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Entec’s Night of Bliss at the Embassy
London, UK based Rental Company Entec Sound & Light supplied sound and lighting equipment plus 19 crew for a non-stop get-in, show and performance marathon “Night of Bliss”, the biggest ever Christian Conference in the UK – for the Christ Embassy Church at the O2 Arena. The event featured various Christ Embassy ministers who delivered [...]
Cool Vintage For ADLIB
ADLIB Audio’s Summer festival season continued apace with the Liverpool, UK based company supplying 3 trucks of audio equipment for 8 stages plus 20 of their technicians to the new 3 day Vintage Festival at ‘Glorious’ Goodwood. Vintage 2010 – “Celebrating 5 decades of British Cool” was the first of what will be a unique [...]
Barco combines media server and luminaire to create powerful package
Barco announced today the release of a fully optimized digital lighting package that harnesses the high brightness and DLP-quality video capabilities of the DML-1200 digital light and combines it with Axon Media Server. This improved solution offers tour companies, corporate events managers and fixed installations, such as houses of worship, expanded opportunities for creating dynamic, [...]
PLASA International Rigging Conference last few places remaining
PLASA Events has confirmed that the first ever PLASA International Rigging Conference is close to a sell out. With over 160 delegates already registered from all over the world, there are now only 25 delegate places remaining. Running alongside PLASA 2010, the PLASA International Rigging Conference is taking place on 13-14 September in the Earls [...]
White Light Shortlisted for Best Green Business
White Light has been shortlisted for a 2010 Merton Business Award. Organised by Merton Council, the local council covering White Light’s south Wimbledon base, along with South London Business and the Merton Chamber of Commerce, the awards are designed to reward and celebrate the many dynamic and innovative businesses in the borough. White Light’s nomination [...]
Gearhouse South Africa Makes Major AV & Lighting Investments
Gearhouse South Africa has recently made substantial investments in the latest AV and lighting technologies to ensure that the company stays at the technological forefront – offering the very latest products and services to its clients in the dynamic and fast changing world of show and event production. For those engaging the services of Gearhouse [...]
Robe Launches new Green Initiative at PLASA
Robe launches a major new green initiative – “Think of the Future – Consider Nature” – at PLASA 2010 to underline its ongoing commitment to developing and producing genuinely cutting-edge, innovative and energy saving products. Using Robe’s latest products, the renowned booth lightshow will consume 30% less power than before, and look equally impressive. There [...]
Big Brother Africa All Stars with Robe
Pretoria, South Africa, based Blond Productions are supplying lighting – including Robe moving lights – sound and AV to the new Big Brother Africa All Stars Series, which sees 14 of the most controversial, popular and interesting housemates from the first 4 BB Africa series’ battle it out for $200,000 and their place in the [...]
grandMA2 joins Phish On Rock Band’s Summer Tour
Longtime grandMA user Chris Kuroda, who’s marking his 22nd year as the lighting designer for the rock band Phish, has taken a pair of grandMA2 full-size consoles along on the musicians’ cross-country summer tour. Lighting programmer Andrew Giffin suggested using the grandMA2 for lighting control, and Kuroda reports that the two desks have been “a [...]
Texas High School Music Programs Aim Higher with Meyer Sound Constellation
The award-winning music programs at two Texas high schools—one in the community of Spring and the other 140 miles away in Temple—are getting a boost from their new Meyer Sound Constellation acoustic systems. According to the schools’ music faculties, Constellation’s astonishing flexibility and natural acoustical characteristics not only enhance the value of the auditorium as [...]
W-DMX at PLASA 2010: New Products, Seminars, Vodka and Meatballs
Wireless Solution Sweden AB is packing up for PLASA 2010. The company will be showing the newest revolution of Wireless DMX control, W-DMX Generation 4 at stand 1-E43 September 12-15 at Earls Court in London. In addition to showcasing the new product line, Wireless Solution will hold a Wireless University seminar and for the first [...]
PLASA 2010 Visitor Registrations Rocket
A strong upsurge in PLASA 2010 visitor registrations has taken the total soaring past last year’s pre-registered figure, with over two weeks still to go before the show opens. Over 2,000 chairmen, 800 lighting designers, 1,000 engineers, 900 technicians / programmers and 500 installers are among them – with concert & touring, live events and [...]
