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anhembi arena skol

2012 | 2013
ROBE lighting s. r. o. | Hážovice 2090 | Rožnov p. R. | Czech Republic
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Published by ROBE lighting s. r. o., Czech Republic
October 2013 © ROBE lighting s. r. o.
Dear readers
Welcome to another incredible year for Robe – which has been our most
successful yet for product development and business in key markets
across all sectors!
Global Network
ROBE lighting is distributing directly all over the world through the stable network of distributors.
As ideas and commerce continue to flourish, our dynamic and talented ‘Robe
Family’ continues its dedication to building our brand with such a vitality and
passion, taking it to new levels of visibility and excellence.
The ROBIN product ranges have been expanded and further consolidated and
continue to become even more established as market leaders for quality and
innovation in their classes.
There have also been some inventive and different additions to the product lines, to ensure that we can also offer
more diversity and interesting applications of the technology and knowledge… whilst keeping our finger on the pulse
of global visual design trends. The factory and HQ has seen a major expansion programme to boost the production
capacities needed to keep pace with the growing demand for all our products.
We wrapped up an amazing 2012 ‘Working With Winners’ - a highly appropriate motto - and steamed into 2013,
experiencing the ‘best ever’ Prolight+Sound Exhibition in Frankfurt followed closely by hosting and co-organising
a very memorable Showlight 2013 in Cesky Krumlov - a fantastic introduction to the Czech Republic for many guests.
We go into PLASA 2013 in an exciting new venue… with a large and stylish new stand design, showcasing nine
innovative new products!
This year we also intend to launch new products at LDI, reflecting our growing success in the Americas – both North
and South.
As always at this time, I’d personally like to say a massive ‘thank-you’ to all those designers, creative and artistic
directors, installers, distributors, rental and production companies who have invested imagination, time and energy
in using and promoting our products worldwide. We also know that nothing stays still, and that to sustain, we need
to continue the process of actively listening to the constant feedback and communication on all levels, keep this
process proactive and bi-directional and take note of the opinions, thoughts and demands. We have our ears and
eyes open!
I also want to thank each and every one of the Robe Family members involved from our side - all the distributors
and our staff locally and internationally.
Everyone at Robe is vital to its strength and vibrancy, all are appreciated and valued, and I am extremely proud to
share my world with some very special
individuals.
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ALBANIA | ALGERIA | ARGENTINA | ARMENIA | ARUBA | AUSTRALIA | AUSTRIA | AZERBAIJAN | BAHRAIN
Josef Valchář
| BARBADOS | BELARUS | BELGIUM | BOLIVIA | BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | BRAZIL | BULGARIA |
General Manager, CEO
CAMBODIA | CANADA | CHILE | CHINA | COLOMBIA | CROATIA | CYPRUS | CZECH REPUBLIC | DENMARK
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | ECUADOR | EGYPT | ESTONIA | ETHIOPIA | FINLAND | FRANCE | GEORGIA |
GERMANY | GREECE |
GUATEMALA | HONDURAS | HONG KONG | HUNGARY | ICELAND | INDIA
| INDONESIA | IRAN | IRELAND | ISRAEL | ITALY | JAPAN | JORDAN | KAZAKHSTAN | KENYA | KOREA |
KUWAIT | LATVIA | LEBANON | LITHUANIA | LUXEMBURG | MACEDONIA | MALAYSIA | MALDIVES | MALTA
| MAURITIUS | MEXICO | MOLDOVA | MONTENEGRO | MOROCCO | NETHERLANDS | NEW CALEDONIA |
NEW ZEALAND | NIGERIA | NORWAY | OMAN | PANAMA | PARAGUAY | PERU | PHILIPPINES | POLAND
| PORTUGAL | PUERTO RICO | QUATAR | ROMANIA | RUSSIA | SAUDI ARABIA | SERBIA | SEYCHELLES |
SINGAPORE | SLOVAKIA | SLOVENIA | SOUTH AFRICA | SOUTH-EAST ASIA | SPAIN | SRI LANKA | SURINAME
| SWEDEN | SWITZERLAND | SYRIA | TAIWAN | TCHAD | THAILAND | TUNISIA | TURKEY | TURKMENISTAN
| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | UKRAINE | UNITED KINGDOM | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | URUGUAY |
UZBEKISTAN | VENEZUELA | VIETNAM
DISTRIBUTORS
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F ES T IVA L S
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What´s NEW
Welcome to the 2012/13 Annual Robe Newsletter !
When introducing last year‘s annual printed newsletter, we made a point of saying that it was the largest and most
diverse to date... and we are very proud to be able say this year’s edition surpasses that - with more pages and
featuring an even greater selection of projects from around the world.
EVENTS
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It’s been another year of incredible hard work and major global achievements by all in the Robe Family, and this is
reflected in the content of the Newsletter. Every page jumps out with the vibrancy and enthusiasm that characterises
our incredible team of distributors, customers and end users. The last 12 months have been hugely proactive on all
fronts and it’s been another record-breaking success in terms of business and bringing new products and innovation
to the market.
The ROBIN series has expanded and become even more established across all markets worldwide,
endorsing Robe’s winning concept of producing ‘smaller, brighter, lighter’ fixtures based on genuinely more ecofriendly technologies.
T E L E V I SI O N
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The LEDWash series continues as Robe’s biggest selling product and is recognised as a high quality cuttingedge LED lightsource, while the new ‘workhorse’ ROBIN MMX Spot and WashBeam sales reinforce the place and
demand for properly multi-purpose fixtures, together with the DL series, our first high powered LED moving head
series which has been expanded to include Spot, Profile and Wash versions.
The tiny, super-speedy LEDBeam 100 continues to be popular... and while all this has been going on, Robe
developed and launched the much anticipated Pointe - a completely unique multi-purpose fixture that delivers more
Robe quality engineering and real value for money - Wash, Beam and FX all in one super-bright, compact fixture.
Robe had high expectations for the Pointe, but no-one could have quite predicted the reaction and the consequent sales and demand!
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Meanwhile details of exciting projects continue to pour into the Robe News Room daily.
T H E AT RE
Highlights are hard to pick - from the smallest, most inventive shows - see ‘Swedish Royal Flush’ and installations
using just a few fixtures to major extravaganzas and some of the world’s best known music festivals - see Glastonbury, Tomorrowland, Ultra - our products are out there! Just recently we’ve landed some major tours in the Americas
which is very exciting!
Bandit Lites Inc. - a major US rental operation - has invested in over 80 of the newest fixtures including Pointes,
which were specified for the Selena Gomez ‘Stars Dance’ world tour by Creative Director and Production Designer
Seth Jackson and Lighting Designer Nathan W Scheuer.
CLUB
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In Mexico, over 230 fixtures - including 92 Pointes - will be in action on the Alejandro Fernandez tour which is
designed by Belgian LD Alain Corthout. The Robe kit is all being supplied by Guadalajara based Procolor who have
made this serious investment.
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Even in a short space of time since its launch, many shows and events are getting the Pointe… including David
Guetta in Hannover; the CMT Awards in Nashville Tennessee; the MTV Upfront Presentations at the Beacon Theatre
in New York; Portishead at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and the ‘house’ lighting
rig for the recent Eden Sessions in Cornwall - both in the UK; Ampco Flashlight, Holland‘s leading rental company,
just purchased 100 and the list is growing daily as rental operations of all sizes snap up Pointes for their stocks!
Everywhere and in all sectors, lighting designers from all disciplines - live shows and events, television, theatre and
the arts, installations - are using Robe products to realise their imaginative visions.
C HU RC H
Other than that, 2012/13 has seen other landmarks for Robe, one of which was hosting and co-organising the
quadrennial Showlight symposium in Český Krumlov in May 2013. Apart from supporting the show, which was
invigorating and proved a great forum for discussion, the interchange of ideas and sharing of knowledge and information between established and future industry professionals, it gave many first time visitors to the Czech Republic
a snapshot of what the country has to offer in terms of natural beauty, culture, heritage, charm and future industry
and commerce. Český Krumlov with its beautiful surroundings, Baroque Theatre, magnificent Castle and Open Air
Theatre with revolving auditorium provided more than a little Czech magic to WOW the attendees, many of whom then
visited our factory afterwards.
VEN U E
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Ahead of Frankfurt 2013, Robe held its fifth biennial international Dealer Conference (IDC) which was attended
by nearly 200 Family Members from around the globe. A special dinner and Awards evening provided a great chance
to say ‘thanks’ to everyone for all the foresight and hard work as part of one amazing team!
Robe goes into PLASA 2013 showing nine exciting new products to further strengthen the range… and huge amounts
of positive energy for 2014 and the future.
ABOUT ROBE
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Robe LEDWash 600s Shine for Beyoncé
UK based Lighting Designer Al Gurdon utilized 52 x Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600 fixtures to line the perimeter of the main stage in his stunning design for the 2013 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Super Bowl XLVII was held at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans with global music icon and
16 time Grammy Award winning Beyoncé topping the Half Time Show bill. Her show-stopping performance
has been acclaimed by many as the ‘best ever’ Half Time show!
