Melbourne’s Spooktober is a 5-day Halloween Festival, where every day is Halloween! Held at St Kilda Town Hall the event included two walk-through Haunted Houses with tours from tame to truly terrifying, Halloween themed carnival games and activities, food truck village, Spooky Stage, Haunted Spirits Bar, costume contests, roaming entertainment and more. This year, Technical…
We all know that Emmanuel Ziino, Show Technology’s Managing Director, has a keen eye for a well-designed and incredibly functional product. He also has a passion for all things Italian so when he discovered the PROLIGHTS Panorama IP rated fixtures, it was a match made in heaven. The Panorama IP65 Beam delivers an unbelievable bright,…
Auckland event production company ‘Backstage NZ’ recently purchased an MA dot2 console and their lighting tech Sione Faleuka states it is true love. “I must say I have used so many lighting consoles over the years but I fell in love with the dot2 as it is by far the best lighting console I’ve ever…
Townsville’s The Bank Nightclub, which was originally the Australian Joint Stock Bank when it opened in 1888, has reopened after a massive renovation. Sydney-based operator Shiv Suri has restored the venue in Flinders St East to its former glory as a popular dance venue. NQAV were responsible for supplying and installing the lighting and audio…
Once again the LDI Show, the mecca for the lighting world, came to Las Vegas and Show Technology were there to check out the latest and greatest products, as well as meet up with loads of amazing people. Our team, Emmanuel Ziino(EZ), Paul Nicolaou and Mike Gearin had the envied task of pounding the tradeshow…
The guys at EI Productions will tell you that one of their most popular moving LED wash lights is the Claypaky B-Eye K10. So popular in fact that they’ve just bought another 24! “These amazing fixtures not only do a great wash, they also colour mix, zoom and do great pixel effects,” commented Neale Mace,…
Lighting Designer Mathieu Poirier created the atmosphere of the grand hotels of the past for “Hotel,” the latest touring show for Montreal-based company Cirque Eloize. Poirier selected Claypaky’s new Axcor Spot 300 moving LED fixtures to help set the scene for the troupe’s very special 25th anniversary production. In “Hotel” acrobatics, theatre, dance and live…
Blacktown Workers is the first Australian theatre to add the Robert Juliat Oz followspot to their Venue, and not just one, but two have joined their Diamond Show room! The Oz features a 600W white LED source and is the first LED professional followspot to deliver output comparable to a 1200W discharge model. With its…