MJ Event Gear were delighted to use 12 of their Robe BMFLs at the MultiChoice Super Stars Year End event hosted at the Mosaïek church in Fairlands, Johannesburg. MJ have not looked back since purchasing the BMFLs and the

Within 48 hours tickets for An Evening with Ed Kowalczyk – Throwing Copper Unplugged 20th Anniversary were sold out at Johannesburg’s Carnival City and the Grand Arena at Grand West, Cape Town. AMP Events and Polo Jeans Co presented the

MA has launched its dot2 blog for this exciting new lighting console range. This new online platform will connect everything related to dot2 that’s happening on the internet, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and other social channel mentions. Also, it

Formative were contracted directly by Cassper Nyovest to provide full creative direction, production design, content design, show and technical production for his historical #fillupthedome show at the Ticketpro Dome, Johannesburg on 31 October 2015. The Production Design was based around

Johannesburg based MGG, one of the fastest growing South African technical production and solutions companies – has invested in more Robe equipment with the purchase of 12 x BMFL Blades – the first in the country – 12 x CycFX

The Joburg Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa, has invested in a new MA Lighting dot2 core console which was specified by technical manager Enos Ramoroko and delivered by MA’s South African distributor DWR via System Solutions, the integration and installation division

USA – When San Antonio’s Community Bible Church undertook a multi-million dollar technical renovation of its main 3,500-seat auditorium, it called on the integration division of Morris in Nashville to install new audio, video and lighting systems. Morris added Clay

Two days of absolutely banging dance vibes from some of the biggest EDM artists on the planet including Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Hardwell, Tiesto, Alesso, rising star Martin Garrix and many, many more … pulled thousands of music fans

Ernest Awuah a freelancing lighting designer and freelancer in Accra, Ghana, has purchased an Avolites Titan One from South African based DWR Distribution. “I have been in the industry since 2007 and am still going strong,” said Ernest who works

The annual On the Night fundraising event, staged by St John’s College in Houghton on the 10 October, attracted 7000 thousand patrons and featured Mi Casa performing with the school choir, and finalists from Last Band Standing, an inter school

London’s iconic and respected arts centre, the Barbican, has invested in Robe DL4S LED profile and Pointe multi-functional moving lights which are integral to a new moving light rig installed in the 1,943 capacity Barbican Hall concert venue. Photos – of

It’s always exciting being involved in something new and innovative, so Nashville based lighting and visuals designer Chris Lisle was delighted to be invited by production manager Jim Dorroh of LEO Events to light seven performance stages at the inaugural

For the RMB Starlight Classics, hosted at The Country Club Johannesburg, Lighting Designers Joshua Cutts from Visual Frontier and Christopher Bolton from Keystone Productions worked in unison as they used two grandMA2 Lite consoles for multi-user programming – not an

Celebrating 15 years of performances Madame Zingara’s new home – Queen of Flanders, is brought to life with the help of theatre rental specialist Splitbeam. Mondo Magazine kindly allowed DWR the use of this article. Madame Zingara’s South African travelling

  DWR Distribution is delighted to offer discounted prices on Vectorworks Packages and Licenses. This End of Year sale will run until 31 December 2015. What Vectorworks Users have to say:  “I use Vectorworks because it is a complete design

Insane Sound & Lighting is a busy technical production and design company based in Cornubia, Durban, South Africa, run by the charismatic Vimal Rawjee, who took the name from his DJ days when he earned a reputation for cramming “insane”

With regular power cuts in South Africa a fact of life, The Guild Theatre in East London had to come up with a solution to an enable the show to go on even during load shedding and thus preventing a

This year’s Rocking the Daisies – which coincided with the festival’s tenth birthday – was the biggest and best year yet! It was the fifth time that Kilowatt AV saw involvement in the festival, this year being commissioned to conceptualise,

Encouraging talent and team spirit in Africa, Shoprite Topstars hosted the “Jewel of the Night” singing competition; the grand finale took place on 19 October at GrandWest’s Grand Arena in Cape Town. Unfazed Production’s JP Willson was proud to supply

Cult U.S. punk rock band Offspring recently played two major UK dates in Manchester and London whilst warming up for a festival run, with all their characteristic onstage rambunctiousness, further energised by a lightshow created by long term LD Lawrence

London, UK – Philips Selecon and Showline LED luminaires have performed a range of crucial lighting roles whilst complementing a traditional tungsten rig on macabre musical The Addams Family at the John McIntosh Arts Theatre in London. Photos by David

The new Stage Entertainment Holland production of The Bodyguard has recently opened at the Beatrix Theatre in Utrecht, The Netherlands, to rave reviews, sold out houses and nightly standing ovations. The colourful, richly textured and highly entertaining performance has plenty

Robe Lighting rocked Las Vegas this weekend … presenting its largest booth at any LDI expo to date, complete with its first major new product launch at an LDI show with the BMFL Wash and BMFL Wash XF luminaires. Photos

Queen + Adam Lambert’s recent Latin American tour comprised six incendiary shows in Argentina, Chile and Brazil, featuring a suitably impressive lightshow created by UK based designer Rob Sinclair, who has brought his magic visual touch to the QAL project