It was broadcast worldwide… and is the most-watched musical event of the year! Apart from that, the
game itself pulled an impressive 108.4 million viewers. It was the fourth time that Al Gurdon has lit the Half
Time event, an NFL Production executive produced by Ricky Kirshner and directed by Hamish Hamilton.
He used the LEDWash 600s on the floor to side and back light Beyonce and the dancers, “I like the LEDWash 600 because it’s a really bright unit for its size,” he comments. Al’s first experience with the LEDWash
series was using both the 600 and 1200 LEDWash fixtures on Madonna’s recent MDNA tour.
The luminaires were supplied by Los Angeles based rental company VER to main lighting contractors PRG,
who have been major investors in Robe’s new ROBIN series products.
Momoiro Clover Z
Robe Loves Momoiro Clover Z!
Momoiro Clover Z, one of Japan’s most popular girl-groups, performed their largest concert to date at the
Saitama Seibu Dome in Japan in front of an impressive live audience of 37,000… lit with nearly 400 Robe
moving lights in a design by Hirotaka Kojima from lighting company JSS.
The show – also broadcast in several movie theatres around Hong Kong and Taiwan – was the final date
on their 2012 Summer Dive tour and was performed in-the-round. The girl’s lively set embraced numerous
costume changes and some properly crazy behavior in an epic set lasting four hours and containing 26
pumped-up numbers!
Naturally, the lighting design had to keep pace with all the action onstage and so Hirotaka Kojima needed
maximum flexibility and multiple options in his lighting rig, which was supplied by Tokyo based rental company, M-Tech Style. M-Tech Style’s Yo-Ichi Ashikawa recommended the Robe fixtures to him as the best
choices to promote the cheerful, up-beat summer party vibes.
The fixture count included 120x ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, 18x ROBIN 300 LEDWashes and 24x ROBIN 1200
LEDWashes plus 40x LEDBeam 100s, 48x ColorSpot 700E ATs, 22x ColorWash 700E ATs. A further 110x
LEDForce 18s were placed on the stage and five runways off it reaching out into the audience. Hirotaka
Kojima was impressed with the energy efficiency of the Robe LED fixtures together with their small size and
powerful outputs.
EQUIPMENT
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52x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™
Robe Lighting Inc.
USA
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Photo Credit © Getty Images
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Beyoncé
120x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 110x LEDForce 18™ RGBW, 48x ColorSpot 700E AT™,
40x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 24x ROBIN ® 1200 LEDWash™, 22x ColorWash 700E AT™,
LTG
Japan
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Robe for Selena Gomez World Tour
Leading Nashville, Tennessee based lighting rental company and solutions provider Bandit Lites Inc.
invested in a substantial number of Robe’s newest moving lights as specified by Creative Director and
Production Designer Seth Jackson and Lighting Designer Nathan W Scheuer for the current Selena
Gomez ‘Stars Dance’ world tour.
The sale involved 16x Pointes, 18x LEDWash 600s, 12x LEDWash 1200s and 36x LEDBeam 100s, which
were delivered to Bandit by Robe Lighting Inc., coordinated by Eastern Region Business Development
Manager, Kevin Loretto.
Jackson’s very talented creative team for this tour includes Scheuer, Video & Media Designer Brent
Sandrock and Lighting Director David "Fuji" Convertino who will be out on the road with the equipment.
It is the first time that Jackson and Scheuer are working with Robe products. They both visited the Robe
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factory in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic earlier in the year, which proved an eye-opening experience.
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Says Jackson, “We saw the manufacturing process and the care and meticulous attention that goes into
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every fixture. We met with Robe’s engineers, designers, product development team, sales and support
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staff with CEO Josef Valchar always at our side. Everyone’s dedication to the company sent us away
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with a real appreciation for the uniqueness of what Robe is doing and the elegance and quality of what
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they are building”.
As a result, they decided to incorporate many of the Robe products into the tour design.
SUPPLIED BY
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36x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 18x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 16x ROBIN ® Pointe ®,
Robe Lighting Inc.
World tour
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Photo Credit © show - Nathan W Scheuer | Selena Gomez - Getty Images, Jeff Vinnick
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Beachvolley
Selena Gomez
Beachvolley Deluxe Gets The Pointe
Belgian Lighting Designer Frederik Heerinckx of BlackBox Design was hugely anticipating his first chance
to use Robe’s new Pointe fixtures and the occasion presented itself for the 2013 Beachvolley Deluxe
Championships in Baal. The annual three day event is organised by vzw Beachvolley Deluxe and a dedicated team of volunteers headed by Stijn Saliem. It celebrated its 14th glorious year, welcoming over 200
teams and up to 1000 spectators a day to enjoy some superlative beach volleyball action!
Frederik’s design was based around a Robe moving light rig. Lighting is crucial to highlighting the volleyball players naturalistically during the daytime matches and also for creating a cool and cosy ambience
for two beach parties – the largest attended by 6,000 revellers!
An elegant tensile roof structure ideally lends itself to being coloured and textured with lighting and
effects. The 12 Robe Pointes were rigged on a series of drop bars coming off the roof and over-stage
trusses, together with the other Robe fixtures, which included 16x ROBIN Spot 600Es and 18x LEDWash
600s. “The brightness was fantastic and the zoom excellent,” Frederik declared after the gig!
Baal might be decidedly landlocked, but the spirit of the beach lived on complete with a fully sanded
venue, volleyball courts and the two parties staged on the Friday and Saturday nights, complete with an
all-action DJ line up.
EQUIPMENT
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18x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 16x ROBIN ® 600E Spot™, 12x ROBIN ® Pointe ®
Controllux
Belgium
Photo Credit © Louise Stickland
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Robe Does It Gangnam Style for Psy Concerts
Chart topping rapper Psy - Korea’s most popular singer and originator of the ‘Gangnam Style’ phenomena
- performed two special concerts on home soil both lit with Robe moving lights in a design by Mr Myeong
Soo Kim.
The first was a one off concert for 8000 fan club members at the Seoul Stadium in Jamsil and the second
was at the City Hall in Seoul Plaza, attended by 80,000 people who enjoyed a lively show including Psy’s
block-busting international number one, ‘Gangnam Style’.
Equipment was supplied by rental company LiteFactory. Thirty-six Robe MMX Spots and 24 LEDWash
600s were among lighting specified for the shows by Myeong Soo Kim, and were the core of the rig, chosen
for their brightness and versatility.
LiteFactory, owned by Mr Doochul Shin, has a large stock of Robe fixtures in its rental fleet and has been
a loyal advocate of the brand for around 10 years! Myeong Soo Kim also programmed and operated lighting for these concerts. He likes the flexibility and numerous options offered by the MMX Spot which he
regularly uses in combination with Robe LEDWash 600s.
Myeong Soo Kim used the Robes to the max - lots of beam technology, gobo and animation work with
the MMXs - contrasted with vibrant colour washes from the LEDWashes bathing the stage in a rich palette
of colours, from the deepest saturates to the most delicate pastels.
EQUIPMENT
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36x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 24x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™
Art-Tech Lighting
South Korea
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Train Tour
Gangnam Style
Robe LEDWashes Get Aboard Train Tour
Lighting designer Brock Hogan specified 28 x Robe LEDWash 600s for a US tour by San Francisco rock
band, Train.
Hogan was turned on to the features and functionality of Robe products - specifically the best-selling LEDWash 600 - by LMG Touring, a national provider of video, audio and lighting equipment, and the lighting,
video and LED vendor for this Train tour. Hogan’s aesthetic starting point for lighting was to create a ‘big
rock show’ look with plenty of colour, movement and spectacle - bold and effective!
From the outset he had the LEDWash’s individual ring control in mind to use for some specific effects, in
particular songs. He evolved a unique ‘eyeball’ effect for the raw, moody “Ordinary” (from the soundtrack of
the Spiderman 2 movie) with the inner ring in red and the outer in white – which worked exceptionally well.
For “Calling All Angels” he produced eye-catching halo effects with the rings, which also went down fabulously with the crowds!
Additionally, he used crazy chases across the rings to enhance the onstage energy for dramatic moments
of the show, like drum solos. He loves the light weight, brightness and versatility of the LEDWash 600. He
also appreciates the homogenised light engine, the seamlessly smooth colour mixing and the fact that
the lightsource resembles a real lamp with a beam rather than a collection of LEDs. The theatrical-grade
dimming is another big bonus.
EQUIPMENT
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Robe Lighting Inc.
US tour
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Vasco Rossi Live With Robe!
Iconic Italian rock singer Vasco Rossi played seven sold out stadium shows, making a breath-taking live
‘come-back’ to mark the latest episode of his colourful 35 year career.
A stunning lighting design by Giovanni Pinna included a unique back wall feature, created using 76x
Robe ROBIN 100 LEDBeams. Pinna also seized the opportunity to live debut the first Robe’s new ROBIN
Pointe fixtures in Italy. The triangular shaped upstage LEDBeam 100 matrix was revealed eight songs
into the set and used for around 80% of the lighting ‘specials’ thereafter.
