Zero 88 launched their latest Frog desk - The Mambo Frog - at the SIB show in Rimini. T he Mambo Frog is a continuation of the Frog desk range, and shares many features with the other desks, including similar styling, design and case size as a Fat Frog. Designed with the club, disco and music touring sectors in mind, the desk is primarily a 'fixture only' console. It has no preset faders to control dimmers, although dimmers can be controlled by assigning them as fixtures and using the desk wheels.
Due to the design and interfaces of the Mambo Frog, it is a very powerful and flexible club controller. The combination of a theatre style memory stack, along with both fader and button controlled submasters makes fast-access to lighting states possible. In intelligent-only or rigs with a small number of dimmers, this desk is ideal. It's small size and flexible playbacks mean, again, that it is a fast desk to operate and program.
(Lee Baldock)
Bandit Lites has purchased a new 8,400sq.m facility in Bedford, UK, to serve as the headquarters for its European operations. "Given the tremendous growth we have experienced in the European market, we needed a larger facility to better suit our needs and aid in delivering the Bandit Standard to our customers," said Bandit Lites’ CEO, Michael Strickland. The building features high ceilings, a spacious prep floor, plenty of storage, a spacious loading and unloading area, and is wired for an extensive computer network.
General manager Jason Tang told us: "The move to the new facility in Bedford is an extremely positive move for Bandit UK. This further establishes Bandit's European presence and shows that Bandit will be a major player here in the UK for many years to come. The move should contribute immensely to our growing operations and level of service that we offer our clients."
Bandit Lites has had an extremely busy year already, putting out several high profile tours including Brian Wilson, Incubus, and Dream Theatre. The first tour to utilize the added space of the new warehouse is for Irish popstars, Westlife. The massive rig designed by Phay MacMahon and Barry Halpin benefited greatly from the added space and flexibility of the new building.
New contact information for Bandit Lites Ltd: Hudson Road, Elm Farm Industrial Estate, Bedford MK41 0LZ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1234 363820. Fax: +44 (0)1234 365382.
(Lee Baldock)
Zero 88 has appointed Grant Bales-Smith to the newly-created project sales role. Bales-Smith has spent nearly eight years in the industry, gaining broad base experience in hire, events, sales and projects. He moves from Salisbury-based Stagecraft, where his most recent focus was projects and installation work. In his new role, Bales-Smith will be directly responsible for identifying and developing larger-scale projects and working closely with the company’s UK dealer network to manage the installations through to completion.
"With the increasing convergence of entertainment and architectural applications and the recent launch of Frog and Chilli products focused at this sector, Grant will have a pivotal role in developing new UK business for the brand," said Tim Burt, Zero 88 brand manager. "The experience gained at Stagecraft, coupled with the working knowledge he has of our products, will give us immediate access to the larger projects we have previously been unable to target directly." Grant will be working closely with Lorna Parsons, who will continue to manage the UK dealers with day-to-day sales enquiries, training and support.
Zero 88 has also announced that Franck Tiesing has taken on new responsibilities as Northern Europe market manager. Since joining Zero 88 in July last year, Tiesing has successfully managed Zero 88's transition from an exclusive to an open network in Germany. With the German market now established, his skills we now be used to manage and support the northern European countries of Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Fi
The Chroma-Q range now offers the lighting professional an even wider choice of high quality, affordable lantern accessories following the launch of a new line of gobo rotators.
The three models available all accept glass or metal B-size gobos and offer compatibility with most popular spotlights including Source Four, Shakespeare and Strand SL types. The Single and Twin models feature basic manual speed adjustment using a small stand-alone power supply. The Twin DMX model offers compatibility with the Chroma-Q and Rainbow power supplies enabling bi-directional, variable speed control via DMX. The robust construction and quality components used in the manufacture of Chroma-Q gobo rotators guarantees long-term reliability, coupled with near silent operation.
This expansion of the Chroma-Q range now gives consultants and designers the opportunity to specify a ‘one brand’ package.
(Ruth Rossington)
In response to customer requests for additional financing options, Vari-Lite Inc has partnered with entertainment industry financing specialist FX Financial. Under the arrangement, FX Financial will administer a financing program that provides monthly payment options to qualified customers for the purchase of Vari*Lite products.
