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Bring Me The – ROBE – Horizon

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Multi-Award winning - and Sheffield UK’s finest - metalcore rockers Bring Me The Horizon played a huge one off show at London’s Wembley Arena closing a phenomenal year,  celebrating the conclusion of their 18 month global ‘Sempiternal’ album cycle … and their 10th anniversary.   The band’s Lighting Designer Ben Inskip chose 70 x Robe moving lights as the backbone of the show – … [Read more...]

Robe Sponsors Czech Fed Cup Tennis Team

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Robe proudly announces that it is a sponsor of team Czech Republic in the 2015 Fed Cup tennis – the premier international women's tennis team championship. Continuing its theme of ‘Working With Winners’ – first embraced with the Olympic spirit of 2012 - Robe is one of five major sponsors to the Czech team who are the defending champions, and have been hugely successful in the tournament, … [Read more...]

WIcreations Designs Special Automation for Calogero Tour

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Belgium based engineering and automation specialists WIcreations is supplying several custom moving elements for the current European tour by French rock singer and multi-instrumentalist Calogero. The tour is produced by TS3, also responsible for the acclaimed Mylène Farmer “Timeless” tour, for which WI designed and supplied bespoke automation. Based on this success, they returned to WI to … [Read more...]

Fineline Walks The Chains to Celebrate the Engineering Genius of Brunel

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Bristol based lighting, visuals and rigging specialist Fineline supplied lighting and rigging equipment and expertise in a series of creative solutions for the world premiere of ‘Walking The Chains’, an ambitious circus / theatre production staged in the historic Passenger Shed at Bristol Temple Meads Station. Celebrating 150 Years of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s iconic Clifton suspension … [Read more...]

Bonobo World Tour ends on a Robe High

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Musician, music producer and DJ Bonobo finished his marathon ‘North Borders’ world tour with a sublime and superlative mix of classical and electro beats – complete with 18 piece orchestra - at London’s Alexandra Palace, complete with an equally fabulous lightshow designed by  Will Thomas. This utilized over 100 Robe moving lights … all supplied by Southampton UK based GLS. The design … [Read more...]