From its roots in gospel, soul, disco and house music the 51st State Festival showcases the technicoloured heritage of dance. This year, held in Copthall Playing Fields in London, the festival’s production team were tasked with minimising noise pollution and adverse impacts on the local community, whilst elevating the audience experience across seven stages. Southby Productions and Three Spire Acoustics collaborated with a full suite of d&b tools to ensure they had the appropriate components to deliver a memorable show for the right ears, and not the wrong ones. Copthall Playing Fields was a new location for the festival and…
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Full Production has announced a new strategic partnership with Coventry-based Avion TSL. The partnership will see both companies benefit from the sharing of premises, resources and expertise, enabling the delivery of a stronger and faster service to a broader range of clients in the UK and beyond. Founded in 2010, Full Production has worked on a variety of top-flight events in recent years, from touring exhibitions and awards shows, to television, festivals and other special events. Drawing on a network of skilled designers, project managers and crew, the company prides itself on its central ethos of ensuring the customer’s vision…
Elation Professional continues to expand its award-winning Proteus line of IP65-rated luminaires with the extraordinary Proteus Brutus, a powerful 70,000-lumen LED wash FX fixture capable of high intensity washes and piercing narrow beams that can cut through at tremendous distances. Available now and shipping, the Proteus Brutus is the brightest lighting fixture that Elation has ever produced. “When real brute-force power is needed, the Proteus Brutus can deliver,” stated Elation Product Manager, Matthias Hinrichs. “It provides designers the power to cover huge areas across long distances but it also houses gorgeous colours, a complete FX system and even optional framing…
MTV VMAs (Video Music Awards) 2022 was staged at the Prudential Center in Newark, New York, and lit for the third year by Tom Sutherland of DX7 Design, who utilised 229 Robe fixtures among others on a vast lighting rig. Sutherland collaborated with Set Designer, Heather Shaw of Vita Motus; Camera Director, Liz Clare; Creative Director, Paul Caslin; Screen Producer, Trevor Burke of Visual Noise Creative and Executive Producers, Bruce Gillmer, Jesse Ignjatovic and Barb Bialkowski to help craft the show. The stage design featured two triangular-shaped stages built at the long ends of the arena with LED floors and each…
Rounding out the Encore Lime Par Series of wash fixtures, which utilise high CRI lime-infused four-in-one colour mixing LEDs, ADJ is pleased to introduce the Encore Z7LP. The Encore Z7LP’s light source comprises seven high output four-in-one colour mixing LEDs that include individually controllable red, green, blue and lime elements. Each LED is rated at 20W, allowing the fixture to deliver a soft-edged wash with 2,500 lumens of total output. Inclusion of the Lime LED element boosts CRI and perceived brightness as well as filling in gaps in the colour spectrum. The unit’s overall CRI is 84, while its CRI…
Epic Games is releasing the new Broadcast and Live Events Field Guide and kicks off Broadcast and Live Events: Steal the Show – a week of unique content featuring production stories from the field, the breakdown of a cutting-edge virtual production broadcast studio build for Fox Sports, and Unreal Service Partners highlights. The Broadcast and Live Events Field Guide includes over 80 pages of production-proven tips from Creative Works London, Disguise, Illuminarium, Moment Factory, Myreze, The The Carolina Panthers, The Weather Channel, XR Studios, and others showcasing real-time workflows for live sporting events, concerts, news, AR-enhanced broadcasts, and more. Broadcast and live…
With just under two weeks to go until Vision: 2025s Sustainable Event Summit, all of the sessions and speakers, including thought leaders, industry experts and policy makers have been confirmed. They will be sharing their insights, to inform and inspire outdoor event sustainability action, at an information filled, free to attend event. Hosting the day, Vision: 2025 steering Group Member, Graham Brown commented: “I’m excited by the launch of new resources and the range of speakers at this years’ summit. Future Festival Tools and The Green Events Code could be game-changers if we can inspire industry-wide adoption – and given the…
Pyhimys staged a three-hour performance to remember at Helsinki’s Ice Hall in September 2022, designed to celebrate his 20 years of industry success. Key to the show was categorised themes recalling milestone career moments, with cleverly created graphics taking the audience on a journey through time. At the core of the visuals was a Hippotizer Boreal+ media server, programmed and operated by the team at Visual45. A focus of the stage design was a large, semi-transparent upstage LED screen made up of ROE Visual Vanish8 panels, with two smaller IMAG screens stage left and right, consisting of MC9. The back…
The Roadie Cookbook has raised thousands for Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training for professional touring crew. The Roadie Cookbook was curated during the first lockdown by Production Manager, Nick Gosling; Production Coordinator, Julie Cotton; Band Assistant, Athena Caramitsos; Backline Technician, Rich House and industry publicist, Kel Murray. The unique book showcases a collection of 50 recipes, anecdotes and advice from seasoned touring professionals working at all levels. It features contributors who have toured with Dolly Parton, Bryan Ferry, Chemical Brothers, Kylie Minogue – the list goes on. Today, on World Mental Health Day, the friends can now reveal the…