He hit on the triangular shaped LEDBeam matrix idea as something to contrast and complement the
Vasco logo, and that could be used for a number of tasks including adding accents and punctuations
like bumping and strobing to the music. The LEDBeam 100s were mounted on a custom frame made by
Rome based lighting rental contractor Limelight, and covered an area approximately 14.5 metres at the
base and 12 metres high, offset from each other by 90 and 60 centimetres. It received a massive roar
from the crowd the first time it was used, but the trick that Pinna weaved so well into the whole presentation… was simply not to over-do it!
He likes everything about the little LEDBeam 100 fixtures, “Fast, powerful, colourful – simply a GREAT
fixture,” he enthused with a characteristic smile! The speed at which the LEDBeams move and bump on
and off enabled him to produce some wild effects.
EQUIPMENT
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76x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™
Robe Multimeda
Italy
Mumford & Sons
Robe Stampedes Summer with Mumford & Sons
Grammy and Brit Award-winning UK folk rock phenomena, Mumford & Sons, continued their action
packed touring schedule with a string of Canadian and US shows… with Robe LEDWash moving lights
once again a prominent feature in the design by New York based LD Ed Warren of Next Level Lights.
Warren’s starting point for this instalment of the on-going tour was “Let’s kick some serious festival ass
with true tungsten power”. For at least the past 12 months, Warren’s Mumford lighting schemes have
contained evolutions based on different variants of tungsten. He is a big fan of its softness, subtleties and
specific qualities.
For this Canadian / US section 16x Robe ROBIN 600 LEDWashes and 14x Robe ROBIN 1200 LEDWashes were incorporated into the design, supplied by lighting and sound contractors, Solotech. Robe’s
LEDWash fixtures have constantly appeared on the Mumford & Sons’ lighting spec since the start of the
‘Babel’ album tour cycle 12 months ago. Warren “Loves” them “Like a long lost brother”.
This is mainly due to the LEDWash series’ excellent tungsten emulation, and he also finds the individual
ring control invaluable for introducing an intricate and different style of movement to the performance. He
even created his very own lightbulb effect using the innermost LED chipset of the LEDWashes in 3.200°K
tungsten. “Most people actually believed they were some sort of genuine tungsten source, like a light
bulb minus the filament”, he revealed.
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Vasco Rossi
16x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 14x ROBIN ® 1200 LEDWash™
MDG
Canadian and US shows
Photo Credit © Rachael Wright
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Robe LEDWash 1200s are Cool for Ice Age Live
Rush for Robe on Clockwork Angels
Ice Age Live, a fantastic new stage adaptation based on the characters of the four hugely successful Ice
Age animated movies, features Robe’s powerful ROBIN LEDWash 1200 moving lights as specified by
Lighting Designer Luc Peumans.
Legendary Canadian rock band Rush took to the road again on their ‘Clockwork Angels’ world tour,
complete with Robe LEDWash 600 moving lights on the rig, specified by lighting and show designer,
Howard Ungerleider.
Peumans’ award winning creative lighting and visual design practice Painting With Light is based in Genk,
Belgium, and the show is on a five year international tour, produced by Netherlands based Stage Entertainment Touring Productions.
It was the first time that Toronto based Howard has specified Robe’s ROBIN 600 LEDWash. Forty-eight
LEDWash 600s were integral to the show, rigged onto four triangular shaped trusses flown at different heights and used for side washes and for beaming into the audience. Howard loves the way that the LEDWash
can resemble the specific “silky and velvety” textures and light qualities of a PAR 64. “You would never think
it was an LED source!” he affirms.
Peumans chose 60 LEDWash 1200s together with 20 LEDWash 600s for the show’s touring rig. The LEDWash 1200s are distributed in the roof trusses and used for multiple colours and combinations that literally
‘paint’ the ice with light! These are also used to follow the flying performers and to pinpoint ‘specials’ positions for all the main characters – as truly multi-tasking tools. Six LEDWash 1200s backstage rear-light the
main inflatable rock-face set element and more fixtures are behind the upstage video wall which opens and
closes for entrances / exits. The LEDWash 600s are positioned around the perimeter of the ice for shooting
low level lighting across it. Peumans is delighted with the LEDWash 1200s and particularly likes the fact that
utilising the 8 – 63 degree zoom - the beam will go into a tight spot as well as producing its excellent wash.
Lighting equipment is supplied by Lier, Antwerp based Phlippo Showlight, who have invested heavily in
Robe over the last 12 months.
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Clockwork Angels
STAGE
60x ROBIN ® 1200 LEDWash™, 20x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™
Controllux
International tour
Photo Credit © Painting with Light, Louise Stickland
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Ice Age Live
LEDWash 600s featured heavily in the song ‘The Garden’ which is highly theatrical. “They are absolutely
ideal for this,” states Howard, “Really just like an old style PAR”… but a fraction of the weight and power
consumption… and much more versatile! Howard first saw the LEDWash 600 at PLASA 2011. Soon after,
he and his long term Lead Programmer, Tim Grivas, visited the factory in Valasske Mezirici and saw Robe’s
production process in action – with which they were highly impressed. They also discussed specific products and their requirements at length with Robe CEO, Josef Valchar, and after this visit, Howard specified
the LEDWash 600s for “Clockwork Angels”. The US lighting vendor for “Clockwork Angels” was Nashvillebased Premier Global Productions.
EQUIPMENT
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Robe Lighting Inc.
World tour
Photo Credit © Howard Ungerleider
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First Robe MMX WashBeams in Benelux
Benelux continued to break new ground throughout the last year for Robe sales… The first concert
staged in the newly refurbished and re-launched Het Depot in Leuven, just outside Brussels, Belgium,
featured four performances by hot emerging young Belgian singer / songwriter Selah Sue.
Robe fixtures were an integral part of Selah Sue’s show – her lighting designer Joris Vandamme used 12
x ROBIN 600 LEDWashes on floor stands as a ‘specials’ package. He also used eight Robe MMX Spots
installed as part of a new lighting rig at Het Depot along with Robe Actor 6 units.
Additionally, the first of Robe’s new MMX WashBeams in Belgium were made available for these Het
Depot shows by special arrangement with Robe’s Benelux distributor, Controllux. Sint-Niklaas-based
Vandamme has designed Selah Sue’s lighting for the last two years, and he’s been using Robe products
for about the same period. “They are very flexible, robust well-priced moving lights,” he comments.
The 12 LEDWash 600 ‘specials’ were rigged on four floor stands positioned asymmetrically around the
stage and used for multiple effects as well as for close-up washes on Selah Sue – who prefers minimal
front lighting - and her four piece band. The quirky angles of the stands and the physically low levels
of the lightsources as they swept dramatically across the stage enhanced the extreme intimacy of the
performance.
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12x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 8x ROBIN ® MMX Spots™, 6x ROBIN ® Actor 6™,
6x ROBIN ® MMX WashBeam™
Controllux
Belgium
Nina Badric
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Selah Sue
Robe Hits The Spot for Nina Badric Concert
Croatian pop star Nina Badric kicked off her latest tour with a gig at the Drazen Petrovic Hall in Zagreb
in front of 5000 enthusiastic fans.
The lighting rig was designed by Dalibor Radic and included 24 Robe MMX Spots which were central
to the look and feel of the show. They were supplied, along with the rest of the technical production
package, by leading creation rental company Eldra, based in Bregana. Over 200 metres of trussing was
installed for the show to provide positions for lighting, PA and LED screens.
It was Dalibor’s first work for the artist and her 11 piece band, and his brief was to make the stage as
dynamic as possible with lots of big, bold pop-tastic looks, colour and movement to cover the lively,
largely up-tempo performance.
He specified the ROBIN MMXs because off their massive light output, the fabulous dual graphics /
animation wheel and other effects, the low weight and speed and most importantly – reliability.
Dalibor has been using Robe products for about a year now and is very impressed all round. Also appreciating the quality engineering and the fact that they are constantly in demand as a rental stock item,
is Eldra’s co-owner Damir Drazic.
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24x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™
LAV Studio
Croatia
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First DLF Wash Tour in UK with The Human League
Robe Shines Beacon Style for Two Door Cinema Club
The first of Robe’s ROBIN DLF Wash lights to tour in the UK provided an ideal solution for Rob Sinclair’s
lighting design for The Human League’s December 2012 tour – which incorporated ten of the PLASA
Innovation Award winning fixtures.
Northern Irish band Two Door Cinema Club continued their ‘Beacon’ world tour with a very cool lighting
design by Squib (Chris Swain) which included 32x Robe LEDBeam 100s and ten Robe MMX Spots, all
supplied by UK rental company Siyan.
The rig also contained several other Robe fixtures, including five DigitalSpot 7000 DTs, which together
with the DLF Washes lit and projected on to a scenic back wall above and behind the band constructed
from ten Airformance Design ‘Waben Blocks’.
Squib is a relative newcomer to using Robe fixtures, and it was the latest ROBIN series that caught his
eye and encouraged him to look further at what the brand had to offer.The rig needed to be diverse
enough to produce a full range of colourful and eye-catching looks for the high-energy lively, dancey and
up-tempo set. Based on three overhead trusses, there were ten LEDBeam 100s each on the mid and
back ones, with the remaining 12 units rigged on top of a custom ground-supported structure containing
18 strings of MiStrip video product.
