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Stage and Lighting Design for ‘The Eurovision Song Contest’ 2024 Revealed; Fredrik Stormby Announced as the Lighting and Screen Content Designer

Fredrik Stormby from Sweden-based design studio Green Wall Designs, has been revealed as the Lighting and Screen Content Designer for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden. Stormby will join the senior production team along with Production Designer Florian Wieder, to help create, design, and deliver a large-scale and spectacular show to a global audience of over 160 million.

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GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre Boosts Robe Inventory

GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre. Photo by Louise Stickland.

GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre (GR) is a bustling 23-hall venue operating in the middle of the Slovenian capital, hosting a variety of national and international expos and trade fairs. It is also used for television productions, special live events, and some music concerts.Read More »GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre Boosts Robe Inventory

Alec Morris Uses Obsidian NX1 Console on Steve Hackett ‘Foxtrot at 50’ Tour

Alec Morris from Anthrolight Productions in the UK embarked on a North American tour this fall with English guitarist and ex-Genesis member Steve Hackett, illuminating the performances using an NX1 lighting console from Obsidian Control Systems. The 31-show tour, Foxtrot at 50, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Genesis’s Foxtrot album, kicked off on October 3 in Montreal and concluded on November 18 in Los Angeles. It marked Morris’s first time designing and operating lighting for the legendary guitarist, with Tour Manager Adrian Holmes overseeing the logistics.Read More »Alec Morris Uses Obsidian NX1 Console on Steve Hackett ‘Foxtrot at 50’ Tour

Robe PAINTES the Globe

The Globe is a 2,200 square meter multipurpose event venue at the heart of Durban’s award-winning Suncoast entertainment and leisure complex in South Africa. It’s one of KZN’s and the country’s most popular event spaces … and recently took delivery of new Robe PAINTE and LEDWash 600+ moving lights. The new fixtures are part of an ongoing upgrade program that ensures the venue systems stay abreast of the latest and most appropriate production technologies to offer their clients and guests, and were delivered by Robe’s South African distributor, DWR.Read More »Robe PAINTES the Globe

PROLIGHTS Mosaico range turns Sondrio into a captivating Forest of Lights 

Sondrio has been transformed into an enchanting Christmas landscape with a mesmerizing light show, made possible by the PROLIGHTS Mosaico range image projectors. The project, managed by the communication agency Sviluppo Creativo and the rental company Liteo Tech, turned Campello square into a captivating snowy setting with projections of the Enchanted Forest, created using the PROLIGHTS Mosaico and Mosaico L projectors.

Joker Out for Robe

Slovenian indie rockers Joker Out are the hottest musical act of the moment in this lively, beautiful, and dynamic European country. Formed in 2016, 2023 has been a mega-busy year with lots of touring shows, representing Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK, and recently playing a show-stopping sold-out performance at Ljubljana’s biggest arena venue, Stožice, which was lit by Klemen Krajnc, part of the Blackout design studio. This was an all-Robe moving light rig – with 100 Robe luminaires breaking down as 32 MegaPointes, 64 Spiiders, 19 LEDBeam 150s, and 13 FORTES plus a quantity of strobes and LED floods.Read More »Joker Out for Robe

Lighting Designer Joshua Schultz Goes Full-Ayrton with his Rig for The Turnpike Troubadours’ U.S. Tour

Country-bluegrass band The Turnpike Troubadours are continuing their hit U.S. A Cat in the Rain Tour with Ayrton Zonda 9 FX and Zonda 3 FX LED moving head washes, Bora LED beams, and washes, and Khamsin LED profiles dominating the rig. The tour, which kicked off last summer, follows the August release of the band’s album of the same name.  It wraps at the iconic Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, TX just before New Year’s Eve.Read More »Lighting Designer Joshua Schultz Goes Full-Ayrton with his Rig for The Turnpike Troubadours’ U.S. Tour

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Ceremony Shines with 4Wall and CHAUVET Professional

Four hours and twenty-two minutes is quite a long time; about an hour longer than it takes to fly from New York to Miami, almost twice as long as the average NBA game, and even longer than Bruce Springsteen’s longest show, a four-hour-and-six-minute performance that took place in Helsinki in 2012.Read More »Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Ceremony Shines with 4Wall and CHAUVET Professional

Rockefeller Studios Announces The Rock Shop, a Props and Puppet Production Studio Now Available to Outside Organizations

Rockefeller Studios (Jonathan Rockefeller, Founder) announces that The Rock Shop, a leading props and puppet production studio with years of expertise and over 1,500 items created for a slate of international productions, is making its service available to outside organizations.Read More »Rockefeller Studios Announces The Rock Shop, a Props and Puppet Production Studio Now Available to Outside Organizations

Jackson Browne Takes to the Road with Bandit Lites

Jackson Brown on stage. (Photo by Chris Stuba)

Music legend Jackson Browne recently wrapped up another successful tour, including four back-to-back performances at New York’s Beacon Theatre with long time lighting provider, Bandit Lites. Bandit supplied lighting designer Chris Stuba with a package consisting of Ayrton Ghibli, Chauvet Rogue R2X Washes, Elation SEVEN Batten 72, Martin MAC Viper Profiles, Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600, and VL 3600 Spots. Read More »Jackson Browne Takes to the Road with Bandit Lites