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New Zealand’s Grouse Lighting Aotearoa has been lighting events both locally and nationally since 1984 and recently decided it was time to replace their moving head profile fixtures with sixteen Ayrton Eurus Profile. Rowan McShane, Project Manager at Grouse, says they had been looking for a replacement for quite some time but there wasn’t a fixture that stood out as …
Held at Sydney Town Hall, Ultra Violet was the premier event for LGBTQIA+ women during Sydney World Pride. The party celebrated the raw creativity of women including burlesque, performance art, visual art, cabaret and drag kings which were backed by some of the most prolific queer-talent dishing out house, electro-pop, ballroom, rap/hip-hop and disco. Innovative Production Services looked after creative …
A new grandMA3 full-size console, a grandMA3 compact XT and a grandMA3 onPC command wing have been delivered and are in action at the 2,466-capacity Hamer Hall, the largest indoor venue at the Arts Centre Melbourne complex, which has a busy schedule of orchestral and contemporary music performances and other events. All three consoles were delivered in July 2022 by …
Entertainment Venues, a division of Tamworth Regional Council, comprises three venues: Tamworth Regional Entertainment Conference Centre, Capitol Theatre and Town Hall. Over the past few years, they have gotten more and more ShowPRO Pluto 350 moving head spots and now they have seventeen Pluto 350 in the Capitol Theatre: twelve Pluto 350 in the overheads on stage, three from FOH …
Australian Outback Spectacular’s Heartland production debuted in in 2018 and is more popular than ever and relies on an advanced technical installation to provide the audience with a unique experience where they are transported into the outback through complex and immersive audio, lighting and projection. With the existing extensive lighting system having delivered over 12 years of faithful service, the …
Scene Change Adelaide has welcomed an MA Lighting grandMA3 compact XT, two grandMA3 onPC command wing XTs and two MA3 8Port Nodes to their inventory. Having recently upgraded their moving light inventory, including Prolights Astra Wash19Pix, it was time to turn attention to their control! “With an increase in parameter count for most our new fixtures, it was the correct …
After purchasing Ayrton Perseos last year, Queensland-based IJS Productions has increased its inventory with even more Ayrton fixtures Zonda 9, Karif LT and Mistrals. “We are extremely happy with our Ayrton products,” commented Steve Grimes, IJS’ General Manager. “Their products are very well accepted and that’s a major plus to buying Ayrton. Our Perseos get swapped in for everything and …
Once again the guys and gals from Eclipse Lighting saddled their horses and rode off into the sunset towards Tamworth for the 51st Toyota Country Music Festival. As in previous years, they were tasked with designing, building and running the Toyota Park stage for the full ten nights of the festival. Fortunately this year they had grown their posse of …
Front of House Productions recently supplied the technical production for the queen of techno Charlotte de Witte. Presented by Untitled Group, the show was held at Melbourne’s The Timber Yard with lighting and video designed by Gig Control’s Nathan ‘Sloth’ Aveling. The rig was all Showtech gear with 36 x ShowPRO Pluto 250 Hybrid, 36 x LED Duet Blinder, 2 …
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre is Australia’s biggest venue and one of the busiest, with more than 1,000 events hosted each year. In 2019, the year before the pandemic, MCEC contributed more than $1.1 billion to the Victorian economy. In the following COVID-impacted years, MCEC took the opportunity to build new capabilities and capacity for innovation. This included investing in …
