Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, the UK’s highest profile and best known festival event once again proves a massive hit for Robe moving lights – over 600 of which were deployed on a multiplicity of stages site-wide, including in major creative areas like Arcadia’s giant spider spectacular show and legendary underground dance destination, Block 9. Lighting equipment for … [Read more...]
Robe is Eurovision Choice for Slovakia
Robe was the moving light of choice for a series of live TV shows staged to select Slovakia's 2010 Eurovision Song Contest entry. Broadcast live on STV1 from Slovakian Television's number 4 Studio in Bratislava, the shows were directed by Thomas Eibner and attended by a large live audience in addition to all those tuning in to watch. Slovakian's leading lighting rental company Q-99 once … [Read more...]
HSL in the house for Swedish Mafia
HSL supplied lighting and video equipment plus crew, and designed a bespoke DJ booth for two recent sold-out incendiary performances by The Swedish House Mafia at London's Brixton Academy. The shows were presented and produced by Cream and Loudsound Events and HSL was working for technical co-ordinators, BPM, who also supplied pyro and lasers. SHM Management's Amy Thomson's brief to BPM … [Read more...]
Robe chosen for Sutluce Cultural & Congress Centre
Robe moving lights have been installed into the new Sutluce Cultural & Congress Centre (SCCC) in Istanbul, Turkey. This is a prestigious 73,000 square metre multiple venue development instigated by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The building is an historic converted slaughterhouse on the Golden Horn, re-born and designed as a cutting-edge performing arts and conference centre. … [Read more...]
Robe embraces local history at Janikova Stodola Theatre
Robe's Czech and Slovakian distributor KVS recently specified and supplied Robe moving lights to the Janikova Stodola Theatre which is an integral part of the 'Wooden Townlett', a historical 'experience' and the oldest area - dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries - of the Wallachian Open Air Museum. This is situated right at the heart of Robe's home town of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm in the Czech … [Read more...]