"As we continue to expand our line of Vari*Lite automated lighting products, this partnership will allow end users to acquire the best lighting equipment on the market with low up-front costs,"said Clay Powers, president and COO of Vari-Lite Inc. "Through FX Financial, Vari-Lite customers can have predictable and manageable fixed monthly payments."
Vari-Lite selected FX Financial because the financing company focuses exclusively on the entertainment industry, bringing with it years of experience with the equipment and its use. Current FX Financial customers include, but are not limited to, production companies, theatres, amusement parks, churches, bowling alleys, theme environments, convention centers, arenas, architectural installations, established clubs, and colleges and universities."It takes a relatively large amount of capital to acquire the tools of the trade," said Alan Garretson, President of FX Financial. "By taking advantage of the financing options offered by FX Financial, Vari-Lite customers can have increased financial flexibility and the ability to ride out the ups and downs of the business cycle."
(Lee Baldock)
That is the upbeat message from PLASA’s new Show Director, Sue Saint. Celebrating its 25th year, the PLASA Show is the world’s pre-eminent light, sound and audio-visual event, attracting major brands every year, and this year is no exception.
Stand bookings are currently at 82%, with top names such as Vari-Lite, Sennheiser, Martin Professional, Denon, BSS Audio and Total Fabrication already booked. The show pulls in over 13,000 visitors from the UK and abroad each year, having become the main marketplace for the £11billion entertainment technology industry.
"The show is evolving continually," commented Saint, "and one of the key trends emerging is the growing number of manufacturers choosing to exhibit in their own right, rather than rely solely on representation through distributors. In addition, many long-standing exhibitors, including Numark, Peavey, Sound Technology, Avolites and SGM, have reaffirmed the importance of PLASA by booking larger stands. Other major industry players are also recognizing the role the show can play in developing their businesses and this year will see Marantz, Tascam and Duran Audio exhibiting for the first time. All this is happening at a time when the economy generally has been talked down, but the increased interest in the show is clear evidence that the market is picking up and that the PLASA Show is an integral part of the exhibitors’ marketing armoury."
Steve Warren, sales director of Avolites, an exhibitor at the show for the past 13 years, added: "The PLASA Show is clearly the most imp
AC Lighting has announced more new staff appointments at the company headquarters in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. As we reported last month, Ron Knell, a well-known face in the entertainment lighting industry, joins the Export Sales Department as senior account manager. Having spent 19 years with Lighting Technology in London, Knell held the position of export sales manager for the past three years. Knell not only brings a wealth of industry experience to the Export Team, his knowledge of export procedures is seen as invaluable.
David Neal has been appointed to the position of lighting and audio sales executive in the UK sales office. Working for the past 17 years at Westsun Vancouver Inc, Neal has a wide-ranging experience of lighting and audio projects and applications coupled with extensive product knowledge.
Peter Humber joined AC Lighting in March as UK sales executive. Previously employed by Stagetec UK, Humber’s career in the industry spans 15 years. In addition to his knowledge of professional lighting, Humber is also an audio specialist.
(Lee Baldock)
Full Sail, the Florida-based education facility specializing in digital media, audio, film, video and live show production, has purchased a grandMA console and three grandMA ultra-light consoles for their Show Production & Touring Degree Program from North American distributor AC Lighting, Inc.
Dana Roun, the program director for show production at Full Sail, explains the decision making process: "We required a console representing the current and future industry standards. Out of the major players there were a few stand-outs . . . You have to try to predict future trends and what may happen in the next few years. Look at the life span of a piece of gear. Some equipment could be prevalent in the industry now, however perhaps it’s in the last stages of a long successful run . . . There’s another consideration to think of too. I always try to consider who you’re dealing with."
Roun then worked on a show in Amdterdam: "We specified the grandMA at the request of our LD. I saw first hand the ease of programming and how functional the grandMA console was under the typical one-off corporate show. It was remarkable. In all fairness, so was our LD - Patrick Dierson. He was very familiar with the top consoles in the industry including the grandMA. We saw the console being used by a pro which didn’t hurt our first real test drive."
"What really tied everything together were the educational benefits. We presently use some very popular yet expensive, dongle based software. Students are trained in design and visualization aspects
Readers of L&SI may recall a piece we ran last year on Rage, the West Midlands-based professional theatre company, which works with various groups in the community.
