The Prolights Astra Wash7PixIP is taking the market by storm and the latest proud owner of six of these fabulous little guys is Port Macquarie’s In Phase Productions. Astra Wash7Pix is single pixel controllable, with multiple on-board FX, and allows access to precise and advanced white and colour control. This compact and fast LED moving…
The future is looking very bright for MPH Australia who actually had their busiest month ever in March this year! When they secured many of the Splendour in the Grass sideshows, including Gorillaz, Liam Gallagher, Duke Dumont, YungBlud and Glass Animals, they knew that investment in new gear was paramount. “These gigs prompted us to…
Melbourne’s oldest cinema has been transformed into the city’s newest live music venue. The heritage-listed Northcote Theatre, built on High Street in 1912, reopened in July with its Baroque-style auditorium ready to host up to 1500 punters. Its original facade and interior remain mostly intact, including a grand, high-vaulted ceiling decorated with ornate plaster work.…
The National Arts School’s Cell Block Theatre is a grand historic space hidden behind a wall of hand-hewn sandstone in the heart of Sydney. Inside, the 10-metre-high sandstone walls create the awed ambience of a cathedral, an ambience intriguingly inflected by its history as the women’s wing of the old Darlinghurst Gaol. The cells that…
Westland Industrial Heritage Park in Hokitika, New Zealand, is a working museum and the result of dedicated volunteers’ passion for restoring Westland’s industrial past. It was started by a group of mature (old) men who loved big engines and the like (toys) and wanted to play with the toys and preserve some of the history…
Based in North Parramatta, The Audio Visual Co. are dynamic, results-driven audio and visual specialists in the events industry. Having been more audio and vision-focused in the past, the company was keen to grow the lighting element of the business so they turned to Show Technology for advice. “We were getting more and more work…
Tasmanian production supplier VJAM has upped the ante with the purchase of 32 x Ayrton Mistrals and 16 x Claypaky AXCOR Beam 300! Eight of the Ayrton Mistrals were immediately installed in Hobart’s Odeon Theatre replacing the previous fixtures in an attempt to reduce the rigged weight in the venue. “The venue was almost at…
Jay Productions & Events has added sixteen Claypaky Midi-B to its established family of Claypaky fixtures including Claypaky Mini-B and Axcor 300. “We needed another wash light to complement what we already own,” explained Phillip Dearle, General Manager at Jay Productions. “We have forty of the Mini-Bs and as the Midi-Bs have the same 40w…