DWR Distribution is delighted to announce an exciting training course presented by Joshua Cutts and Christopher Bolton of Collective Works! Please join us for “Production Design – The Responsibility of a modern-day designer,” to be held from 20 – 22 February from 9 am to 5 pm. The exciting three-day

South Africa is now able to give international audio engineers what they need and what they ask for with the very first DiGiCo SD7 in the country. The exciting investment was made by Kevin Glover, owner of Sound Stylists, and the SD7 will compliment his existing DiGiCo inventory which is

It must have been a peculiar sight, seeing a shaking OB van in the backstage loading area rocking to the sound of +LIVE+.  The culprit for the commotion was Eban Oliver, founder of Militia Broadcast, who was sitting, or rather dancing, inside the van, about half a meter from the

     Worldwide – Fall Out Boy has embarked on their sold-out arena “Mania Tour,” whose North American leg kicked off in Cleveland in October and wrapped in Phoenix in November. UK dates will follow in the first quarter of 2018.   The rock band has had five consecutive Top

Robe MegaPointes are making their presence felt on the current European tour by Slovenian / Croatian duo 2CELLOS – Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser – with another jaw-dropping lighting design by Crt Birsa. The kit, including the 24 touring MegaPointes plus another 8 for the London show at the Royal

  The Acts Christian Church in Midrand has invested in two Robe Spiiders that will work alongside their current Robe rig.   When it comes to mission work, Acts Church reaches out to people with Acts of Love, whether it’s providing toilets to a needy community, setting up a library,

DWR Distribution is pleased to announce the appointment of Shannon Fagan who will step into the position of Accounts Manager. Born in Zimbabwe before moving to South Africa, Shannon studied accounting and has had four years’ experience in the workplace – she is brand new to the entertainment industry. “I

The TivoliVredenburg in central Utrecht, The Netherlands, features seven different music performance spaces and is in the process of having its house and public area lighting upgraded with Anolis Ambiane RGBW LED luminaires. With around 300 fixtures installed so far, approximately 650 Ambianes will be in place when the project

 Doughty dealers Chinnick Theatre Services experienced a ‘light bulb moment’ when they first saw Doughty’s new Studio Rail Articulated Carriage at PLASA, London, realising it was the perfect piece of kit for a job they were working on at Richard Hewish College in Taunton. “We were approached by Halsall Construction in Bath and

    Just like the fairy-tale glass slipper that glided effortlessly onto Cinderella’s foot uniting her and Prince Charming, lighting designer Andy Webb has designed a beautifully colourful and fitting lighting scheme for “Cinderella”, this season’s pantomime at Blackpool UK’s famous  Grand Theatre … utilising entirely Robe LED products. It’s

Rapid Blue is a production company who love telling stories and have produced thousands of hours of television. Their latest offering, the eighth season of SA’s got Talent, was aired on e-TV. It was the first time that Blond Productions and Visual Frontier worked on SA’s Got Talent, and also

South African based MGG, suppliers of technical services and equipment, have expanded their inventory with the investment of a Hippotizer V4 Boreal. The media server made its first grand appearance at the prestigious EOH Annual Year End celebration which was hosted in three regions. At the Johannesburg leg, Gallagher Estate

Santa has come early! He has left a DiGiCo S21 with a fully populated D2 Stage Rack for Tiaan Newman, the owner of NewBass Productions, an audio company located in Pretoria. Since establishing the NewBass Brand in 2013, Tiaan has worked hard to deliver excellent and reliable service. His company

Who would have thought that after 13 seasons, Idols SA would be even more popular than ever – one hundred million votes were cast over the whole season – and the finale was hosted at Carnival City on the 19th November. For the eighth-consecutive year, lighting designer Joshua Cutts and

Rumour has it that Oppikoppi 2017, with this year’s theme ‘Me now the mango Picker’ has never sounded this good. Blue Array have been involved as an audio supplier at Oppikoppi for more than a decade, and for the fifth consecutive year, they were appointed as the sole audio contractor

  South African Audio Engineer, Emily Adams, was working on Pieter Toerien’s previous production, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, when asked to do Evita, the original West End and Broadway production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical which premiered at Montecasino Teatro in Johannesburg and recently

This has been an amazing and very busy year! On behalf of everyone at DWR Distribution, thank you for your support and friendship. We hope that you will have time to rest over Christmas and enjoy spending time with those who are important to you. Please keep safe on the

  A grandMA2 full size, operated by South African Glenn Duncan, runs the musical Evita which kicked off at Johannesburg’s Montecasino Teatro, moved to Cape Town’s Artscape Theatre and then will complete an Asian tour by mid 2018. “This production of Evita has been publicized as the original production,” said

