Moorestown, New Jersey-based Starlite has purchased a complement of Ayrton Khamsin-S, Ayrton’s super-compact and highly versatile profile fixture. The company has one of the largest inventories on the East Coast of AV, lighting and control equipment to meet the needs of clients in the broadcast, concert touring, corporate, performing arts and educational markets. ACT Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton fixtures in North America. The Khamsin-S purchase represents Starlite’s first acquisition of Ayrton products. “ACT Lighting demo’d the whole Ayrton line for us, and we evaluated the Khamsins in our shop for our rental inventory and use on our…
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HPL Light Company bring with them over 20 years of distribution experience and an excellent reputation throughout the Brazilian lighting market along with a lengthy of creating long-lasting business relationships. The extensive training and technical know-how of their staff makes HPL the perfect strategic partner for PROLIGHTS in Brazil. Alberto Da Silva, Sales Manager of HPL explained: “PROLIGHTS is the perfect addition to our offering here in Brazil. The importance placed on the customer and their journey is part of why we do what we do here. The difference comes with the fixtures they create, stemming from the design and…
WorldStage has unveiled StageJack, the company’s revolutionary new lightweight, large-format LED video tile platform. StageJack features large, lightweight modular panels that install quickly saving both time and labour costs. The purpose-built design and cost savings will enable more customers to add immersive, large-format video to their creative toolbox. StageJack’s easy-to-install panels forgo the heavy subframe of current LED technology and feature a NextGen modular design, installing 60 percent faster than traditional LED products. The carbon fiber panels are also 50 percent lighter than traditional LED panels allowing video walls to be used at venues and in locations where weight was…
Continuing his run of sold-out arena shows, Scottish singer-songwriter, Lewis Capaldi takes on the world one show at a time, along with an Allen & Heath dLive mixing system covering FOH and Monitor duties. Capaldi made history by becoming the first ever artist to both announce and sell out an arena tour before the release of his album, which went on to become the UK’s best-selling record in the past five years and gained him global mainstream success throughout 2019. “In early 2019 we were looking for an audio package that was powerful, flexible and compact enough for us to…
Lighting Designer Francesco De Cave illuminated Italy’s Arena di Verona using his trusty High End Systems Hog 4 console for the third consecutive RTL 102.5 Power Hits Estate concert. The event celebrated the top 50 songs played on Italian radio stations during the summer of 2019. The four-hour concert featured live performances from more than 20 artists including OneRepublic, Eros Ramazzotti, Mika and Lewis Capaldi. The set design for the open air venue featured an uncovered stage designed to favor visibility for the audience of 15,000 people. De Cave was tasked with designing a visual spectacular for the venue which…
Festyvent the UK data analytics firm for the Live – Event Industry is proud to announce the launch of its exciting all new and enhanced app features for music festivals and live events: www.festyvent.com First up and leading the way with their new and enhanced app features will be SAFE@FESTIVAL, which will allow members of the live audience to alert friends to their exact location if they fall ill or feel vulnerable. The friends contacted will be able to track the sender of the message live for 60 minutes on a google map using either GPS Co-ordinates or the ///what3words…
This new dance theatre festival is a ten-day international event, presenting the most captivating dance theatre projects from Portugal, China, Israel, the UK, Poland and across the world. Offering a range of activities aimed at engaging the local community. The festival aims to restore Silesia as an international centre of dance. This is the first and only festival of dance theater in Silesia and Zagłębie. The Kamea Dance Company Is one of Israel’s most prestigious contemporary dance companies. The company is recognised for its unique style combining strong dramatic themes and intense virtuosic movement. Artistic director Tamir Ginz creates a richly layered world in…
J5 Productions of Singapore has recently invested in 24 Ayrton Diablo-S 300W LED profile fixtures for its rental stock. The lighting fixtures were purchased earlier this year from Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for Singapore, Total Solution Marketing Pte, following a successful demonstration which showed off Diablo’s myriad fabulous features. These include the perfect colour rendition from its CMY colour mixing and 7-colour wheel, that produce a vast array of bright pastels and saturated colours, a gobo wheel, an effects wheel and a 100% full framing system. Designed specifically for stage applications, Diablo-S is equipped with a monochromatic LED light source calibrated…
The epic Utopia concert by Latin American music superstar Romeo Santos broke the all-time concert gross record for a performance at the MetLife Stadium on 21 September 2019. At the heart of the show’s rich visual design, Yamil Charif and Richard Vicens of YC3 Lighting Design specified more than 100 lighting fixtures from Vari-Lite, a Signify entertainment lighting brand. Lining the wide stage and multiple walkways were Vari-Lite’s unique VL6000 Beam fixtures. These were partnered for the first time by the new VL6500 Wash fixtures, making their world debut on Utopia, positioned around the sides of the stage. “We were…
