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No stage fright for Ayrton Ghibli for its debut at Garsington Opera

Ghibli LED Profile spot luminaire in opera debut at UK prestigious Garsington Opera Festival. 24 fixtures were chosen for quality of light and noiseless operation.

Text Ayrton. Photos Johan Persson & Clive Barda.

Novelty France, Magnum & Dushow Group: new european leader

Official announcement of the Dushow Group takeover by the Novelty Group, following the final agreement from the french competition authority. This strategic 200 million EUR deal has been validated unanimously by the representative bodies of the staff as well.

Text & photos : Novelty Group.

Robert Juliat fixtures tune in for Moscow’s new Zaryadye Concert Hall

29 RJ 325LF Cin’k and 20 RJ 326LFV Cin’k Fresnel tungsten fixtures, 20 RJ 710 SX2 and 12 RJ 711 SX2 profile tungsten lanterns, 24 RJ D’Artagnan 930SNX 2500W discharge profile lanterns, and 4 RJ Victor 1800W HMI followspots with dedicated DMX control.

Text and photos : Robert Juliat

Ayrton MagicDot-XT diamond formation for Lenny Kravitz’s Raise Vibration

The Lenny Kravitz 2018 Raise Vibration tour features a stage show being a large and lively affair with lighting designer, Leroy Bennett, incorporating 224 of Ayrton’s MagicDot XT fixtures into his multi-layered design.

ROBE T1 PROFILE : stage ready !

New ROBE T1 Profile is a versatile spot/profile moving head for the Theater and TV markets. Variable CRI and fine tuning of color temperature, thanks to its 5 chromatic components led engine including RGB+Amber+Lime.
Text : Bruno P. Souchaud. Photos : Allison Cussigh.

Meyer Sound LEO Family Soars on Bandito Tour with Twenty One Pilots

Rock icons Twenty One Pilots blazed across the U.S.A. on sellout “Bandito Tour”, featuring visual pyrotechnics with potent audio delivered by a 138-loudspeaker Meyer Sound LEO Family system supplied by VER Tour Sound in partnership with Concert Investor.
Text & photos : Meyer Sound.

160 Elation Proteus Hybrid Radiate at Parookaville Festival

LD Robert Sommer of POOLgroup praises aesthetic, performance, dust protection of IP65 Elation Proteus Hybrid that radiated the Parookaville festival. For this occasion, 160 of them were used amongst his setup.

Text : Elation. Photos: © Lars Böske.

ASTERA Titan Tube : un futur tube ?

Astera : Titan Tube, a tetanizing fixture

Titan Tube, a tetanizing fixture. Latest model in Astera complete range of wireless and battery operated projectors, this lighting tube with high CRI and high quality of light is mainly designed for cinema sets, but can also be used in a variety of Live applications.

Text and photos : Tristan Szylobryt. Translation : Bruno P. Souchaud.

Dan Hadley rocks Ayrton MagicPanel-FX with Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold

For iconic rock band Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold world tour. LD Dan Haley's lighting rig gave prominence to 36 Ayrton MagicPanel-FX square faced LED fixtures rigged on 12 floating ladders, constantly moving to reconfigure and reshape the architecture of the stage.

Text & photos : Ayrton.

Mighty MDG Goes Walking with Dinosaurs

Arena spectacular Walking with Dinosaurs, need all the haze and low fog they can get. They chose to go for MDG with three ATMe™ haze generators and three ICE FOG™ Compack HP low fog generators, all supplied by Sonalyst,

Text : MDG. Photos : Patrick Murphy & Kate Lyon.

Work Pro expands international sales channels for LightShark … what is it, by the way ?

Work Pro expands international sales channels for LightShark ... and SoundLightUp kindly reminds you of what are the true innovations of this tablet-based nifty "little" console, compact indeed, but with all the needed bells and whistles for easy and fast programming.

Text and Photos : Work Pro and Tristan Szylobryt.

Chemical High for MegaPointes

Chemical High for MegaPointes

The Chemical Brothers have played a fantastic visual experience shows created by Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall. Robe’s MegaPointes also made their presence felt and constitute a first big Robe purchase for the rental company Lite Alternative.

Text et Photos Robe

LCR Raises the Alarm with Chroma-Q Color Force II for Bloc Party

LCR Raises the Alarm for Bloc Party with Chroma-Q Color Force II. Two Chroma-Q Color Force II LED battens were placed at the top and bottom of each of the five individual cyc panels spaced apart by Ryan Hopkins,LD & Director of Lights Control Rigging.

Text : Chroma-Q. Photos : © Lindsay Cave @loosplat

Final Ecodesign consultation period

The EU Commission has released a revised version of the proposed Ecodesign and energy labelling regulations that exempt a large number of significant tungsten lamps used in the entertainment, but there are still some important areas that need to be addressed.

Text : PEARLE

Lancelot rides with Iron Maiden

Robert Juliat is very excited that Robert Coleman, lighting designer for Iron Maiden, specified 6 (not 666!) Robert Juliat Lancelot 4000W HTI followspots for the band’s current Legacy of the Beast World Tour.
Text: Robert Juliat
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