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Paloma Faith Can Rely on Entec!

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Entec continues its lively working relationship as a lighting supplier to one of the UK’s most innovative, interesting – and successful - contemporary artists, Paloma Faith, working closely with LD Tony Austin and Lighting Director / Programmer Phil White. Known for her eccentric retro style, Faith’s music career goes from strength to strength with another chart topping album and a 2015 … [Read more...]

HSL Invests £2 Million in New Lighting Kit

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Leading UK lighting and visual rental specialist HSL has invested well over £2 million in new lighting kit – primarily moving lights, LED fixtures and control to help service its busy summer season. MD Simon Stuart stated, “We have a great diversity of shows out – from opera and the arts to concert and theatre touring to major sporting events - and wanted to ensure that all of them had the … [Read more...]

LED Project Makes a Point with Robe

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The rich and vibrant Latin music scene generates a lot of ‘crossover’ between artists and the production side of the industry in the Mexican rental world. Most people involved in companies started their industry careers playing in bands and many are still active musicians or are involved in artist management. Sergio Serrano – also a big fan of Robe - is one of those charismatic and multi-skilled … [Read more...]

Dave Matthews Band Gets Away From the World with BMFLs

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Lighting and visuals designer Fenton Williams and co-LD / programmer Aaron Stinebrink again collaborated to produce a stunning production design – incorporating lighting, set and video - for the current Dave Matthews Band (DMB) U.S. summer tour. For the first time, they specified Robe’s BMFL Spot fixtures, 22 of which are being supplied by the tour’s lighting vendor, Theatrical Media Services … [Read more...]

Colour Sound Keeps Nearly 500 Moving Lights … A Secret!

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Colour Sound Experiment continued its frenetic 2015 summer festival season supplying lighting to 12 major stages, 24 smaller performance areas and 8 bars at the 2015 Secret Garden Party (SGP) event staged in Abbots Ripton near Huntingdon UK. This tightly planned and executed operation – which this year battled with inclement weather for the first time in the festival’s recent history … involved … [Read more...]