Sinclair sought a fixture that was light in weight and high in output specifically for hanging on the front
truss as he wanted to be able to isolate and neatly light areas of the Waben Blocks. All lighting and
digital lighting equipment for the tour was supplied by Blackburn-based HSL. Their Project Manager,
Mike Oates. suggested he check out the DLFs, which had just been delivered to HSL and were the first
available for touring in the UK.
“They are nice and bright and can produce a fabulous array of colours,” comments Rob. The tour also
featured 28x Robe LEDWash 600s, dotted over all the mid and back trusses, together with 12x ROBIN
300E Beams. The two types of fixture colour match each other seamlessly, while the different beams
are a good contrast.
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Beacon Tour
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28x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 12x ROBIN ® 300E Beams™, 10x ROBIN ® DLF Wash™,
5x DigitalSpot 7000 DT™
Robe UK
UK tour
Photo Credit © Myles Wright
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Human League
The LEDBeams “Are great!” declares Squib, “Small, light, bright and with great colours”. They were used
for numerous effects and looks throughout the set, and their miniscule size and high intensity are ideal
features for tours like this that play a heterogeneity of venue sizes. However small or large the room, with
32 LEDBeam 100s the rig always has the appearance of being much larger than it actually is!
The tour’s floor ‘specials’ package version of the specification contained 20x LEDBeam 100s which could
be taken and used virtually everywhere – drawing an equally tiny amount of power! EQUIPMENT
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32x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 10x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™
Robe UK
World tour
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Karel Gott
Robe Dazzles For Czech Superstar Karel Gott
It was the proverbial ‘match made in heaven’ when Lighting Designers Ladislav Hořák and Zdenĕk Mácha
chose to use Robe moving lights as a centrepiece to their design for legendary singer Karel Gott’s tour.
The tour played arenas throughout the Czech and Slovak Republics including Prague’s 18,000 capacity
O2 venue.
Gott is the Czech Republic’s most successful and best known singer. His impressive international career
spans six decades during which time he’s been at the forefront of many new and innovative musical trends,
including pioneering emerging Czechoslovakian pop music in the early 1960s. His numerous recordings
have sold millions worldwide.
Lighting equipment was supplied by Prague based rental company Audioblue Productions SRO, who have
serviced Gott’s live shows for several years. The moving lights comprised 22 x Robe ROBIN MMX Spots,
12 x ROBIN LEDWash 300s, nine LEDWash 1200s and eight ROBIN 600E Beams, all of which were spread
out over trusses - above the stage and hung vertically at the back - with the LEDWash 300s on the floor.
Hořák and Mácha chose Robe because the fixtures are “Rock solid reliable” and due to the vast amount of
creative options that the Robe units offer in lighting Gott’s diverse show, which embraces multiple musical
styles and genres.
Each song had its own very distinctive look and feel. The mediums of lighting and video visuals were a big
part of a highly entertaining set that kept Gott’s enthusiastic fanbase – young and old - enrapt. The show
‘visuality’ also succeeded in the challenging task of transforming the many barn-like ice hockey arenas on
the itinerary into more intimate concert environments!
They made the most of the dual graphics wheel on the MMX Spots for adding texture on the stage floor
and central runway, and also frequently beamed the fixtures out into the audience and up onto the roof of
the venues.
Hořák and Mácha created some way cool effects by combining the 600E beams with smoke, and maximised the individual ring control of the LEDWash 1200s which were used to bring general theatrical ambience
to the stage and bathe it in a fabulous range of colours.
They also found the MMX Spot’s hot spot control very useful. Lighting on the road was operated by Ladislav Hořák using a grandMA2 light console with MA2 OnPC for backup. Audioblue has invested in the latest Robe ROBIN technology in the last year, but their association with Robe goes back a lot further – they
bought their first Robe AT Series fixtures over seven years ago.
These are still in very active service, and the ruggedness and quality engineering of the products has kept
them returning for more!
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22x ROBIN ® MMX Spots™, 12x ROBIN ® 300 LEDWash™, 9x ROBIN ® 1200 LEDWash™,
8x ROBIN ® 600E Beam™
Robe CZ
Czech Republic
Photo Credit © Lukáš Pelech
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Strictly The First MMX WashBeams To Tour in the UK
The first Robe ROBIN MMX WashBeams fixtures to tour the UK went out on ‘Strictly Come Dancing – The
Live Tour’, playing a month of UK arenas following the latest edition of the BBC’s hugely popular hit TV
series.
Lighting was designed by Richard G Jones, who was asked on-board by Show Director (and Judge) Craig
Revel Horwood last year. The two have worked together on several musicals, and Revel Horwood’s brief
to Richard was : “Three words dah-ling – Theatrical, Theatrical and THE-A-TRI-CAL!!!” Jones ensured that
no-one was disappointed, creating a show awash with colour, movement, drama and pizzazz to match all
the dancefloor action, energy and high jinks!
All lighting, sound & rigging equipment was supplied by south Wales based rental and production company,
Sonalyst. The 14x MMX WashBeams together with 23x Robe ROBIN MMX Spots were newly purchased
by Sonalyst for their hire stock – which now contains almost 300 moving lights. There were over 100 otherr
Robes on the Strictly Live touring rig, including 30x ColorSpot 2500E ATs, 56x ColorWash 2500E ATs and
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28x silver ColorBeam 700E ATs located around the perimeter of the 40 x 20 metre dancefloor.
The MMX WashBeams were primarily utilised for ‘dressing’ the band onstage, and illuminating the set areas,,
plus back-lighting the judges. Jones was suitably impressed by the brightness of the MMX Spots and
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WashBeams, and thinks the zoom on both fixtures is “fantastic”.
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56x ColorWash 2500E AT™, 30x ColorSpot 2500E AT™, 28x silver ColorBeam 700E AT™,
23x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 14x ROBIN ® MMX WashBeam™
Robe UK
United Kingdom tour
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Chases Status
Strictly Dancing
Robe Chases Status in Tallinn
Robe moving lights caught the action for a sold-out DJ set performance by popular UK drum ‘n’ bass
Chase & Status at the Saku Suurhall in Tallinn, Estonia.
The lighting rig was designed by Meelis Lusmägi and the event produced by Meedaekspress Ltd.
Lusmägi’s brief was to produce a big, bold, stylishly spectacular club style lightshow in the voluminous
sports arena which is the largest such venue in Estonia. Lighting equipment was supplied by locally
based rental companies Cuuclub Ltd and E & T Light, both from Tallinn.
He chose 24x Robe ROBIN MMX Spots and 12 of Robe’s new MMX WashBeam fixtures, together with
40x ROBIN 100 LEDBeams and 12x Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs. The moving lights were flown above
the stage on trusses, with some on the floor. The LEDBeam 100s whizzed around providing cross stage
lighting and patterns. The MMX Spots were rigged on the overhead trussing at the back and used to light
the stage and the dancers, and also for WOW moments shooting out into the audience and the MMX
WashBeams on the floor upstage of the DJ booth created high-impact aerial effects.
Lusmägi likes the beam effects that can be created with the MMX WashBeams, and these and the MMX
Spots were ideal for the dancey up-tempo vibes, edginess, innovation and attitude of Chase & Status’s
music.
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40x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 24x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 12x ROBIN ® MMX WashBeam™,
12x ColorSpot 1200E AT™, 1x DigitalSpot 3000 DT™
E&T
Estonia
Photo Credit © Jelena Rudi
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Robe Gets Along with Guy Sebastian on Tour
Robe Shines for Massive Ceca Concert in Serbia
Chart topping Australian singer/songwriter Guy Sebastian used Robe moving lights on his 47-date ‘Get
Along’ Australian tour, the latest stage in his supersonic career since winning the first Australian Idol
back in 2003.
Robe moving lights were used by lighting designer Marko Malesevic from Studio Berar – also the lighting
rental contractor - as part of the rig for a massive performance by Balkan superstar singer Svetlana Ceca
Raznatovic.
The tour’s lighting and visual design was created by Bruce Ramus, and Lighting Director / Operator on
the road was Simon ‘Junior’ Johnson, with lighting and video equipment provided by Melbourne based
Powa Productions. Ramus had an open brief to come up with a scheme to help make the show rock at
the start of the live campaign promoting Sebastian’s latest number one album ‘Armageddon’. Ramus had
used Robe moving lights on the last two of Sebastian’s tours –his first encounter with Robe products and
particularly liked the LEDWash 600, so he decided to spec these again.
The enormous open air concert was staged by Miligram Music on a site at Usce in Belgrade at the confluence of the Rivers Danube and Sava… and attended by an enthusiastic audience of around 100,000.
The pressure was on to ensure that it was a memorable event for everyone – all of those experiencing it
live, plus the additional hundreds of thousands more watching on TV.
