UK - West London-based rental company, Entec Sound & Light were asked to supply lighting, trussing and rigging for a high profile one off concert by Malaysian Chinese superstar Fish Leong at Wembley Arena. Entec was working for the show's ...
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As the players - including progeny of some of Britain's theatrical elite - gathered to present Eton College's School PlayMacbeth, they colluded with a technical infrastructure worthy of professional West End theatre, including not only Out ...
Tags: TiMax2, theatrical elite, Eton College
Bandit Lites had the privilege of lighting the 31st Annual Texaco Country Showdown, the nation's largest and longest running country talent search. The event took place at The Ryman Auditorium on 17 January and was hosted by ...
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USA - The World's Largest Disco is a 7,000-person dance party featuring DJs spinning classic '70s tracks through a 300,000W sound system. Held at the Buffalo Convention Center in New York, the annual event, which traces its roots to the ...
Tags: sound system, loudspeakers, lighting, video systems
Fuelled by a significant upgrade to the original 1978 concept, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds, The New Generation as it is now known, has been playing to packed arenas throughout the UK and Northern Europe this ...
Tags: Martin MLA, War of The Worlds, Jeff Wayne
Canadian new wave /indie band, Metric, recently completed a successful tour in support of their fifth album Synthetica. Long-serving LD Ian MacDonald designed the lighting to be diverse - partly scaled to fit 1000-seat theatres, but ...
Tags: Metric, GLP, LED moving heads
Lighting designer and operator Ed Warren of Next Level Lights turned to Martin Professional's MAC Viper Profile for Mumford & Sons' Tour of Two Halves (first half theatres, second half arenas), which hit dates in the UK and Ireland in ...
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PCs were upstaged by tablets, smartphones and TVs at this year's International CES show, with some companies maintaining a smaller presence or holding back product announcements for a later date. There were fewer product announcements ...
Tags: PC, tablets, smartphones, TVs, CES show
UK - XL Video supplied full video production including LED screens, cameras / PPU and control, IMAG projection system and crew to Madness's recent sold-out UK arena tour. This capitalised on a high profile year for the band that included ...
Tags: LED screens, XL Video, video design, LED
UK - West London-based technical solutions company Entec Sound & Light continued its long working relationship with The Bootleg Beatles, the most successful and widely recognised tribute band to the legendary British musical group. Entec ...
Tags: lighting crew chief, lighting designer, lighting, Wash moving lights
UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd's Video division recently supplied a quantity of Green Hippo Hippotizer HD i7 media servers - running the latest Beta 3.2 software - to creative control and integration specialists, Fix8Group ...
Tags: arena tour, live music, events, television productions
UK - Lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment rocked into 2013 in great style supplying lighting, LED screens and lasers to two mega successful events at London's Brixton Academy venue. On New Year's Eve the sold-out ...
Tags: Lighting, LED screens, strobes, lighting instruments
Liverpool based rental specialist Adlib supplied lighting and audio for the most recent tour by vocal harmony group, The Overtones. The Higher tour played a variety of venues in a six week stint around the UK in the run up to Christmas, and ...
Tags: Liverpool, rental specialist, Adlib, lighting, audio, ViRAY system
Deep Purple lighting designer Louis Ball has just given Martin Professional's new MAC III AirFX lighting fixture a thorough workout on the definitive rock band's November / December arena outing across Europe. A classic rock 'n' roll show ...
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Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures are living up to the name of Kelly Clarkson's Stronger Tour with their punchy performance on the road. "With their very bright concentrated beam and fast effects, the Sharpys hold their own for such a little ...