When creating whites with a 95+ CRI and high TM-30 RF, CHAUVET Professional’s latest innovation – Ovation Rêve E-3, delivers a level of brightness equal to that of a 750-1000W incandescent fixture. The new fixture also features a linear CCT adjustment with +/- green to match other sources light sources in a rig, and colour temperature presets from 2800K to 8000K with high CRI and CQS. Brightness levels are even greater when the Rêve E-3 is creating realistic colours, ranging from soft pastels to bold primaries, with its RGBAM LED engine. Its “mint” colour LED has been shown to be…
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Follow-Me has welcomed the appointment of Advanced Communication Equipment Company (ACE) as a brand new distributor for China. “As an established name, marketing quality manufacturers and their products throughout China, we believe ACE is perfectly placed to promote the Follow-Me brand,” explained Follow-Me Co-founders, Gary Yates and Erik Berends. “Due to their experience and professionalism we see ACE as the ideal partner to support our growing client base in China.” Follow-Me supplies a fixture-independent product enabling the tracking performers on-stage both manually and automatically, making it the only hybrid tracking system on the market. “Follow-Me is the perfect addition to our lighting product…
Monitor Engineer, ‘Supa Dave’ Rupsch has worked with a host of high-profile touring acts, including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Katy Perry, My Chemical Romance, Megadeth, Panic! at the Disco, Prince, Sum 41 and Nick Jonas, during his time on the road. Despite his genre spanning collaborations, one through line that connects them is his audio console brand of choice – DiGiCo. Having toured with the band for just over a year, Rupsch considers himself new to the Red Hot Chili Peppers camp. “This is such an iconic band and they’ve been doing it since the late ’80s,” he enthused. “This…
Broadweigh was the wireless load monitoring system of choice for California-based Cassidyrig at a recent Miley Cyrus gig at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The performer was the musical guest at the NCAA’s FINAL Four basketball tournament on 3 April. In a ‘Tribute to Frontline Heroes’ – Cyrus performed for an audience of first responders during the Capital One Tournament central show airing on CBS between the first and second national semi-final games. Cassidyrig Managing Director, Dan Cassidy explained: “We were delighted to be approached by Warner Broadcasting to handle the rigging for this fairly elaborate project. This halftime…
Remembering the Oscars, starring Strictly Come Dancing favourites Aljaž Škorjanec and Janette Manrara, is a much-loved, extravagant celebration of the Golden Age of Hollywood. With the originally intended 41-date UK theatre tour curtailed for two consecutive years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Škorjanec and Manrara were desperate not to disappoint fans. The show’s producers, Steven Howard for The TCB Group and David Shepherd from Imagine This Live, looked for alternative solutions. With streamed performances gaining increasing success, they turned to video production specialist iMAG Displays to help them bring the sparkling show to life in a series of streamed performances,…
Staged at Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy, Director of Photography (DOP) Mario Catapano was tasked with illuminating the latest edition of Sanremo Music Festival with a lighting rig which included over 400 Robe moving lights – a mix of T1 Profiles, Spiiders, LEDBeam 150s, Pointes and a six-way RoboSpot system – all supplied by Pesaro-based rental company Sound d-light. Aside from being one of the Italy’s biggest and best-known song competitions, the event selected the country’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, organised and broadcast by RAI. The contest comprised two main sections – one featuring 26 established artists, plus a…
Lighting Designer, Julien Reux helped capture the quality of Charlotte Lawrence’s expressive performance style during a four-video recording session at Beehive Studios, which included her national TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and a subsequent appearance on The Late Show With Steven Colbert with 28 CHAUVET Professional STRIKE 1 fixtures supplied by PRG. “When producer Jonny Stiegler, the co-founder of Beehive, asked me to light these videos, I spent time studying the artwork on Charlotte’s new album as well as the wardrobe designs she’s been involved in,” said Reux, the owner of ReuxLight. “I wanted my design to reflect the…
Following an initial investment in to Panasonic’s latest live production platform, AED Group now offers its facilities as a training centre for users looking to exploit the capabilities of KAIROS. “Introducing a new platform like KAIROS takes a lot of time to train operators and provide the opportunities to use KAIROS in real productions,” said AED Display Managing Director, Thierry Heldenbergh. “By providing a full demo and training facility, we will be able to bring many users face-to-face with the system and give them real ‘on-the-job’ training. Our rental department also has systems available to deploy for productions.” AED Display…
