2010 World cup at Soccer City stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg featured the first ever large scale video projections to be integrated into a live show in South Africa. The ground-breaking extravaganza that brought the tournament to a close just before the Final was produced by the VWV Group. UK-based The [...]
VSI Installs at Glan Usk school
Llanelli, Wales, UK based Vaughan Sound Installations (VSI), part of the PAI Group, was brought in to design specify and supply specialist sound, lighting and AV systems for the brand new Glan Usk School in Newport, south Wales. VSI was working for electrical contractors MJN Colston, after recommendation from electrical consultants WS Atkins. The installations [...]
Robe Sends Off Supergrass in Style
Lighting designer Martin Dudley used Robe’s new ROBIN 300E Beams and ColorSpot 700E ATs to light UK indie rockers Supergrass as they played a series of farewell gigs, splitting after a lively 17 year chart topping career. Dudley’s company Martin’s Lights supplied all the lighting equipment for the tour. He has worked with Supergrass on [...]
