Dandenong’s Drum Theatre hosts 170 performances for over 85,500 patrons each year including professional touring productions, local theatrical performances and community events. The theatre has gained a reputation as an excellent venue for dance productions and hence its lighting rig reflects that fact. The theatre has been gradually upgrading to an all LED lighting rig…
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s Verbrugghen Hall is a world-class venue with exceptional acoustics and is their largest performance space. The venue featured mainly Par cans for its lighting plus there were two control systems; a Dynalite system and a simple conventional DMX show light system. The time came to switch to an LED lighting…
New Zealand’s Grouse Lighting Aotearoa has been lighting events both locally and nationally since 1984 and recently decided it was time to replace their moving head profile fixtures with sixteen Ayrton Eurus Profile. Rowan McShane, Project Manager at Grouse, says they had been looking for a replacement for quite some time but there wasn’t a…
The Channel Seven Perth Telethon is the most anticipated weekend on WA television and this year, the 55th Telethon was an amazing spectacle that hit an epic milestone raising a staggering $500 million since it began more than five decades ago. The 26-hour event was held at Telethon’s new home at RAC Arena in Perth’s…
Now that all things entertainment seem to be happening again, ei Productions has hit the ground running with purchases to bolster their production inventory whilst also moving on some older gear to good homes. “Everyone wants more and better gear, and we’re no exception,” commented Neale Mace, Managing Director at ei Productions. “We already have…
The future is looking very bright for MPH Australia who actually had their busiest month ever in March this year! When they secured many of the Splendour in the Grass sideshows, including Gorillaz, Liam Gallagher, Duke Dumont, YungBlud and Glass Animals, they knew that investment in new gear was paramount. “These gigs prompted us to…
It’s been a funny old summer for Powa Productions as they navigated the country with The Red Hot Summer Tour and similar festivals. Gigs were cancelled and rescheduled, strict Covid-19 protocols were enforced and five NSW gigs were scrapped due to the extreme rain. However one constant and symbol of reliability has been their new…
Whilst everyone is happy to be back at work after a rotten two years, staff shortages and isolation mandates have made navigating this new landscape incredibly difficult. Last week, technical staff at Toowoomba’s Empire Theatre were one by one having to isolate due to close contact with Covid-19 which was a concern as they had…