USA – Fall Out Boy just wrapped “The Boys of Zummer Tour” (sic) co-headlining with Wiz Khalifa, and once again Clay Paky fixtures were along for the exciting cross-country ride. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky

Robe’s BMFL Blade fixture continues to be a popular choice for designers of large scale ceremonies and events needing some serious power and effect – the latest being the Opening ceremony of the 2015 All Africa Games in Brazzerville, Republic

    After yet another dazzling display of Camera, Lights Dance! Strictly Come Dancing has just concluded its 8th spectacularly successful season on our local screens. Photos: Mariska van den Brink, courtesy Rapid Blue & Strictly SA Broadcast on SABC 3

Under an African sky, the FNB Starlight Pop Opera was held in August at Chris Saunders Park, Umhlanga in KwaZulu Natal. Beautiful sounds from the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra and soft washes of colour brought the stage dome to life. Chandeliers

Robe took a completely different approach to the 2015 PLASA London expo, creating a fully immersive piazza environment in their ‘Arena’ space – the largest stand on the exhibition floor – which became a showcase for the latest products built

Austria – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” was performed for the first time in 1986. The musical is based on the 1910 novel of the same name by the Frenchman Gaston Leroux. It is the most successful

UK – Twelve Clay Paky Mythos fixtures projected text and images onto the Tower of London in September as part of a star-studded charity event honouring wounded armed forces veterans. Photo: www.thefifthestate.co.uk The initiative was launched to raise awareness of the

USA – Elevation Worship recently recorded its new album, “Here as in Heaven,” in front of a sold-out crowd at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. Clay Paky lighting fixtures were on hand to support the band’s live

Steve Angello – innovative international DJ and music producer – doesn’t believe in doing anything by halves, and so asked his lighting designer Jon Trincas to create something spectacular, full-on and completely unique for his pumping headline set in the

By Dave Whitehouse from DWR Distribution A great time was had by all visitors to the The Witness Hilton Arts Festival this year including a new visitor, the MA Lighting Dot 2! With shows ranging from Watershed Live to the

While Oklahoma City is quite out of the way, Stillwater, where the Oklahoma State University campus is situated, is even more so – over an hours drive from city. Oklahoma State is primarily a research university so it doesn’t have

Cape Town South Africa based CS Audio, a busy full technical – sound, lighting, video and structures – solutions and rental operation started in 1995 by Donald Clark, became the third company in South Africa to invest in Robe BMFLs,

UK singer songwriter Charli XCX has publically stated that she experiences sound-to-colour synaesthesia and ‘sees’ music in colours … so it was not a complete surprise to show designer Rob Sinclair and lighting designer Greg Hill when she requested coloured

The annual Bidvest Awards Gala Dinner corporate function is one of the largest on the SA corporate calendar. The international Bidvest Group, with almost 150 000 employees in countries all over the world, gathers to celebrate excellence and take stock of

Wired Media is a Durban, South Africa based AV rental and production company focussed on bringing the very best production values to a range of corporate events and presentations. The company was founded 10 years ago by Clint Stevenson, who

  Black Coffee is a bustling technical production company based in Durban, South Africa, founded in 2000 by Brandon Bunyan and his wife Jenny. They started in a garage supplying creative staging and lighting to theatre shows, and now have

There are three things that Derek Kruger, Workshop Manager at DWR Distribution, is passionate about: Family, the race track and wolves. A new tradition at DWR is to give staff a small gift voucher when they celebrate their birthday. A

  Gearhouse South Africa has purchased four grandMA dot 2 XL-F consoles which will be split equally between their Johannesburg and Durban branches. “We chose them to fill a gap we felt existed in our inventory of consoles, for desks

A theatrical performance of song and dance infused with African emotion and humour, made Elixer the Musical an absolute delight. The show opened in Mamelodi Community Hall on 19th August, to a large audience who experienced musical theatre in their

Photo credit: ToddKaplan NORTH AMERICA – Sublime with Rome has hit the road for a North American summer tour featuring 37 concerts coast to coast. Lighting designer Scott Warner of Karate Pinky Visual Design, LLC, Pittsburgh, has selected Clay Paky

London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall (RAH) venue purchased 17 x Robe BMFL Spot moving lights in February which have been used on a myriad of shows and events in the last few months including Space Spectacular, a co-promotion between the

  Established in 2010 by Brian Chigwendere, rental company Puredeal is making waves in the entertainment industry and have taken ownership of a new Avolites Tiger Touch II to keep up with demand. “We started off with an Avolites Titan

    CANADA – Toronto-based contemporary dance company, Ballet Creole, marked its 25th anniversary with many events and performances, including their annual spring season at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre. A.C.T Lighting, Inc., the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky fixtures

  GERMANY – The Airbeat-One festival happens yearly since 2002 on the private airfield of Neustadt-Glewe in North Germany and is held by the rental company Music-Eggert. There are several floor where a lot of EDM fans can listen to

UK – The spectacular Electric Daisy Carnival landed in England this year with its trademark colourful performers and EDM stars with lighting controlled by a host of Avolites consoles on two main stages. This year marked the third EDC in

Edinburgh, Scotland – One of the latest additions to the Philips Strand Lighting line of consoles, the NEO, has made its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut, taking up residence for the duration of the arts festival in popular venue C south. Operated

