Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Robe Launches new Green Initiative at PLASA

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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

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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 [...]

PSI Supplies Lighting for West Belfast Festival

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Belfast, UK, based Production Services Ireland (PSI) supplied lighting for the two main venues of the 2010 West Belfast Festival (August Feile) which is Ireland’s biggest community festival. This followed on from PSI’s work for organisers FĂ©ile an Phobail for their Spring Festival and Comedy Festivals earlier in the year. PSI’s Sean Pagel says, “It [...]

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 Sends Off Supergrass in Style

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Lighting designer Martin Dudley used Robe’s new ROBIN 300E Beams and ColorSpot 700E ATs to light UK indie rockers Supergrass as they played a series of farewell gigs, splitting after a lively 17 year chart topping career. Dudley’s company Martin’s Lights supplied all the lighting equipment for the tour. He has worked with Supergrass on [...]

Robe & HSL Cruise with Azura

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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 [...]