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Entec Supplies Top Shop Unique LFW Show at Waterloo Station

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West London based Entec Sound & Light continued its supply of ingenious lighting solutions in site specific venues for some of the most exciting shows of London Fashion Week. Working in the former Eurostar Terminal at London's busy Waterloo Station for lighting designer Simon Tutchener was a very cool project with many challenges. The trains to Paris and Brussels had long left the … [Read more...]

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 the main stage, 4 indoor … [Read more...]

PSI Invests in Vari*lite

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Belfast-based lighting rental company Production Services Ireland (PSI) has made its first investment in Vari*Lite moving lights with the purchase of 12 VL2500 Spots. These were specified by LD John Gallagher for the "All Ireland Talent show", the second series of which is being shot on Stage B at Ardmore Studios outside Dublin and broadcast live every Sunday evening on Ireland’s … [Read more...]

White Light hold successful new technology showcase

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White Light welcomed the new year by allowing lighting designers and technicians to explore some of the new lighting technology which will shape the way they work this year and in the coming years in a friendly, informal New Technology Showcase. The mid-January event presented the equipment in the real theatre setting of the Central School of Speech and Drama’s Embassy Theatre. At different … [Read more...]

White Light supplies “Love Never Dies”

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White Light has been appointed to supply the lighting to Love Never Dies, the long-awaited and highly anticipated sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash-hit musical The Phantom of the Opera. Since its 1986 début at London’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, where it continues to play, The Phantom of the Opera has been seen in more than 25 countries and by more than 100 million people. Love Never Dies … [Read more...]