The Australian TV industry’s biggest night, the 59th annual Logie Awards, were held at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium on Sunday 23 April 2017, broadcast live on the Nine Network. Always a great opportunity for the broadcaster to show off its tech capabilities, fantastic visuals were spread across three huge screens onstage,

This year will celebrate the sixth St Mary’s Battle of the Bands competition and for the third year DWR Distribution is delighted to be a sponsor once again, prizes including a dot2 Node, DMX Dongle and training! The competition has moved tremendously in regards to the technical rig and now

  Foto: Jorrit Lousberg The one, the only, the totally awesome Armin van Buuren played two tumultuous gigs at Amsterdam ArenA as ‘The Best of Armin Only’ celebrated the conclusion of the ‘Armin Only’ performance concept. Armin’s largest solo show to date in his home country of the Netherlands additionally

UK indie rockers Circa Waves are certainly making some waves right now, and the release of their second album “Different Creatures” brings some more serious, hard-hitting and thought-provoking messages along with solid catchy rhythms. Lighting designer Ed Warren started working with Circa Waves at the start of this album campaign

With Mediatech taking place from 19 to 21 July, DWR Distribution is delighted to once again be part of this exciting exhibition. Mediatech is a biennial advanced media and entertainment technology trade show held in Johannesburg. Once again visitors can look forward to meeting up with DWR’s international suppliers who will

Festival Sound, one of the largest DiGiCo console owners in the South African rental market, has increased its investment in the manufacture’s products by adding an SD11 and a further SD9 to its inventory.     The young and vibrant company bought its first SD9 with two fully populated D-Rack and

    Reaching the architectural market with Vectorworks, DWR Distribution exhibited at the Digital Construction expo held at the Gallagher Convention Centre on 23 and 24 May 2017. The show, which co-located with the African Construction and Totally Concrete Expo, enjoyed a tremendous turnout. “It was the first time that

Bon Jovi rocked the house with the band’s “This House Is Not For Sale Tour”. The tour’s complex staging featured a grandMA2 full-size console provided by PRG and was in support of Bon Jovi’s eponymous thirteenth studio album released last fall. It was the first to feature Hugh McDonald and

ProLight + Sound 2017 sees an impressive 3D projection mapping from the latest integration with Hippotizer SHAPE and Notch. ProLight + Sound is a key show for Green Hippo, and at this year’s Frankfurt event, they delivered a stunning display with Hippotizer V4 Media Servers. Using the latest software version

Ukraine – Internationally renowned lighting designer and director of photography Jerry Appelt specified the new Claypaky Scenius Unico as the main stage workhorse fixture for his richly composed lighting design for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, hosted at the International Exhibition Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine. This year, 42 countries participated in

Award winning lighting designer Paul Pyant returned to London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to light a production of the Steven Sondheim classic, A Little Night Music directed by Edward Kemp and staged at RADA’s Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre in central London. Robe enjoy a close ongoing working relationship with

Seven hundred and ninety five (795) Robe Spikies are on the road with the incredible Bruno Mars 24K Magic world tour – setting a record for the largest number to date of a single type of Robe fixture on one touring show! The Spikies are the main lighting feature of

  DWR Distribution’s Johnny Scholtz, Dylan Jones and Vectorworks expert, Francois van der Merwe, are looking forward to exhibiting at the Digital Construction expo, once again co-located with the African Construction and Totally Concrete Expo, to be hosted at the Gallagher Convention Centre on 23 and 24 May 2017. “We

  While renowned Patrick Woodroffe and Roland Greil have worked on phenomenal projects together, they joined forces for the very first time to present a Lighting Design Workshop brought to the South African entertainment industry by DWR Distribution. The workshop was held at the University of Johannesburg on 21 April

Robe moving lights are making a big impact at the Icelandic National Theatre (Þjóðleikhúsið) in Reykjavík since they became an integral element of the available house lighting rig, a process that started in 2014 and has recently been continued with the addition of DL7S Profiles, LEDBeam 1000s and Actor6s. The

Peter Rieck of both Rieck’s Lighting and joint owner of rental company Event Lighting, was selected by Red Pepper Pictures for the second year running, as lighting designer for Lip Sync Battle Africa. This exciting televised lip sync showdown, filmed at Urban Brew Studios, returned for its second season in

“South Africa is not a third world country when it comes to the knowledge and awareness of safety when rigging,” said Ruud de Deugd, who visited Johannesburg to present the Prolyte Campus Workshop hosted by DWR Distribution in March 2017. With his roots securely founded in the engineering office of

Philips VL4000 Spot luminaire “integral” to theatrical design of Wilco’s world tour bringing to life visual concept inspired by Santa Fe temple Dallas, Texas – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that its stage lighting is providing lighting effects central to the artistic

Join South African Lighting Designer, Michael Broderick, as he presents a Theatre Lighting Workshop at DWR Distribution on 25th May from 9am to 5pm. Working as a lighting designer for over fifteen years, Michael is excited to mentor people, particularly youngsters, who have a passion for theatre. Topics include: Aims

