GLS Lighting in Southampton, part of the HSL Group family, has made a significant investment in over 200 new fixtures from leading manufacturer German Light Products (GLP), adding to its already extensive hire inventory in the South. The new equipment will be based at and available from GLS’s facility near London, and will also be available from all the HSL equipment banks across the UK and Ireland – currently Blackburn, Belfast and Dublin – in addition to Southampton. “The large investment is a direct result of increased trading during the first half of the year, and a strong order book…
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Milos has announced a new promotion for its range of Mobiltechlifts, offering a free transportation wheel kit with every purchase. The promotion started on 1 July and is set to continue until the end of September. To support the three-month promotion, Milos will be releasing a series of media including a product range video and expert instructional video by Marc Hendricks. The videos will be made available on the Milos website from 3 August and 24 August respectively. Mobiltechlifts are compact manual hand-winch and telescopic mast sections for close to ground lifting. With integrated wheels with brakes and rubber feet…
Miranda Lambert is currently touring North America on her Keeper of the Flame tour, with 27 Robe BMFL fixtures – 19 Spots and eight Blades – making up a new lighting design by Minneapolis-based Paul Guthrie, his first for the artist. Guthrie’s design features five wood-framed columns of LED screens alternated with six bentwood lighting towers on floor bases. Above this are five upstage/downstage trussing ‘fingers’ and two standard straight trusses. “I wanted the whole stage to have a straightforward and clean look and to ensure the LED blended seamlessly into the environment rather than being stark, obvious and contrasty,”…
Monitor Engineer Arron James Smith has been using a DiGiCo S21 console as he works with Bat For Lashes on the promotional tour for her new album The Bride, a three-date run of churches and cathedrals in the UK and her appearances on Europe’s summer festival circuit. “With Bat For Lashes I’m working with some great musicians,” said Smith. “The church gigs went amazingly and Glastonbury was great, too, particularly considering the weather. There was a fantastic audience there.” Smith runs the console with 40 inputs and 12 outputs. He has been using a D-Sub DMI card in the back…
Lighting Designer Johnathan Galicia has sought the help of Chauvet Professional for Mexican pop duo Ha*Ash’s Primera Fila tour. Galicia built his tour rig around 12 Next NXT-1 moving LED panels from Chauvet Professional, supplied by Meridian Pro. “Creating the lighting design for the Ha*Ash Primera Fila tour represented several challenges,” said Galicia. “Due to the enormous success Ha*Ash has achieved, the tour has had to have a fairly tight schedule. Most of the times, our concert venues are separated by several hundreds of miles, so logistics to move the rig are demanding.” Galicia positions the Next NXT-1 panels on…
Complete Audio featured on the main stage at this year’s Kosmonaut Festival in Saxony, Germany. The company fielded its Martin Audio MLA system for the event. The sound system was designed by Benny Franke. The main PA consisted of two main hangs of 11 MLAs and two MLD Downfills per side, with frontfills handled by Martin Audio W8LMD line array tops. The subs consisted of a broadside array of 20 MLXs along the front apron. www.martin-audio.com
J&C Joel has announced a new board structure, with Sales Director Fiona Blackett stepping down from the board and her directorial position after deciding to return to her native Australia. She will remain with the company in a Business Development role. Blackett said: “After 14 years it is time to go home. Over the years the company has grown and changed dramatically. We now have offices worldwide and work on projects providing not only fabrics and drapery, but have now become a leading stage machinery integrator for theatres and events around the world. I am very proud to have been…
Allen & Heath’s dLive digital mixing system recently appeared at Jarocin Festival in Poland. The festival featured performances from bands such as Sweet Noise, The Prodigy, Acid Drinkers, Slayer and Hunter. The FOH Engineer for Hunter, Marcin Płoński, requested a dLive for the band’s performance on the main stage. www.allen-heath.com
Audio company Adamson Systems Engineering has announced an expansion of its management team at their global headquarters in Port Perry, Canada. Benoit Cabot has been promoted to Director of R&D, while Marc Weber joins in a Director capacity to launch a new Product and Brand Management division. They join Director James Oliver to continue the strengthening of a young leadership team that has been described as ‘instrumental’ in the increased visibility of the brand. “Our product vision has endured generations and we’ve built a management team that will lead it through many more,” explained Brock Adamson, Founder and President of…