The company has recently supported the Radiation series of youth events at Christ Church, Lye, where it handled the lighting design, arranged the technical elements and managed the get-in and get-out. Equipment for the event included Martin MX 1s, NJD Datamoons, Rainbow Colour Scrollers, DHA Animation Units, Strand SLs, ETC Source 4 ParNels and an Arc Line Strobe. Conventional lighting was controlled by a Zero 88 Elara Lighting desk with the intelligent lights run through a ShowCAD system.
Each year, Rage offers an opportunity for young people to work alongside professionals on three productions. The company is looking for people in the industry to help develop its work by either donating equipment or expertise. To find out more visit www.ragetheatre.org.uk or e-mail ragetheatre@yahoo.com
Renault’s return to Formula 1 - its first full-blooded assault on the F1 world championship since 1985 - was marked by a spectacular high-tech launch of its new car for the 2002 season.
The event, attended by over 1,200 VIPs, including the world’s press, sponsors, special guests and Renault employees, was staged in Renault’s massive Technocentre in Guyancourt, near Paris.
UK production agency Sprout turned to drapes and materials specialist Blackout Triple E’s Paris subsidiary to assist in the realisation of its design for the launch, with Blackout France’s Dominic Peissel in the role of technical manager for the launch and Fabrice Le Floch overseeing the rigging aspects of the installation.
Peissel’s first logistical challenge was to overcome the sheer size and construction of the Technocentre. As rigging had never been hung from the 30m high atrium ceiling before, Dominic and Fabrice liaised with local structural engineers to establish safe weight loadings. Working to incredibly tight deadlines and even stricter French safety laws, the crew skilfully installed all the points and safety mechanisms to suspend over 40 metres of A-type truss, used for the lighting fixtures, as well as the points to fly the sound rigs.
Blackout France also hung 19 5.5m x 2.65m banners, rigged strategically in the Technocentre’s 6,000sq.m atrium walkthrough, used as a lead-in to the launch area. The 200 lantern lighting rig was designed by Martin Locket of Essential Lighting. With the near daylight conditions of the glass-roofed atrium to
Bandit Lites is supplying equipment for the successful System of a Down ‘Toxicity’ world tour, which has just finished its first European leg. Lighting designer for the tour is Jesper Luth, who has created an asymmetrical look with four trusses surrounding the stage. The front truss is straight, while the two sides and the rear double-spanned V-shaped truss are all hung at jaunty angles.
Instruments on Luth's rig include Martin MAC 600s, MAC 2000s, Martin Atomic strobes, plus a bunch of Pars and 8-Lite blinders. He runs the show from a WholeHog II desk with an extender wing. Before it kicked off, he took full advantage of Bandit's pre-programming facilities, spending four days getting ahead of the game in the warehouse in Nashville. The initial System of a Down lighting rig came out of Nashville, with the European leg of the tour supplied by Bandit's UK office. It's the first time The System has used Bandit, but production manager Gordon 'Gungi' Paterson is very impressed with the service.
(Ruth Rossington)
ETC has recently passed a major milestone having sold more than one million Source Fours. It now plans to share the celebration with some very lucky customers. Sometime between June 1 and August 1 2002, ETC will ship four winning Source Four luminaires, representing the millionth-unit made, to their UL/cUL, CE and 100V markets. Four lucky end-users will receive a prize-winning Source Four in their orders.
If you are one of those winners, you will find a rare etched gold-wrapped Source Four inside your box, along with a special Certificate of Authenticity signed by ETC’s entire Source Four luminaire assembly crew. Just return the luminaire to ETC and you will receive the real grand prize - a collection of ETC’s Source Fours including a 5° Source Four, a 10° Source Four, a classic Source Four with lens tubes for every angle, a Source Four PAR EA and PAR MCM, a Source Four PARNel, a Source Four Zoom and a Source Four jr!
The promotion will culminate with the announcement of the winners on the ETC website, at the PLASA tradeshow in September and at the 10-year Source Four birthday celebration at the LDI tradeshow, which is where the Source Four was officially launched, back in 1992.
