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BRING ON THE WINE ANGELS
Europe’s tallest wine tower, standing at a the ‘Wine Angels’ who were equipped with flying
staggering 15m with a capacity for 3,840 bottles, harnesses perform acrobatic routines to music and
has been unveiled as the centre piece of the automated lighting sequences as they ascended the
new Radisson Blu Hotel at Zurich Airport. The tower to retrieve wine bottles.
innovative installation was the focal point of the In order to provide the precise, controlled flying
recent grand opening ceremony. required to deliver the ‘Wine Angel’ to the correct
ES Projects, a trading division of ES Group Ltd, bottle, Stage One supplied an automation package
designed, built and commissioned this magnificent specially developed to enable its NextQ software to
structure with the support of specialist sub-contractor directly control the winch positioning drives.
Stage One who installed and commissioned key Other key personnel included lighting designer
features such as the LED lighting and Angel flying Adam Bassett, sound designer Richard Sinclair, set
winches. designer Jeremy Thom and Unusual Rigging.
ES Projects called on its experience in the events www.esgroup-uk.com
industry to provide training and choreography for www.stageone.com
GLP ‘IMPRESSES’ PANALUX INTIMATE i-PIX SOLUTION
Television lighting designers are increasingly turning to GLP’s Lighting designer Jonathan ‘Leggy’ Armstrong is using 21 i-Pix
Impression compact LED RGB moving washlight to provide fast BB7 LED wash lights and 19 i-Pix BB4 blinders — supplied by
moving colour changes to elements of their stage sets. Neg Earth — on his new design for Bloc Party’s Intimacy world
Seasoned LDs such as Mike ‘Sooty’ Sutcliffe, Gurdip Mahal and Darryl tour.
Noad have been sourcing their luminaires from the Broadcast & Event It’s the first time he’s used either fixture on one of his shows, a
division of production rental company Panalux, headed by experienced decision taken after seeing them in action on several others, which
MD Ed Pagett and business development manager, Simon Roose (pictured prompted him to think that they were exactly what he needed.
above). “I wanted to keep everything soft-edged in keeping with the
Containing 90 Luxeon K2 high-power LEDs (30 x RGB), the Impression ‘intimacy’ theme, so I decided to go for an LED-based rig and use the
boasts a higher light yield than that of a conventional 700W in colour, BB7s as the main stage wash light,” said Leggy.
and a 575W discharge lamp (in white). With its rapid 660° of pan and “I can get a massive variety of effects from the BBs. I knew they
300° tilt, it is ideal for the television sector — particularly large location were bright but I have been really astounded by just how bright, and
spectaculars and reality shows. how efficiently and easily they can cover the whole stage.”
www.glp.de www.i-pix.uk.com
LITESTRUCTURES’ LIFT GOES HIRE AND HIRE...
Wakefield-based LiteStructures supplied a key feature for the latest Scissor lifts with a circular 12’ diameter LiteDeck staging system — all used
European tour by New Kids On The Block. Production manager from its hire department. The end result was a success and the lift acted
Bobby Schneider contacted LiteStructures to supply a circular lift as the centre piece of the show and toured with the band for three weeks.
which would be located in the middle of the crowd, and would be In smaller venues, the lift was replaced with a static 12’ diameter circular
able to hold the band and rise to up to 6’ high. LiteDeck.
The company came up with a concept of adapting one of its standard www.litestructures.co.uk
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