DiGiCo’s Ian Staddon was recently in South Africa, his first visit since appointing DWR Distribution as the DiGiCo distributor for Africa. “The trip for me was phenomenal,” said Ian. “I think it was superbly organized and the number of people that we got to see was great. The vibe for

  Ireland– Irish lighting designer Conor Biddle, known for lighting some of the largest acts in dance and electronica, selected an array of Claypaky moving heads to illuminate the return of Ireland’s mega-rave, the Winterparty, at Dublin’s 14,500-capacity venue 3Arena. Biddle employed 12 x Mythos, 12 x A.leda K20, 16

The main venue for the massive triannual Every Nation Conference organised by Every Nation Church – at the 5000 capacity Grand West’s Grand Arena in Cape Town, South Africa – provided an ideal opportunity for lighting designer Alan Muller of FX Unlimited to use Robe Spiiders for the first time.

Peter Vandergoten of 4Ears and Frank Voet of Mono are more than just sound engineers. They are closely involved with their artists during production rehearsals and both deliver a full kit of microphones, wireless systems and mixing consoles to the bands they work with, which currently include Bazart, Adamo, Oscar

Auckland Live is a busy umbrella organisation running all the live performance venues in New Zealand’s largest performing arts and convention centre complex … right in the heart of the city. Their existing stock of Robe moving lights is now boosted with the addition of 44 new LED moving lights

At the beginning of this year, Tom Chaplin, ex-lead singer of Keane, announced his intention to embark on a solo career. In June, he completed his first album The Wave, which was released in mid-October. In the same month, he played a series of eight intimate gigs to promote the album. With

Arkaos is offering 30% discount off all products for Black Friday, 25 December. This extends to all South African clients. If you are interested in purchasing products, please contact the DWR Distribution sales team who will be happy to assist. Tel: 011 794 5023   Save As PDF

(Above): Softlight 300S panels. Photo © Love Productions/BBC South Africa Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, announced that the TV show The Great South African Bake Off 2016 is using Philips Strand television broadcast lighting to add to the drama and detail showing off the contestants’

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid, is Spain’s biannual style statement for the international fashion stage, and a forum in which Robert Juliat’s Merlin followspot was able to work its magic. Entrusted with its high-profile lighting design, Citylight S.L., a leading Madrid-based rental, sales and installation company, boosted its lighting inventory

Four new community theatre groups took part of the third consecutive Hello Community Arts Development Programme and Festival held this year at TUT’s Breytenbach Theatre in Tshwane. The festival was the brainchild of Hardus Koekemoer, Lighting Lecturer at the TUT’s Department of Entertainment, who then developed the idea with Wandile

  Twelve Robe BMFL WashBeams were utilised by artist and lighting designer Mariano de Tassis in a breath-taking and unique installation at the mausoleum of Italian patriot and Irredentist Cesare Battisti in Trento, Italy. Photos by Pierluigi Cattani Faggion The installation was produced by Filmwork Factory to celebrate the centenary of

Rapper Pitbull hit the road recently with his “Bad Man” tour in the U.S. which featured a production design by Gabriel Fraboni and Michael Smalley of creative practice Twin Design, complete with 46 x Robe BMFL Spots on the rig which were the main profile fixtures. Photos : @aLiveCoverage Twin Designs

Cervantes National Theatre, also known as National Theatre of Buenos Aires, is the national theatre of Argentina. In 1995 it was declared a National Historic Monument. Located on Córdoba Avenue the Cervantes houses three performance halls: the María Guerrero Salon, the Guerrero Salon and the Luisa Vehíl Salon which is

Blue Array Productions have invested in the first DiGiCo SD5 in Africa. This leading technical supplier made the purchase from DWR Distribution. With Kobus van Rensburg at the helm of Blue Array, the company has supplied prominent international artists visiting South Africa. They also have a reputation for their talented

South African comedian John Vlismas presented “Revelations II – The Good Racist” to a sold out audience for two consecutive nights at the Teatro at Montecasino in Fourways, Johannesburg. Sound Stylists supplied the full technical and were one of the sponsors of the event. The same set and gear was

Xiaomi, a privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing, recently launched its new smartphone Mi Max with a big event in New Delhi’s Nehru Stadium, India. The company sold over 60 million smartphones in 2014 and has over 8,000 employees, mainly in mainland China, India , Malaysia and Singapore.