(Ruth Rossington)
John Hornby Skewes & Co Ltd, the exclusive UK and Eire HK Audio distributor, has commissioned leading visual systems company, MAD Manufacturing, to install a state-of-the-art lighting rig in the HK Audio pro audio demo theatre at JHS’ Garforth premises. The whole HK Audio ‘active family’ features in the JHS demo room, including the new Lucas 1000 1kW self-powered system, plus Lucas, Elias, Actor and Projector active systems, alongside T-Series, M-Series and Linear Pro systems. Additionally, a 12-box HK Audio R-Series rig is available for demonstration and rental - this includes the PR 324 power rack with HK’s Digital Field Controller system.
(Ruth Rossington)
The opening ceremony of the 2002 Dubai Shopping Festival was one of the most spectacular and technically complex shows ever staged in the Middle East.
Dubai-based ProTec handled all the technical elements, and the whole project - literally from the ground up - was managed and co-ordinated by the company’s Stephen Lakin, who collaborated closely with Damien McGurn, Hares Shehab, Rick Wade and Jason Strange.
Lakin’s involvement with the event began in the summer of 2001, following an approach he made to the Government where he presented his ideas to Sheikh Mohammed. In October he was awarded the contract, without it going out to tender. Then began a race against time to make the show happen for 1 March. No venue capable of staging a show of this stature existed in Dubai, so Lakin’s first job was to find a site and build from the ground up.
McGurn hired local contractors to build footings for the stage and for an 18m high x 140m wide protective windwall wrapping around the backstage and stage areas, constructed to withstand destructive winds of up to 200kph. They dug down five metres to accommodate the bases for the stage hydraulics. Being well below the water table, the concrete had to be 2.5 metres thick at this point.
Over 18,000 cubic metres of crushed rock roadbase, 15,000sq.m of Tarmac and 900 cubic metres of reinforced concrete were used to build the arena. McGurn also organized the building of five electricity generation sub-stations on site. The final piece - the stage roof - was supplied from StageCo, air-lifted to Dubai from Belgium in a s
The Thorndike Theatre in Leatherhead, Surrey, was opened by Dame Sybil Thorndike in 1969. Designed by Roderick Ham, the theatre was built and funded with enthusiastic support from local theatre groups, and went on to become an ambitious and high profile producing theatre. Its manager and founder, Hazel Vincent Wallace, was able to woo well-known actors and directors from London to create some remarkable productions.
At its height, the Thorndike Theatre’s club had 12,000 members; it was described as ‘a jewel of a theatre’. But despite the fact that houses were largely full, the economics of regional theatre meant that there was a dependence on subsidy and local grants. Inevitably there was never enough, and it was eventually closed down in 1997. Only the building’s Grade 2 listing saved it from demolition.
But late last year, following six months of refurbishment work, the Thorndike re-opened as a working theatre under the ownership of a Christian organisation, Pioneer People, who took out a 15-year lease in April 2001. Now called simply ‘The Theatre’, the venue will play host to a mixture of performances and community projects, as well as conferences, corporate events, cinema and worship.
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PP’s technical manager, Michael Forestier-Walker, found a theatre that had suffered leaks and an infestation of pigeons. The clean up was no small task. For the replacement of the lighting installation, he turned to experienced lighting designer Richard Horley. Horley’s design work includes visitor attractions such as
Dream Theater is an interesting mixture of ‘prog’ rock, metal and mayhem; they have a cult following and are enjoying great success with their latest album ‘Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence’. We’ve not yet figured out quite why it is six degrees, but there must be a reason.
Led by drummer and impresario Mike Portnoy, DT have just completed the European leg of their current world tour, before heading to Mexico and North America. It’s a high energy show, and this is mirrored by lighting designer Benoit Richard. The lighting for the whole tour is supplied by Bandit Lites, handled for the European section by their UK office.
The front, back and two staggered middle trusses, are scattered with a mix of fixtures - from Martin MACs to High End Cyberlights and ETC Source Fours with scrollers. There’s also a copious contingent of floor-based fixtures. However, it’s the 12 4-lites with scrollers which are the basic building blocks of the rig.
Richard uses these expressively to create big blocks of colour that he overlays with beams, gobo texturing and sharp highlighting pick-ups from other fixtures. A row of upstage deck-based MAC 600s is utilized for rear lighting and to produce dramatic silhouettes for the moments of respite during what is a pretty intense show!