  Robe BMFL Spots and Blades were an integral element of the lighting scheme designed by Pierre Marleau of Orange Frog Productions Inc. for the Grandstand concert stage at the 2015 Calgary Exhibition & Stampede, arguably the world’s most famous

Hilton College: 17 – 20 September 2015 KZN’s premier arts festival:  the 23nd annual Hilton Arts Festival will be hosted in the picturesque Hilton College from the 17 – 20 September, 2015.  “The focus is on freshening the face of

Showgroup used 4 Robe BMFLS for Rocking the Koppies, an intimate event hosted on a farm in Potchefstroom. Control was on an Avolites Tiger Touch II. “This was a private function for a fiftieth birthday party and included performances by

Moscow, Russia – Lighting designer Roman Stolyarov has used a wide range of Clay Paky fixtures to create stunning lighting looks in celebration of global cosmetic company Oriflame’s annual awards ceremony and banquet, which saw over 3000 employees attend. Leading

  Prolyte truss showed off at  the DWR Distribution stand at Mediatech 2015. Mediatech is the largest media and entertainment technology trade show in southern Africa, hosted every two years at the Ticketpro Dome in Northgate during July. DWR are the

  There’s no greater ‘goosebump moment’ for any LD than audible gasps of amazement from a crowd reacting to a lighting or visual effect … that’s what happened each night in the Joburg Theatre, downtown Johannesburg as a truly spectacular

Blood Brothers, South Africa’s first ever supergroup, is a project featuring 10 of the country’s best known musicians and rock heroes, who recently played a special one-off concert to a hugely enthusiastic 3500 capacity audience at Johannesburg’s Carnival City Big

For many Land Rover enthusiasts, it was difficult to swallow the lump in their throat as they sat around the camp fire with Kingsley Holgate, a humanitarian and modern day explorer at the Landy Festival South Africa 2015, held on

With the International Indian Film Academy Awards (also known as the IIFA Awards) the International Indian Film Academy honours both the artistic and technical excellence of professionals involved in Bollywood. Started in 2000, the ceremony is staged in different countries

  UK – Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy, Alpha Spot HPE 300 and Sharpy Wash 330 fixtures are performing crucial lighting roles during season two filming of music show Sky Arts Sessions, allowing Sky TV lighting designer Richard Bowles to create

The rich and vibrant Latin music scene generates a lot of ‘crossover’ between artists and the production side of the industry in the Mexican rental world. Most people involved in companies started their industry careers playing in bands and many

South African lighting designer Peter Rieck is the proud owner of one of MA Lighting’s new dot2 XL-F consoles. Peter, an industry professional for 15 years and one of the country’s leading television lighting specialists recently launched a new company,

  Robe’s news team met the Larssons at a special 10th anniversary edition of Let’s Dance in Sweden, where they were busy in Magazin (warehouse) 7 at the Frihamnen container port and ferry terminal in Stockholm, a frenetic site specific

Italy – Mario Biondi is one of the few Italian artists who can claim some sort of esteem and saleability outside Italy, perhaps on account of the characteristics of his kind of music, or perhaps because he sings in English.

Italy – Renzo Arbore sits on the chair in front of Fabio Fazio as it is announced that he will be the special guest in the final show of Che Fuori tempo che fa (Fazio’s talk show). The transmission will

  UK – For over 30 years AC/DC fans have demanded high octane, big bang punch from their live experience and this year the band’s Rock or Bust tour did not disappoint. Set designer Ray Winkler joined forces with lighting designer

DWR Distribution teamed up with DimBright for an LED installation for Cube Communications Limited in Rwanda. Johnny Scholtz from DWR advised the client on a cost effective way to light up the set of their new News Studio. Jakes Mogale

The main stage for the 2015 Innibos arts festival – one of the largest Afrikaans events in South Africa drawing over 107,000 people over five days – staged at Hoërskool Bergvlam in Nelspruit, was lit for the eighth year by

No fewer than 26 community theatre groups will strut their stuff at this year’s HELLO Community Theatre Arts Festival. The Festival was launched last year by TUT’s Department of Entertainment Technology, in partnership with the City of Tshwane and DWR

Johannesburg, South Africa – Philips’ entertainment lighting brands Vari-Lite and Strand Lighting, along with the Showline product range, have enjoyed three jam-packed and successful days at a buzzing Mediatech Africa show in Johannesburg.  Joining valued partner and leading lighting supplier for South

Singapore marked the country’s 50th Anniversary – SG50 – with huge pride, as flamboyant celebrations erupted all across the island, culminating in a special National Day Parade (NDP) in the Padang, right in the heart of the city. The NDP

  Italian superstar Vasco Rossi completed his Live Kom 15 stadium tour in a blaze of glory with a production designed by the combined talents of set company Gioforma and long term lighting designer Giovanni Pinna, which also incorporated substantial

Arguably one of the greatest rock bands of all time – with their instantly recognisable hard driving guitar power chords, screeching acerbic lyrics about life on the edge and renowned for some of the most awesome hi-energy live performances in

Los Angeles based Felix Lighting invested in 60 of Robe’s BMFL moving lights – 48 BMFL Spots and 12 BMFL Blades – for their busy rental stock. The fixtures were immediately deployed on the kineticFIELD main stage at the 2015

