disguise to open new Hong Kong office

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by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019

disguise will open their new Hong Kong office later this month which is being designed as a space for the disguise user community to connect, create and collaborate in. The new office will meet the demands of increased disguise training for the APAC region. The space will be able to cater for

ELC Lighting and Green-GO rock with Nephew

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by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019

ELC Lighting, manufacturer of the innovative dmXLAN Ethernet distribution system and the revolutionary Green-GO digital intercom solution, saw both ranges deployed with great success on the recent national tour by Danish rock band, Nephew. Provided by tour supplier Comtech, the ELC dmXLAN system included 3 x 10GBX and 2 x 18GBX

Party at Elrow with Outline

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by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019

Following last year’s success, in 2019 the RDS Stadium in Genoa (Italy) once again hosted Elrow, an electronic music festival, launched in Barcelona that revolutionized the concept of partying. With its characteristic crazy explosion of colours and masks, Elrow has become one of the most famous events of its type in

Eurovision 2019 Rules with MA Lighting System

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by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019

MA Lighting was once again the control solution of choice for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest staged at the Tel Aviv Expo Centre, Israel, which featured a stunning lighting design created by Ronen Najar and Dakar Azulay. No less than 15 grandMA2 consoles graced the FOH technical area, controlling 71,061 parameters

DiGiCo Celebrates Coachella’s 20th Anniversary

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by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019

A view of Tame Impala’s performance from the DiGiCo SD7 Quantum FOH desk at the Coachella Stage during the band’s Saturday night headlining set Although currently ranked as the globe’s fifth largest music festival, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival—or simply Coachella—remains unparalleled in terms of its prestige and status

The Hunna Back GLP Solutions

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by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019

Production designer, Tom Campbell used multiples of GLP’s award-winning impression X4 Bar 20s, as well as the new FR1 compact automated light and innovative KNV Cubes in a GLP-dominated stage when guitar-dominated band The Hunna played a small UK tour of mostly O2 Academy theatres recently. After a quiet year, in

Robe Goes Sunshine for The Kooks

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by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019

Popular UK band The Kooks have just completed the latest UK and European leg of an ongoing world tour in support of their fifth studio album, Lets Go Sunshine, which dropped late last summer and hit a Top 10 in the UK. Jordon Cooper of Moth Lights is their lighting designer

Vari-Lite’s New VL10 BeamWash gives “perfect” performance for Spanish superstar

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by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019

Lighting designer Miguel González (pictured), of Madrid-based Colorcode Studio, chose the new Vari-Lite VL10 BeamWash fixture to enhance his design for the Mexico leg of Spanish star Enrique Bunbury’s recent world tour. Running since 2017, the Expectativas tour was Bunbury's most ambitious production to date. As show designer, González’s task was

Robe Lights Strategically Placed for Eurovision 2019

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by Thomas Richard - June 8, 2019

Unashamed glitter, glamour, spandex, multicolour, bounce, camp costumes, fun and some properly superlative pop songs hit the airwaves hard and reverberated around Hall 2 of Expo Tel Aviv, Israel for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest – currently the world’s largest music television show. Lighting included nearly 300 strategically placed Robe moving

Proteus Hybrid Endures Frigid Conditions on Swarovski Crystal Worlds Festival of Light

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by Thomas Richard - June 8, 2019

Year after year, in winter, a Festival of Light at Swarovski Crystal Worlds (watch) in the Austrian town of Wattens attracts thousands of visitors. The entire park shines and sparkles in a magical interplay of light, music, and crystal and as a recurring highlight guests are treated to a special