The award-winning TurboRay fixture from High End Systems recently made its latest TV appearance on the 17th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC), broadcast live from Arena Gliwice in Poland. JESC is a cultural extravaganza, designed to draw people together from all over Europe and Australia through light entertainment and healthy competition. It’s an increasingly spectacular and technically complex event, transmitted live to millions of viewers. This year, 19 participants aged between 9 and 14 years old took to the stage to battle it out for the trophy. The stage, designed by Giorgos Stylianou-Matsis, comprised a unique design…
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Immediately after Brown Note Productions acquired a fleet of IP-rated lighting from Elation Professional in September, the full service production company sent the gear out on a three-week festival run in Louisville, Kentucky, providing non-stop lighting on three Danny Wimmer Presents festivals – Hometown Rising and Bourbon & Beyond, as well as Louder than Life, the biggest rock festival in the U.S. in 2019. Brown Note has been supplying production for Danny Wimmer Presents festivals since 2014. At this year’s Hometown Rising, September 14-15, lighting designer/director AJ DiCarlo used the new outdoor-rated lights for a performance by country pop singer…
Swiss electric chain hoist manufacturer GIS AG has launched two new lightweight D8 products, of 500kg and 1,000kg capacity, for mobile use in the entertainment sector. As riggers continue to demand the lightest possible motors, the LPML and higher capacity LPL chain hoists are both capable of lifting over 40 times their own weight. The LPML weighs a modest 12kg (20kg with 18m lifting height) and delivers a lifting capacity of half a ton. The LPL meanwhile lifts 1,000kg, and when fully equipped for an 18m lifting height weighs in at just 39kg (23kg net weight). The hoists will be…
Commercial drones are becoming more sophisticated, with models regularly released to the market created for various uses – most notably filming, but also for crowd control and entertainment displays. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpidec19_digitallr/74 www.droneseeker.co
Nordic Wristbands has launched a range of Eco wristbands introducing the most sustainable products available for festival and event organisers looking to remove single use plastics from their eco-systems. The range includes responsibly sourced bamboo, hemp and cotton wristbands, offering wristbands made out of natural, biodegradable fibres. There is also a range of recycled PET wristbands, bamboo RFID smart tags and cards to complete the range. Founder Jone Nuutinen commented: “We have thoroughly researched the sourcing of the materials, which are plant based, and manufacturing process to create biodegradable, comfortable, robust wristbands that can be branded in-line with the events’ own…
BishopSound has announced the launch of its first Line Array speaker system, the Delta Dual 8″ Passive Line Array. Simultaneously, the company announced the opening of a new dedicated demo facility, conveniently situated in the Midlands, where the Line Array and other BishopSound products can be experienced by prospective buyers. Designed and tuned in the UK, the Delta Passive Line Array BLA208 consists of 4 x Dual 8″ boxes and comes complete in a purpose-built plywood made to measure flight case. Each of the four boxes contains 2 x 8″ BishopSound Neo Drivers with 2.5″ voice coils and 2 x…
FOH Engineer Brian Hernandez and Monitor Engineer Carlos Del Valle choose the eMotion LV1 Live Mixer for both FOH and monitors as well as SoundGrid servers and an arsenal of essential Waves plugins – all for the 2019 world tour of Spanish singer, songwriter and record producer Rosalía. Acknowledged initially for her modern interpretations of flamenco music, Spanish star Rosalía has been praised by international influencers and has collaborated with J Balvin, Pharrell Williams and James Blake. Her album El Mal Querer was number-one on the sales and streaming charts and is the most listened-to album on Spotify Spain in…
The hugely popular Focus Spot Two compact moving head fixture from ADJ has been upgraded. With increased brightness thanks to a new 100W LED engine, the Focus Spot 2X model inherits all of the award-winning features of the original fixture alongside the addition of a second 6-facet prism to give lighting designers even more creative potential. ADJ’s Focus Series is a range of LED-powered moving head luminaires designed to offer the best possible combination of brightness, feature-set and build quality in the small-to-medium class. Since its launch in 2016, the series has proven immensely popular with both lighting designers and…
What first sparked your interest in the world of live events? “It all started as the best way to skip double German at school. Once I started lighting school shows with the help and guidance of my physics teacher, I was hooked and I knew it was what I wanted to do from then on. After leaving school I went to Oldham College to study Theatre Lighting and Sound. I was drawn in by the spectacle of creating shows and it became my passion rather than just a job. I haven’t looked back since.” Could you talk about the early…