Robe was delighted to help launch Yaron Abulafia’s exciting new book “The Art of Light on Stage: Lighting in Contemporary Theatre” at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial. Robe is sponsoring this work by the artist and award winning lighting designer. Photos

The Hollard Insurance Group, South Africa’s largest privately owned insurance group, has invested in low consumption Anolis LED lighting to enhance the exterior signage at the Hollard Campus, a landmark property situated in Parktown, Johannesburg. HKLM were the Brand Agency

ITALY – During the first stage of this memorable edition of the Giro d’Italia, the Royal Hotel Sanremo asked Pico Service to illuminate part of the hotel building’s façades. The lighting service company proposed an uncluttered solution designed to avoid

Multi award-winning, multi-talented, chart-topping singer songwriter Paolo Nutini recently played a concert at Millennium Square in Leeds, UK, right in the city centre, for which the production (flown) lighting rig of Robe BMFLs, Pointes and LEDWash 600s was supplied by

  Europe – Lighting designer Tom Campbell is using an Avolites Tiger Touch II on Anna Calvi’s summer festival tour using V9 to create a subtle and evocative production.  Campbell is using his Tiger Touch II for the UK shows and

Photo credit: Brian Glass, Concert Captures. A milestone in music history took place at Soldier Field in Chicago as legendary US ‘jam’ band The Grateful Dead celebrated their 50th anniversary with the three final ‘Fare Thee Well’ shows, produced by

Verbania, Italy – Tones on the Stones has renewed its partnership with Clay Paky for the third year running. The Festival was held in the Cava Bianco Montorfano (White Montorfano Quarry), near Verbania. The main attraction this year was Cavalleria

Robe was right at the centre of the buzz at the 2015 Mediatech Africa expo in Johannesburg last week, taking their own stand space for the first time alongside that of distributor DWR, one of South Africa’s leading lighting sales

Photo: Ralph Larmann Azerbaijan – Over 670 Clay Paky fixtures amazed two sold-out audiences of 68,000 at the first European Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies, held June 12 and 28 at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan. The fixtures were

  UK – American rapper Kanye West’s headline gig at this year’s Glastonbury Festival has gone viral due to the incredible 792-strong par can rig controlled by 16 Avolites ART2000 48 way 16A dimmers and 2 Avolites Power Cubes.                         

Photo credit: Lee Cherry USA – Her farewell tour is called “Rock This Country,” and country icon Shania Twain is doing just that as she bids good-bye to her fans from coast to coast. More than 300 Clay Paky lighting

Stagelight AG of Switzerland has been celebrating the receipt of the very first Robert Juliat Merlin followspots to roll off the production line. Merlin is Robert Juliat’s new 2500W HMI sturdy followspot designed specifically for the touring market. Merlin worked

Nelspruit based rental company, AVS Hire, are thankful for a newly purchased Ra’alloy Ramp, which has made loading so much less painful! The lightweight Ra’alloy aluminum touring ramp that requires no maintenance was purchased from DWR Distribution. “To be honest

SPAIN – The Project, started by the renowned chefs Ferrán and Albert Adriá, with Guy Laliberté, creator of Cirque du Soleil, opened its doors last 30th of June, offering a trip around the art, amazing performances and an incredible gastronomy

Mumford & Sons are on the road in support of their acclaimed ‘Wilder Mind’ third studio album, currently in Europe playing a mix of own-show headliners and festivals in picturesque locations. LD Ed Warren specified 32 x Robe BMFL Spots

The incredible Arcadia Spectacular stage pumped out some serious visuals at Glastonbury this year created and controlled by blinkinLAB’s Tom Wall using an Avolites Sapphire Media and Ai server. The Spider stage is Arcadia’s most monumental environment. Built from recycled

South African based In Living Colour, established in the mid 90s by Gavin Buckle, recently invested in an Avolites Tiger Touch II and 12 x Robe Robin 300 LED Wash fixtures. “Due to In Living Colour’s position within the market

The Michael W Smith South African Tour 2015 included performances at the CRC in Bloemfontein, Durban ICC, GrandWest Arena in Cape Town, Rhema Church in Johannesburg and the Moreletapark Church in Pretoria. With the venues ranging in size and application

The annual Hillsong Colour Conference was hosted at the Grand West Casino in Cape Town from the 15th to 19th April. Rental company C&S supplied and set up the custom built stage, lighting – which included over 160 Robe fixtures

Tom Kenny is used to designing amazing, eye-catching lightshows for high profile TV events and loves a good challenge, so making the 2015 Country Music Television (CMT Music) Awards in Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN, look “out of this world” really

 Romania – Showline SL NITRO 510C strobes have made their debut on the third edition of Electric Castle, Romania’s biggest music festival, becoming the first LED strobes to be used on the event in its short history. The award-winning dance festival

Robert Juliat’s Grand Range of followspots are the ones to call on when you want to party on a big scale. Robert Juliat’s Aramis and Lancelot long-throw models have been out in full force in the Netherlands for two of

Over the last few months we have been very grateful to all the new subscribers to the DWR Newsletter. Subscribers can select whether they want to receive the latest news, receive info about new products or find out about training and

For the very first time, Robe Lighting s.r.o. will have its own stand at Mediatech, the biannual media and entertainment technology trade show for Africa. Mediatech will be held from the 15 to 17 July at The Dome, Northgate, Johannesburg.

