Allround Lyd & Lys (Light & Sound) based in Struer, Denmark, purchased Robe iFORTE LTX Follow Spots ahead of their busy 2024 festival season, so – in conjunction with their existing RoboSpot systems – going forward, they could offer outstanding follow spotting facilities with their dynamic festival stage lighting

  Astera, a leading developer of innovative lighting solutions for film and events, is delighted to announce Agata Birn as the company’s new Head of Sales. Agata Birn brings over 12 years of experience in international business development and distribution strategy. With a proven track record of handling motion picture

A new installation of Robe T11 Profiles in the 200-capacity Small Hall at the Theater de Bussel in Oosterhout, southern Netherlands is helping to save electricity and enhance the scope of lighting shows and events there, explained the venue’s head of technical, Evelyn van ‘t Hof. The 32 x T11s

Lighting designer Elliot Baines from Spiralstagelighting reached for some Astera PixelBricks to help create an imaginative, memorable, and high-value lighting effect for the London show of Canadian indie band Wild Rivers, a showcase gig at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire that was part of their 2024 UK tour. Introduced to their

The Royal Albert Hall in London is an iconic venue, hosting diverse performances every night of the week. Famous for its striking looks, the 153-year-old building had challenging acoustics when amplifying modern music for the almost 6,000 capacity auditorium. This led to huge investment into the Hall’s audio equipment, with

  Czech-based lighting manufacturer Robe lighting s.r.o. enjoyed its best ever year in 2024 and is expecting 2025 to be a continuation of that busy and successful trajectory. Expansion Robe starts the new year with an expanded factory premises, ramped up production capacity and a strong and innovative product portfolio

  Compact L2 System Delivers Arena-Scale Impact Across Diverse Venues in UK and Northern Europe   LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – L-Acoustics demonstrates the power and versatility of the L Series with a successful deployment across Il Divo’s recent UK and European tour. The multinational classical crossover quartet, known for their

  You are welcome to join a Certified Barco Event Master 1A workshop presented by Dylan Jones on 4 and 5 February 2025 from 9am to 4pm at DWR Distribution in Johannesburg. Passing the grade is required to earn certification. Students will engage in classroom theory and hands-on activities in

  Just a quick note to let you know that on Thursday, 12 December, the DWR offices will be closing a little earlier at 11:30 AM for our staff year-end celebration. We’ll be back on Friday, 13 December for any last-minute assistance before our annual shutdown. Holiday Closure Dates: We’ll

The 30th Pol’and’Rock festival ensured that music fans enjoyed the best guest and musical experiences – whether listening to some of the best Polish and international bands on one of the five stages or engaged in other activities under the banner of “Love, Friendship, Music” – around the Broczyno airfield

What a whirlwind this year has been, yet looking back at 2020 feels like a lifetime ago. When our industry bounced back, it did so with incredible energy and determination. One thing that stood out this year is how seriously people are taking the work we do. We’re putting in

  Robe’s award-winning iBOLT – a unique, innovative, hugely bright moving light fixture that is the first real replacement for conventional high powered xenon searchlights – has been approved by authorities for use in the USA and is now available for the North American market. iBOLT utilizes a potent laser

  Floridian hard rockers Creed reunited and hit the road for their first tour in 11 years, creating a maelstrom of energy and momentum so successful that it propelled their music back into the Billboard charts, together with this year’s new “Summer of 99”, and “Are You Ready?” tours, which

UK-based lighting designer Phil Supple utilised 56 x Astera Tubes – 40 x Titan and eight each Hyperion and Helios – to illuminate 137 windows across 57 rooms at the George Heriot School in Edinburgh, Scotland, for “Where to Begin”, the opening event of the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival (EIF).