The rig contained 20x Robe LEDWash 600s together with nine ColorSpot 700E ATs and nine ROBIN
MMX Spots. The LEDWash 600s provided base wash looks. Six were positioned on the floor either side
of stage and used for side washes, with 14 rigged on two different levels across the back wall, poking
through the gaps between the video screens. This positioning of the lights enabled him to create some
funky, integrated, organic looks combining the video content and the LEDWashes.
He found different beam shapes available on the LEDWash 600s “Really useful” adding, “They are bright
and have a good range of pastels as well as saturates”.
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Massive Ceca
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20x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 9x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 9x ColorSpot 700E AT™
ULA Group
Australia
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Guy Sebastian
Fifty Robe ROBIN 100 LEDBeams and 20 x ColorSpot 700E ATs were used to light the audience. With so
many people and a live telecast by the Serbian Broadcast corporation on national TV, audience lighting
was a vital part of the equation. Some of the LEDBeam 100s were rigged on towers in the arena just in
front of the stage and fanned out to cover wide sections of the crowd – their power and brightness cutting
tthrough impressively in spite of their tiny size. The rest were on a semi-circular truss downstage, where
tthey were used for colouring a large canvas that denoted the effective pros arch of the stage.
The ColorSpot 700E ATs were all positioned on the stage wings firing out into the audience. Marko speT
cified the Robe fixtures because of their power and reliability.
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50x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 20x ColorSpot 700E AT™
Studio Berar
Serbia
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Another Glorious Glasto for ROBE
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Glorious Glasto
Around 400 Robe fixtures were on site in various areas at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary
Performing Arts in Pilton, Somerset UK.
‘Glasto’ as it’s popularly known, is the largest and best known ‘greenfield’ festival in the world with a capacity of 175,000 and a truly eclectic line up of live music and entertainment over three action-packed days.
Robe UK’s own Ian W Brown took his tent, clothes-pegs and Wellies and got into the festival spirit, where
a very iffy start weather-wise came good with sunshine, soaring temperatures and sizzling expectations!
Supplying lighting to the main stage at The Park area was South West Lighting, with a production design
created by Ben Perrin and Mark Bott. This involved 24x Robe LEDBeam 100s, eight LEDWash 600s, four
LEDWash 1200s and ten each of ColorSpot and ColorWash 700E ATs.
The numerous features, nooks, crannies, hideaways and eclectic spaces around the Park including the
entrance arch, Ribbon Tower and Glasto sign were designed by Misty Buckley and lit by Simon Marcus,
MD of Enlightened Lighting from nearby Bath, using a plethora of Anolis fixtures. While Simon enjoyed the
relaxed vibe on ‘the hill’ at the Park, Enlightened’s Dave Thorpe looked after the ‘wild’ East side of site - and
The Common in particular, where they supplied Robe moving lights to the two main venues, The Temple
and the Rave Cave.
Moving further into site and staying in Enlightened territory the Glasto Latino Tent was lit with Robes
operated by David Johnson – one of Robe’s PLASA 2012 student team. The late night environment
Mavericks had a full rig of Robes including LEDWash 600s, ROBIN 600E Spots and two Pointes,
co-ordinated by LD Anthony van Sertima.
Next up was the Summerhouse, a day and night outdoor venue featuring multiple off-beat bands, music
and performance in the Outdoor Theatre area - lit with ColorSpot 1200E ATs and LEDWash 300s. Bringing
the Enlightened team back to The Park, the Silent Disco was jauntily lit with some of their Robe 250 Scans
dusted off for the occasion but still going strong after all these years!
Enlightened fielded a crew of 16 for Glasto 2013 and they were absolutely “Delighted with their new
Pointes”, stated Dave. Fineline – one of two rental companies who were ‘The First’ to receive new Robe
Pointes in the UK, lit the Circus, Cabaret, Theatre and Acoustic Stages as they have in past years, again
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with a healthy complement of Robes. On the West Holts Stage (formally known as Jazz World), DPL
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supplied Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs, which were given a good workout by LD Adam Powers, and overr
on the John Peel Stage, LD Cate Carter included LEDWash 1200s on her lighting rig spec.
And that was just a smattering of the stages and areas lit with Robe products!
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around 400 Robe lights including ROBIN® Pointe®, ROBIN® 1200 LEDWash™, ROBIN® 600 LEDWash™,
™,
ROBIN® 300 LEDWash™, ROBIN® 100 LEDBeam™, ColorSpot 1200E AT™, ColorSpot 700E AT™,
ColorWash 700E AT™, ColorSpot 575 AT™, ColorWash 575 AT™, ROBIN® 600E Spot™
Robe UK
United Kingdom
Photo Credit © Jason Bryant & Ben Perrin
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Robe Booms at Tomorrowland
Around 250 Robe moving light fixtures were deployed site wide for the amazing 2013 Tomorrowland EDM
festival, staged in the normally sleepy town of Boom, Belgium, which saw 180,000 EDM fans entertained
at the fabulous De Schorre National Park site for three days, tuning in and grooving out to the very best
dance music on the planet!
This was presented across 14 live stages - a completely stellar DJ line up in a truly magical and highly
visual environment designed by Event organisers ID&T under the technical and artistic direction of Jurgen
Nuytemans and Christophe Van Den Branden. The Robes were supplied by several major Belgian rental
companies, and production lighting designs for all the stages were created by a combination of the best
LDs in the country.
Stage One featured a massive scenic butterfly design with Robe LEDWash 600s and LEDWash 300s
concentrated around the DJ booth area. Stage Two was a tented venue that featured Robe ROBIN 600E
Spots, LEDWash 100s and CityFlex 48 fixtures. Stage Three was built over the water of the large lake in the
centre of the park and lit with LEDWash 600s. The Cafeina Stage lighting rig had a bunch of Robe ROBIN
600E Spots, LEDWash 600s and CityFlex 48 Units. Café D’Anvers, characterised by its Buddha theme and
lighting which featured more LEDWash 600s, ROBIN 600E Spots and CityFlex 48s. It was the eighth edition
of Tomorrowland – frequently voted the best festival in Europe!
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Around 250 Robe lights including ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, ROBIN ® 600E Spot™,
ROBIN ® 300 LEDWash™, ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, CityFlex 48™
Controllux
Belgium
Bingley Music
Bingley Music Live Gets Livelier with Robe!
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Tomorrowland
Neil Hunt from Leeds, UK based Zig Zag Lighting supplied a production lighting design, equipment and
crew – including a full rig of Robe moving lights – for the main and second stages at the 2012 Bingley Music
Live Festival, held over three action-packed days at Myrtle Park in Bingley, west Yorkshire.
Headliners included The Charlatans, Razorlight and Nero. Hunt chose Robe moving lights – a mix of ROBIN
600E Spots, LEDWash 600s, LEDBeam 100s and ColorWash 575 E AT Zooms - because he needed robust,
versatile lights that were also inherently durable outdoors.
Zig Zag has over 130 Robe fixtures in rental stock that are constantly busy. As is standard festival practice,
they kept all artists happy and presented a rig with plenty of flexibility and creative options. Twenty-four
LEDBeam 100s were positioned on verticals trusses at the back and used for blasting sharp, blisteringly
intense columns of light forward onto the stage and into the audience. The other twelve on the mid-truss
lit the forestage and silhouetted the band’s front lines. Zig Zag was one of the first companies in the UK to
stock the super-small-mega-bright LEDBeam 100s.
Hunt likes the fact that they have a great PAR-can like beam – with the additional advantage of changing
colour and moving like greased lightning! The 16x LEDWash 600s were used as rear washes, and the ten
ColorWash 575 AT Zooms resided on the front truss.
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37x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 16x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 14x ROBIN ® 600E Spot™,
12x ColorWash 575 AT Zoom™
Robe UK
United Kingdom
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Robe Gets Bullish at Wacken Open Air Festival
Robe moving lights helped create great dynamics for the two stages in the Bullhead Circus tented arena
at the 2012 Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) Festival in Germany. Over 80,000 rockers gathered to enjoy a wide
selection of metal genre artists which included headliners The Scorpions, Machine Head, Sepultura and
many others over three days.
Lighting for the double-staged Bullhead Arena was supplied by Crystal Sound from Karlsruhe. An impressive
cityscape set was designed by Thomas Bartz from Konzeptsache Berlin and two side-by-side stages were
linked with a mesh-clad Layher scaffolding structure in the middle.
The Robes included 40x MMX Spots, 46x ROBIN 600 Beams and 30x LEDWash 600s. The MMX Spots were
used as eye-catching upstage effects on the two stages while the 600 Beams were used to produce various
spectacular looks on the Layher structure. The LEDWash 600s blasted powerful beams out into the audience
enveloping them in the atmosphere via a blanket of saturated colour.
The equipment was specified by André Ballweg, Crystal Sound’s Lighting Project Manager for the event.
Robes were chosen because they could produce the right aesthetics and also because of their lower power
consumption, so more lights could be squeezed onto the rig – always a consideration for metal designs
where impressive lightshows are fundamental to the look.
