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28 August 2025

USA - Bandit Lites has announced new hires and internal promotions that strengthen the marketing and integration business services teams.

Matt Holton joins Bandit Lites as marketing & media coordinator, bringing over a decade of professional experience in video production, motion graphics, storytelling, and client relations. He has produced hundreds of videos and multimedia campaigns, managing projects from concept through final delivery, and has worked closely with designers and copywriters to create cohesive, engaging content.

“I couldn’t be happier with my position here at Bandit! The ability to flex my creative storytelling skills daily in such a cool, fascinating industry makes this a dream job!” said Holton.

Brianna Byars joins Bandit Lites as an administrative assistant with a focus in marketing. She brings a strong backgroun

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27 August 2025

Paraguay - A large complement of Claypaky lighting fixtures illuminated the opening ceremony of the second Junior Pan American Games 2025 in Asuncion, Paraguay. Lighting designer Gaspar Potocnik of Cue Uno selected an impressive total of 340 Claypaky fixtures for the event, with a special focus on 84 Sharpy Plus hybrid beams and 40 Midi-B compact moving heads. The rig also featured 162 Mythos 2 and 54 Stormy CC colour strobes. They were provided by Estudio 69 in Paraguay and PRG in Argentina.

The games, which are staged every four years, were held from 9-23 August with young athletes from 41 countries across Latin America participating in 28 sports. The opening ceremony took place in the Estadio Ueno Defensores del Chaco and incorporated artistic performances and tableaux showcasing the nation’s rich Guarani heritage, one of the pillars of Paraguayan cultu

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27 August 2025

Italy - The latest series of Italian talent show Nuova Scena - Rhythm + Flow Italia – which scouts out some of the best rising star rappers – kicked off to an electric start with a launch party staged at famous Milan live music venue and nightspot, Fabrique, complete with a dazzling lightshow created, programmed and delivered by Sergio Cattaneo of design studio Cue s.r.l.

Fabrique has a complete Robe moving light rig installed, featuring over 150 moving lights – a mix of Fortes, MegaPointes, LEDBeam 150s, Spiiders, TetraXs, Tetra2s, Paintes and Pointes all supplied by Robe’s Italian distributor, RM Multimedia through the venue’s resident in-house technical provider, For Sound.

Sergio made the most of all these fixtures, and additional LEDBeam 350s further augmented the lighting rig with 24 x Robe SVB1s and four HolyPATTS, supplied

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27 August 2025

USA/Europe - ETC has announced the release of Eos v3.3, the latest free software update for its flagship Eos Family of entertainment controllers. Eos v3.3 is packed with a variety of powerful new features and enhancements, including Expansion Processing, improvements to Magic Sheets and additions throughout the system. Eos v3.3 empowers designers, programmers, and technicians to push the creative boundaries of their work.

Expansion Processing allows productions to divide the workload of large rigs across multiple devices. With Expansion Processing, you can scale output as needed, add temporary output to your existing system for a single show, or distribute processing loads across large spaces. Expansion Processing utilises multi-console synchronisation to keep the system moving in time, making it ideal for commercial productions, film and studios, themed ent

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26 August 2025

UK - This year’s PLASA Show (7-9 September, Olympia, London) will debut a new Careers and Networking Hub, which the show’s organisers say is set to be “a vibrant, inclusive space designed to support early-career professionals, apprentices, students, and anyone seeking their next step in the live entertainment and events industry”.

A collaboration between PLASA, The Power of Events, Production Futures, and Access Industry, the hub will feature: speed networking sessions with top industry professionals; professional development support, including CV and LinkedIn reviews and free headshots (limited availability); live talks and panel sessions exploring careers and opportunities in live events; and a welcoming lounge space with comfortable seating and coffee, open to all ages and experience levels.

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26 August 2025

World - The latest issue of LSi is out now, and can be read online for free here.

This issue is packed with stories from across the live entertainment tech world. Ian Cullen reports on Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism tour, exploring how crew wellbeing sits at the heart of its ambitious production. Rob Halliday visits Chris Ewington’s Manchester workshop to discover a unique new piece of visual technology, while Phil Ward meets the audio team behind Kraftwerk’s Jazzopen performance. We also take you backstage at the National Theatre for Sondheim’s Here We Are, and at London’s Duke of York’s theatre for Stereophonic, complete with a classic Cadac console on st

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26 August 2025

Italy - Sitting some 50km south of Pisa and set in the Tuscan countryside, the Teatro del Silenzio was designed by architect Alberto Bartalini using a natural amphitheatre adjacent to Andrea Bocelli’s home-town of Lajatico. Produced by City Sound & Events, recent shows by the celebrated Italian tenor marked the 20th anniversary of this performance space.

