Friday, September 3rd, 2010

HSL Invests in More New Equipment

Ryan Hopkins & Avo Power Cubes

Leading UK lighting rental company HSL has invested heavily in the last 3 months in new lighting equipment to facilitate its continuing busy work schedule amidst what’s so far been a bumper year for the Blackburn-based operation. Over 60 Vari*Lite VL3000 and VL3500 Series moving light fixtures have been added to HSL’s existing Vari*Lite inventory. [...]

HSL Supplies Lighting for Global Gathering 2010

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Blackburn, UK based lighting rental company HSL has again supplied site-wide lighting equipment for the high profile Global Gathering dance festival, staged at Long Marsden Airfield in Warwickshire. For the third year running HSL was working for Electric Fly Productions, whose Philip Winward and Nick Jevons created the production lighting, video and show designs for [...]

Robe & HSL Cruise with Azura

L-R Mick Hannaford (MD of Robe UK), Simon Stuart (MD of HSL) & Phil Yeomans (Entertainment Sound & Lighting Manager, Carnival UK)

Robe moving lights – over 120 fixtures – including DigitalSpot 7000DTs have been installed into 4 primary entertainment centres aboard P&O Cruises’ newest state-of-the-art cruise liner, the 290 metre long, 14 deck, 115,000 tonne, 3500 capacity Azura. The lighting was specified by Carnival UK’s Entertainment Sound & Lighting manager Philip Yeomans, and the package was [...]

HSL Supplies lighting for Nabucco at Masada

L-R is Gabriel Cross, Rob "Starkers" Starksfield, Charlotte Stevens, Ian Stevens

Blackburn, UK, based lighting rental company HSL supplied all stage lighting equipment and crew to the acclaimed Israeli Opera production of Verdi’s Nabucco, staged at a new purpose-built open air site in the middle of the desert on the World Heritage site of Masada Mountain …. by the Dead Sea in Israel. HSL was brought [...]

HSL Immersed in Pendulum Tour

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Blackburn-based HSL continues an incredibly active 2010, supplying lighting and crew to the current UK and European tour by Australian drum ‘n’ bass rockers Pendulum, whose distinctive hi-energy sound and performance is storming around the world with their third album “Immersion”. The show, a seamless fusion of video and lighting, is designed by Mark Calvert [...]

Dave Singleton Joins HSL

Dave Singleton

Leading lighting rental company HSL’s busy project management team has been boosted with the arrival of Dave Singleton. He has previously worked with Kave Theatre Services in Sussex and also as a freelance production and project manager, bringing a wealth of experience in the live events industry and specialist knowledge of the exhibition sector, which [...]