Bandit Lites at London's Fashion Week

Bandit Lites is once again supplying lighting and rigging equipment to the British Fashion Council (BFC) Tent main venue at London Fashion Week.

The tent is pitched in the grounds of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington and is hosting over 20 shows--many of them back-to-back--from a crop of major international designers. The BFC tent is also staging the final of reality TV series, Project Catwalk.

Tool Time

  By Marian Sandberg

When Tool decides to go out on tour, there's one thing that's for sure: guitarist Adam Jones is going to be highly involved in the look of the show. For some designers, this might be a challenge, but considering Jones' background and past work on set design and makeup (including on Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Dances With Wolves, and Ghostbusters 2), the guitarist has something of an artistic eye, to say the least.

Live Design Exclusive! Seen & Heard In Las Vegas

The jury is still out as to the long-term success of Broadway musicals in Las Vegas, but Hairspray and the upcoming Phantom of the Opera are trying their luck in Sin City....

Love Is All You Need

  By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

Picture yourself in a boat on the river. Characters from Beatles' songs cavort all around you. There's Lucy in the Sky, Eleanor Rigby, and Sgt. Pepper. Suddenly, someone is there at the turnstile: it's the ticket taker, dressed like an English Bobby, welcoming you to Love, the latest Cirque du Soleil spectacular now in residence at The Mirage, in a totally redesigned space that was occupied for many years by Siegfried and Roy. Love opened on June 30, 2006.

XL Video On Roger Waters Tour

Roger Waters is renowned for pioneering the integration and use of provocative moving imagery into his work, and his recent tour is no exception, with a complex, expressive, and compelling video narrative running for the entire show. "Video is a fundamental element in a performance shot through with many serious political and psychological threads. It acts an additional player onstage, with every image and sequence loaded with meaning and relevance," says an XL Video spokesperson.

Globetrotting

  By Brad Hathaway

When William Shakespeare and his company first set up shop on the south side of the Thames to produce plays in the Globe Theatre, the 16^th century was just ending, and the requirements for what had only recently begun to be called “a theatre” were fairly simple.

War Games

  By Robert Cashill

The most intriguing themed project to open in some time is one you will never have a chance to experience that is, unless you join the US Navy. In the...

Super Sweet 16

A girl only turns 16 once, and it wasn’t enough for DaVinci Fusion to ensure that a client’s Sweet 16 party proved to be one of the happiest, most memorable days of her life. Northern California’s premiere event production company had to create the event with an MTV video crew looking over its shoulder for two weeks.

Robe and PixelDrive Heat Up Godskitchen Dance Festival

In its fifth year, Godskitchen GlobalGathering dance festival–the largest in the UK–attracted more than 50,000 dance music and clubbing fans for its two-day event, July 29-30 in Stratford Upon Avon.

Pure Nightclub And Pussycat Dolls Lounge Lit By Martin

Hardly a week goes by that Pure Nightclub at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas isn’t in the pages of national celebrity publications or on national entertainment television. The club’s ability to secure the top-name celebrities (Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and many more) and celebrated special events is unique, even among Vegas’ competitive nightclub landscape. From the moment it opened a few short years ago, Pure has been Las Vegas' club to see and be seen.