The Lock, Stock & Barrel in Dubai was inspired by the trend of casual, industrial and live music venues all over the world. Spread over two floors and with more than 800 sqm, it focusses on live music events and sports with two bars, a live music stage and 11 screens. Lighting Designer Ben Rogers of ArchiLX worked alongside the interiors team from mid-2015 to be ready for opening in the first half of 2016. For lighting control he specified an MA Lighting dot2 XL-B console running an ArtNet based network driving all the show and architectural lighting in the…
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Mark Ronson, Cee-Lo Green, Morris Day and the Time and legendary bassist Larry Graham came together at the end of June to play two nights at the Eventim Apollo Hammersmith for the Autism Rocks charity as a tribute to the late Prince. A joint presentation by Dubai-based 117Live and AEG Live, the shows featured extensive production services from Entec. The Northolt company supplied versatile lighting and sound packages as well as video, sub-hired from Rhodri Shaw at Transition Video. Autism Rocks was set up by Shanjay Shah after his youngest son was diagnosed with autism, and saw Prince himself take…
It is with great sadness that Delta Sound shares the tragic news that on Friday July 8, Claire Ferguson passed away at her home in Dubai. The Delta team and the wider industry are all truly shocked at the sudden passing. Immediate thoughts and prayers go out to her fiancé Andy, her family and friends. As part of Delta’s operations team, Claire would have been known to many. During her four years at Delta Sound as Operations Manager she built some great friendships with clients and suppliers. Claire will be remembered for her impeccable personality that touched her work and…
IBS-Group has been involved in the creation of Angry Birds activation at Dubai Festival City (DFC) Mall. The activation, working alongside Production House, was geared towards families, as kids could use child-friendly paint launchers to ‘release their angry side’. However, as the weather was set to reach up to 46 degrees during the inaugural week, the activation that was originally located at Global Village has been moved inside the air-conditioned DFC Mall, which is a perfect place to take the family on the long hot summer days. Angry Birds first originated back in October 2009 and has been made one of the most popular games for young children…
South African LED rental provider, Gauteng LEDVision, has taken delivery of 105 sq metres of ROE Visual PB3 screen, with an HD pixel pitch of 3.9mm. Known as Black Pearl, this product offers the same tile design as its predecessor, the Black Onyx and is powered by Tessera LED processing – a cutting-edge system from Brompton Technology. It makes use of Tessera management software, which provides a user-friendly yet powerful interface for controlling all aspects of the system. Along with a built-in scaler and de-interlacer, users can benefit from real-time adjustment of position, rotation, colour, brightness of panels and high-spec video performance…
Award-winning event production specialist Maestra Group provided a complete technical solution – using resources from both its Middle East and London operations – for the recent WWE Dune Bash staged at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium in Dubai, UAE. Maestra was asked on board by sports producers PROACTIV to provide all the rigging, sound, video, lighting, staging and draping needed for the popular two-day event, project managed for Maestra Group by managing partner of Maestra Dubai, Tom Clements. The brief included co-ordinating the extensive soft-goods required around the site and setting up a workable backstage space using creative draping…
Celebrated lighting designer, Terry Miranda used a Jands Vista L5 console to seamlessly synchronise his elegant lighting design with media content at the Al Burda Islamic Arts Awards, held at the Abu Dhabi National Theatre in the United Arab Emirates. Open to artists specialising in calligraphy, poetry and music from across the Middle East, the prestigious awards are held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and organised by the UAE’s Federal Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development. For the 12th consecutive year, Miranda – at the helm of his Dubai-based company…
As a part of ‘Sound Academy’, an ongoing set of roadshows across the Middle East, Sennheiser has successfully conducted two events in Iran and Jordan, in collaboration with its partners ERTEBAT Co. and Advanced Solutions respectively. While both events were conducted in May and followed a two-day format, the roadshow in Iran was tailored to end-users and focussed on Sennheiser’s Audio for Video and Business Communications product ranges while the event in Jordan had a split focus on microphone technologies and RF management for rental companies and installers, and Business Communications solutions for end users and consultants. Commenting on the…
Trade exhibitions the stature of ME Event Expo staged at the Marriot Marquis, Dubai, raise a certain presentational dilemma for a service provider in the event sector: if you’re not exhibiting a product, something clear, three dimensional, and with an obvious function, then what are you showing? For Protec, the largest such service provider in the Middle East, the response was two-fold, as their Marketing Manager Eddie Andradé explained: “We looked at the amazing array of technologies in our inventory and asked ourselves the simple question – what can you do with this? And the simple answer is ‘pretty much…
Sowing the Seeds 2016, a music and lifestyle festival in Johannesburg, South Africa relied on Blackmagic Design’s ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K and Micro Studio Camera 4K to produce the live to screen visuals for festival performers, including headline acts Of Monsters and Men (OMAM) and Jungle. The portable production unit (PPU), crew and IMAG projection used during the festival were supplied by rental and staging specialist Militia Broadcast. The fully customisable PPU is built around optical fiber and also features Blackmagic Design’s range of studio cameras, ATEM Talkback Converter 4K and HyperDeck Studio Pro. Six cameras were used…
When the television audience heard that The Voice would come to South Africa, there was a huge response and expectation. For Chris De Lancey from Multi-Media who was awarded the technical supply for The Voice Angola by production Co AMPN, South Africa and Nigeria, it has been a tremendous relief to see the show raise the bar for local televised shows and to meet international standards. The show was recorded at Sasani Studios, Johannesburg. “First tentative discussions around The Voice began late in 2013, and December of that year, draft one budgets were being produced. Two years later it…
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