   Paris’s newest arena space, the U Arena, threw open its doors in spectacular fashion this autumn when The Rolling Stones performed the final three European dates of their No Filter tour to sold-out audiences of 40,000 people each night. As an inaugural event, it doesn’t get much bigger, and

The entire backbone of Stage Two and Stage Five at Johannesburg’s Sasani Studios, previously known as ZSETV, has been upgraded and future-proofed with a new dimming system comprising of 24 LSC Gen VI, supplied and installed by DWR Distribution. The LSC technology replaces dimmers in the studio that were custom

In mid-October 2017, South African audiences enjoyed the return of the much-loved and celebrated musical production of Evita – seen for the first time on South African stages since the 1980’s. After its premiere at the Montecasino Teatro in Johannesburg the production will be at Cape Town’s Artscape Theatre, before

CCPP is a busy – and fast growing – technical production and Rental Company based in the Maitland suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, headed by Clint Cawood – the CC of the name. They recently made a substantial investment in Robe moving lights for their ongoing production work and

Worldwide – Halsey has embarked on the North American leg of her “Hopeless Fountain Kingdom World Tour” and Claypaky Scenius Profile lighting fixtures, provided by 4WallPA, are lighting her way. The electro pop/synth pop singer-songwriter launched her arena tour at the end of September in Connecticut and will wrap up this leg

Tampa, USA – Philips Lighting (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that the David A. Straz Center in Tampa is enjoying significant savings in labor and power costs after upgrading its TECO Theater lighting rig with LED products from Philips Entertainment Lighting’s Showline range. The second largest

DWR Distribution is pleased to announce the Robe Fixture Workshop presented by Steve Eastham, International Customer Support at Robe. If you are in Johannesburg, join DWR from 12 – 14 February 2018. The course will then be presented in Durban from 15 – 19 February, and for those living in

        Eighty Anolis ArcSource 4MC LED fixtures were specified to illuminate the indicator for a new heat storage tank (Wärmespeicher) installed in the Drispenstedt residential district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany.   The impressive 17.5 metre high 4 metre wide structure which resembles a quirky piece of contemporary

  For Michael Taylor-Broderick presenting the two-day Theatre Lighting Workshop at DWR Distribution in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, was less about imparting knowledge, although he did that, and more about imparting passion. The course covered a range of topics from stage lighting to elements of design and was held

It’s Black Friday at DWR! Having cleared out our demo room, we are selling off equipment or really giving it away! Below is our list of pre-used gear, should you be interested.  All items are sold “voetstoets”  with no warranty and excludes VAT. Does not include accessories such as clamps,

There are four names right at the centre of Rock’n’Roll history: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood –  currently all members of the Rolling Stones, a band, that has been a constant in the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame for more than 50 years! Their live shows are

South Africa’s very first strictly dry hire company, Guquko Technical Rider, has been established by a young entrepreneur, Phumzile Sibanyoni. Guquko is the Zulu word meaning ‘to turn around’ or ‘to reform’, a pertinent name for a company that hopes to bring a fresh wind of change to the industry.

Thirty-Six Robe BMFL Spots were workhorse moving lights on the recent Rolling Stones ‘No Filter’ European tour, part of a spectacular and epic lighting design created by Patrick Woodroffe. Patrick and associate designer Terry Cook of Woodroffe Bassett design (WBD) worked closely with stage architects Stufish on developing the show’s

In today’s ever-fast-changing world it is important for people to remain on top of their game when it comes to the ever-advancing technology of the Live Events Industry. Dylan Jones from DWR Distribution attended the Green Hippo’s Hippotizer Training Session ‘HippoSchool’,a 2-day workshop held at the London Head Quarters to

Green Hippo reports record orders for new Hippotizer + Media Servers London, UK, November 2017 – The new Hippotizer + range is literally just out of the blocks, but it has already broken Green Hippo sales records. The announcement of the new product line, which builds on Green Hippo’s Hippotizer

The MagaPointe has had a mega acceptance throughout its entire launch period and is already being specified on major tours and events worldwide, said Harry von den Stemmen, Robe’s International Sales Director. South Africa was no different, and after a successful launch in Johannesburg and Cape Town, Robe distributor DWR

The Cashbuild Hall of Fame Annual Awards, hosted at the upmarket Maslow Hotel in Sandton, has become a much-anticipated evening for employees working for one of the largest retailers of building materials and associated products. Employing over 4 700 people based at stores in South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland,

  Callum Sutherland, an 18-year old boy who attends St Stithians College and who is the founder of CSR Events, is somewhat different to the average teenager! With the end-of-year-matric exams on his mind, he has also worked on building a career, adding to his inventory by investing in a

Worldwide – The Event Production Department at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia has increased its lighting inventory with the addition of Claypaky Scenius Spots and Scenius Unicos.  They will be used in the Vines Center, the university’s basketball and volleyball arena, which is also used for concerts, special events and their Convocation