Johannesburg based rental company, LaserX, have taken delivery of four new ProLyft 250kg motors. “Having used them a number of times, the consensus now is how did we ever manage without them,” said Troy Bentley, owner of the company. For close to twenty years, LaserX have entertained both South African

Nearly 100 Robe BMFL Spots are on tour with multi-award winning chart-topping singer / songwriter Adele’s current ‘Adele Live 2016’ world tour, in a stylish and dramatic lighting concept developed by Patrick Woodroffe working with associate lighting designer Adam Basset from design practice Woodroffe Bassett Design (WBD).  Photos : Ralph

Inspired Stages hosted their first Inspired Mentors programme from the 21 to 24 March at the GrandWest Casino. Ninety-two youngsters between the ages of 17 and 25 and who had previously been involved in Inspired Stages workshops, were trained up as mentors. “Young adults from within the community with a

A dot2 Roadshow with Michael Strathmann from MA Lighting and DWR Distribution team, will be hosted in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Namibia from 9 to 18 May. The dot2 is a well-respected lighting console, and Michael Strathmann’s knowledge and experience will allow users to understand the functionality

When Gearhouse Splitbeam was appointed as the lighting supplier to Albert Hammond in The Teatro Monte Casino, Johannesburg, Alistair Kilbee knew this was a great opportunity to use 6 Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 Spots and 6 Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 BeamWash units in the theatre. Photos by Duncan Riley. Synonymous with hits

Dutch House DJ Fedde Le Grand recently played his GRAND 2016 event at Amsterdam’s 20,000 capacity Ziggo Dome, which was completely sold out and featured a spectacular lighting design by JJ Rotte from Dutch lighting and visual creative practice Light Image … and over 200 Robe moving lights! Photos : Ruud

The Cape Town leg of Starlight Classics, produced by Rand Merchant Bank and production by Jam Events, was hosted at the Vergelegen Wine Estate in Somerset West on 11 and 12 March. This is one of Lighting Designer Joshua Cutts’ favourite shows and he worked in close collaboration with fellow

The Planetshakers Church is a Pentecostal Christian ministry affiliated with Australian Christian Churches. It started when the Planetshakers band moved to Melbourne in 2004. The church has over 10,000 members. Currently, Planetshakers has four campuses in Melbourne; City, North East, South East and Geelong, with an additional two international campuses

Cape Town nightlife recently received a boost with new club The Bank opening just before Christmas, operating three days a week out of the beautiful art deco QV54 (54 Queen Victoria Street) building in downtown Cape Town. The lounge style environment – with comfortable, sociable seating areas and strategically placed

The Sama-Sama Live interactive park in Madrid is a revolutionary new concept in the entertainment industry. The park offers the audience an opportunity to participate and feel how it is to be a performer. Roy Ofer, founder and CEO of Sama-Sama, had the vision to create a fun and loose

The DiGiCo S21 is on the road in South Africa with Kyle Robson from DWR Distribution. The S21 is taking the world by storm. DiGiCo is a well-loved console, and the new S21 is a wonderful tool that will be surprisingly more than you imagined for less than you expected.

It is with sadness to announce that DWR Distribution will no longer be the Avolites distributor in Africa. Avolites was one of the very first brands offered by DWR when the company started ten years ago. As both parties have mutually decided to go their separate paths, DWR will continue

The 2016 Miss South Africa was staged at Carnival City, Johannesburg, with this year’s theme having a robust feel as lighting and creative designer, Joshua Cutts, made use of negative space and in essence aimed to create a production which had the distinct flavour of a music awards event. With

  Gearhouse South Africa has made the largest LumenRadio investment in Africa to be used for The Forever Living Products 2016 Global Rally at the Ticketpro Dome in North Riding Johannesburg. “I was impressed when seeing the LumenRadio system at the roadshow DWR hosted at the UJ theatre a few

Clay Paky launched three new products for the first time internationally at ProLight+Sound 2016, all of which aroused considerable interest among industry professionals. The products were the stars of a demo/multimedia light show which accompanied the performances of some musicians and cover bands. The Scenius Profile is the new beam

Robe BMFL Spot moving lights have been specified for France’s famous Arlette Gruss Circus show which started its 2016 winter tour at the Place des Quinconces in Bordeaux. Since 2009, the show has been staged in the 1500 seater ‘Cathedral’ tent venue, an impressive structure that features 8 masts and

Hamburg dance / trance trio Scooter – considered the most successful German singles recording act with 23 top 10 hits and over 30 million records sold – kicked off their 2016 tour with an eye-catching lighting and set design by Jerry Appelt, one of the best known lighting and visual

  The Salisbury Playhouse has recently brought down the curtain on a Myrtle Theatre Company production of “Up Down Man” by Brendan Murray. The lighting of this internationally acclaimed play was designed and programmed by award winning lighting designer Michael Straun. He chose to run the show on an MA

Robert Juliat was very happy with its position in the middle of the Lightpower Village in Hall 3.0 where its products attracted a constant stream of visitors for the whole duration of the show. The array of RJ Zep LED profile and Fresnel fixtures drew much attention from theatre, event

It’s a twelve-hour drive from Johannesburg to Oudtshoorn, and as the great semi-desert of the Karoo stretches out ahead, rigid mountain silhouetted on either side of the long straight road, it’s a part of the world where ghost stories are plenty, the history is diverse and fascinating and before you

Vejle Musikteater is the largest performing arts venue in the picturesque cultural hub of Vejle which sits at the head of the magnificent Vejle Fjord and the convergence of the Vejle and Grejs rivers in southeast Jutland, Denmark. The venue has invested in over 50 Robe fixtures, including MMX Spots

  Busy UK rental company Storm Lighting, based in Woking, Surrey, has invested in 30 x Robe BMFL Blades and 30 x LEDWash 1000s for their ongoing work which includes a diverse range of premium corporate events, leading theatre tours and some music shows. This new sale follows Storm’s initial

Over 127 schools were invited to attend a Careers Day on 7 April, hosted by Silverstar in Krugersdorp – the focus on employment opportunities available within this casino. DWR Distribution was asked to be a sponsor and exhibitor, giving students the opportunity to consider working in the entertainment industry as

Robe took its winning themed theatre environment concept to the 2016 Prolight+Sound expo, transporting the Robe Piazza to Hall 3 of the Frankfurt Messe, where the Czech manufacturer invested in a space three times larger than at any previous Prolight …. and ensured it was the talk of the show!

The vibrancy and creativity of African fashion designers adorned the runway at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Joburg, by African Fashion International (AFI), from the 10 to 12 March at the Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton. Lighting designer Mauritz Jacobs from Dream Sets has become part and parcel of this anticipated

South Africa: When it comes to suspending line arrays for large-scale events, In-Harmony Productions rely on ProLyft motors from Prolyte. With six one Ton Prolyft motors in stock already, they recently made an investment of an additional two ton motor to keep up with demand. In-Harmony provides a service in

HELLO Community Arts Festival presents Shango, a script concept developed by Tintswalo Millicent Mashele and Hardus Koekemoer and directed by Tintswalo Millicent Mashele. Don’t miss out on this moving production on 8 and 9 April at 19:30 and 10 April at 15:00 at the Breytenbach Theatre. HELLO is an initiative

  Belgian lighting designer Carlo Zaenan of QBE created another amazing live show in Benelux – it’s all happening there – using a rig that included 256 Robe moving lights – the 2016 leg of the ‘Symphonica in Rosso’ concerts, six performances presented by Dutch superstar singer Marco Borsato at

  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