Built in 1982, Hamer Hall was fully refurbished in 2013 which included a full technical upgrade and updating of the lighting rig, a project specified and overseen in part by Bernie Manchee, head of lighting. The whole rig was automated for the first time as they purchased 22 X Robe MMX spots and 10 LEDWash 600s among other fixtures. These were the first moving lights to be installed across the...
Since 2009, the show has been staged in the 1500 seater ‘Cathedral’ tent venue, an impressive structure that features 8 masts and is 83 metres long by 49 metres wide with 20 metres of headroom. With those dimensions, they needed a spot fixture with some serious brightness! They also wanted a unit that was flexible and properly multi-purpose. The 11 x BMFL Spots – replacing older 1500W series...
Eighteen LEDWash 1200s, 10 x Pointes, 8 x DL4S Profiles and 8 x miniPointes later … together with 26 x LEDBeam 100s purchased a few months earlier from Robe’s South African distributor, DWR … they have a dynamic and flexible lighting rig in place which is making a real difference to how they can light their popular worship session and other events. The new technology is also a great fit with the...
Between all the venues and galleries, nearly 1700 cultural events are staged there annually, plus over 900 congresses, altogether attracting over 500,000 visitors to the Slovenian capital … so things are hectic! Cankarjev Dom also owns over 100 Robe fixtures and has just boosted its stock with the latest purchase of six Pointes and six more LEDWash 600s. This brings the current LEDWash 600 total...
Recently, his #FillUpTheDome concert on October 31st featured over 130 Robe lighting fixtures and played to an ecstatic sold-out audience of 20,000 in the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, making history as the first ‘local’ artist to ever sell out the venue. Nyovest himself approached Cape Town based design agency Formative to provide creative direction and technical production, including video...
D’Coque, the National Sporting and Cultural centre, is located in Kirchberg, Luxembourg City in the south of the country. Originally built as an Olympic swimming pool 33 years ago, with the addition of two new arenas in 2003, D’Coque is now the largest sports centre in Luxembourg. The largest hall can hold up to 8,300 people and in addition to sporting events like international athletics, this is...
Originally founded around 1968 and since 1970 operating out of a disused school building in the south suburbs of the city, the club became a popular hippy hangout in the 1970s, and through 40 years at the cutting edge of live music and entertainment, legendary for showcasing ground-breaking artists on the cusp of success and popularity … from Pink Floyd to the Gaslight Anthem. It also hosts...
The new rig has been designed by Jason Kew, Technical Supervisor in charge of lighting in the Barbican’s Music Department, and the fixtures were specified by Jason and Mark Bloxsidge, Technical Manager (Music Events), following an evaluation which involved the whole technical team at the Barbican Hall. The order was delivered via leading UK sales and rental company White Light and Robe UK, co...
The country’s best known club and concert venue is located appropriately in the Avenue du Rock 'n' roll in the epicentre of the magnificent steelworks which once dominated the region of Esch-sur-Alzette, now the site of a 450 million Euro redevelopment project to preserve the former industrial magnificence of the disused plant, in the process transforming the area into a vibey, bustling scientific...
In short, the venue – home to the Goteborg Symphony Orchestra (GSO) - took the world of concert halls into a new league. It remains one of the most prestigious venues in Sweden and a place that everyone enjoys playing at and visiting. Now – keeping well ahead of the game - they have Robe LED moving lights! The venue’s investment in Robe fixtures was instigated by Måns Păr Fogelberg (aka ‘MP’)...