Avolites is celebrating its 45th anniversary today. First established in 1976 under a railway arch in Hammersmith, London, from its first touring dimmer rack, the landmark Avolites LD dimmer (later to become the FD dimmer), to the launch of its latest flagship Diamond 9 console earlier this year, the company has been at the forefront of technological change in the lighting events industry ever since. Throughout its history, Avolites has believed in the power of technology innovation to improve creative expression and has coupled that approach with component reliability, ergonomically designed interfaces allowing for ever-more artistic freedom, quality finish, and inspired design. As such it has played…
LIVE (Live music Industry Venues & Entertainment) has released the survey results of 25,000 music fans and the results are clear: people want live music back as quickly as possible. The survey is the most detailed research yet conducted on the attitudes of UK music fans towards the return of live events and how they want them to be run in a post pandemic world. More than half of fans are ready to return to live music as soon as possible with a further 25% willing to come back with safety measures in place. In further encouraging news, 85% of…
How did your work at Just Eat prepare you for a role within the live events sector? “At Just Eat, I was part of the team that led the transformation of a start-up into a highly successful £4bn FTSE business operating in 15 countries. When I joined in 2008, there were just eight people based in the UK Edgware offices, and 25 in Denmark where the business was created. I was responsible for finance, legal, HR and anything else vaguely back office until 2013. Unusually for the CFO, I was also head of parties and events – a key element…
Son, Alex Young At 5pm on Friday 23 April, my dad passed away. Not many people knew he had been diagnosed with cancer a few days earlier, but the messages of support we’ve received have been amazing. Over his whole life he worked with thousands of people around the world, and his impact on them and his industry will live on. He accomplished too much in his life to be summed up, so we’ve created a tribute page where anyone can add their thoughts, and any pictures they have, and there is a link to donate to Cancer Research UK…
Entertainment Sound Specialists (ESS) was formed in 1988 by Phil McDaniel and Richard John to provide high-quality audio solutions. Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength, providing professional yet personable service for concerts, tours, and events. However, following the grounding of live events in March 2020, the company quickly shifted its focus to create a dedicated workforce tasked with supplying and installing air sterilisers and equipment to help to eliminate COVID-19 in the workplace. With positive signs of a gradual return to ‘business as usual’ on the horizon and several mass gathering test events to be piloted…
Light Logic has operated in the Russian live entertainment and touring market for over 15 years, specialising in modern lighting solutions, stage design, and technical support. The company has provided equipment and technical personnel for leading TV productions and live concerts in Russia, as well as playing a key role in the development of new projects, such as concert halls, TV studios and theatre installations. Today, Light Logic employs a 100-strong workforce with more than 2,500 fixtures in its arsenal – 1,000 of them Robe. What projects were you working when the lockdown began? “Since our company is located in…
With venues closing and tours grinding to a halt in March 2020, three solutions presented themselves as alternatives to tide over the live entertainment industry until normality could resume. There were livestream shows in all their various guises; the more high-tech solutions, with virtual productions borrowing techniques from the gaming industry to reimagine what a live show could be; and finally, drive-in shows – a novel idea and a neat solution to keep audiences safe in their vehicles while still being able to gather en masse. One company that jumped on the drive-in format early in 2020 was Coalition Agency.…
‘How has the past year been for you?’ It’s a question that I’m sure most have asked and answered countless times since COVID-19 became such a dominant force in our lives. However, when speaking to a representative of a global company such as 4Wall that has a presence in a wide variety of sectors, the answer is far from straightforward. “It’s a tricky one, as all of our offices – from New York and LA in the US, to Blackburn and London in the UK – have different specialisms,” began 4Wall Europe Managing Director, Ryan Walker. “So, it’s hard to…
While looking at a musician’s global approach to the pandemic halting live events, artists seem to exist in one of two camps. Either they hunkered down to write a new album or they threw themselves into livestreaming and other virtual platforms to keep their fans engaged. No matter which camp artists found themselves in, the commonality between the two is that 2020 and 2021 was all about preservation rather than a major increase in fanbase or overall popularity. However, there have been a few standout examples of musicians who have embraced the situation and, utilising both virtual, streamed and recorded…
As we crossed the 12-month COVID-19 milestone, out of curiosity I looked back at some of the coverage TPi was putting out a year ago and went down a rabbit hole of binge-watching some of the original ‘lockdown streams’, which you can still find on YouTube. The reason I bring this up is that I recognised a pattern in that almost every artist said the same statement: “It’s great to be connected to you all at home.” But as the weeks turned into months, the music industry seemed to collectively decide that this one-way form of streaming just didn’t create…