 Robert Juliat’s award-winning Dalis 860 cyclorama washlights were chosen by lighting designer Scott Zielinski, to light the backdrops for the inspired theatre production of Richard Sandaime, a co-production between the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and the Singapore International Festival of Arts, which premiered at the Shizuoka Arts Theatre in Japan as

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. Photos : Haiko Boldt The boiler was inaugurated by Namibian Vice President Dr

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 12 test points in the case of the AudioJoG Pro audio cable tester and AudioJoG Rack through to 1024 in the CableJoG

A Prolyte Campus Workshop, presented by Date Jonkman and Ruud De Deugd was hosted at DWR Distribution in Johannesburg from the 1st to 4th November. The course presented intricate information to assist riggers to comply with safety regulations practised throughout the world. The topics were covered in detail and delegates

  Director and more importantly friend at DWR Distribution, Nik Britz, who has been with the company since its very start, is planning to leave South Africa and move to the United Kingdom. Oh, the stories we have of Nick! There are so many memories and it actually makes you

By Thomas Peters, Technical Project Manager at Formative Photos by Janco Haywood 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

Robe PARfect S1 LED fixtures, delivering a crisp, well defined 6000K of white light – are providing a great solution at Landvetter International Airport in Goteborg, Sweden, where they are illuminating two separate Volvo car display areas – one in the Departures Hall and the other one airside in Arrivals

With a live audience of 80,000, the recent final of the first series of Sing China was a production on a massive scale and needed an audio system that provided total reliability and sufficient processing power. To fulfil both these requirements, a total of nine DiGiCo digital mixing consoles were specified by

Simon Garret from Auckland based Oceania Productions designed lighting and visuals for the main showspace for New Zealand Fashion Week 2016, which was staged at The ANZ Viaduct Events Centre, a funky venue at the heart of Wynard Quarter, New Zealand’s largest urban regeneration project, right on the Auckland waterfront. Photos

DiGiCo’s new Stealth Core 2 engine has taken the SD Range to the next level. Petru Palmer of Festival Sound gives his feedback on this powerful upgrade. “Everything about it I found was a step, a massive step, in the right direction,” he said. “Everything works and the response is

  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

  Lighting designer Durham Marenghi chose Robert Juliat followspots for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, employing 10 Robert Juliat Lancelot 4000W HMI followspots and 4 Robert Juliat Cyrano 2500W HMI followspots for the spectacular Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. All photos to be credited: Photos

    Robe enjoyed an action-packed LDI expo in Las Vegas, this year all the more memorable for collecting a coveted 2016 Parnelli award in the ‘Indispensable Lighting Technology’ category for the hugely successful BMFL WashBeam luminaire. Photos by Louise Stickland Robe highlighted two brand new products for the first time

The Hilton Arts Festival 2016 was once again a resounding success, Sue Clarence’s diverse program had Festival goers spoilt for choice. The pick of South African Theatre was represented across all genres from John Kani directing his son in ‘Sizwe Bansi is Dead’ to the one man masterpiece ‘Dead Yellow

Quality, innovation and serious WOW factors are all core philosophies defining Jewel, the Hakkasan Group’s newest night destination venue in Las Vegas, right in the heart of the Aria Resort & Casino … a stunning looking space embracing some serious production values and fully focused on the guest experience. Photos :

Three hundred Robe moving lights helped the one, the only … and the totally awesome Armin van Buuren rock Jerusalem with his amazing “Armin Only Embrace” show, a four-hour trance extravaganza that delighted 10,000 fans packing the Pais Arena to catch the banging vibes and spectacular visuals. Photos : Louie Stickland

Fluge Audiovisual is one of Spain’s most prolific AV rental companies. It also has one of Spain’s biggest stocks of DiGiCo consoles, most recently purchasing a further two SD10s. Fluge first started investing in DiGiCo when the company launched its D5 Live consoles back in 2002. “When the D5 arrived

DWR Distribution takes pleasure in inviting you to attend the Robe LED Theatre Workshop presented by renowned international Lighting Designer, Andy Webb. The workshop will be hosted at UJ Arts Centre Theatre in Johannesburg on 9th November.  There are two sessions and delegates are either welcome to join us from

The Colosseum in Rome – world famous heritage site and one of Italy’s most popular tourist attractions – was originally constructed in 70 – 80 AD and is the largest amphitheatre ever built. This summer it was reopened after three years of extensive refurbishments – the first in its history. Photos

‘Classics is Groot’ is a new musical performance extravaganza staged at the 6500 capacity Moreleta Auditorium in Pretoria, South Africa, produced by the same creative team from Coleske Artists who deliver the massively successful ‘Afrikaans is Groot’ phenomena each year. Classics is more focussed on crossing over to the English

  DWR Distribution takes pleasure in inviting you to attend the Prolyte Campus Workshops. Presented by Date Jonkman and Ruud De Deugd from Prolyte Group from the 1st – 4th November 2016 at our Johannesburg premies. There will be different categories to choose from and each category will range from

A recent life size replica of the Sistine Chapel was built in the heart of Mexico City adjacent to the “Monumento a la Revolución” (Monument to the Revolution). Housed in a temporary structure, this unique project was the brainchild of creative director Gabriel Berumen and his brother Antonio of event

Saturday Night Fever is a breath of fresh air at the Pretoria State Theatre, combining a dazzling all South African cast and a brilliant technical team. Denis Hutchinson is the lighting and set designer of this classic production which left the audience entertained and smiling. The show runs till 9th

  TSO Productions is a new company established by well-known South African technician and musician, Kgomotso Malebye. For a company that’s three months old, Kgomotso has been busy every week and supplied the technical for the Gsport Awards, an event which encourages women in sport and which was broadcast live