Adlib will stage a ‘Day of Audio Excellence’ at the O2 Forum venue in London’s Kentish Town on Wednesday 2 March 2016 in association with CODA Audio and DiGiCo. The event will feature two sessions, starting at 11am and 4pm, respectively, and is designed to illustrate the power and elegance of CODA Audio’s innovative line array concepts, including the new AiRAY line array sound, together with their popular ViRAY and TiRAY systems, all of which will be working together with DiGiCo’s range of flexible control solutions. Adlib, among the UK’s leading entertainment audio specialists, is a distributor for CODA’s RAY ranges,…
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Working with event technology provider WorldStage, Projection Designers Peter Nigrini and Dan Scully implemented a unique LED video design comprised of 22 FLEXCurtain HD LED screens from PixelFLEX on the inaugural tour of musical, If/Then. “I have worked with the design team behind If/Then for a number of years, and the idea for the redesign of the tour was really driven by the wonderful impossibility of the original Broadway production,” began Nigrini. “The original design had a large 36ft by 20ft flying, tilting mirror which was absolutely fantastic, but there was no way it could go out on tour. As a…
ATK Audiotek provided sound reinforcement for Super Bowl 50, which took place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, using its custom-designed, cart-based audio system, equipped with Harman’s JBL VerTec line array loudspeakers. The system was used for the pregame performances, as well as the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the most-watched musical event of the year, headlined by Coldplay with special guest performances by Beyoncé, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. The audience for Super Bowl 50 consisted of a live stadium audience of approximately 68,500 plus 165 luxury suites and 8,500 club seats. The event was telecast on CBS and also…
The two renowned companies in touring and production become one. Cato Music and Production Park – have confirmed that they are to join forces. Touring specialists, Cato Music, will become part of the Production Park family based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The acquisition will pave the way for Production Park’s popular Backstage Academy and Cato’s specialist Roadie School, Cato Academy, to create a Centre of Excellence for training the next generation of touring and production professionals. The Cato Academy – based in South West London – is the only training centre in the world that educates future tour and production…
Over 500,000 people attended, The Experience, a mega concert at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, Nigeria. The show is an interdenominational gospel concert organised in Nigeria by The House On The Rock, a vibrant, multi-ethnic church. Organisers chose an Outline audio system to ensure that the spoken word and music by the numerous artists such Don Moen, Donnie McClurkin, Fred Hammond, Micah Stampley, Kim Burrell, Hezekiah Walker, Jessica Reedy and Sonnie Badu, were heard loud and clear by the huge crowd. Cytech World Communication were called in for the third consecutive year to handle sound production for the huge event that…
South African design company Formative was contracted by Cassper Nyovest to provide full creative direction, production and content design, show and technical production for his #fillupthedome show in Johannesburg. The Production Design was based around his very dynamic music and the creation of special ‘moments’, a process that built throughout the show, revealing different elements as the music called for them. For lighting and video control, Formative relied on an MA Lighting grandMA2. The artist’s brief was to create a live show – in impact – like some of those great ones that he himself has been inspired by. The only specific…
Messe Frankfurt, one of the world’s leading trade fair and conventions organisers, has announced the launch of Prolight + Sound Middle East, the region’s exclusive international trade and networking event dedicated to technological services for the entertainment, events, creation and media industries. The inaugural edition of Prolight + Sound Middle East 2016, will run from October 31 to November 2 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. “As an addition to the successful international Prolight + Sound brand, the trade show will provide a platform that mirrors this impressive growth trend,” explained Stephan Kurzawski, Senior Vice President,…
Maestra Group provided a complete turnkey technical solution to the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan (SMK) Emeriti Ladies Tennis Tournament in Abu Dhabi for the second consecutive year. The competition, staged in a private residence in the city, is held under the patronage of Sheikha Miriam bint Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and was founded by Sheikha Shaikha Bint Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan in 2009. Central to this year’s event was a 23 metres by five metres, 10mm outdoor LED video wall provided by Maestra and run on the company’s new Dataton 6 Watchout servers which…
The day after the TPi Awards, as part of London’s Entertainment week, there will be a seminar focussing on this year’s Eurovision Song Contests. The session will take place in the dedicated AV and Live Theatre at BVE alongside another 140 seminars over the three-day event. TPi representative Jerry Gilbert will be hosting the seminar, while special guest Ola Melzig, Technical Director Eurovision 2016, will be in attendance. The seminar will commence a 2pm on Tuesday 23 February. Information on other seminars taking place at this years BVE can be found at: http://www.bvexpo.com/seminarlist.
