Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Britannia Row purchases third Midas XL8

Midas XL8 at Depeche Mode concert in Los Angeles

Britannia Row Productions has purchased a third Midas XL8 Live Performance System. The purchase comes as one of the company’s systems continues its world tour with Oasis, with a further two spec’d for Depeche Mode&# 8217;s Tour of the Universe which begins in Israel in May. “Oasis went into rehearsals for their world tour last [...]

More BBs on the Bloc at Olympia

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Lighting designer Leggy (Jonathan Armstrong) upped his count of i-Pix BB7 LED wash lights from 19 to 35 for Bloc Party’s 2 sold out shows at London Olympia, the latest on a world tour that kicked off in January. Bloc Party’s “Intimacy” tour is the first time that Leggy had incorporated BB7s into his rig [...]

Robe selects a song for Slovakia

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Slovakia’s top lighting designer Martin Kubanka used Robe moving lights and REDBlinders at the core of his design for the live TV show that selected the country’s 2009 Eurovision Song Contest entry. This was staged in Studio 4 of the Slovakian Television HQ in Bratislava and broadcast live on STV1, breaking new ground in terms [...]

Sweeney Todd – Lighting in Lithuania

Sweeny Todd at the Congress Rumas, Lithuania

When White Light and theatre owner ATG announced the phased replacement of the Strand 500-series lighting consoles across ATG’s UK venues with ETC’s Eos and Ion consoles, the intention was that the ‘retiring’ lighting consoles would return to White Light to join the company’s rental stock and to provide service support and spare parts for [...]

Sennheiser prepares for the biggest Eurovision Song Contest ever!

Bringing the Eurovision Song Contest to Moscow: last year’s winner Dima Bilan

Moscow is introducing 450 tonnes of the latest stage and lighting technology to the huge Olimpiyski Arena for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. 2,000 square metres of LED walls will bathe the two semi-finals on the 12th and 14th of May and the final, on the 16th of May, in an extraordinary display of light [...]

Barco appoints Urbain Vandeurzen as director

At the Annual General Meeting of Barco, held on 30 April 2009, Dr. Urbain Vandeurzen was appointed as independent director of the company. The Annual General Meeting also reappointed Mr. Jan P. Oosterveld and Ms. Christina von Wackerbarth as independent directors of the company. The Annual General Meeting decided to reappoint Mr. Jan P. Oosterveld [...]