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NW Group have recently taken over full-service event production for Brisbane’s flagship special event location, Brisbane City Hall, and naturally they turned to Show Technology to supply the lighting for such a prestigious venue, with multiple event spaces of varying sizes and requirements. With a strong commitment to energy sustainability, NW Group decided to create a 100% LED lighting rig …
Dark Mofo is an extremely busy time for Tasmania’s Alive Technologies Group and one of the sites they looked after this year was the cavernous MAC2 Cruise Terminal which hosted many headlining acts. Australian psychedelic dance band Jagwar Ma was one of those acts and their lighting designer, James Warrier, requested vertical trusses with beams shooting across the room over …
As Vivid 2018 wrapped up for another year, Abbotsleigh College hosted Glow 2018 which was open to the public. Entertainment included a display of artworks created by students, performances by the College’s bands and stalls selling food with all money raised donated to charity. All outdoor sites supplied by Switch it on were designed and installed to withstand the forecasted …
Ayrton is extremely proud that lighting designer, Jerry Appelt, chose more than 700 Ayrton fixtures for his stellar design at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Appelt chose not to incorporate any video element in the show, instead returning to a lighting-based design in which Ayrton fixtures were a key creative feature adding depth, architecture and variety to the visuals. With …
Lighting designer Seth Giles will soon be leaving his New Zealand home for a 3 month tour in Europe with his MA Lighting International MA onPC command wing safely packed in his luggage. Although Seth has mainly been using his MA onPC command wing in his local theatre for small shows, it will soon be operating on some of the …
New Zealand’s TomTom Productions has a long history with Queenstown’s Winterfestival which has many sites for which they provide production. The main ones this year included The Bathhouse stage which hosted bands including Tiki, The Feelers and The Black Seeds, and was brilliantly furnished by snowflake Martin Professional VDO Sceptrons, and lit with Claypaky Mythos. Martin VDO Sceptrons, designed around …
It’s not often that a client is so motivated by one of our products, they have to put pen to paper but this is just what happened after Tom Willis of Willis Lighting used his recently purchased Ayrton Ghiblis. Naturally we were delighted to read about his experience and we hope you will too …… When I started in the …
Perth’s Elite Audio Visual Productions needed to again expand their lighting inventory and they required a fixture that provided high build quality, low maintenance and was basically an all-round solid unit. “We of course touched base with our incredible supplier Show Technology and once we were shown the Claypaky Axcor 300 Beam, we immediately knew that this ticked all the …
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre has taken delivery of three MA Lighting International dot2 core consoles and two dot2 fader wings. The dot2 consoles and wings have been installed into the BCEC Grey St Building; five levels of new meeting space, including two auditoria. Preconfigured lighting states have been programmed into each console to enable ease of use by the …
Australian DJ duo Flight Facilities have been back on the road this month as part of the Groovin the Moo Tour, and production design firm Colourblind was once again engaged to come up with the stage concept. Together with Sam Whiteside, they designed a curved wall of LED strips. But it needed to be lightweight and easy to transport – …
