The skies over Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, Montana came alive with a one-of-a-kind drone sky story during country music star Tyler Childers’ concert. Nova Sky Stories, the global pioneer drone light company supported Childers’ show to surprise fans with a true spectacle from the stage to the night sky to celebrate the closing night of his U.S. tour.
Award-winning lighting designer Sooner Routhier has been working with Coldplay since 2019 and, keeping with the effort of Coldplay’s in ushering in a new era of sustainable touring, she chose to light the band’s “Music of the Spheres” world tour using greener, more eco-friendly fixtures. The lighting vendor for the tour is a long-time partner, Upstaging.
For more than 20 years, the Airbeat One Festival has entertained fans with the harder side of electronic music with an event that features cutting-edge stage design, epic light shows and leading international DJs. Airbeat One 2024 was recently held where Lighting Designer Christopher Rostalski, CEO of CR Lichtdesign, used 130 Claypaky Tambora Linear 100 LED pixel-mapping bars for versatile lighting effects and artistic set decoration.
Entertainment Technology Partners (ETP) announces the promotion of Doug Murray to the role of Managing Partner and Executive Vice President. Murray, a prominent figure in the video technology and live event industries, will now oversee global marketing and business development efforts across all ETP brands.
Open Beatz is the largest open-air festival for electronic music in southern Germany. 2024 performers included Afrojack, Nicky Romero, Felix Jaehn, Lilly Palmer, and many more. Eventures GmbH was responsible for the lighting, sound, and video equipment on the three largest stages. Lighting Designer Tobias Reinartz (visualprime) worked with the new Cameo ORON® H2 Hybrid Phosphor Laser Moving Heads for the first time.
Recently, the Musée de l’air et de l’Espace, located next to the Paris-Le Bourget airport, sparkled during Cercle Festival 2024. At the center of the festival was a stage set up under the fuselage of Air France’s prototype Concorde, supersonic jet airliner, with the dancefloor located in in the museum space around the aircraft. Enhancing this immersive setting on a multitude of levels was an inspired lighting design by Steph Viallon that featured 55 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M motorized strobe-washes provided by Magnum.
Robe is using the buzz and hustle of the 2024 PLASA London expo to launch four new important and super-cool products – the iFORTE Fresnel, the PAINTE Fresnel, the SVOPATT and the SVB1.
The new ‘Robe Live’ expo production performance extravaganza will be premiered on stand A70 – “The Fifth Dimension”, featuring three live performers, LOTS of tech and heaps of imagination – guaranteed to be another blockbusting crowd magnet on the show floor.
ROE Visual enthusiastically anticipates participating in the IBC Exhibition, taking place from 13-16 September 2024, at the RAI in Amsterdam. Positioned at stand B26 in Hall 7, ROE Visual will present its latest products and technologies, highlighting its key contributions to the broadcast and film industries.
Follow-Me BV, the Dutch manufacturer of 3D performer tracking solutions for the AV and entertainment industries, announces the launch of its Follow-Me Track-iT Weatherproof Anchor.… Read More »Follow-Me Launches Track-iT Weatherproof Anchor at PLASA Show 2024
The Star Theatre, the main venue at The Star Performing Arts Centre, has invested in a quantity of Ayrton Huracán Wash fixtures supplied by Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for the region, Total Solution Marketing. The Huracán Wash units will become a fixed installation as part of the permanent lighting rig and mark the second investment in Ayrton for the venue.
Building on its growing profile in the UK market, AV Stumpfl will make its debut at the PLASA Show in London on 1–3 September 2024. The Austrian manufacturer, which recently opened a dedicated office in London for its PIXERA media server brand, will exhibit on stand A67, with staff from both its UK and Austria offices on hand throughout the show to demonstrate the power of PIXERA and catch up with industry friends and old new.