Saturday, May 25th, 2013

HSL and PSI Announce Dynamic New Partnership

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The UK’s fastest growing lighting and visuals rental specialist, Blackburn based HSL, has formed a dynamic new partnership with Production Services Ireland (PSI) – a market leader in the territory with operations in Belfast and Dublin. The merger sees PSI’s highly successful and well established operations in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic continue unchanged [...]

Painting With Light Proves It Can Dance!

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Luc Peumans from Genk, Belgium based creative visual design practice, Painting With Light (PWL), designed lighting and set for the recent Dutch and Belgian touring version of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’, working for producers Albert Verlinde Entertainment. Peumans worked closely on the lighting design with PWL’s Dimi Theuwissen, who was Executive Lighting Designer [...]

Kinesys Launches New Positioning & Ethernet Option for DigiHoist

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Automation specialist Kinesys announces a new Positioning & Ethernet option for its advanced digital chain hoist controller system, DigiHoist. DigiHoist, known as one of the most flexible and safe chain hoist control systems currently on the market, has just increased its adaptability with this Positioning and Ethernet option. It allows DigiHoist controllers to offer accurate [...]

Universal Events Launches Chilfest Pop Extravaganza

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Single source technical production specialist Universal Event Productions (UEP) based in Tring, UK, celebrates 15 years in the live events industry in massive style … staging a two day music extravaganza – Chilfest – on 5th and 6th July 2013. The event – the first live pop concert on this scale to be held in [...]

Neg Earth Invests in more Kinesys for Muse World Tour

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Leading UK lighting rental company Neg Earth Lights invested in five new Kinesys DigiHoist controllers and two remote handsets which went directly out on Muse’s ‘The 2nd Law’ world tour, together with a Kinesys K2 control and Elevation 1+ automation system that they already owned. The Kinesys system on Muse – currently touring the US [...]

XL Video Supplies The BRITs 2013

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XL Video supplied LED screens, projection, camera, PPU and screen management system for The BRIT Awards 2013 with MasterCard, staged at London’s O2 Arena and presented by James Corden. It’s the eleventh consecutive year that XL (and Production Manager Paul Wood) have been involved as Video supplier for the high profile annual Music Awards, again [...]

dbn Impresses With Bespoke Truss Design At Ascot

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Manchester UK based lighting and rigging specialists dbn created an elegant, bespoke, self climbing, ground support truss design to achieve the perfect positioning for key production equipment in The Pavilion Suite at Ascot Racecourse, Berkshire. This allowed a conference and awards event to be staged in-the-round; ensured that all delegates in the room had a [...]