Seamless AV were obviously well impressed with their 16 x ShowPRO Pluto 350 LED hybrid moving head lights because they just purchased 16 x ShowPRO Pluto 4000 LED moving head wash units and Managing Director Alex Moffat couldn’t wait to get them out on a gig! The Pluto 4000 wash moving head has 12x40W RGBW…
MA Lighting was once again the control solution of choice for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest staged at the Tel Aviv Expo Centre, Israel, which featured a stunning lighting design created by Ronen Najar and Dakar Azulay. Twenty-six countries battled out the final whittled down from 41 original entries, watched live by a worldwide audience…
Mildura Arts Centre, the leading arts and culture hub of North West Victoria, features a 500 seat performing arts theatre that has recently upgraded its’ lighting system to incorporate seven Ayrton Mistral-TC. Like many venues around the country, the Arts Centre was keen to move towards an all LED inventory but the product had to…
ABSTRACT: “Dare to Dream” was the slogan of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, won by the Netherlands’ Duncan Laurence and with lighting design by Ronen Najar and Dakar Azulay. Within the lighting rig were an unmissable 406 Claypaky fixtures, including the brand new Axcor 600 and Sharpy Plus, along with the timeless Sharpy Wash and…
After its closure in 2017, Darlinghurst’s legendary gay venue Midnight Shift has been resurrected by Universal Hotels, a Sydney based hospitality group owned and operated by the Kospetas family. Universal Hotels picked up the 1000-square-metre building last June for a reported $12 million and have relaunched it as Universal, a rebranded music venue and LGBTIQA+…
Australia’s favourite duo Peking Duk returned in 2019 with their Biggest Tour Ever! After selling out The Wasted Tour across Australian capital cities last year, Peking Duk shared an epic live show and revealed brand new music to 50,000 fans across capital cities and regional areas. “Until this tour, Peking Duk has always had a…
Scene Change is a national AV/technical production and hire service with a strong reputation among industry producers and event managers. Recently Scene Change invested in the mother of all projection screens: an 80’x20’ Custom VarioClip® 64 screen, one of the biggest VarioClip systems in Australia which was utilized straightaway on Cisco Live for Veritas Events…
FUN FACT FRIDAY: 2019 Eurovision Song Contest Tel Aviv • 2,100 Lighting fixtures in Eurovision • A total of 17 lighting desks to run lighting • 120,000 control parameters • 250 active DMX universes • The back wall has 527x Ayrton Magic Blades • 24 days of pre-programming for the lighting designer and their operators…