Italy - Nearly 300 people attended the Illuminando le Star (Lighting the Stars) conference with Patrick Woodroffe, organised by Clay Paky in Rome. The event was sponsored by AILD, APIAS, the British Embassy in Rome and the University of ...
Tags: lighting, lighting design, lighting equipment, Woodroffe
UK - Strictly Come Dancing decamped to Wembley Arena for the second year running during Children In Need weekend. LD Mark Kenyon reports, "Having an extra two load-in days provided more time to set up, rehearse and fine tune the look for ...
Tags: Wembley Arena, lighting, ELP truss, ELP
Czech Republic - As plans advance for Showlight 2013, more top line companies are signing up as exhibitors and sponsors at Showlight 2013. With just six months to go before this quadrennial event opens in Cesky Krumlov in the Czech ...
Tags: exhibition, showlight, leader light, Philips
France - An array of Clay Paky Sharpys helped global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi launch the New Directors' Showcase at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' ...
Tags: Cannes, premieres films, light, light reflection, LEDs
UK - Multi Grammy Award-Winning Evanescence have just completed their UK arena tour. The Arkansas rockers, who released their self-titled third studio album in October last year, played four arena shows. The band kicked off the tour at ...
Tags: arena tour, moving light rig, stage, illuminate
Australia - The Footy Show, an award-winning Australian sports television programme shown on the Nine Network, is dedicated to the Australian Football League (AFL). The Grand Final edition of the show is broadcast live from Melbourne's Rod ...
Tags: LSC Lighting, consoles, moving lights, live television
When country trio Lady Antebellum wrapped the North American leg of its We Own the Night World Tour earlier this summer the band had played to a total of more than one million fans. Two dozen Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures helped light up the ...
Tags: Lady Antebellum, stage
USA - It's only a matter of weeks until PLASA Focus: Stamford 2012 shines a spotlight on the very latest entertainment technology products making their way to the tri-state Area. Now the third regional PLASA event to be held in North ...
Tags: DMX moving heads, Energy Saving, Platinum Beam, LED performance lighting
The Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You World Tour features Clay Paky Sharpys and Alpha Beam 1500 luminaires. The rock band's tour began last fall and extends into 2013. In support of their tenth studio album, I'm With You, the tour is ...
Italy - Clay Paky was once again present - as it has been for many years - at Miss Italia 2012, the number one Italian beauty contest. Lighting director Fausto Carboni used a very diverse mix of 150 Clay Paky lights, including Alpha Spot ...
Tags: video screens, LED walls, framing systems
UK - Haydn Cruickshank of London based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) has worked on some choice gigs in his time, however designing and supplying lighting for a showcase celebrating the birthday of iconic ...
Tags: moving lights, LED profile moving lights, LED fixtures
Xicato Hires Norrish for Australia-New Zealand RM Xicato announced that James Norrish has joined the company as Regional Manager for Australia and New Zealand and will lead the company's growth in a region that boasts an inspiring ...
Tags: Xicato, Norrish, lighting production
UK - Clay Paky's President and CEO Pasquale Quadri presented the lighting industry charity Light Relief with a substantial donation at this year's glittering Knight of Illumination Awards in London. Quadri, who is the 'Paky' - a ...
Tags: lighting industry, Illumination Awards, entertainment lighting fixtures
Finland - Let's Dance Finland is the spin-off of the highly popular British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide. Currently the format has been licensed to over 42 territories. As a result, the series ...
Tags: lighting and set design, control system, stage smoke, media servers
UK-Nick Gray from London-based creative lighting and design practice Renegade'imagineered'a dramatic and striking lighting ambience-both outside and inside-London's iconic Tate Modern art gallery,which hosted the new James Bond Skyfall ...
Tags: UK, Tate Modern, art gallery