Lighting designer Alberto Negri, who used Ayrton Mamba, Domino S and Cobra fixtures in his design, explains how they fitted into the production which was adapted to maximise the location’s singular beauty: “The production and I aimed to minimise the visual impact of the technical setup – since the audience enters as early as the afternoon, the landscape must remain the protagonist until showtime. We reduced the use of tower structures to a minimum and prioritised floor-level lighting positions an

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26 August 2025

Israel - Be'er-Sheva-based lighting rental specialist Koltech has invested in 24 new Robe Esprite moving lights to add to its ever-expanding rental inventory, which now includes over 150 Robe moving lights.

The company was founded in 2007 by Yossi Bendavid – better known industry-wide by his nickname ‘ZakZak’, which means talkative.

ZakZak purchased the Esprites as he believes the fixture is “a great all-round workhorse luminaire and a professional-level spot fixture that is the lightest, brightest and most efficient currently available in its class.”

He is a lighting designer as well as running the company, and he and his crew, including other regular lighting designers like Mor Avitan, were impressed by the Esprite’s framing shutters and the gobos as well as the pure flat beam output, completely devoid of hot spots and edge-frin

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26 August 2025

UK - Over 200,000 people attended Glastonbury 2025, while 21m tuned into the BBC’s coverage of the festival, plus the untold millions more who engaged on social media. Tim Fawkes was mindful of both when he ran the show he designed for The Prodigy, as the rave-dance masters closed out the proceedings on Sunday evening at The Other Stage.

“Finding a good balance between the live and TV audience is always a challenge, especially at a festival like this,” said Fawkes, who has been associated with The Prodigy since 2012, first as a tech, and for the past eight years, as their designer. After all, some of the most intense looks that stir the passion of live audiences might not translate well on TV and computer screens.

Multiple features in the Strike V helped Fawkes achieve the desired balance at Worthy Farm. “The Strike V was a great choice,” h

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26 August 2025

USA - From 21 June to 3 August, Magik Theatre brought to life an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling book Dragons Love Tacos using a variety of Mega-Lite luminaires. This carefully crafted production tells an adventure in which the audience learns the “do’s and don’ts” of what kinds of tacos to serve dragons - a sizzling story full of fiery fun for the entire family.

Lighting designer, supervisor, and programmer Thaddeus Morris needed to create a colourful world to match the magical dragon characters in this playful adventure. To achieve this, he used: 10 MW1, one Framebot 600, four MS1, 14 N-E Pixstrip H216, four Drama LED W50, two Drama W3, oneMega Node and eight Outshine Flash Strip TW.

The MW1 was highlighted for its versatility, serving as backlight, top wash, front wash, flickering effects, and beams. The Fram

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26 August 2025

USA/Europe - The latest addition to ADJ Lighting’s popular Hydro Series of outdoor-ready moving heads, the Hydro Flex L19 is a powerful LED wash-zoom luminaire capable of generating wide washes, tight beams, and eye-catching pixel effects. It features high-output, lime-infused LEDs to deliver impressive output, combined with a wealth of professional-grade features. Housed in a rugged, IP65-rated enclosure, this versatile fixture is designed for event production and stage lighting applications, both outdoors and indoors.

Featuring 19 potent 60W RGBL (red, green, blue and lime) colour mixing LEDs, the Hydro Flex L19 offers an impressive output of up to 17,000 lumens. The LEDs deliver a wide spectrum of colour options, including white light with colour temperature that is variable between 2700K and 10,000K. Thanks to the inclusion of the lime LED element, the

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22 August 2025

USA - Sir Tom Jones returned to the road with a new production that blends powerful video content with a bold, versatile lighting design, supplied by Bandit Lites. Under the vision of lighting designer Mark Cunniffe, the rig showcases both technical precision and artistic flair, seamlessly enhancing Jones’s dynamic performances.

Cunniffe’s design centred around creating a cohesive integration between lighting and video, making the visuals feel like a natural extension of the artist’s storytelling. Rather than traditional left-and-right IMAG, the video content served as the backbone of the production, with carefully programmed lighting weaving between video columns to complement the immersive atmosphere.

