Blackburn, UK, based lighting rental company HSL is supplying lighting equipment and crew to Production North for the first arena tour by the UK's most popular boyband, JLS, with lighting designed by Dave Lee and a lively, entertaining show created by artistic director Beth Honan. HSL's project manager is Mike Oates, and this follows on from their work on the band's first theatre tour … [Read more...]
Entec Plays Bingo with Steve Miller
West London, UK based Entec Sound & Light supplied sound and lighting equipment and crew for guitar legend Steve Miller's recent massively successful UK and European tour, showcasing his latest "Bingo" album. Entec won the contract after being highly recommended to production manager Brett Enzensperger by Milwaukee based Clearwing Productions Inc, the company that supplies technical … [Read more...]
Blinding Light In The Park With The Proms and The Pope
Reading, UK, based lighting rental company Blinding Light supplied lighting equipment including trussing and rigging for the BBC's 2010 Proms In The Park event in London's Hyde Park. Blinding Light won a competitive tender to provide the kit to Mantaplan for the large scale classical and popular music spectacle staged to coincide with the traditional Last Night of the Proms at the Royal … [Read more...]
HSL Invests in More New Equipment
Leading UK lighting rental company HSL has invested heavily in the last 3 months in new lighting equipment to facilitate its continuing busy work schedule amidst what's so far been a bumper year for the Blackburn-based operation. Over 60 Vari*Lite VL3000 and VL3500 Series moving light fixtures have been added to HSL's existing Vari*Lite inventory. The first job for these was as a dry hire to … [Read more...]
Gearhouse SA Helps Close World Cup In Style
Gearhouse South Africa was contracted by ceremonies producers VWV Group to deliver all technical aspects of the amazing Closing Ceremony of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup - including rigging, power, sound, lighting and large format projection (which was contracted out to French-based ETC) - utilising the dynamics, skills and services of most companies in the Gearhouse Group. The 30 minute … [Read more...]