The lively and varied 2017 U.S festival season continues with the 2017 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival staged at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, where Robe moving lights were chosen by leading LDs like Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting who specified Spiiders and Pointes for the Yuma

Amodio and Luzzati’s renowned production of ballet classic The ‘Nutcracker’ made its debut at Teatro Comunale in Modena in November 2016, before touring to other key Italian cities for 10 weeks. It was produced by Daniele Cipriani Entertainment and lit by Marco Policastro … using Robe DL4S Profiles and the

Eindhoven – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that VL6000 Beam and VL4000 BeamWash fixtures from its iconic Philips Vari-Lite rock and roll lighting product line have been selected by production designer LeRoy Bennett and lighting designer Cory FitzGerald to add unparalleled punch to Bruno

 Multi award winning American rock band Panic at The Disco continue their ‘Death of a Bachelor’ tour in the US with a striking production design created by Matt Larivée of Montreal-based creative practice Luz Studio, who worked closely with the band’s lighting designer, Alex Specht. Together they specified 50 x

DWR Distribution’s Jannie de Jager will be presenting the Introduction Beginners Television Lighting Workshop on 23rd May 2017. Jannie’s vast experience has seen him involved with several studios and the commissioning thereof with projects including E-Tv Hyde Park LED Upgrade (2 Studios), The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation LED Upgrade (3 Studios),

            Espoo, Finland – The Claypaky Sharpy and A.leda B-EYE K20 were used to create the stunning lighting looks that backed the ten talented hopefuls competing to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 at the country’s national Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) ‘New Music Competition’ held in the

After eight gruelling     days in the saddle, Robe lighting s.r.o is proud to announce that Team Spiider finished 86th in the general classification (GC) and 17th in the ‘Masters’ of the 2017 Absa Cape Epic, an exceptionally tough mountain bike stage race. It was held from 19 to 26

    Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia the Robber’s Daughter) is a classic Swedish children’s tale by Astrid Lindgren. A recent touring musical version in Denmark by Heltemus Productions featured a new and fresh lighting design by Sune Verdier of b-ql.dk who specified 14 of Robe’s DL7S Profiles, 24 x LEDWash 600+

  Talented Simon King is flying solo after working at the State Theatre in Pretoria for 28 years. He recently took a seat behind the grandMA2 to light La Traviata, a stirring love story brought to The Joburg Theatre by the Joburg Ballet, and complimented with the music of Giuseppe

Having completed a hugely successful tour at the end of last year, Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro are on their way to the US. Both Front of House engineer Jonny Lucas and Dan Speed on monitors rely on the power of DiGiCo SD10s for their mixing requirements. They deploy three

Andrew Rodgers, a friend to the industry and known for his proven track record within every facet of the audio and visual industry, has joined South African based DWR Distribution. With his vast experience in project management, technical skill and maintenance contracts, Andi will head the DWR Installation Department. Born

For the very first time, the wildly entertaining Blue Man Group visited South Africa and whilst performing at The Teatro at Montecasino, Johannesburg celebrated the 200th performance of their World Tour. For the past year, South African Sound Engineer Christo Davis, has mixed an average of four shows or more

 It is Eurovision selection season … and one of the 43 hopefuls for this year’s event in Kiev, Ukraine, in May is Slovenia’s Omar Naber whose song “On My Way” was chosen at a spectacular Eurovision Melody (EMA – Evrovizijska MelodijA) show staged in Hall A2 of the Gospodarsko Razstavisce

DWR Distribution takes pleasure in inviting you to attend the MA Intermediate Training course presented by Gareth Chambers which will be  held in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban in August 2017. Topics: Advanced Effects Layout and Bitmap effects Advanced Presets and Temp Faders Sheet and Executor Options Cue List Management

Join Gareth Chambers from DWR Distribution as he presents a Basic MA Training Course in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban in June. Topics for Basic MA  Console Layout and Connections MA Philosophy Show File Management Grouping Controlling Fixtures Storing Cue’s Presets Sequences Basic Networking. All delegates should please bring their

The Claypaky Scenius Spot is being championed for its superior output, colour and optical quality by lighting designer Dan Williams who is using the award-winning fixture as the main lighting workhorse on British rockers Skunk Anansie’s current European tour ‘Anarchytecture’. Lighting supplier for the tour, Buckinghamshire- based lighting design and

Petrolhedz and adrenaline junkies were treated to a new look for the Live Action Arena at the 2017 Autosport show staged in Hall 5 of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, UK. An audacious, eye-popping lighting design by Nathan Wan featured nearly 300 Robe moving lights to provide the

  DWR Distribution is delighted to join up with Phil Blue from Green Hippo UK, to present a one day training session at our Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg Offices. We hope that existing Hippo clients and anyone interested will join us for the Green Hippo Roadshow. The hands on