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 fixtures have been booked out by other rental companies for

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 four shows, two in each city. Ed Kowalczyk needs no

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 will offer multiple ways for users to communicate with other

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 the music and the creation of moments, building throughout the

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 8s and 12 x DL4S Profiles. The deal was finalised

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 of the Gearhouse South Africa Group. The Joburg Theatre Complex,

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 Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 and Mythos lighting fixtures to take

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 into the Amsterdam Arena for the 2015 Amsterdam Music Festival

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 as both a lighting designer and sound engineer. “I do

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 band competition. The sky was ablaze with a magnificent fireworks

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 King Creosote – by Louise Stickland The new rig has

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 KAABOO festival recently staged in Del Mar, California. Chris specified

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 everyday practice in South Africa. Photos by Duncan Riley. The

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 theatrical experience has been delighting guests with its performances by

  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 solution which offers me great integration with my MA2 lighting

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” amounts of audio kit into all types of imaginable –

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 loss of precious income. They purchased 30 Philips Showline SL

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, design and fully execute four of the eight stages (where

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 the full technical control and direction of the production for

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 Upton who is based in Chicago. The gigs were also

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 Croft.   The Wimbledon Light Operatic Society production was based

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 of theatrical magic and intricate and spectacular lighting by Luc

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 courtesy Louise Stickland. Robe upped the stakes at the popular

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 since 2012. Photos courtesy Carol Pereira Lighting for the three

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 products in North America.   Robb Jibson of So Midwest,

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 of the Congo (République du Congo). Photos by Concept K.

    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 and produced by Rapid Blue, South Africa’s leading independent production

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 helped create an extravagant atmosphere as memories were made with

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 for theatres from the Czech manufacturer, including the new DL7S

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 musical of all time: it has been staged in 27

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 Haig Housing Trust, which offers housing assistance to ex-service people

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 recording and DVD shoot. Elevation Worship is a contemporary Christian

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 Size Matters arena Creamfields 2015, the UK’s premier EDM festival. Photos

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 Baxter Theatre’s production of Blue/Orange it was always going to

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 a huge reputation for having a theatre department. “The State

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, with the purchase of 12 x BMFL Blades together with

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 smoke for her current tour. Prominent smoke is also in

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 their performance. An international gathering this prestigious demands a special

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 originally concentrated on audio and AV. As it became successful

  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 25 full-time employees and occupy four warehouse / office units

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 couple of weeks ago, Derek Kruger made a request. Could

  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 suited to the smaller and medium sized corporate work,” commented