DiGiCo is pleased to announce the appointment of DWR Distribution PTY (Ltd) as its exclusive distributor for South Africa from April 2016. Founded in 2006, DWR has built an enviable reputation in the South African market for supplying predominantly lighting products. The company has grown rapidly adopting a wonderful

  Ultra Miami 2016, a major U.S. EDM event staged along Bayfront Park in glamorous downtown Miami, attracted over 150,000 music fans and party people for three days of festive enjoyment with some of the best dance sounds on          the planet. This year, Robe BMFL and Pointe moving lights

  Welcome to Castle Lite’s Republic of Extra Cold, Stanley Island, Plettenberg Bay. It sounds exotic, and it is! On 28 Dec 2015, three thousand hip and savvy revellers gathered to enjoy SA’s top acts and many unique and unexpected experiences in the extraordinary country which is the Republic of

Wroclaw, Poland – The inauguration of Wroclaw’s term as European Capital of Culture (ECoC) 2016 saw a truly spectacular live street performance and light show with over 400 Clay Paky fixtures directed by ECoC performance curator Chris Baldwin. Announced as the winner in 2015 following eight years of preparation, Wroclaw

  USA – Lighting designer Bob Barnhart, a veteran of Super Bowl Halftime Shows, chose Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s and gold Sharpys to help light the milestone Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.   Super Bowl Halftime Shows always come with challenges, and the daylight-into-sunset

USA – Howard Jones and Nate Alves, who codesigned the lighting for Brantley Gilbert’s Black Out World Tour, have selected an array of Clay Paky fixtures – including the new Scenius moving head spotlight – for the current leg of the arena tour Gilbert, the country rock singer and songwriter,

German artist Andreas Bourani recently toured his “Hey” tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Bourani’s success story started with his song “Auf uns” (on us) during the 2014 football World Cup. Timo Martens, Philip Hillers and Nik Evers created the stage, video content and lighting design for the tour. Photos: ©

World – Folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner is on a world tour in support of his latest album ‘Positive Songs for Negative People’ with a punchy rock and roll lighting design by Shaun Moore using 30 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures. Moore of Nitelites, who has worked with Frank and his backing

Robe kept the innovation flowing at the 2016 TPi Awards dinner – providing much more than just the lighting rig for the high profile industry event staged at Battersea Evolution – with a popular ‘PATT-sketball’ competition, their own variation on the urban sport phenomenon … which was open to the

Robe BMFL Spot moving lights created a huge impact for the arena section of Simple Minds’ “Big Music” tour for which lighting designer Stephen Pollard expanded and scaled up the stage set and lighting rig he used in theatre venues last year. Photos : Edward Fielding Leading UK lighting and visuals

Robe’s new Square LED fixture made its European live TV debut on the three shows produced by Flanders’ public broadcaster VRT which selected the song to represent Belgium at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Stockholm. The shows featured an intricate and interesting lighting design by Ignace D’Haese from

The Hillsong Christmas Carol Spectacular takes place annually in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. For the second year to popular demand, the Cape Town leg of the show – with three sold out back-to-back performances – was hosted at the GrandWest Arena. A theatrical atmosphere was created using over 170

Every year DWR Distribution, South Africa, kicks off with the Prolyte Rigging Training Course, an internationally recognized five day course presented by Rinus Bakker from Rhino Rigs. This year the Prolyte course has been evaluated and is registered to provide 48 CPD (continuous professional development credits that can be used to

Lightship Productions, owned and run by the enterprising Ni-Lou Breytenbach, is the latest South African lighting production, design and delivery specialist to invest in MA Lighting control with the purchase of a grandMA Command Wing, delivered by SA distributors, DWR. Lightship works across all industry sectors including corporate and live

A total of 232 Robe moving lights – including 80 x BMFL Blades, 70 x LEDWash 1200s, 84 x Pointes and 8 x LEDWash 300s were part of an exciting and colourful opening ceremony for the new 415 million euro Grande Stade de Lyon in France. Photos : Nicolas Rodet

It was a fantastic turn out for the Robe Roadshow hosted in South Africa by DWR Distribution in February. The roadshow was held in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, which meant that clients in most parts of the country could once again meet up with Robe’s Josef Valchar and Harry

USA – NBC continued to own the live theatrical TV franchise with its latest production, “The Wiz Live!,” which drew 11.5 million viewers and critical acclaim for its debut. The visually stunning show, with lighting design by Allen Branton, featured Clay Paky Alpha 800 Profile and Sharpy fixtures in the

Lighting designer Olly Suckling presented a novel solution and lighting effect using 28 of Robe’s CycFX 8 LED battens to create a giant illuminated M-A-X-I-M-O sign upstage on UK alt rockers Maximo Park’s most recent tour. This celebrated 10 years since the release of their seminal debut studio album, ‘A

Hilton College nestling in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands hills north of Durban is certainly an incredible setting for one of South Africa’s most exclusive boys’ boarding schools set in a large estate with its own wildlife reserve. Hilton College has its own theatre on campus – which is the proud

To all our clients, kindly note that due to our Annual Stock Take DWR Distribution will be closed on Friday, 26 February and on Saturday, 27 February. We would be grateful if you would help us by ensuring all your orders are placed in advanced or collected prior to 27th