Green Hippo Hippotizer Media Servers are driving the striking on-stage stage screen visuals for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (NGHFB), as their 2019 World Tour continues. Production manager Michael O’Connor and lighting/video designer Rod Clay turned to event production supplier OneBigStar to service the tour’s media playback and control requirements. “We were delighted when Rod approached us to provide the control package for NGHFB,” said OneBigStar’s Steven Yeardsley. “We’ve worked closely with Rod on a number of occasions over the past few years and he’s very familiar with the equipment we stock. OneBigStar have always looked to Green Hippo and…
Enjoyed by young and old alike, Dancing with the Stars has been a mainstay of American reality television since premiering in 2005. For season 28, which premiered on September 16th on ABC, lighting designer Tom Sutherland is using Elation Professional DARTZ 360™ beam/spot LED moving heads as a principal luminaire in an immersive 360-degree lighting environment. Lighting vendor for Dancing with the Stars is Felix Lighting with Nicole Barnes as account manager. After skipping its standard spring season—there are typically two seasons per year—the Emmy-winning dance competition returned this fall with changes designed to freshen up the format and delight…
Data communications company, Pathway Connectivity, designs, manufactures and supports an innovative family of products for sophisticated stage and architectural lighting systems. It has recently incorporated SixEye’s unique unified remote management system into its offering, a move that Pathway’s Director – Product Innovation, Robert Bell, says is game changing. A decade or so ago, DMX over Ethernet was Pathway’s core product offering. Adopting consumer-based IT technology was an ideal choice and the company had good leverage on the mass market. “But there were rules,” said Bell. “For example, every device had to have a static IP address, networks were effectively an…
To satisfy the sonic needs of a wide variety of genres, an Outline PA was chosen for the second consecutive edition, supplied by this year’s audio contractor, Target Sound, one of Poland’s largest full-service production companies and an Outline GTO Partner based in the southern Polish city of Chorzów. Lorenzo Patellani and Paolo Calza were the Outline system engineers at the event and the former explained: “Ensuring all the spectators an unforgettable sound experience was no easy task, as the square is wide and short and the stage-front also very wide, so considerable care had to be taken to ensure…
The Cartel des Mines is an annual three-day sporting event that was created in 1962 at the initiative of the École des Mines de Paris engineering school. The occasion brings together teams from all of the European Mining Schools (Paris, Douai, Nantes, Alès, Albi, Saint-Etienne, Nancy, Madrid, Vigo, Oviedo, Turin, Bochum, Krakow and St. Petersburg), as well as the Emines-School of Industrial Management in Benguerir (Morocco), to compete in different sporting disciplines before enjoying evenings of entertainment. The 2019 edition of the Cartel took place in Albi (France), and drew some 2,000 students each night. French technical services company, SC Management,…
Solid State Logic (SSL) has announced a new business partnership with Group One to manage its US portfolio of audio solutions and operational infrastructure. Effective immediately, the new deal brings together one of professional audio’s most prestigious brands with Group One’s extensive distribution, customer support and partner network, to further strengthen both businesses. Jack Kelly, CEO of Group One commented: “We know the Solid State Logic North American team and business pretty well with our common links through the Audiotonix Group. Having the opportunity to help take this world-renowned brand and their fantastic products to another level has all of…
The end of a tour always brings that inevitable question; what next? While most have their eyes set on the next tour bus, Production Manager Bob O’Brien had other ideas. Following another very successful campaign with The Script, the PM opted to hang up his touring laminate and set out on a new venture in the world of entertainment freighting. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpioct19_digitallr/78 Photos: SOS Global Express www.sosglobal.com
When Skunk Anansie burst onto London’s rock scene, the band was very much labelled as an alternative palate cleanser to the ubiquitous Britpop that ruled the UK zeitgeist at the time. Despite taking a lengthy hiatus in the early 2000s, they have managed to, in their own words, “swerve the nostalgia circuit”, releasing three brand new albums since getting back together in 2008. As well as putting out new material, Skunk has also kept pace with the explosive live shows the band is famous for, and as TPi stood at FOH with the singer mere metres away having crowd-surfed the…
Khalid first stormed into the charts with his debut studio album, American Teen, in March 2017. Since then, the El Paso singer-songwriter has earned several top-10 hits, a top-10 charting EP and five GRAMMY nominations – a path which has led him to his latest number-one album and fourth headlining tour, Free Spirit. In line with his astronomic rise to superstardom, the 21-year-old embarked on his first arena tour, featuring two back-to-back sold-out shows in London, with the likes of Ed Sheeran and AJ Tracey as special guests. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpioct19_digitallr/24 Photos: Joe Okpako www.khalidofficial.com www.silent-house.com www.clairglobal.com www.screenworksnep.com www.solotech.com www.allaccessinc.com www.christielites.com www.controlfreak.tv…
