DWR Distribution is delighted to supply CableJoG to the South African market. Based in the United Kingdom, CableJoG design, manufacture and distribute a range of cable testers from 8 test points in the case of the AudioJoG Pro 3 audio cable tester through to 1024 in the CableJoG 512 cable tester with the extra 512 adaptor. Eddie Zych, Founder, Director and Designer of CableJoG recalls initially meeting DWR’s Robert Izzett at PLASA a couple of years ago. “I seem to remember Robert coming to the stand and giving me quite a hard time but then sharing a table at the…
Author: Stewart Hume
eclipse Staging Services once again supported the annual Party in the Park all-day festival which brought with it a Brit indie-rock line up of The Charlatans, Travis and Kaiser Chiefs, at the Dubai Media City Amphitheatre. Also on eclipse’s to-do list was the audio visual supply for the What’s on Awards, the largest food and entertainment industry awards in the UAE. Despite the three-day gap between the two events, which would have given the teams plenty of time for manoeuvring and repositioning kit, there was little to change. The What’s on Awards required the same amount of power as the…
Sound Stylists supplied the full technical for South African comedian John Vlismas’ show, “Revelations II – The Good Racist” in Fourways, Johannesburg for two consecutive nights to a sold-out audience. The same set and gear was then used for the for the Savanna Comics’ Choice Awards the week thereafter. “Lighting the show was a bit of a challenge for me as I’d never done a comedian act before,” admitted Lighting Designer Sean Crawley. “When I spoke to John Vlismas prior to the event, asking him what his vision was for the show, he said he was aiming to combine rock…
Robe BMFLs, LEDBeam 1000s, Pointes and other moving lights provided by leading Namibian technical production specialist dB Audio illuminated the Namibia Breweries Ltd (NBL) site in Namibian capital Windhoek for the launch of the country’s first biomass boiler. The boiler was inaugurated by Namibian Vice President Dr Nickey Iyambo in a high profile ceremony for which dB Audio provided full technical production for Sindana Communications who delivered the project to end client, NBL owners Ohlthaver & List (O&L) Group. The dB Audio Namibia team was led by Event Producer Zellmari Brandt, with the event space lighting design created by Ramon…
A Prolyte Campus Workshop, presented by Date Jonkman and Ruud De Deugd was hosted at DWR Distribution in Johannesburg from the 1 – 4 November. The course presented intricate information to assist riggers to comply with safety regulations practiced throughout the world. The topics were covered in detail and delegates were given information on the types of loading and the effect on truss, building a safe MPT or ST Tower, slinging of truss, the process of calculating applied forces and predicting the effects of environmental influences and the basic preconditions to safely build a roof structure. DWR Distribution were pleased with…
Formative were once again contracted to provide expert technical management services to Aidan Bennets Design for the Paramount Ground stand at the 2016 Africa Aerospace and Defence Exhibition held at Waterkloof Air Force Base, situated on the outskirts of Pretoria. The 2016 iteration of the stand was built on the solid foundations of the 2014 show, the major change being a transition from Projection to LED Technology, supplied by LED Vision in the form of two highly impressive brand-new ROE BP 3.91mm screens with a total resolution nearing 6k, all run via Brompton M2 Processing and fed from d3 Technologies…
Fiesta De Los Muertos, billed as the biggest Halloween party of the year, took place at the Dubai Autism Rocks Arena at the end of October. In partnership with PRG-Gearhouse, Matrix Laser lent its services for the festivities with Show-Laser and Special FX. The kit list included: 10 Co2 Jets, four Co2 Super Jets, eight Flamaniacs, six Stadium Shot Extreme and four Super Blasters. Last but not least, there were six Galaxis G-Flames and six 20 Watt RGB Show Laser Systems. Laser and Special FX supported artists Major Laser and DNCE, as well as the spectacular 10-minute Show Fiesta Experience, which was a synchronised Sound, Light,…
Blink Experiences’ John Jossifakis becomes a ‘Certified Special Events Professional’. Established in 1993, the Certified Special Events Professional (CSEP) designation was created to recognise event professionals who have excelled in the special events field, with the industry acknowledging an CSEP to be best-in-class for the education and promotion of professional ethics and standards. Industry veteran John Jossifakis is the most recent of an elite group of event professionals to be certified. John, who heads up the regional production arm of Dubai based Blink Experience, is well known for his hard work, passion, dedication and support for the industry and will…
Dubai has long held a fascination for British companies and entrepreneurs in the sound and lighting industry, dating back well before the end of the last millennium. Fuelled with wanderlust and the promise of riches in an under-developed market, early frontiersmen often failed, and yet they managed to blaze a trail for those who would later follow. By 1995 Gearhouse Dubai was up and operating, paving the way for a steady colonisation. This in turn led to greater sustainability and more professional infrastructure, as the industry entered the Noughties. The burgeoning need to embrace standards of health and safety was…
eclipse Staging Services proudly supported the loud return of the 15-hour mini-music festival, DXBeach at Zero Gravity, with their audio, lighting, and video services, along with laser expertise from Laser FX and special effects from Stage FX. As eclipse handled the event from the ground up, the beachside venue and sandy dance floor provided challenges of logistics, which Head of Video Lee Worthington explained, “Just getting the equipment to where it needs to be can be a constant challenge, however the site management from our side made the install as smooth as could be expected.” The video crew supplied an…
Durban based Hirezone Audio Visual have purchased 12 Robe Spiiders LEDWashBeam luminaires. They are the first in KwaZulu Natal to join the Spiider craze. “We needed a wash light with versatility, something that had beams, and brightness was also a factor,” said Richard Gild, founder of Hirezone. “The Spiiders are well priced, lightweight and I think they will be a big industry standard in the next six months to a year. That’s where we want to be, allowing us to cross rental in the future.” Hirezone purchased the Spiiders from DWR Distribution. “I get so much support from Robe and…
Grown-Up Solutions provides strategic guidance to companies operating in, and buying from, the events and hospitality sector. The company, led by Mike Smith, works with industry business leaders to focus on the development of their own businesses, with the aim of identifying and maximising untapped potential. Grown-Up Solutions will be opening an office in Dubai in November to better serve their existing client base and to support new business opportunities in the UK and Middle East. Launched in the UK in 2014, the company has worked with a range of clients including a Premiership football club where they introduced processes…