It is Richards’ first tour with Dream Theater, and he is also a huge fan. Portnoy and he had crossed paths a few times over the years, but he was offered the job after Portnoy caught one of his Yes Symphonic shows last Autumn. "I see things very differently,
Now in its 10th year, Big Day Out is an Australian touring festival that visits Auckland, the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth every January. It is unique in its design, scale and complexity and attracts many headline acts - the 2002 event featured The Prodigy, Garbage, New Order and Basement Jaxx.
This year, security was tightened following the tragic death of 16-year-old Jessica Michalik last year: organizers West & Lees made changes to audience safety provisions and introduced volunteer safety teams, increased audience lighting and erected a new, alcohol-free, D barricade area (from Mojo Barriers) in front of the main stages. The audience was given free water bottles and sun-block, and crowd surfing was banned. "We also carefully considered the time certain bands take to the stage," explained Matt Dougherty, one of three production managers on the tour. "The crowds are getting bigger (52,000 in Sydney) and some music makes them boisterous. Consequently this year we put System of the Down on at 4pm rather than late in the night. Darkness just exacerbates any problem we’ve had in the past."
Other measures include new agreements with artists to stop performances if requested, and paramedics working in the pit. Whilst necessary, all of these extra measures have added to the management’s problems. The added difficulty of unusually tight turnarounds between shows was met with two identical sets of staging, although only one production team and set of equipment was available.
Jands Production Services supplied the audio, in
Color Kinetics Incorporated, specialists in LED illumination technologies, and Targetti, a leading Italian designer and manufacturer of architectural lighting fixtures and systems, have announced an OEM partnership. Through this partnership, Targetti will incorporate Color Kinetics’ patented Chromacore LED technology into a new line of custom fixtures. The two companies also plan to co-develop new Chromacore-based ‘designer’ lighting fixtures.
The new product line, which is planned for launch in the second half of this year, will enable Color Kinetics’ full spectrum colour and lighting effects to be incorporated into any décor through an array of Targetti’s fixtures. Besides aesthetic benefits, LEDs offer a host of practical advantages over conventional light sources that make them an extremely energy efficient, long-lasting, low maintenance and versatile source of light.
According to Color Kinetics’ George Mueller, this partnership will significantly extend the market for LED-based illumination, which experts predict could become a $50 billion industry.
(Ruth Rossington)
The newly formed Stage Electrics Wales has reported a strong start to the year, especially in the live TV sector. St David’s Day 2002 saw the Welsh branch supplying lighting, rigging and mains distribution for the Welsh television broadcast of S4C’s annual talent competition - 'Can-i-Gymru' or 'A Song for Wales'.
Cardiff-based Apollo Television brought in lighting designer Martyn Rourke and designer Phil Williams to transform the Afan Lido leisure centre in Port Talbot into a TV studio for the two-hour live broadcast. Over 18 Lodestar motors were used to fly the entire rig in the venue that had a restricted weight loading. Stage Electrics’ project manager for the event Tim Routledge commented: "In conjunction with structural engineers and with the knowledge of our rigger, Gary Smith, we were able to monitor the deflections in the roof beams once the load was applied, to decide on whether the entire rig would have to be dead hung and the motors dropped out. Fortunately this was not the case in the end, which was a great relief and saved considerable extra work." Over 200 generics and 30 Martin Macs were controlled on an Avolites Pearl by Martin Rourke. To create an ‘industrial feel’ to the show, the stages were constructed out of scaffold to give several platforms, up to 18’ high, for presenter links, band areas and the backing singers platform.
The BBC also used Stage Electrics Wales to supply the production lighting services for its orchestral tour of Wales in March entitled - 'BBC Music Masters'. The company has also annou
ShowCAD Artist show control systems have recently been installed in Luminar Leisure’s Chicago Rock Cafes in Basildon, Ilford, Redditch, Swansea, Tamworth, Trowbridge and Wrexham. The installations were carried out back-to-back by Lynx Lighting of Yeovil over a very busy two-week period.
ShowCAD is already installed in many Luminar venues including the Liquid chains and, like ShowCAD, Artist implements MIDI, MIDI Show Control, SMPTE, digital and analogue input/output protocols. Additionally, Artist software can control 5000+ DMX channels and, operating on a Windows platform, the software also utilises standard PC protocols and functions.