Mediatech 2015 is here and DWR Distribution looks forward to seeing you at our stand – J47 from 15 to 17 July from 10am to 6pm. The show has grown from strength to strength and it has been a pleasure

Clay Paky will put on a multimedia show at Mediatech 2015 with the most successful lights of the year: the MYTHOS, the SUPERSHARPY, the STORMY and the B-EYE. MYTHOS is a highly advanced form of hybrid light: first of all,

In the right light at the right time everything is extraordinary – Aaron Rose  Join one of South African’s finest lighting designers, Michael Broderick, at Mediatech as he presents a carefully orchestrated performance using one Robe BMFL fixture and a

Due to popular demand and a fully booked response to the Lighting Design Session hosted at Mediatech on 16 July, Internationally acclaimed Lighting Designers Paule Constable and Durham Marenghi have agreed to host an additional session on Friday, 17 July.

 Top international pop artists, Take That, are currently promoting their seventh studio album, III, on their Live 2015 tour with seven Robert Juliat followspots playing major roles in highlighting the artists and the many theatrical antics that surround them. Creative

Doughty Engineering installs range of products in the School of Creative Arts– The School of Creative Arts at Queen’s University in Belfast boasts some of the most desirable undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the country. With demand for spaces on the practical film

Chicago-based Performance Lighting is another leading U.S. company to recently invest in Robe – with the purchase of 30 x BMFL Spots and 12 x Pointes. The busy design and rental facility supplies lighting to all sectors – from corporate

UNITED KINGDOM – Since 1985 Fisher Productions has been supplying a complete production service to a wide array of corporate and private clients. Their quality bespoke service has secured the company as the preferred suppliers at many of the UK’s

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, the UK’s highest profile and best known festival event once again proves a massive hit for Robe moving lights – over 600 of which were deployed on a multiplicity of stages site-wide, including in

West London based lighting and video rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting and visual equipment to some of the coolest, most creative elements of another hugely dynamic 2015 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts … including Arcadia, Block 9,

“It fits the bill perfectly”: dot2 sales hit the spot for MA’s distributor Ambersphere Solutions Since its unveiling at Prolight + Sound in April this year, the new dot2 range of consoles from MA Lighting has been establishing itself as

–         won the ABTT Award for Engineering 2014 while still in prototype form –  Doughty Engineering’s award winning Modular Rigging System will be making its first official appearance at this year’s ABTT show. The range which is riding high on

USA – The Live Design Products of the Year Awards 2014-2015 were held on Thursday 4 June at the Jerry H Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, during the New York Master Classes (NYMC), and the Mythos climbed onto the

Koltech is a forward thinking lighting and audio rental company based in Beersheva, Israel’s seventh largest city and the biggest in the arid Negev desert region to the south of the country. Photos by Louise Stickland. The company is owned

Hennie Ellis, owner of Audio Quest has been using an Avolites Tiger Touch Console, LumenRadio Wireless DMX and his trusted 20 Robe 575 XT Scanners for various festivals. Audio Quest supplied the lighting for the main stage at the Gariep

POLAND – ARAM Poland was in charge of the design and technical production of the largest gaming event in the world, the ninth World Final of the Intel Extreme Masters, and Clay Paky Mythos played a significant role in lighting this

Lars Bakke and the sales team from Robe’s Norwegian distributor Norsk Sceneteknikk based in Spydeberg, seized the opportunity to actively support local prog-rock band Sørgekåpe with additional lighting … when lead singer Kim Lunde started working with them about a

Nearly 500 Robe BMFL moving lights were right at the core of an amazing lighting scheme designed by LD Mac Chan for the vibrant Opening Ceremony of the 2015 South East Asia Games in Singapore on Friday. Photos courtesy Louise Stickland The

The Pilanesberg National Park was the graceful setting for AMWAY’s 20th Celebration Dinner. As guests sat around a roaring fire at the BOMA at Sun City, the rustic mood was given a modern twist with a significant collection of lighting

Photos by David Benade, dB Audio The Namibian Annual Music Awards (NAMA, staged at the Swakopmund Indoor Sports Centre in the coastal town of Swakopmund, was lit up with 18 Robe BMFLs forming part of a large Robe rig. dB

When international dealers were invited to the Robert Juliat factory in France earlier this year, it was an eye-opening experience to see the dedication in which the company is run. Robert Izzett from DWR Distribution, the South African distributor, joined

  SABC TV Outside Broadcasts have invested in an Avolites Quartz console, part of the Titan Mobile Family, and a Lumen Radio CRMX Nova FX RDM Transmitter and Receiver, their second LumenRadio acquisition. South African based DWR Distribution supplied the

Puerto Rican pop singer, composer and actor Chayanne is currently touring with a lighting design by Belgian-based designers Alain Corthout and Ignace D’Haese, who have many top Latin stars in their current portfolio, and the skill of lighting this lively

  Since 1938, the Habima Theatre has officially been considered the national theatre of Israel. Among the first Hebrew language theatres, it is located in Habima Square, central Tel Aviv in an impressive building reopened in 2012 after four years