Situated in London’s Covent Garden, the Grade 1 listed Royal Opera House (ROH) is one of London’s largest theatres. Housing both The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet, both world-leading companies whose productions feature the very finest national and international talent, the site’s rich history dates back to 1732 when the (then) Theatre Royal was opened. The ROH is home to an outstanding technical team, who work with cutting-edge technologies to enhance every aspect of its world-class program of events. Earlier this year, prior to staging The Munich Opera’s production of Handel’s opera Agrippina, directed by Barrie Kosky, the ROH…
Marking the popular event’s 15th anniversary, this year’s Riot Fest was successfully reinforced by Technotrix with Martin Audio MLA, WPL and WPC line arrays on four stages in Chicago’s Douglas Park. With a variety of high-powered artists ranging from Slayer, Anthrax, The Flaming Lips, Violent Femmes and Bikini Kill to The Raconteurs, Patti Smith, Wu Tang Clan and the Village People, Riot Fest offered some particular challenges in terms of controlled coverage on site and noise mitigation off site. As Technotrix Audio lead, Brent Bernhardt, pointed out: “As always, there’s a commitment to keeping off site noise to an absolute…
Luxibel is the lighting brand by AED group, which is headquartered in Belgium and has divisions in The Netherlands, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Luxibel’s fixtures have been designed and manufactured with the knowledge of AED’s professionals to meet the rigorous demands of live production while still providing very high value at an attractive price point. Each product in the Luxibel range offers unique features for a wide scope of applications; the portfolio includes blinders, expo lights, wash lights, pars, soft lights and matrix lights. Additionally, Luxibel’s new Expo Tools truss series is targeted to the exhibition market but…
Keeping pace with the ever-increasing demand for its products in Benelux, Chauvet has named highly-regarded lighting specialist Gerrit Schottert as its Senior Business Development Manager for the Netherlands. Operating out of the company’s office in Belgium, Schottert will be responsible for the CHAUVET Professional line. Schottert will report to Steven Batslé, Sales Manager Benelux for Chauvet, who said “Gerrit is a tremendous addition to our team. He has a well-deserved reputation as a professional who knows products and is determined to get the job done right for his customers. We are looking forward to working with him.” In fulfilling his…
Will Young released his seventh studio album Lexicon in June of this year, the latest milestone in a career which started with his win in the inaugural series of Pop Idol in 2002. Since then he has won two BRIT Awards and achieved global sales in excess of eight million albums, several of which have achieved multi-platinum status in the process. Young is also an author and actor, having appeared in film, in television and on stage. Shortly after the final date Martin Connolly, Senior Project Manager at Capital remarked, “The Will Young tour has just completed and the Superfly…
There is little doubt that the world of pro audio is a very different one to when NEXO founders Eric Vincenot and Michael Johnson put together the initial building blocks of the company in 1979. With endless technical advancements, customer demands and the expansion of market players, it’s testament to all the companies that have weathered the tide of change. But while speaking to various members of the team that populated the various offices, workshops and testing areas of NEXO Paris HQ, it seems one of the keys to this longevity has been adaptability. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpinov19_digitallr/92 www.NEXO-sa.com
This year SLX launched the brand-new Golden Gobo Award following its involvement with 2019’s Edinburgh Fringe. The award went to Lucy Adams’ for her professionalism and excellent technical skills whilst working with Scottish production company Underbelly. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpinov19_digitallr/96 www.slx.co.uk
Starting life as one of the most successful shows on London’s West End, We Will Rock You is now touring the UK, bringing its inimitable brand of Queen-themed entertainment to theatres up and down the country, presented by Phil McIntyre Productions. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpinov19_digitallr/22 www.queenonline.com www.stufish.com www.thenextstage-uk.com
When Milwaukee, US-based sound, lighting and video event production company Loud and Clear Productions was putting together equipment for Rebel Grace, a local country band that averages 50-60 gigs a year, it needed a package that could cope with a range of venues, from small clubs with a capacity of up to 500 to county and state fairs and summer festivals, where audiences can number over 2,000. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpinov19_digitallr/14 www.workpro.es www.blizzardpro.com
