Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Sponsor, Norwest Productions, deploys L-Acoustics system for sporting ceremonies and venues, achieving even SPL and high intelligibility at Gold Coast’s biggest ever sporting event this decade.
Countless parties take place on May Day in Germany and this year one of the best took place in Cologne as hometown band Brings rocked Lanxess Arena with a high-energy Polka Party. TSL Production of Cologne supported the event as the full-service technical provider and used a full complement of Elation lighting gear to support the howling rock ‘n’ roll show.
Since opening in late-2011, Huntington, New York’s The Paramount has quickly established itself as the premier live venue on Long Island, one of the country’s top-20 media markets. In fact, Pollstar magazine just ranked The Paramount as the #5 top club venue for worldwide ticket sales throughout 2017, and Billboard ranked it as part of their top-30 “Hottest Clubs” list in 2014.
Penn Elcom GmbH in Germany has moved to a new 8,000 square metre premises in Elten, north Westfalen just 10 kilometres from the previous warehouse – and over double the size!
Barcelona based lighting designer Ezequiel Gomez has enjoyed working on Spanish Singer David Bisbal’s latest “Hijos del Mar” tour which has already played Spain and Latin America and is poised for more of the same in 2018. He chose Robe for the majority of the moving lights with Spiiders, Pointes and LEDWash 300s as key fixtures on the rig.
As more and more projects and shows are staged outdoors, Elation Professional is again expanding on its leading line of multi-environmental IP-rated products with the new Cuepix 16 IP™. The Cuepix 16 IP is a powerful 4x4 matrix LED blinder and effect panel with all-weather IP65 protection.
City Theatrical has expanded its QolorFLEX brand of professional flexible linear LED lighting to include QolorFLEX Connect 10, a practical and time saving solution for managing the multiple wire runs and numerous connections needed for large scale installations of LED Tape in entertainment and architectural projects.
As well as a plethora of new product offerings on show at this year’s InfoComm show in Las Vegas, DiGiCo is pleased to announce the new V2.2 software upgrade for S-Series consoles, which incorporates a number of much wanted features, as well as the two new DMI modules; the DMI-AMM and DMI ME.
Equaphon, Powersoft’s distributor in Argentina and Uruguay, was called to carry out one more successful sound installation project for a discotheque. The Banana nightclub has been working since April this year and it is located beside the Río de la Plata river in Buenos Aires.
NEP Belgium run their first unit of the Broadcast Solutions developed Streamline OB Van family. Unit 18, the newly added production vehicle, is an S8L and represents a new variant, the German system integrator added to its Streamline Family of OB Vans.
New permanent home will give the exhibition a chance to grow. Integrated Systems Events, the producers of the Integrated Systems Europe exhibition, has announced that its 2021 edition will be held at Gran Via, part of the Fira de Barcelona exhibition complex in Spain on 2-5 February.
Joshua Cutts is someone who knows how to make things – stages, sets people – look beautiful, and 2018 was the fourth time he has lit the Miss South Africa beauty pageant event, which this year selected the country’s delegates for the two highest profile global beauty contests - Miss Universe and Miss World.
One of the world’s most recognized electronic music events, Miami Music Week, brings hundreds of thousands of people to experience a week-long marathon of festivities that feature almost every major artist in the electronic dance music scene. Last year alone, more than 1,200 artists performed at roughly 300 events hosted at 85 venues.
Cove Manila is Southeast Asia’s newest entertainment space, an amazing 9,000-sqm, $200 million entertainment venue touted as the largest indoor beach club in the world. Located in Okada Manila, a five-star integrated resort in the Philippines capital, Cove Manila also includes a luxurious nightclub that’s putting the country on the map as an EDM stop for top DJs.
Common ground for uncommon people. That’s the ethos of MESH, a curated members’ club with a difference. Founded in September 2016 by Jonathon Meyer and his two business partners, MESH is right at home in the stylised Trumpet building on Johannesburg’s ‘Art Mile’ in the Rosebank district – a hub of art and design in the city.
Powersoft, a world-leading manufacturer of professional power amplifiers, announced that its M-Force 301P01 — an all-in-one solution for low-frequency applications — has received a nomination for Outstanding Technical Achievement in Sound Reinforcement Loudspeakers for the 34th annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards.
The South African State Theatre’s Opera House has recently opened its doors to new musical genres, in particular jazz, and needed a new audio system that could meet the varied demands now placed on it.
