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Happy Days and Happy Mondays for Robe LEDBeam 100s

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Robe’s new, small and funky LEDBeam 100 fixtures made their UK touring debut on the Happy Mondays recent three week outing, with lighting designed by Dave Farmer of THC Design. Equipment for the major shows, including Manchester MEN Arena and three sold out Brixton Academy’s, was supplied by Leeds based Zig Zag Lighting. The iconic Manchester alt rock / ravers returned to live performance … [Read more...]

Colour Sound Goes Leftfield Again for War Child gig

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West London based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) renewed its long standing and highly successful working relationship with one of the UK’s best loved dance artists, Leftfield, who headlined a recent War Child benefit gig at London’s Brixton Academy. CSE has worked with the band on and off since they burst gloriously onto the house scene in the mid 1990s, … [Read more...]

dbn gets Lucky on Norwegian Lotto

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Manchester based lighting and visuals specialist dbn has specified and installed a custom LED lighting and control solution for the new set of the Norwegian National Lottery which is operated by Norsk Tipping AS. dbn’s project manager was Nigel Walker, and they were working for UK based Stage One Creative Services, with whom Walker has enjoyed a long and successful  working relationship. … [Read more...]

HSL Supplies Wicked Lighting for Il Divo

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Leading UK lighting and visual rentals specialist  HSL’s mega busy spring and early summer season continues, supplying lighting, Kinesys automation system and crew to another high profile artist - International operatic / pop vocal superstars Il Divo. The massively successful ‘crossover’ group who have made this popular genre their own have just completed the first full production UK and … [Read more...]

Entec Supplies Large Production for L’Arc~en~Ciel

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Leading UK lighting and sound rental company Entec continued its supply of full production to a string of high profile shows for major international superstars with Japanese rockers L'Arc~en~Ciel. Entec provided lighting, rigging, sound equipment, and crew, plus site and local co-ordination services for shows at Le Zenith in Paris and Indigo at the O2 Arena in London, and arranged … [Read more...]