Ultra Europe in Split, Croatia featured four RTI NANO 100 laser systems on its main stage this year. The lasers – with 100W RGB whitelight power – boast a tight and highly visible beam that remains the same over a long distance. Visitors reported the lasers still being visible on the mountains at around 20KM distance. RTI NANO 100 is equipped with a professional, high speed scanning system that allows a scan speed of up to 38kpps @ 8° ILDA, which makes it graphics capable, too. This is possible due to technical developments based on the successful RSL laser source…
Southern California’s BNE Productions has invested in PK Sound T10 robotic line source system. Headquartered in Los Angeles, BNE is a longtime PK Sound partner and is now making T10 and Trinity Black robotic systems available to clients in the SoCal region and beyond. “BNE was founded to deliver the PK Sound experience in our region, and we’ve been fortunate to grow in tandem with them over the years,” read a statement from BNE Productions’ ownership. “We’re excited to now offer PK’s robotic technology as a PK Alliance Member, giving our clients access to the most advanced and sophisticated line…
frame:work is a brand-new community event series conceptualised by Laura Frank, Luke Malcolm, Soren West and Elliott Dunwody, who have a collective career experience spanning decades across multiple sectors. The first event will take place at London’s CodeNode on 3 and 4 November 2022. frame:work:london has partnered with Bild Studios to present the two-day conference to the industry. The event will host conversations around the unique challenges of creating video for physical spaces, live performance and virtual worlds. Laura Frank, frame:work co-founder, who began her own career as a touring lighting programmer for Madonna and David Bowie before moving into…
Four accomplished lighting designers – LeRoy Bennett, Roland Greil, Peter Morse, Charles B. ‘Cosmo’ Wilson – are joining the The LIT Lighting Design Awards (LIT Awards) judging board. For the sixth consecutive year, the programme is honouring the efforts of the talented international lighting product designers and lighting implementers. With a fast-growing interest, and an increase of projects submitted from the “entertainment lighting” industry, LIT has invited new jury members to join the LIT Lighting Design Awards. With decades of experience creating some of the biggest concert productions, LeRoy Bennett is a lighting and stage director who began his career designing stage productions…
Lee House has been appointed to the position of Operations Director at Ambersphere Solutions. House joined the Ambersphere sales department in 2013, following a successful career in technical sales and product management. His commitment and ability to understand all things technical has been a significant factor in Ambersphere Solutions’ growth. His new role will involve him taking on some additional responsibilities and is also recognition of the wide-ranging role he already has. Ambersphere Solutions Managing Director, Glyn O’Donoghue, commented on the move: “Lee and I have worked together for more than 15 years, and I am so pleased that he…
11 October sees Andy May, longtime FOH Engineer for Status Quo and other high profile artists, hosting a free live sound masterclass to celebrate the launch of the new Yamaha PA demo space at the guitarguitar store in Glasgow. With branches in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Birmingham, London and Epsom, guitarguitar is a key destination for musicians throughout the UK. As well as instruments, the company also sells a comprehensive range of equipment for every aspect of both live and studio production. The new PA demo space is the result of a shared vision between guitarguitar and Yamaha Pro Audio, showcasing…
ADJ has expanded its sales team in Germany through the recruitment of industry professional, Daniel Danzer. With over 25 years of experience in the sales and distribution of entertainment lighting equipment, as well as a long-established relationship with ADJ, Danzer is uniquely placed to augment the company’s existing sales force in the country. Having started in the business in 1994, Danzer has a wealth of experience in all aspects of the audio and lighting industry. Beginning his career – as so many in the industry did – as a mobile DJ, he quickly progressed into event production, systems integration and,…
Time was on Cosmo Wilson’s mind on 8 September 2022 when he lit Aerosmith’s pandemic-postponed 50th Anniversary Concert at Boston’s iconic Fenway Park. The band’s longtime LD not only transcended time by creating powerful looks that harkened back to the early days of his client’s storied career, he also had called on his considerable bag of tricks to beat the clock when setting up a massive rig for a one-off at a major league baseball stadium. “Time was a challenge,” said Wilson. “There was a limited amount of it to set up at the stadium because of the Boston Red…
Following a successful 2022 show, registration is now open for Integrated Systems Europe (ISE 2023). The show will be a launchpad for a wealth of new technology, offer a thought-provoking conference programme, and will feature headline keynote sessions throughout the week. What’s more, with just under four months until opening day, ISE 2023 already has over 52,000 sqm of space booked, over 30% more than the exhibitor space in 2022. ISE brings together the core sectors that make up the global AV and systems integration industry. So far, over 700 companies are already committed to exhibiting, and alongside long-standing flagship…