Brian Madiba (46) is a theatre crew freelancer who is passionate about running. This year will be his tenth Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon race but many are not aware of what it takes for this man to be there. A couple of friends in the industry, Alistair Kilbee from

Over 300 Robe BMFL fixtures were sold to the French market in the few months since the formation of Robe’s new French subsidiary, Robe Lighting France SAS. The BMFL was launched in autumn 2014, by which time French lighting professionals were ready to specify and keen to use the high-powered

Namibia, known for the desolate beauty of its deserts and sand dunes, amazing wildlife and rich mineral resources is also a stable, socially integrated country with a great energy and sense of the future. The first dot2 XL-F lighting console has recently entered the country, a new investment by leading

  UK – A new advert for the Android and iOS-compatible Huawei Watch features a projection mapped disused theatre space powered by Avolites Ai S4 servers. The Chinese electronics manufacturer’s smartwatch – which rivals the Apple Watch – features a fully circular AMOLED display with a high resolution of 400×400

DWR would love to meet up with you at the Robe Roadshow! Join Josef Valchar and Harry von den Stemmen from Robe and DWR’s Duncan and Bruce Riley, Robert Izzett and Nick Britz as they visit Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. New products on show will include the Robe Square,

ITALY – The Trieste-born comedian proudly recalls the Bergamo dates of his tour, each and everyone a sell-out. He was surrounded on stage by some great little co-stars: Clay Paky Sharpys. The show featured Pintus’s simple, natural humour, his musical skills and his talent as an impersonator, which delight the

Leading UK theatre lighting designer Johanna Town made the most of Robe’s new DL4S Profile fixture when lighting “Pine” at the Hampstead Theatre in London. Photos : Ellie Kurttz The setting for Jacqui Honess-Martin’s new festive tragi-comedy is a Christmas tree retailer and the action spans a month over December

Snow White is one of the most famous and enduring fairy tales worldwide. The Brothers Grimm initially published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection of Grimms’ Fairy Tales. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854. Recently this popular tale was staged by

Three new African countries embraced the massively popular singing competition The Voice – South Africa, Angola & Nigeria – with all three series recorded at and broadcast from Stage One, Sasani Studios, Johannesburg – and all featuring over 100 Robe moving lights prominently on their respective lighting rigs. Words and

  Motörhead, one of the most truly iconic bands in the history of heavy, hard and speed metal, with an illustrious and thunderous career that blasted off in the 1970s and rocked gloriously loudly for the next 40 years until their last live gig in Berlin on 11th December 2015.

During its yearly PIE event (Prolyte Immersion Event), which was held in Amsterdam from 10-12 January, Prolyte honoured its distributing network by handing out awards for highest turnover levels, non-turnover related achievements and awards for special contribution. South African based DWR Distribution was delighted to receive two awards at the

DWR Distribution is proud to take Obed’s hand as he starts his high school career at Krugersdorp High School. “This is the best part of my job, being able to give back to others; I love it,” said Duncan Riley of DWR. Thank you to Craig Rowe who assisted DWR

Two leading Croatian music artists – rock band Prljavo Kazalište and pop singer Tony Cetinski – double headlined in a special annual concert event in Zurich’s Stadthalle Dietikon, organised by Croatia-Media Organizacija (Croatia Media Organisation). Louise Stickland Reports, Photos by Sven Kučinić A striking lighting show was programmed by Sven Kučinić

Jakarta, Indonesia – A cutting-edge package of Clay Paky fixtures has been installed into a new super club in Jakarta that promises partygoers an unrivalled audio-visual experience. Photo credits: LEDsCONTROL Owned by one of Jakarta’s most prominent nightlife companies Alexis Group, Colosseum is a huge 1000 square meter arena with

A wide variety of talent, reality and talk shows are produced by Pro PLUS together with their acclaimed 24 hour news services. They own several studios, with the largest – Studio 4 – accommodating up to three separate productions simultaneously. This is where the Robes are currently installed. The Lighting

It’s what everyone had been waiting for, to finally see Robe BMFLs at the FNB Stadium in Nasrec, Johannesburg, the largest venue in Africa with a capacity close to 95 000. Here Daimler Trucks & Buses staged The Greatest Show on Earth where Solid Rock Event Technical were the preferred

Selby’s is one of the longest established design, rental, installation and technical production companies in Durban, South Africa, founded in 1980 by the late Ron Selby. Photos and story by Louise Stickland. In addition to the head office in the peaceful suburb of Westville and spacious warehouse in Springfield, Durban,

Italian Annalisa Terranova is one of the few females in the world who provides media server technical support. She joined Avolites Ai in January 2015. On a visit to DWR Distribution in South Africa, she obliged and shared a bit about herself. Annalisa first moved from Sicily to London four

Ghana: Lighting Designer Ernest Awuah controlled the seventh MTN 4Syte Music Video Awards on the 14th November with an Avolites Tiger Touch II. The show included 20 Robin 300 E Beam Classics and 8 Robe ColorSpot 1200 ATs. Hosted at the Accra International Conference Centre the stage included top artists

DWR will be closed from 11 December to 4 January. Thank you very much for your support – May 2016 be your year! In case of an emergency please contact: Duncan Riley: 082 699 7355 Bruce Riley: 079 882 7760 Robert Izzett: 0 82 589 2603 Nick Britz: 072 931