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XL Video gets festive in the park

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XL Video supplied an HD camera and playback system plus assorted video extras for several acts appearing at Live Nation's three Hyde Park summer festival events - Hard Rock Calling, Blur and Wireless - which all ran consecutively in London's most central greenfield location. This was project managed by Chris Saunders for XL, assisted by Zoe Minter. The artist line up included the Killers, … [Read more...]

HSL goes Global again

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Leading UK lighting rental company HSL supplied site wide equipment for the main stage, 5 indoor arenas and 2 outdoor terraces at the 2009 Global Gathering dance extravaganza, staged at Long Marsden Airfield in Warwickshire. Once again, HSL was working for Electric Fly Productions, whose Nick Jevons and Phil Winward created the lighting and show design for all these areas, working for … [Read more...]

Midas PRO6 installed in Casino du Liban

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A Midas PRO6 live audio system has been installed into the Casino du Liban, Lebanon, where it is being used at front of house in the 1,200-capacity venue for a wide range of live music performances, from rock and pop through to jazz, classical, Arabic, dance shows and musicals. The PRO6, the first to be sold in the country, was supplied by Midas’ Lebanese distributor, Eltek. “We consider … [Read more...]

Sennheiser UK joins the Circus with Take That

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Take That’s Circus Live, one of the most successful British Tours of all time, has come to a close with a four-night residency at Wembley Stadium. The reformed boy band sold an incredible 1.2 million tickets and sold out the British Isles’ biggest venues, including Sunderland’s Stadium of Light, Dublin’s Croke Park, Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium, Glasgow’s Hampden Park and Manchester’s Old Trafford … [Read more...]

“Monty Python’s Spamalot” is realised with grandMA

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Since the beginning of this year, Monty Python’s Spamalot has been staged in Cologne. This musical version of the landmark anarchical film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” is playing in Germany after performances in New York, London and Las Vegas. Hugh Vanstone, who was responsible for the lighting design in London, also delivered the design for the show playing at the Musical Dome in … [Read more...]