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60x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 46x ROBIN ® 600E Beam™, 30x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™
LMP
Germany
Photo Credit © Philipp Klak
Innibos Festival
Robe Lights Award-Winning Innibos Festival
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Bullhead Circus
Robe moving lights were at the hub of the lighting action for a Main Stage design by Johan Ferreira from
JSF Productions at the popular 2012 Innibos Festival in South Africa.
The festival recently won a KykNET Fiestas Award for 2011’s Best Festival. The four day arts and culture extravaganza, held in Nelspruit at the Bergvlam School Grounds, was attended by 120,000 people.
Technical production for the Main and Klipdrift stages was supplied by Martindale, Gauteng based rental
company Sound Headquarters, and it was Ferreira’s seventh year of designing the lighting!
The Robe fixtures totalled 52 - a mix of ROBIN 600 LED Washes, ROBIN 600E Beams, ColorSpot 700E
AT and 250E ATs and Scan 575 XTs. Each day the Main Stage hosted between 7 and 10 artists, so the
pressure was also on to make each act look individual and deal with a wide variety of musical genres.
Ferreira’s design brought a touch of theatre to the stage.
IIt was at the Award winning 2011 Innibos Festival when he used Robe’s amazing LEDWash 600 for the
first time. Now he “Refuses” to do a show without them! “I genuinely feel that they are the ultimate LED
wash fixture at the moment,” he states.
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12x ColorSpot 700E AT™, 12x ColorSpot 250 AT™, 12x Scan 575 XT™, 8x ROBIN® 600 LEDWash™,
DWR
South Africa
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Robe Melts Down at Ferropolis
Robe for Summafieldayze Gold Coast
Robe moving lights were utilised on the Main and Gemini Stages at the 2012 Melt Festival, one of the most
highly rated indie electronica-meets-rock festivals in Europe.
Over 150 Robe moving lights were spread around multiple stages on Summafieldayze 2013 - a popular
marathon EDM festival staged at Doug Jennings Park, The Spit on Australia’s Gold Coast.
The event was staged amidst the stunning environs of the Ferropolis peninsula, Gräfenhainichen, an open
air museum featuring a selection of giant 20th century industrial machines… like coal mining diggers…
that provided a unique skyline. Lighting equipment for the Main and Gemini stages was supplied by Berlin
based TSE AG. TSE AG decided to spec Robe as it is one of the premium brands in their rental inventory,
and because they knew Robe moving lights would give everyone involved plenty of creative options.
Offering a seismic opportunity for all Party People to move and groove for 24 hours to the best music and
excitement, heading up the action were plenty of electronic legends like The Chemical Brothers, M.I.A,
Fedde Le Grand, Mark Ronson, Hot Chip, The Faders, Kimbra and many more. Lighting equipment plus
lighting production designs for the event’s three main stage areas was supplied by Clifton Productions, one
of Australia’s highest profile rental operations … and the one with the largest stock of Robe fixtures!
On the Main Stage 24x Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs and 16x ColorBeam 700E ATs were deployed and
used to help create some great moments for headline bands like Gossip and Justice. The Gemini Stage
was a tented arena for which TSE AG provided 5x ColorSpot 700E ATs, 19x ColorWash 700E ATs and 36x
ROBIN 600 LEDWashes.
Stage One was based around M.I.A.’s spec featuring 22x Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs, 8x ColorWash 2500E
ATs and 18x ROBIN 600 Beams. The second stage was custom designed to accommodate the Chemical
Brothers’ unique DJ show which is always highly visual. Lights included 22x Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs,
30x ROBIN 600 LEDWashes and 8x Robin 600 Beams. The “Hot Chip“ concept developed for Stage Three
utilised 12x Robe Robin 600 LEDWashes, 16x ColorWash 2500E ATs and 13x ColorSpot 2500E ATs.
TSE AG has been buying Robe products for some time and has always had a good experience with
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the brand. The company is a valued long term customer of Robe’s German distributor LMP, and they
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continue to invest in Robe as new and exciting technology comes on line.
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Summafieldayze
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40x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 29x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 28x ColorSpot 700E AT™,
25x ColorWash 700E AT™, 17x ROBIN ® Pointe ®, 17x ColorWash 2500E AT™
LMP
Germany
Photo Credit © TSE AG
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Melt Festival
The Robes stood up robustly to the heat and tough operating environment of being hammered for 24 hours
non-stop! It’s hard to find another moving light that would be as durable and reliable in these conditions!
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42x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 35x ColorSpot 2500E AT™, 26x ROBIN® 600E Beam™,
24x ColorWash 2500E AT™, 22x ColorSpot 1200E AT™
ULA Group
Australia
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Making Some Noise For The Prodigy
Robe Sees Red at Summer Party in Slovenia
Leading Serbian rental company Studio Berar purchased 50 new Robe ROBIN 100 LEDBeams initially to
meet a spec by Lighting Designer Andy Hurst for maverick EDM rockers The Prodigy, and their Main ‘Warriors’ stage headline performance at the 2012 Warriors Dance Festival.
The sensational 2102 Red Summer Party at the Arena Stožice in Ljubljana, Slovenia was enjoyed by 12,000
EDM enthusiasts who had the house rocked for them by Dutch house guru Tiësto, super-hot Calvin Harris
and many more.
The mega popular one day event was staged at the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, an exceptionally
atmospheric location dating back to the first century AD. Studio Berar provided full technical production
for the Festival.
Lighting rental company Event Lighting ensured that the occasion was extra special for all involved with
Robe moving lights filling up most of the rig and a production design by LD Uroš Vovk.
Andy Hurst used LEDBeam 100s for Prodigy’s 2012 summer festival world tour wherever possible. He loves
the LEDBeams 100 for its extreme brightness and zappiness. At WDF, he used 34 rigged on vertical trussing ladders at the back and to both sides of the stage throughout the Prodigy’s super-loud, turbo-charged set… for plenty of craziness and wild effects. The other 16 of Studio Berar’s new LEDBeam 100s were
in action on the Take Me To the Hospital stage, together with 12 Robe ColorSpot 700E ATs, 12 ColorSpot
575E ATs and 12 ColorSpot 575E AT Zooms. Four Robe ROBIN 300 Classics along with the eight Robe
ColorSpot 700E ATs helped fight off the aliens on the Invaders Must Die rig.
The overall production lighting designs for all three WDF 2012 stages was created by Studio Berar’s lighting
division; Marko Malesevic, Radoslav Mihalek and Goran Kravic, all great advocates of Robe products.
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Summer Party
FESTIVALS
50x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 20x ColorSpot 700E AT™, 12x ColorSpot 575E AT™,
12x ColorWash 575E AT Zoom™, 4x ROBIN ® 300 Classic™
Studio Berar
Serbia
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The Prodigy
Over 75 Robe units included 18x ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, 30x ColorSpot 1200E ATs, 12x ColorSpot 700E
ATs and 16x ColorSpot 575E ATs. These were positioned all around the venue on over-stage trusses and a
box truss over the crowd, with the LEDWash 600s on the stage floor. Event Lighting has been investing in
Robe for the last 8 years, and continues to do so because of the reliability and performance of the brand.
Their latest investments in ROBIN LEDWash 600s have opened up a whole range of new possibilities for the
busy Ljubljana operation which provides lighting and design services for a diversity of projects.
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Event Lighting’s Jernej Guštin – also LD to many top Slovenian bands - says, “Robe is always bringing new
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and inventive products on-stream. We like the new ROBIN series because it’s more eco-friendly and uses
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less power. The smaller fixtures reduce transport costs yet have a bigger, better impact onstage”.
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30x ColorSpot 1200E AT™, 18x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 16x ColorSpot 575E AT™,
12x ColorSpot 700E AT™
MK Light Sound
Slovenia
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Robe In Brazil with Lollapalooza
Robe Celebrates Wine at 2013 Festival Nacional
The 2013 Brazilian Lollapalooza Festival staged at São Paulo’s Jockey Club featured a selection of Robe
moving lights on the main two stages, Cidade Jardim and Butantã.
Lighting and set designer Eli Sirlin utilized over 120 Robe moving lights at the 2013 Festival Nacional de
la Vendimia (National Grape Harvest Festival), a high profile world-famous celebration of wine and the
wine-making industry held in Mendoza, Argentina.
These were integral to the respective lighting rigs used to illuminate a truly stellar line up of international
and local artists, enjoyed by around 60,000 people a day who flocked to see the action across the event’s
four performance stages. The Butantã stage lighting rig included 27x Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs and ten
ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, while on the Cidade Jardim stage were 34x ColorSpot 2500E ATs, 19x ColorWash
2500E ATs and ten ROBIN 600 LEDWashes. Additional units were located above the side IMAG screens
on both stages.
The 2013 event, staged at the Frank Romero Day Greek Theatre, celebrated the local traditions with dance, music and wine, plus a special drama performance “Noche de Teatro Mágico de Piedra y Vino” to honour the venue’s 50th anniversary. Up to 30,000 people a night caught the action over two weeks which
included live performances from an array of local and international folk and rock bands. Vilma Rúpolo,
General Director of the event and also of “Noche de Teatro Mágico de Piedra y Vino” asked locally based
Eli to create a ‘unique’ lighting design.
