UK - London -based event production company Halo has added 24 x Robe Painte moving lights to its rental inventory, which were delivered in September following the PLASA professional lighting and sound expo by the team at Robe UK.
These are added to Halo’s existing lighting rental inventory, which already includes several other Robe moving lights – Pointes, MegaPointes, Spikies, Spikie+s, Spiiders, and LEDBeam 150s – all of which have been purchased in the last six years.
Halo’s CEO Yann Guenancia and his team including hire manager Andrew Luck made the decision after considering various options and receiving a demo of the Painte fixtures at Halo.
Yann stated, “We needed a premium ‘LED spot’ and a compact hard-edged luminaire to add to our inventory and, having enjoyed so much success with Robe’s Pointe and Spiider fixtures, we concluded that PAINTE would be a perfect complement.”
Halo’s new fixtures went straight to work on several events including the 2024 Kite Festival staged at London’s Abbey Road Studios, an event uniting a collection of thinkers and performers for two days and nights of music, ideas, and inspiring conversations.
Halo's production manager for the event, Tom Canning, noted that it was the first large production project for the new Paintes, which were gigged in Abbey Road’s Studio 2, used to illuminate the walls and ceilings. “The gobos are great and having the Paintes on the rigs offered us plenty of creative scope over the long weekend," he commented.
The Paintes have been used for multiple other Halo supplied events and productions like the Music Photography Awards, also at Abbey Road Studios, the movie premiere of Salem’s Lot at London’s Regent Street Cinema and for Soho House White City’s Halloween celebrations.