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

     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