“I have always been a fan of the Claypaky B-Eye,” shared Cunniffe. “It is a very versatile unit and when used in full pixel mode it can c

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22 August 2025

USA - A world-premiere modern adaptation of Hamlet recently wrapped at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles. Adapted and directed by Robert O’Hara, this modern take on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy blended video, new scenes and characters, and a film noir aesthetic with lighting design by Tony Award nominee Lap Chi Chu. To help realise the show’s visual concept, Chu turned to Elation’s award-winning Paragon LED framing profile moving head.

Running from 28 May through 6 July, the production was boldly imaginative and anything but traditional. “The show was an adaptation that caught the spirit of Hamlet,” Chu commented. “It was a fun production, but very different.”

With a younger audience in mind, the creative team leaned into a stylised visual approach, and lighting played a central role.

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22 August 2025

Saudi Arabia - 62,000 people witnessed the King’s Cup Final 2025 at King Abdullah Sport City in Jeddah, where Claypaky Skylos fixtures delivered piercing beam effects.

A sea of light and colour enveloped the sold-out stadium in a visual spectacle created by SLS Production, which provided 498 lighting fixtures, including 44 Claypaky Skylos. 

Lighting was woven into a cohesive visual narrative that guided the audience through pre-match anticipation, the immersive half-time show, and the climactic emotion of the trophy lift ceremony. The event underscored Saudi Arabia’s rising prowess in large-scale live entertainment production and set a high bar for future sporting celebrations.

The Skylos fixtures featured prominently across all the segments of the King’s Cup Final. “They served as bold visual accents – beam eye candy –

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22 August 2025

UK - PRG UK’s corporate events team continues to grow with the appointment of Cameron Bannister as director of corporate & special events, Ben Hornshaw as head of projects and the addition of Scott Rooney – Ashby as account director, joining technical account manager Nick Clarke.

Cameron has been a pillar at PRG for over 16 years with 10 years in the corporate market, successfully delivering high-profile events across the globe. His portfolio includes large-scale events including the open ceremonies and full-service productions for clients including NVIDIA, Google and UEFA. “Our side of the business has seen incredible success this year and we are continuing to push forward into 2026,” says Bannister. “With our newly strengthened team, I’m very excited to continue to deliver outstanding events around the world, ensuring our clients receive th

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21 August 2025

UK - Christie 1DLP laser projectors are delivering vivid, immersive visuals at Ghostly Manor, a new dark ride at Paultons Park in Hampshire, UK. Designed and installed by Lagotronics Projects, the £3.5m attraction combines physical sets, projection mapping, and interactive gameplay to create a thrilling ghost-themed adventure. Six Christie DWU1100-GS and two DWU1400-GS laser projectors bring the haunted scenes to life with precision and brightness.

Ghostly Manor uses a new ride format, Gameplay Theatre, created by Mack Rides and Lagotronics Projects. Continuously rotating vehicles, each seating eight passengers back-to-back, reveal new environments with each turn. Guests are equipped with Phantom Phasers, onboard interactive ‘blasters’ that allow them to capture ghosts across eight different scenes. The format allows for high guest throughput in a small

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21 August 2025

UK - At earlier trade shows over the past year, the folks at Chauvet Professional and ChamSys built their stand around the theme True Colours Revealed. They liked the concept so much, particularly since it pays tribute to the advanced colour rendering options of their lighting fixtures, that they decided to go with it again for PLASA London 2025.

But though the marketing theme is familiar, it will be anything but ‘business as usual’ for Chauvet Professional and ChamSys at PLASA this year. Anyone who visits their shared booth (D10) 7-9 September will be greeted by an array of offerings that are spectacularly new and different.

At the top of this list is the world trade show debut of the Maverick Force X Profile. The latest step in Chauvet Professional’s ongoing quest to reimagine moving fixtures, the 520W profile is already turning head

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20 August 2025

UK - Lighting designer Sam Tozer of Vision Factory wanted to make a big impact for singer-songwriter Sam Fender’s four UK stadium shows – collectively attended by nearly a quarter of a million fans – and for such a large undertaking, he specified 189 x Robe iForte LTX moving lights and four iBolts. The performances were part of Sam Fender’s ongoing People Watching album campaign.