Photos by Elke Briers Event organisers VTM Television and the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, Belgium asked the Painting With Light team to add some extra special visual flair to the 10th annual edition of the Schlagerfestival, a live show highlighting

Photo credit: Ralph Larmann Germany – Lighting designer Manuel da Costa has chosen to use a significant number of Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE and Sharpy fixtures on the latest series of hit TV show The Voice of Germany. Spanning four

Moscow, Russia – This Valentine’s Day saw one of the biggest dance events in Russia’s history hit its capital. Over 17,000 Muscovites partied hard throughout a 3 and a half hour dance mash-up marathon, with lighting designer Konstantin Gerasimov of

USA – A team of Avolites’ powerful Ai EX8 media servers is driving spectacular visuals in Las Vegas’s new superclub, Omnia. Billed as ‘a new nightlife experience’ and created by international lifestyle brand Hakkasan Group, Omnia is situated on The

  The Who are amongst the world’s ‘greatest’ and most influential rock bands, with a reputation for great music, uncompromisingly edgy lyrics, fast-and-furious live performances and shouting out for the mod generation. Add the countless innovative studio albums, 100 million

A few brave hearts from DWR Distribution entered The Jeep Warrior (4) Race hosted by Advendurance at Hakahana Trails near Hatebeespoort Dam situated in the North West Province of South Africa on the 10th May. “It looked like fun,” said

At the glittering Naledi Theatre Awards, hosted recently at the Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, DWR Distribution was delighted to sponsor the Best Lighting Design Category, which was presented to Daniel Galloway from The Fugard Theatre for

  Photos by Hans van der Veen The story goes that some 21 years ago, when KKNK (Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees), the Afrikaans arts festival took place for the first time, the Goth-like techies arrived in their Dr Martens and

DWR Distribution invites you to take part in the MA Dot 2 Roadshow, hosted at our offices in Johannesburg (22 & 23 June), Durban (24 June) and in Cape Town (26 June). Meet up with MA’s Chris West and Franco

UK – One of the most exciting developments in the entertainment industry of the past few years is the demand for musical/theatrical entertainment as a prequel to high profile sporting events. There’s little doubt that the Opening and Closing ceremonies

Photos and words by Louise Stickland Bob Carlton’s cult high speed, hi-energy intergalactic musical romp – very loosely based on Fred M. Wilcox’s classic 1956 sci-fi movie “Forbidden Planet” – echoing Shakespeare’s The Tempest with extra hallucinogenic qualities, pumping 1950s

An epic romance set in the last days of Czarist Russia, “Doctor Zhivago” has opened at The Broadway Theatre with lighting design by Tony Award winner Howell Binkley. Conventional and moving lights, wind, fog, snow and fire effects for the

Please credit photos to Julio Himede Lighting Designer Tom Kenny produced another spectacular large-scale work to illuminate the 2015 mtvU Woodie Awards staged at the vast Austin American Statesman site on the south bank of the Colorado River during the

Photos are courtesy of Scooter Braun Management. Highly popular, talented, chart-topping singer / songwriter, actress – and most definitely rising star – Ariana Grande is storming the US on her current “My Everything” tour. Complete with a spectacular lighting design

The fabulous Royalty Soapie Awards, an acknowledgement of all the characters many South Africans welcome into their living rooms every evening, was hosted on the 28th March 215 at the Durban ICC and broadcast on M-Net’s Mzansi Magic. For the

WORLD – The band Maroon 5 has kicked off its World Tour 2015 with 100 Clay Paky Mythos and 20 Sharpy Wash fixtures occupying a prominent place in the rig. Maroon 5 launched its World Tour 2015 in Dallas on

UK/Germany – Avolites proved its truly international appeal at Prolight + Sound 2015, teaming up with dealers, distributors and friends from around the world to celebrate the launch of its Arena console, the new Titan V9 operating system, and its

Stereophonics photos by David Morrell London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall is the first live performance venue in the UK to invest in Robe’s BMFL Spot moving light, with a purchase of 17 fixtures for its in-house lighting rig. The decision

South African Set and Lighting Designer, Joshua Cutts from Visual Frontier, used 24 Robe BMFLs on Miss South Africa, hosted at Sun City’s Superbowl on 29 March. Joshua explains that the beautifully lit HD televised production, with the set and

Photos courtesy Louise Stickland Robe enjoyed another mega busy and successful Prolight+Sound expo in Frankfurt, Germany, with the launch of 10 new products and four hyperactive days on the booth in Hall 11 at the Messe exhibition centre. This was

Photo courtesy David Morrell Boston USA based Lighting Designer Jeff Maker relished the chance to use 135 Robe moving lights including 18 x BMFL Spots for a super high profile and very special one off / DVD shoot show at

  With top lighting designers asking for it, MJ Event Gear have upgraded from the grandMA full size to a grandMA2 Lite. “It was time we got one and Olebogeng Boinamo from our offices has been pestering me!” commented Mike

  When Johannesburg based Emperors Palace upgraded their control desk, they decided on a new grandMA2 lite system. This forms part of an entire revamp as Emperors Palace Theatre of Marcellus has been transformed from a multi-purpose venue to become