The rental outfit becomes the first company in South Africa to invest in Kinesys automation. MGG was founded by Mark Gaylard in early 1998, and has grown into one of the leading production solutions facilities in the country. The company has always been a proactive investor in innovative premium brands and technologies, a strategy that’s kept them at the forefront of the busy South African entertainment production industry, and that was also a driver in the Kinesys purchase, which comprises 16 LibraCELL load monitoring shackles and a fully specified D8+ 8-way DigiHoist controller, supplied via Electrosonic, the exclusive Kinesys re-seller in…
The lighting console was recently brought into country due to a new investment by leading full production solution and rental company, dB Audio Namibia, based in capital Windhoek. The company is active in all areas of corporate and entertainment live event production – from boardroom meetings to stadium concerts – which is currently a buoyant and developing sector in Namibia. dB Audio Namibia’s David Benade explained that the decision to purchase the dot2 XL-F was made by a combination of people from company’s management and lighting department, including himself and head of lighting, Desmond Coetzee. It was also dB Audio’s…
With 100% of the proceeds going to charity, the sold-out, three-day charity event was put together by NGO Everybody Love Everybody and featured a powerful Funktion One Audio rig. TPMEA reports from South Africa. Originally starting life as a one-off fundraiser to help a local orphanage, Beats in the Bush has quickly it grown into a major charity occasion and the flagship event in the organisers’ calendar. The gig happens once a year, generally over three days in the spring. Organiser Everybody Love Everybody (ELE) has hosted four Beats in the Bush events to date, with the first raising just…
Founded in 1994, the Almoe Group of Companies has various divisions focusing on distribution, integration and equipment rentals. They state that one of its core values is ‘quality, and our passion for impeccable, stellar products and services’. “We have been aware of the Chroma-Q line of LED PARs for some time, having seen them in action at various trade shows,” said Almoe’s Technical Director, Michael Fudge. “The purchase was made for our own rental stock, “We moved to LED PARs a few years back, but until now have been relying on lower end products, so these units are a direct…
UK based lighting rental company GLS was proud to have supplied lighting equipment and crew to Motörhead’s final ‘Bad Magic’ tour which ended in Berlin in December. No-one knew at the time, but that was to be the last gig for the legendary heavy metal band whose incredible 40 year career ended with the passing of its iconic leader Lemmy (Ian Fraser Kilmister) aged 70 on 28 December 2015, just two and a half weeks after he rocked Berlin at his last public show. While Lemmy’s lifestyle epitomised rock ‘n’ roll, his music inspired several generations of and genres of…
Wavelength Stageco Ltd (WSL) in Redditch, England, is a full service rental company near Birmingham with an expansion program that continues to see the company moving into the dry hire realm of the entertainment technology industry in 2016. As an important piece in that strategy, WSL has invested in Elation Professional lighting products over the past few months, a list that includes Elation SixPar 200 LED PAR lights, Colour Chorus 48 LED battens and Opti Quad Par LED colour changers, as well as Platinum Beam 5R, Platinum Spot 15R Pro and Platinum Wash ZFX moving heads. “The quality of the…
Ambersphere Solutions ran free 90-minute training sessions on the dot2, MA Lighting’s latest console. The console was designed for smaller and mid-sized projects and venues. The training sessions took place during PLASA Focus Glasgow at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC). Upon completion of the hands-on session, participants were well on the way to running their first show on the dot2 lighting console. The 90-minute intro sessions covered all the basic operational features of the dot2 console including an overview of the whole dot2 product range, before diving into controlling fixtures, creating pre-sets and cue lists. Building chases and creating and using effects were…
Sitting down to design the lighting rig for the Albany resort’s White New Year’s Eve Party, Paul Francis Aranha and his team repeated the same vow that they’ve been making every year since they began working on the annual event in 2011. Their vow: find a way to make this party more visually exciting than the last. This year, the team upped the excitement level in emphatic fashion by calling on the brilliant output and intense colours of Nexus 4×4 panels and Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional. “Albany Resort and Spectrum Light & Sound are always looking for new ways to ‘wow’…
Since Perfect Storm first launched in the summer of 2014, it has been helping educate, advise, and implement weather safety procedures for live events and transportation around the world. The team’s intricate understanding of production, when paired with their experienced meteorologists, offers an unparalleled approach to combating and protecting against Mother Nature. More than most standard weather tactics, such as basic forecasts and weather websites, Perfect Storm works together with clients to optimise productivity during the most challenging conditions by offering an accessible team, as well as twice-daily personalised reports for each location. Valuing the importance of customer service, Perfect Storm…
