Sunday, May 19th, 2013

It’s A Beautiful Thing for Robe

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A substantial Robe moving light rig was used for the final of the 2013 Miss Universe Slovak Republic event, a high profile co-production between the In Agency and the Miss Universe Organisation, staged at the Aegon Arena National Tennis Centre in Bratislava and broadcast live on national TV channel RTVS 1. Lighting was designed by [...]

Robe Specified for ‘Moses – The Ten Commandments’ World Premiere at Theatre St. Gallen

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Moving lights from Robe’s latest ROBIN MMX and DL Series ranges were utilised by Lighting Designer Michael Grundner for the world premiere of “Moses – The Ten Commandments” a new musical extravaganza by Michael Kunze and Dieter Falk being staged at the Theatre St. Gallen in Switzerland. The creative brief for Grundner’s lighting design was [...]

XL Video Supplies Video Package for the 2013 Olivier Awards

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The Olivier Awards are a glittering celebration of the very best of British Theatre, recognising actors and productions alike for stunning performances across a range of genres. For the 3rd consecutive year, XL Video sponsored the Award for Best Set Design (won by Bunny Christie and Finn Ross for ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog [...]

Colour Sound Makes Massive Investment in More LED Screen

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London, UK based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) has made a substantial new investment in LED screen with the purchase of 100 square metres of BT6 6mm pitch high resolution surface. The product has been manufactured specially for CSE to their specifications and will join the company’s existing stock of BT12 [...]

HSL and PSI Announce Dynamic New Partnership

HSL Director Mike Oates

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 [...]

Robe and Anolis Illuminate Košice Cathedral for European Capital of Culture Opening Ceremony

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The magnificent Gothic Cathedral of St Elizabeth in Košice, Slovak Republic, became the glowing centrepiece of the city’s Opening Ceremony celebrations for its year as European Capital of Culture in a spectacular lighting scheme featuring Robe and Anolis LED fixtures. The overall OC event lasted two days with over 1000 artists performing in 70 different [...]

Fun for XL Video at Hammersmith!

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XL Video supplied LED screens, cameras, Hippotizer media servers and control for the high profile London show by chart-topping and Grammy Award winning New York based indie pop band, Fun. The video and lighting design was by Paul Normandale. He was approached by management and asked to come up with an inventive concept specifically for [...]