In the Chicago Rock venues, the systems are programmed to run on Artist’s Real Time Clock and therefore will run all day, every day completely automatically, with the scenes and cues programmed to change to suit the hour of the day or night. However, the operators also have the ability to override the systems via digital input panels and MIDI interfaces in order to take manual control, for example during live music events. Combined with the Real Time Clock and a fully programmable audio input response for each individual scene, Artist’s ability to run multiple cues and cue-lists simultaneously and to communicate using the digital and MIDI inputs, make the system uniquely fitted for this type of installation.
A further benefit during the installations has been the ability to access Artist remotely, making changes and alterations to the shows by modem links without having to make site visits. Artist’s versatility
PSL has appointed David March as business development manager of its Concert Touring division. Marking his return to the live entertainment industry after a spell in the architectural lighting sector, March was previously European operations manager at High End Systems, prior to which he was general manager at Vari-Lite Europe.
March will be working closely with the PSL Concert Touring team of Stephanie Jefcoate and Scott Russell, who are currently providing video and projection services for the Supertramp European Tour, the UK tours of Godspell and Sunset Boulevard, Lord of the Dance and the upcoming Gabrielle UK Tour. PSL managing director Gary Davies commented: "PSL Concert Touring has been one of the key players in the industry for many years. With David March joining our team we will now be able to offer our ever increasing range of specialist services to an even wider range of clients."
(Ruth Rossington)
‘The Deep’, the world’s only Submarium, is Hull’s £45.5 million Millennium Commission lottery project. Opened on 22 March by Prince Andrew, the complex was designed by Sir Terry Farrell with Lighting Technology working alongside Waterman Gore to provide the ‘above tank’ lighting. A totally new concept in visitor attractions, the Submarium is a dramatic fusion of aquaria combined with a descriptive voyage through the worlds Oceans.
’The Deep’ boasts the deepest water tank in Europe. This and the 11 tanks are home to seven species of shark and thousands of other fish. These range in size from the ‘Endless Oceans’ tank which holds 2.3 million litres of salt water to the smaller ‘Jewel’ tanks which hold just 1 cubic metre. The interior spaces are strongly influenced by the physical nature of the ocean and maximum use is made of the three dimensional spaces. At the building's core, a concrete structure containing the main fish tank recreates the conditions found in the Pacific.
For the above tank lighting, Waterman Gore called in Jonathan Hilton of Lighting Technology to work alongside their US consultant, Chris Baldwin, in order to establish the lighting concept. As such, the structure and the lighting installed above the various tanks by Lighting Technology, has been designed to create a sensation of immersion within the ocean environment. In order to create this impression, an array of ‘variable focus’ fittings were selected from the Astralux range of marine searchlights. Within the confi
Imagination - one of Europe’s largest independent design and communications companies, has opened an office in Stockholm. The company has appointed Bo Albertsson, former marketing director at Ericsson Mobile Communications, as the managing director of this new Scandinavian operation. Albertsson, took up the position in March coinciding with the official opening of the office.
"In my role as marketing director at Ericsson, I had been Imagination’s client for five years. I have always been a great admirer of the company and their unique approach to building brands. I think there is tremendous potential for Imagination in the Scandinavian market and I’m delighted to be joining them at such an important phase in their development," said Albertsson. Imagination (Scandinavia) AB will be supported creatively by Imagination’s headquarters in London.
(Ruth Rossington)
DIVAS is a new company, specializing in the design, project management and installation of visual and audio systems to all areas of the professional entertainment business. The DIVAS team consists of four individuals - Tony Day, Damian Brunetti, Darrin South and Steve Nicholls - who have all worked together on various projects in the past.
The company will design, specify and install lighting sound and AV schemes, either working directly with end users or working under the umbrella of large sound, lighting and AV companies. DIVAS has already been working in a miscellany of environments including clubs, bars, shops, cinemas, ice arenas, leisure centres, stadiums, hotels, churches, museums, ballrooms and live music venues. One recently completed project was the sound and lighting systems spec and installation at Flicks club in Sleaford, Lincs. The club is housed in a former cinema retaining many original features. Working directly for owner Phil Broughton, DIVAS designed and installed a Logic Systems sound system, a Coemar, TAS and MAD moving light system and kitted out the DJ booth with Denon and Technics gear. They also specified the first ever new ShowCAD Artist control system in a club environment.
Full story in April's issue of Lighting&Sound International.
(Ruth Rossington)