As part of the raft of new products released for 2016, Ayrton has launched the MagicDot-SX as the next in its new SX range. MagicDot-SX is a compact, hybrid version of Ayrton’s MagicDot-R, which was awarded LDI Product of the Year 2016 in the effects category. It combines the qualities of the MagicDot-R with the added features of a zoom capability and Lumen Radio wireless connectivity. The product’s newly-developed 8:1 optical zoom has a fixed transmitting lens, no visible moving parts, and delivers a zoom range of 5° to 40°. With its 94mm diameter collimator positioned close to the transmitting…
During his Keine Panik (No Panic) tour, German rock icon Udo Lindenberg celebrated his 70th birthday, and provided quite the visual spectacle for fans. His stage incorporated, amongst other attractions, jugglers, acrobats, a giant pink piano, a children’s choir, and a jam-packed set list with over 30 songs. The tour took in 16 concerts, with Lindenberg visiting the likes of Stuttgart, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne. The man responsible for the lighting design was another veteran, Günter Jäckle, who has worked as LD for other German superstars such as Herbert Grönemeyer, Nina Hagen and Peter Maffay. Together with GLP, Günter Jäckle…
Coda Audio recently engaged Decima as its distributor in Italy. The relationship came about as a result of one of Decima’s customers remarking on the quality of Coda system they had heard in action. Curious to find out more, Decima representatives approached Coda Audio and were invited to a system demonstration in Hannover. CEO of Decima, Enzo Trovato, commented: “We were blown away by the power and clarity we experienced at the demo. In theatre installations audio is not necessarily something that is a regular feature of every job but we work on a variety of other fixed installations and…
Legendary German rock band Scorpions has embarked on its latest world tour, with Roland Beckerle serving as Tour Production Manager and Olaf Schröter as Production Director. Günter Jäckle designed the show’s set and Rainer Becker designed lighting. Manfred Nikitser, Associated Lighting Designer and Director, completes the team. Nikitser chose two MA Lighting grandMA2 full-size desks, one grandMA2 light, two MA VPU and MK2 video processing units, two MA NPU network processing units and two MA network switches. The lights used consist of 36 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20’s, eight Sharpy Wash 330’s, 10 Mythos units and 20 Stormy CCs. “The…
Continuing its long-term relationship with live event production company LarMac Live, PRG XL Video supplied live video technology including outdoor LED screens and a camera system for this year’s edition of Field Day. The two-day event takes place at Victoria Park in East London, and featured an eclectic line-up including Air, John Grant, Anna Meredith, The Avalanches, and headliners James Blake and PJ Harvey. To ensure the capacity audience of 30,000 had the best view of the main stage, PRG XL Video were called in to supply an IMAG package, which consisted of three HD cameras and a Panasonic AV-HS450…
Mash Media has announced the launch of its 2017 campaign for the Event Production Show (EPS). According to Event Director Duncan Siegle, the For Every Event campaign, alongside the show’s new logo, signifies the progression and sector-wide appeal of the two-day event, which will be held at Olympia London in March next year. The show is now in its 27th year, and Duncan Siegle commented on the changing nature of the events world: “Back then, this event was very much based around the outdoor market. While this remains a core focus, the reality is that the big outdoor production has been…
Backstage Academy, part of the University of Bolton, has received a donation of a fully refurbished 6mm Barco LED display from digiLED to assist students on their BA Hons Visual Production course. The donation came about after a digiLED screen was purchased to upgrade an installation at a site in Canary Wharf, leaving the fully functioning Barco display in need of redeployment. In response to this, digiLED took the modules to their Dorking warehouse where they were refurbished and then stored, before contacting course leader Shannon Harvey at the university. The Visual Production degree, a three-year specialist design course, was developed…
The Hall & Oates 2016 tour kicked off this year at New York’s Madison Square Garden and will continue through the summer. Nashville based Morris, in collaboration with famed designer Jesper Luth, provided the production and lighting design, which features 140 Solaris Mozart fixtures. “While these lights are small in scale, they make an incredible impact, encompassing both performers in light and creating a warm, asymmetrical backdrop for the show,” said Jessica Charlton of Morris. The Mozart fixtures also made an appearance when Morris provided lighting and audio for the 2016 NHL All-Star Weekend in January. At five by five inches…
PRG XL Video has upgraded its inventory of Barco projectors in an effort to provide greater flexibility of use across all the market sectors it serves. The upgrade sees HDX-W14 14k projectors transformed to HDX-W20 FLEX units, and HDF-W26 26k projectors becoming HDF-W30 FLEX units. The stock of 14k projectors was purchased in early 2015, with the units being selected for their upgradability. As the demand for higher brightness projection increases, work has begun on unlocking the units’ FLEX capabilities. The upgrade process involves unlocking the units via a license key, which then enables the power to be increased to the…