The Ghoema Awards, described as South Africa’s own Afrikaans Grammy Awards, took place at the magical State Theatre, Pretoria on the 24 March 2015. The spectacular event, the initiative of Barry Pretorius, was filled to capacity and lit by Mauritz

There is a new energy and visual enhancement to events – the inclusion of LED video walls – taking the South African market to another level. Multi-Media Events has taken ownership of a VuePix 3.6 Series wall. DWR Distribution took

Cape Town, a city filled with buzz, vibrancy and flair stepped out, for the second year running, for the Mercedes-Benz Bokeh Fashion Film Festival, held on the 27 and 28 March at the African Pride designer hotel. Rental company Ultra

 USA – Avolites Ltd. will appear on the popular US TV series “World’s Greatest!…”  after having been recently selected and filmed to appear on the show by its creators, How2Media. Avolites, which works with New York-based Group One as its

With an estimated twenty visits to the country, International Lighting Designer, Liz Berry, is no stranger to South Africa. In fact, she says that when she stepped off the plane recently, it felt like coming home! While her adventures have

Leading South African rental company MGG supplied over 200 Robe moving lights for a recent Indaba at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg for a high profile financial industry client. LD Kevin Rieck made the bold move of using front and

K-Pop singer, songwriter and music sensation Taeyang recently played a show in Singapore with a lighting rig containing 30 x Robe BMFL Spots moving lights, supplied by leading rental company Showtec. The Lighting Designer, Mr. Juhyun Kim of Lite Factory

Every month DWR will host a competition where you can win SWAG, dongles and a few other fun items. To enter, simply subscribe to the DWR Newsletter. The DWR newsletter will keep you up to date with the latest training

  Establishing the Anolis brand in South Africa, it was a pleasure for DWR Distribution to exhibit at Lighting Show Africa 2015, part of The Power & Electricity World Africa, hosted at the Sandton Convention Centre from 24 and 25

Robert Juliat sales have been on the increase for Pacific Lighting (HK) Ltd. “We have received several orders for Robert Juliat products over the past weeks, most of which have been totally unexpected,” says Pacific Lighting (HK) Ltd Director, Hugh

DWR Distribution will be closed for the Easter weekend on Friday, 3rd April and Monday 6th April. We will be back in the office on Tuesday, 7th April. We hope that you and your families have a good Easter!  Make sure

World Tour – LD Aldo Visentin, after the excellent impressions got in Frankfurt, has decided to include the Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE in his lighting design, and they certainly “contribute to the consensus and successes”, that Andrea Bocelli’s new concerts

Four of Robe’s unique Cyclone – LED wash light with an inbuilt DMX-controlled fan – fixtures were in action on the most recent gigs by hugely popular UK indie rockers, The Kaiser Chiefs, which were the final dates of a

Deeper Christian Life Ministry in Accra, the capital city of Ghana, have purchased a GDS system from South African distributor, DWR Distribution, for their 20 000 seater church, one of many branches throughout Africa. The church building has taken some

London goes SA, a star studded line up including Bok van Blerk, Theuns Jordaan, Jay du Plessis, BlackByrd, Elvis Blue, Claire Johnston from Mango Groove, Peter Mitchell, PJ Cruz and Martin Bester (Jacaranda FM) showcased at Carnival City’s Big Top Arena on 27th and 28th February after

Photos courtesy Louise Stickland Sono Centrum in Brno, the Czech Republic’s bustling second city, is the brainchild of local entrepreneur Jiŕĭ Ŝtopl and is a vibrant live music club, a cool hotel and a cutting-edge restaurant all on the same

Photos by Adam Kaplan, words Louise Stickland US rock band Maroon 5 have begun their latest world tour in support of their chart-topping fifth studio album ‘V’, with lighting, visuals and stage design by Leroy Bennett. The massive rig includes eight

  It was a great pleasure to welcome Cuono Biviano, the owner of VuePix and also the managing director of the Australian based ULA Group, to South Africa. VuePix is a dynamic market leader in LED screen technology and with

Germany – Avolites is powering up its latest consoles, dimmers and media servers for possibly the company’s biggest ever presence at Prolight + Sound Frankfurt, on stand D40, Level 0, Hall 11. On stand, visitors can experience the incredible capabilities

DWR Distribution and CUE Lighting are delighted to be sponsors for the St Mary’s Battle of the Bands Lighting Operator Competition hosted at the schools’ theatre, The Edge in Waverley, Johannesburg. While Battle of the Bands is an annual event

   L&P Service is a new technical services, production and rental company based in the vast and vibrant urban expanses of Mexico City which has recently invested in Robe moving lights. It was founded in 2013 and is headed by

South African Lighting Designer, Francois van der Merwe, incorporated 16 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures to his spectacular design at the 14th Metro FM Music Awards, hosted at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Conference Centre (ICC) in Durban on the 28th February

Robe’s Serbian distributor Studio Berar Projekt has supplied the country’s leading music and TV production company Grand Production with 32 x Robe Pointes which have been installed at Studio 1 of the Filmski Grad studio complex in Kosutnjak, Belgrade. The

Photos courtesy Louise Stickland Durban in South Africa once again came alive with the buzz and the excitement of the 2015 Metro FM Awards, with Robe BMFL Spots taking centre stage – as part of a rig of nearly 150