The production equipment for these four shows – three at Fender’s hometown stadium of St. James’ Park, Newcastle, and one in London – was supplied by Liverpool-based Adlib (lighting, video, rigging, PA system) and Plymouth-based Nubsound (audio control).

To align with Fender’s raw and distinctively original aesthetic, Sam Tozer’s primary lighting requirement was “sheer firepower”, but applied simply in order to complement the epic cinematic a

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20 August 2025

USA - Basketball fans in Washington, D.C. get to enjoy an even more spectacular visual experience during each Washington Mystics game this season. The team’s in-game video content now features eye-catching effects generated by X-Laser projectors.

Shown on video boards at CareFirst Arena during pregame player introductions and at key moments throughout each game, the clips showcase individual Mystics players surrounded by dynamic laser beams. And to enhance the viewing experience for all fans, whether attending in person or watching at home, the team also intersperses the clips during its TV broadcasts.

“With the growth of this league and how each team has stepped up its gameday production, we wanted to have lasers add something really special to the Mystics’ visuals,” said Tayler Durantini, director of show production for Monumental Sports &a

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20 August 2025

USA - About 30 years ago, a group of students at Randolph-Macon College in Richmond VA formed a band dedicated to performing an Americana blend of folk and Celtic music. Much has happened to Carbon Leaf since then. They had some hits, including A Life Less Ordinary, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard charts. Their songs have been used in a soundtrack (Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey) and they’ve toured relentlessly at major festivals and venues.

Eventually, some members of the quintet resettled, moving thousands of miles away to the West Coast. But on Sunday 3 August, the band returned to their roots when they headlined Music at Maymont, a live performance series that takes place in an idyllic 100-acre greenspace in the middle of the Virginia Capital’s downtown, 15 miles from the college campus where their music

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20 August 2025

USA/Europe - Elation has announced the expansion of its award-winning Paragon series with the new Paragon LT, a cutting-edge, long-throw LED profile luminaire purpose-built to deliver high-impact visuals for large productions and stadium shows.

Engineered for the future, the Paragon LT incorporates breakthrough technologies, proprietary patents, and new industry standards: full output even with framing or animation engaged, variable CRI control that allows seamless adjustment from CRI 70 to CRI 93, a new dimming system boosting brightness by 4%, Turbo Mode for up to 20% more output, a lighter yet stronger chassis, whisper-quiet CMY mixing, the largest rotating gobo wheel in Elation’s history, and re-engineered frost and zoom systems cutting noise by up to 10 dB.

“The Paragon LT is the result of listening closely to the needs of designers working

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20 August 2025

Europe - The Laserworld Group has announced the appointment of Fabián Mercado as the new international sales manager for the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking markets. Mercado brings experience to the team, with an understanding of the laser industry from both a technical and creative perspective.

His background in laser shows of various scales, theatrical lighting, and laser mapping, combined with an artistic vision, qualifies him to provide clients with technical and commercial support. The company intends to expand its presence in the Spanish-speaking market with this personnel decision. The company expresses confidence that his leadership will strengthen client relationships and drive growth.

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19 August 2025

Singapore - When Hope Church wanted to add to its lighting stock, the church returned once again to Ayrton products, purchasing a consignment of Ayrton Eurus and Huracán Profiles to increase its existing inventory of Eurus Profile and Ghibli fixtures. 

Purchased through Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for Singapore, Total Solution Marketing (TSM), Hope Church’s lights team explains why the Ayrton fixtures were their go-to choice: “We already have a great relationship with both Ayrton and TSM who have always offered excellent post-sales service and technical support, and we find Ayrton fixtures to be both highly versatile and very reliable,” they say.

“Ayrton fixtures offer precise and reliable positioning across the models we use in our church, and their fast, smooth movement, especially when triggered through position palettes, has signif

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19 August 2025

UK - The second edition of the Yungblud-curated Bludfest took place this year at Milton Keynes Bowl. With an emphasis on inclusivity and diversity both on and off the stage, the occasion proved to be another success.

Once again, Production Futures was invited to the event and enjoyed engaging with more than a thousand young people interested to find out more about potential roles in the production industries. True to the organisation’s ethos, and keen to showcase the talents of the next generation, the Production Futures brand activation area was designed, constructed, and run by two students from the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies, part of Nottingham Trent University.

Abigail Skelton and Ant Ioannou are both in their second year at Confetti, and having first crossed paths with Hannah Eakins of Production Futures at an On Tour