For Acoustic Star Events, supplying the full technical support for the Zee Nation Fest marked a defining moment in the company’s journey. Established in 2013 by Tshwane University of Technology graduate Katlego Masoga and University of Johannesburg’s graduate Khutso Kekana, Acoustic Star Events is poised for growth. It is not

  CALICO PRO by tvONE is the first of a new line of ultra-powerful video processors with multi-window, multi-screen and multi-layer based upon tvONE’s latest, fifth generation 4K/8K, 10bit processing engine on a new, high bandwidth, flexible, 2RU hardware platform. Capable of end-to-end 4:4:4 processing, combined with the highest quality

2x HDMI output Hippotizer system to effortlessly drive smaller live events and installations. Product Benefits: 2x HDMI Production Outputs 4K Control outputs for ZooKeeper – 1 x HDMI 2.0 and 1 x DP1.2 4K Capture option (HDMI 2.0) 2TB Media Storage Size Camera tracking features enable creative content mapping!  Create

When an international group invites its employees to an event, sometimes an exhibition centre facility is sufficient. Schoko Pro GmbH in Wiesbaden recently organised a corporate event of this capacity at the Stockholm Exhibition Centre. For the lighting of the entire day’s celebration, involving both conference and gala spaces, the

Onboard reliability is key for Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer Marie Ulven Ringheim’s indie pop project, Girl in Red. The latest tour has seen the band grow, not only in size, but venue capacity. Larger venues meant higher complexity and production values, and sound engineers Kris Derry and Matt Wickens

  DWR Distribution is excited to share that the popular International Rigging Training is back, led by Ruud de Deugd! Known for his rigging expertise and as the founder of T & E Support, Ruud can’t wait to return to South Africa for this sought-after course. Mark your calendars for

Showcase, a new addition to Vectorworks Spotlight, enables streamlined previsualization directly in the software’s interface. With version 2025, you’ll be able to design and test your show in just one software program. Showcase is specifically created for entertainment design and production professionals. These tools and commands allow you to previz

  Lightweight, compact, highly reliable and rugged power distribution and stage-ready “turtle” boxes! Meet the Power Turtle by Neutrik! DWR currently have stock of the X CPTX-T1-T7  and  CPTM/S1 /T12.   Power Turtle X CPTX-T1-T7  1 x powerCON TRUE1 TOP In- 7 x powerCON® TRUE1® TOP Out  – Indoor (IP20) Power

The next generation, scalable IP intercom platform integrating the full range of FreeSpeak wireless, HelixNet wired as well as interfacing via I.V. Direct, Dante, 2-wire partyline and 4-wire. A powerhouse of intercom, with flexible licensing to right-size to any use case and expand as you grow, all in a 1RU

Australian lighting designer Daniel Gordon – known industry-wide as Gordo – wanted to create a unique lighting ambience that was transportable and transposable anywhere around the globe for the ongoing “Living Room Sessions” world tour by indie folk rockers Angus & Julia Stone. He turned to 48 of Astera’s powerful

An unmissable event for theatre lovers, the Festival d’Avignon celebrates its 78th edition in 2024. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, this major international performing arts event attracts thousands of enthusiasts each summer to various venues around the city. At the heart of the festival, the Cour d’Honneur of the

When you need BIG bold beautiful fat beams for a monumental lighting scheme … Robe’s iBOLTS, iFORTES and iFORTE LTXs are rad! All of these fixture types were prominent on a number of spectacular lighting installations designed by Centrum Production and delivered by VEG (Visual Europe Group) for the 2024

  DWR Distribution is excited to offer the Sharp/NEC PA804UL and PA1004UL laser projectors at special prices, while stocks last. Experience NEC’s innovative super-silent technology, now perfect for even larger spaces with these powerful projectors. These units deliver impressive vivid colour and contrast, with brilliant whites and a wide colour

Robe moving lights – ESPRITES, Spiiders, iSpiiders and iFORTE LTXs used as follow spots – all had great impact on the lighting and set designed by Simon Corder for Opera Hedeland’s La fanciulla del West (Girl of the Golden West) by Puccini, which is set in a ‘Gold Rush’ prospecting

       Green Day continues “The Saviors Tour 2024” with Claypaky Tambora Flash fixtures from Upstaging accompanying the band on their world tour.  Tambora Flash is a unique hybrid fixture that acts simultaneously as a strobe, wash and blinder, specifically designed for use in a linear array. The band’s sold out

Located in Baarn, in the Utrecht region right in the centre of The Netherlands, Speeldoos Theatre is a vibrant local and national hub for culture including film screenings and all types of live performing arts – music, cabaret, dance, drama, etc. Last year, the venue, which has a cosy 343-seat