Namibia’s Mikel-Jes invests in Robe Spiiders
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The company’s co-founder and owner Michael Vermeulen likes to keep up with the latest lighting trends. The Spiiders are the latest in a steadily expanding stock of Robe products which started in 2008 when Mikel-Jes was founded.
Both Mikel-Jes and the other major entertainment and production technology supplier in Windhoek, dB Audio, have taken a Robe path for their moving light inventories. This means that as well as servicing their own shows, there is a healthy cross rental business during the busy periods.
Mikel-Jes currently has around 90 Robe moving lights in rental stock including the Spiiders which they initially saw previewed at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt.
The Spiiders were supplied by Robe’s Southern Africa distributor DWR based in Johannesburg, in late 2017, specifically in time for a show by American pop and country music duo The Bellamy Brothers.
In conjunction with a lot more Robe fixtures – all of their own plus some sub hires - the Spiiders will also be used on the 2018 Namibian Music Awards (NAMAs) coming up in April, a high-profile event which has been one of Mikel-Jes’s regular gigs for some time.
(Jim Evans)