The principal lighting contractor was São Paulo based LPL Professional Lighting. LPL Director and LD
Caio Bertti states: “We chose Robe because of the great support we receive from the brand itself and also
from our rental market partners. I needed a large quantity of reliable fixtures”. LPL joined forces with Apple
ple
Produções, with whom they work closely, to source additional Robe fixtures needed for the event.
“It was a perfect arrangement… and all the Robes proved to be really robust”, he says.
She utilized 32x ROBIN MMX Spots, 32x ROBIN LEDWash 1200s, 16x ROBIN LEDWash 600s and 48x
LEDForce PARs, supplied by two companies, Vidal from Mendoza and Pampin Luces from Buenos Aires.
Sirlin's major challenges in lighting the stage was dealing with the huge space of over 100 metres wide,
with throw distances of between 20 and 70 metres!
Artists rocking the Cidade Jardim and Butantã stages included The Temper Trap, The Flaming Lips,
ps,
Deadmau5, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Queens of the Stone Age, Kaiser Chiefs, The Hives, Pearl Jam
am
and many more.
She comments, “The LEDWash 1200s gave me excellent colours, a good aperture for washing the stage
and a highly pleasing overall visual effect”. She adds that the MMXs have “Good gobo definition” across
those same distances.
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Wine Festival
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61x ColorSpot 2500E AT™, 20x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 9x ColorWash 2500E AT™
Newart Iluminação Professional
Brazil
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Lollapalooza
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48x LEDForce Par 18™ RGBW, 32x ROBIN ® 1200 LEDWash™, 32x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™,
TSD Group
Argentina
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Robe Gives It Large at One Big Weekend
Over 150 Robe fixtures were used by ‘house’ Lighting Designer and TV Lighting Director Tim Routledge
to create a production design for the 1xtra / In New Music We Trust Arena at BBC Radio One’s 2013 ‘Big
Weekend’ event.
The high-profile three day musical extravaganza staged in Ebrington Square, Derry-Londonderry,
Northern Ireland, kicked off the UK festival season in style! Lighting equipment for this stage was supplied
by the HSL Group incorporating PSI who provided all rigging and support. The 1xtra / In New Music We
Trust stage was located inside The Venue, a 5000 capacity multi-purpose temporary structure erected for
Derry’s 2013 year as UK City of Culture – and the house lighting rig also contains 24x Robe moving lights
installed by Paul Jones of Ethix Management. These were combined with HSL’s kit for the Radio 1 event.
Routledge’s design aimed to deliver something more diverse than the standard festival lighting package –
that was as flexible as possible and looked amazing on TV!
The fixture count included 32x Robe LEDWash 100s, 54x LEDBeam 100s, 24x MMX Spots and 22x MMX
WashBeams – all from Robe’s ROBIN range. For Friday’s extra night, 24x Robe CityFlex 48s made up
a high-impact back wall of Xs, blasting out from upstage to complement the 1xtra brand.
Tim loves the ‘smaller-lighter-brighter’ concept for luminaires… something central to Robe’s design philosophy since the launch of the ROBIN range in 2009.
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FESTIVALS
54x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 32x ROBIN® 600 LEDWash™, 24x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™,
24x CityFlex 48™, 22x ROBIN ® MMX WashBeam™
Robe UK
Northern Ireland
David Guetta
David Guetta Gets The Pointe in Hannover
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Big Weekend
The first live show in Europe to use Robe’s brand new Pointes was headlined by legendary DJ and house
music producer David Guetta at the DR2 Plaza Festival in Hannover.
The Pointes were part of the specification provided for Guetta’s headline slot which was enjoyed by 17,000
fans. Guetta’s Lighting Designer is Leggy (Jonathan Armstrong), and lighting is currently looked after on the
road by Lighting Director Junior (Alex Cerio) from Smash Productions. Junior is a big Robe fan and has used
various Robe products in his work for some time. He was delighted to use 20x ROBIN Pointes making their
worldwide concert debut in Hannover.
These were supplied with the rest of the lighting rig, including another 74 Robe fixtures by satis&fy AG which
has over 800 Robe units in its hire stock. For the Hannover gig, Junior used 12 Pointes among other lights positioned on six moving ‘fan’ trusses above the stage. The other eight were on stands directly on Guetta’s
riser – helping to give the impression of him floating in air.
Junior loved the Pointes, which he used to produce stunning aerial looks and eye-popping beam effects.
“I liked everything about them,” he enthused. “They can be really nicely contained, precisely focussed and
well balanced, and I had lots of fun using the rotating proms macros with index chasing, etc.”
“I really get the Pointe,” he concluded.
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30x ColorWash 2500E AT™, 20x ColorSpot 2500E AT™, 20x ROBIN ® Pointe ®,
18x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 4x ColorSpot 700E AT™
LMP
Germany
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Robe is Ultra Impressive!
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Ultra Festival
Lighting designer Richard Neville incorporated nearly 300 Robe moving lights into his design for the Main
Stage of the 2013 Ultra Festival staged at Bayfront Park in Miami, which included 176x LEDBeam 100s
incorporated into a custom stage set. The six day event is one of the highest profile EDM (Electronic Dance
Music) events in the world.
This year’s truly stellar line up over the two weekends included David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto,
Avicii, and many more who rocked the house big style. Ultra 2013 was brought to a tumultuous close by
the VERY final gig by The Swedish House Mafia … giving a characteristically show-stopping performance.
It is the first year that Sydney, Australia based Neville, associate designer Alex Grierson and Neville’s
company Mandylights have designed for Ultra, brought on-board by the event’s producers James Klein
and Bruce Rodgers.
Neville is well known for his work designing lighting for EDM and stadium rave events across Australia, Asia
and the Pacific Rim, and he and Klein worked closely on the production design for the Main stage. He has
been using Robe products for some time – specially the LEDWash series - and when confirmed for Ultra,
the brief was to create something unique, different and truly spectacular with production values topping
the agenda.
The 200 ft wide set was built by TAIT and included the 176 scenic pyramids each of which were clad in 40
panels of Tait’s now famous Pixel Tablets. Neville wanted a super-bright fixture to go in the middle of these
and tested a number of options, including the LEDBeam 100, which was supplied for the trials in Australia
by Robe’s distributor there, The ULA Group. Although the LEDBeam 100 was a new fixture to him, he was
already familiar with Robe’s build quality through using the LEDWashes.
He liked the quality of the light output, the range of “Solid” colours – which are consistent across the whole
range of ROBIN fixtures - and the highly efficient colour mixing. The light weight was also essential to enable 176 to be utilised on the structure without significantly adding to the rigging requirements!
He also really likes the phenomenally fast speed of the LEDBeam 100. “It’s been super-reliable and a great
effect,” he confirms, “As I knew it would be”. Lighting for the Main Stage was controlled via four grandMA
full size consoles, two active and two running in full tracking backup.
In addition to the LEDBeams being controlled conventionally via the lighting desk, Neville and Grierson
could switch to taking the ‘colour’ parameter from the show‘s Hippotizer media servers - mapped across
the entire set structure and fed with video content - and produce some truly stunning and wild effects!
The design also utilised 25x LEDWash 1200s and 89x LEDWash 600s which were dotted all over the rig.
The Festival was a massive success all round and was enjoyed by 300,000 people.
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FESTIVALS
176x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 89x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 25x ROBIN ® 1200 LEDWash™
Robe Lighting Inc.
USA
Photo Credit © Seth Browarnik, Red Eye Productions
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Robe In The House for Berlin Summer Rave Event
Over 200 Robe moving lights helped rock the house and showcase the very best of Berlin’s sizzling, emerging DJs and Techno, House, Electro and Minimal talent who made some serious noise in four aircraft
hangars at the Templehof Airport site … for A&P’s 2013 ‘Berlin Summer Rave’.
The party was enjoyed by a capacity audience of 20,000 with a production lighting design created by
Martin Kuhn. The Robe fixtures were central to the action in the Ostfunk, Planet Bass and House Floor
arenas. Berlin and Mexico based Kuhn was commissioned by event promoter A&P to create a fantastic
visual ambience for the Summer Rave.
The Planet Bass Arena featured 96x Robe ROBIN 100 LEDBeams; on the Ostfunk Stage were 60x ROBIN
MMX Spots and in the House Floor arena, 48x ROBIN 600 LEDWashes. Lights were supplied by Black Box
Music from Berlin. In Planet Bass, the LEDBeam 100s were spec’d for their bright and very tight beams and
speed - all ideal parameters for lighting EDM and specifically edgy drum ‘n’ bass acts! They were scattered
around on different roof trusses. The MMX Spots in the Ostfunk arena were selected for their power and
the dynamics of the in-air gobo kits which were fitted to all 60 fixtures.
The 48 LEDWash 600s on the House Floor were used to bathe the audience with a rich assortment
of kinetic colours.
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96x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 60x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 48x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™
LMP
Germany
Photo Credit © Amanda Holmes
Skol Party
Brazilian Skol Party gets A Robe Sensation
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Rave Event
Robe moving lights took centre stage for the Brazilian Skol Sensation Party held at Anhembi Parque in Sao
Paolo, which was attended by over 50,000 party people who enjoyed high profile DJ megamix from Mr
White, Sunnery James, Ryan Marciano, Anderson Noise, Do Santos, Funkagenda, Michael Woods, Deniz
Koyu, DBerrie and many more.