Photos courtesy Louise Stickland Lively US pop punk band All Time Low have just completed a co-headlining UK arena tour with UK rockers You Me At Six, and are kicking off their new “Future Hearts” album campaign. All Time Low’s

UK – London-based creative technology expert Realtime Environment Systems Ltd (RES) has provided the media server know-how in collaboration with LM Productions and Mapp3D Producciones for a ‘full dome’ installation celebrating Mexican culture. The temporary 25m white dome was constructed

Prolyte Rigging Training at DWR in Feb 2015   Rinus Bakker, Consultant and Trainer of Rhino Rigs and one of the European pioneers of entertainment rigging (since the early 80s) visits DWR Distribution regularly in February to present the Prolyte

South African’s own Francois van der Merwe from Wizardry Group has been recognized and approved as an International Vectorworks Trainer by Nemetschek. The announcement came during a Vectorworks Training Week from March 9 to 13, presented by Francois at DWR

Photos: © stadt wien marketing / Jobst AUSTRIA – Vienna has hosted the Wiener Eistraum (Vienna Ice Dream) every year since 1996. This huge mobile ice rink measures over 75,300 square feet. It is assembled in Rathausplatz, the square in

DWR Distribution has been appointed as the exclusive South Africa distributor for QUARTZCOLOR and IFF. “These products are truly standard setters within the television and film industry,” said Dave Whitehouse of DWR Distribution. “The brands are synonymous with quality and

Usher and Blake Shelton – two of the world’s biggest music stars – united the genres of R&B and country respectively in front of 35,000 people for a unique double-headline concert at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. The concert was part

Rental Company Sound Stylists have acquired 24 new Robe miniPointe’s from DWR Distribution which will be used at their branches in Durban and Cape Town. The new fixtures are not only able to produce sharp beams and aerial effects in

DWR Distribution are looking forward to exhibiting at the 8th biennial advanced media and entertainment technology tradeshow, Mediatech Africa, held from 15 to 17 July 2015 at the Dome at Northgate, Johannesburg from 10am to 6pm daily. Mediatech Africa has

Photo credits: Davide Barbetta Milan, Italy – the Piccolo Teatro in Milan was Italy’s first permanent theatre and was declared a theatre of major European importance by Ministerial Decree in 1991. It was founded in the immediate post-war period by

Robe Lighting announces 2014 as the best year in the company’s history, together with comprehensive expansion plans for its HQ and production operation in the Czech Republic, which is ramping up again in response to demand for Robe’s products worldwide.

  Lighting designer Louis Oliver of Okulus has used an array of Showline SL NITRO 510C fixtures as part of his colour-rich and punchy lighting design for You Me At Six’s UK arena tour. Specifying 29 of the powerful LED

Forty-eight of Robe’s LEDWash 1200s are in action on the current Garth Brooks U.S. tour, specified by the country megastar’s longstanding LD Dave Butzler, and purchased specially by leading rental house Bandit Lites. Brooks – whose staggering popularity continues to

UK – TNA (Total Non-stop Action) Wrestling stormed British shores this month for a series of adrenaline-fuelled shows with lighting operator Andre Huff running the show on an Avolites Sapphire Touch console, and ART2000 dimmers providing the power behind the

Moscow, Russia – Leading Russian consumer electronics retailer M.Video has had its “best New Year’s Eve event in history”, thanks to technical producers MAX’N’MAX and lighting designer Roman Stolyarov choosing the super powerful Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20, Sharpy Wash

By Louise Stickland Gearhouse South Africa (GHSA)’s Ryan Dunbar became the latest South African lighting designer to be impressed with Robe’s new BMFL fixtures after using the Bright Multi-Functional Luminaire at the 2015 CCI Call Centre Awards staged at Durban

  To all our clients, kindly be advised that a stock take will take place at DWR Distribution on Friday and Saturday, 27th and 28th February 2015. While our doors will remain open on Friday, the warehouse will be unable

Robe Lighting’s RnD department has finished an extensive and comprehensive piece of research and testing in conjunction with lamp manufacturers Osram, relating to the longevity of the Lok-it!® HTI® 1700/PS lightsource used in Robe’s new signature BMFL™ fixture, when run

For the fourth year, MJ Event Gear provided the full technical for Product of the Year 2015 held on the 5th February 2015 in Johannesburg. Product of the Year is the world’s largest consumer-voted award for product innovation and currently

Durban based rental company, Black Coffee, have purchased 12 new Clay Paky Mythos fixtures which will go onto the 14th Metro FM Music Awards for lighting designer François van der Merwe and Dream Sets, the official technical and set suppliers

Operating in the Latin American market, the Venezuelan based PROmontaje needed a solution to host large outdoor events and concerts. PROmontaje owns a large event site, just outside Caracas, which they plan to use for a range of outdoor concerts

  Performing Art Technology is offered as an extra-mural activity at St Mary’s School in Johannesburg giving students the opportunity to study lighting, stage management, sound, filming, editing and set construction. Girls between grade 8 to 12 train on various

  DWR Distribution takes pleasure in hosting its first Fall Arrest and Basic Training, presented by Jacobus Myburgh from Gravity Training. The three day training kicks off today and ends on 20th February. With a background in the hospitality industry,