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Recently Adelaide City Council sought tender to replace the Town Hall auditorium stage lighting which comprised of 110v Par64’s. As these fixtures aged, they started to become hazardous and so the venue had resorted to hiring in forty-eight 575w Multipars. The original tender sought to order fifty ETC Source Four MCM, two Selecon Pacific Profiles and Global Truss F33 truss …
After years of preparation by Papua New Guinea and hundreds of regional athletes, the 15th Pacific Games opening ceremony was held at the nation’s capital, Port Moresby, early in July. Philip Lethlean designed a lighting rig that featured mainly Martin Professional and Clay Paky products with gear shipped in from Chameleon Touring Systems. The rig featured 20 x Clay Paky …
Each year in July and November, the Professional Bull Riding circus rolls into arenas – a far cry from the country rodeos and regional towns which usually cater for these events. The national finals of the Professional Bull Riding Australia Championship were held at Qantas Credit Union, Sydney. Prior to that was an event in Cairns and afterwards, one in …
Sydney-based Newtone Entertainment has made a considerable investment in Clay Paky products with the purchase of sixteen Mythos and six Stormy CC. “I bought the Clay Paky products because I knew they were the best,” admitted Matthew Newton, production manager at Newtone. “They have an incredible reputation for performance and reliability!” The first major event the Clay Paky products were …
Paul Nardella of OTL Pty Ltd now owns twenty ShowPro LED GoldenEYE 77 which are equally at home as a powerful blinder or dynamic visual display system. Combining 49 x 3W warm white, individually controllable Cree LEDs with a super tight 6 degree optical system, the panels can simply and quickly join together to give you a wall of light …
Established in 1948 and declared a Tasmanian Icon in 1998, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra gives more than 70 concerts annually including seasons in Hobart and Launceston, and appearances in Tasmanian regional centres. Resident in Hobart’s purpose-built Federation Concert Hall, the TSO has a full complement of 47 musicians. It was recently decided that the venue lighting needed to be updated …
Show Technology provides cutting edge service and support to the professional lighting industry and has been doing so for the 21 years it has been in business. Industry leading figures rely on the company’s support team for major projects on concerts, tours, arena shows and installations. The team not only provides training, advice, design, product recommendations and problem solving in …
32 Hundred Lighting used 12 x Clay Paky Alpha HPE 1500s and 8 x Aleda K20s to light Chatswood Mall during Vivid, saying that Clay Paky are quality instruments which make their job a breeze!
Vivid Sydney is the largest festival of light, music and ideas in the Southern Hemisphere and this year, Pyrmont’s harbourside has been transformed into a buzzing multi-sensory, engaging zone where you control the entertainment. The precinct features a number of interactive installations including ‘Mission Control’ which gives the public the opportunity to create their own two-minute light show. Once you’ve …
Production designer Tom Rohan of Eventco has used the phenomenal power yet lightweight versatility of 12 Clay Paky SuperSharpys to light the ‘Spire’, the iconic 120-metre stainless steel monument in the centre of Dublin. For the ‘inSpire’ lighting project, which launched Ireland’s celebrations of the UNESCO International Year of Light (IYOL) 2015 and coincided with the St. Patrick’s festival, Rohan …