Sao Paolo based LPL Professional (LPL) provided the lights. The main stage lighting production was a collaboration between LPL and the event’s two LDs - Summer and Pascal - who also ran lighting and visuals
on the night. The Brazilian edition of Skol Sensation - the event originated in Amsterdam and is staged
worldwide - is one of the most sumptuous dance music extravaganzas of the year, packed with beautiful
people.
The main stage was 360º and built on four levels. Lighting included a total of 32x ROBIN MMX Spots, 18x
ColorSpot 1200s and 18x ROBIN LEDWash 600s. Four smaller B-Stages were each lit with four Robe
ColorSpot 1200E AT; ten trussing towers were dotted around the venue all rigged with six ColorSpot 2500E
ATs, and four LEDWash 600s were used to illuminate the dancefloor. Last but not least, two alfresco areas
were each lit with ten ColorWash 2500E ATs and four VIP areas with three Robin LEDWash 600s. The theme for this year was ‘Innerspace’, a journey through the seven stages of enlightenment celebrating
the ‘Now’, with guests required to follow the all-white dress-code making them an ideal lighting and projection surface for fully immersive visuals!
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70x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 60x ColorSpot 2500E AT™, 34x ColorSpot 1200E AT™,
32x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 20x ColorWash 2500E AT™
Brazil
Photo Credit © Carol Pereira/LPL
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Reggae Geel
Rhythm of Brazil
Over 150 Robe moving lights – including 56x ROBIN LEDBeam 100s, 26x ROBIN MMX Spots and 24x
LEDWash 1200s - were supplied by leading Brazilian rental company Luzbel Iluminação for the 2013
Summer Festival de Salvador.
Lighting Designer and operator David Smeets of TCF placed Robe moving lights at the heart of his design
for the Main Stage at the 2013 Reggae festival in Geel, Belgium. Headliners included Pentateuch, Iba Mahr
& Dubtronic Kru, Ironites, Freddie McGregor and many more.
The event was attended by over 250,000 people across four days and broadcast on Red Globo TV. Salvador, Bahia based Luzbel timed their latest purchase of Robe luminaires especially to be able to put the
new units on the high profile event’s main stage which featured a production lighting specification by one
of their technician’s, Junior. It follows Luzbel’s initial investment in Robe’s ColorSpot 1200E AT and ColorBeam 700E AT units two years ago … and the excellent results they have had using these!
Lighting equipment was provided by L&L Stage Services from Herentals and capacity crowds of 35,000
enjoyed the summer heatwave, the picturesque and funky location and a sizzling line up! The festival bills
itself as the ‘most laid back’ in the country!
The Robe units were used by all the guest Lighting Designers working at the Festival de Salvador – which
included performances by top Brazilian artists including Ivete Sangalo, Chiclete com Banana, Ana Carolina, Capital Inicial, Jorge e Mateus, Aviões do Forró, Gusttavo Lima, Claudia Leite and Asa de Águia…
and many more. When specifying the rig, Junior explains that he proposed that all bands used the same
lighting fixtures, a concept very well received by every lighting designer involved.
The MMX Spots and 24 x ColorBeam 700E ATs were used for powerful general effects and beam looks,
while the ROBIN 100 LEDBeams were worked hard to create attractive back-lighting for the television
cameras.
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Robe Rocks at Reggae Geel Festival
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56x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 26x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 24x ROBIN ® 1200 LEDWash™,
24x ColorBeam 700E AT™, 20x ColorSpot 1200E AT™
Brazil
Photo Credit © Image4u
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Robe Moves With the Rhythm
Smeets has lit Reggae Geel’s Main stage for the last four years. This year’s design was based on being
flexible and appropriate for lighting 8 – 10 different live artists a day and also adding a distinctly reggae vibe
to the aesthetics. He used 18 Robe 600E Spots and 18 Robe LEDWash 600s from Robe’s ROBIN range,
together with a selection of generic fixtures and strobes. He had to maximise a relatively expedient amount
of lights, but with Robes on the plot, there were numerous creative options!
The moving lights were rigged on a front truss and a shallow box truss covering upstage and mid-stage
which was gently raked. He likes the speed of the 600E Spots plus, the colour mixing and the good
selection of gobos. On the LEDWashes, having a full beam – which looks like a real beam of light –
coming out of the fixture looking solid and in one colour is very important.
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18x ROBIN ® 600E Spot™, 18x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™
Controllux
Belgium
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Summer Night Concert
Robe Summer Magic at Schönbrunn Palace
About 150 Robe moving lights were specified by lighting designer Helmut Krammer to illuminate the 2013
Summer Night Concert, performed for its tenth year by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the amazingly
magical Baroque setting of Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna.
The venue is a UNESCO World Heritage site and this high profile annual cultural event was broadcast live
on national TV and radio and around the world via various satellite channels.
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Robe fixtures lit three key areas in Schönbrunn Palace’s extensive and beautiful gardens - the main
stage; the flower beds left and right of this and the fabulous Neptunbrunnen Fountains which are behind
the stage. It was the fourth year that Vienna based Krammer has lit the Concert, which was enjoyed by
an estimated 15,000 hardy classical music lovers … who braved the inclement weather for the evening!
He has been using Robe products constantly in his work for the last five years and chose Robe again
following the great results achieved in 2011 and 2012.
The 54x ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, 50x ROBIN MMX WashBeams, 18x LEDBeam 100s, 16x ROBIN MMX
Spots and five ColorSpot 1200E ATs were all supplied by rental company Niclen from Dortmund, Germany.
Krammer drew on a fusion of practical, ornamental and architectural lighting disciplines… with spectacular
results. The LEDWash 600s were used to colour the large flower beds flanking the stage with a series
of shades, hues and bold, dramatic shafts and slices of light. These were especially useful for the wide
camera shots which swept in and out showing the full scale of the impressive event space. Right at the
rear of the flower beds he placed the LEDBeam 100s – nine a side - which “Blew everyone away” with their
small size and extreme power!
The MMXs were used to add sophisticated texturing to the Neptune Fountains – making the most of the
dual graphics wheel system. The 50 MMX WashBeams were located around the rim of the fountains and
used to produce dazzling mid-air effects which looked great both live and on camera.
The ColorSpot 1200E ATs reinforced lighting on the main stage.
The classical repertoire for the evening, under the baton of Lorin Maazel featured compositions from
operatic genii Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, both celebrating their bicentennials this year, which
needed special treatment. It was about creating a total environment for the event rather than highlighal.
ting the orchestra as the centre of attention, with lighting absolutely vital in achieving this aesthetic goal.
DKrammer enjoyed using the new Robe MMX WashBeams in particular and the MMX Spot and the LEDWash series are also great favourites.
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Another reason Robe is ideal for events like the Summer Night Concert is the overall reliability and robust
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build quality which is essential for outdoor applications, and was a great reassurance to all involved in the
technical this year which was accompanied by atrocious weather!
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54x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 50x ROBIN ® MMX WashBeam™, 18x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™,
16x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 5x ColorSpot 1200E AT™
Signal
Austria
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Super M Live
New Discovery
Robe Makes New Discovery Event
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A large trussing system was installed over the 30 metre wide stage. Grobler’s lighting design included 60 x
Robe ROBIN 600 LEDWashes and 24 x LEDBeam 100s. Sixteen of the LEDBeam 100s were used to light
the reveal of two Range Rover Evoques. The 600s were dotted around the rest of the trussing, utilised for
primary stage and set washes. Seventy-eight Robe LEDForce 18s RGBW PARs were rigged above the
audience on additional trusses and used for washing across the vast area, while 38 x Robe ColorSpot
700E ATs positioned over the stage made sharp beam effects and gobo projections onto the floor and set.
TechRig owns a large stock of Robe fixtures and has invested steadily in the brand over the last five years,
and Grobler uses Robe as his workhorse fixtures.
It was the first time he’d used the pre-set colour temperature whites on the LEDWash 600s, “They were
excellent, giving me all the same effects as if using 2K blonds or fresnels minus the harshness”, he
concluded.
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60x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 38x ColorSpot 700E AT™, 28x LEDForce Par 18™ RGBW,
DWR
South Africa
Robe ROBIN moving lights including LEDBeam 100s and 600E Washes, Spots and Beams were used by
technical services provider Hirezone Audio Visual for the Durban leg of the ‘Super M Live’ event, headlined
by South Africa’s favourite rockers, The Parlotones.
The event – an experiential to promote Clover’s Super M milk drink – was staged at Durban’s Wavehouse,
with Hirezone’s Richard Gild as Project Manager. For the lighting rig, the company worked to the specification of Parlotones’ LD Travis Yeatman, and also provided the most appropriate fixtures for the venue,
with which they are very familiar - it has a relatively low ceiling height. Lights were hung above the stage on
a ground support system - optimised to gain every last millimetre of headroom - and also on the deck.
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Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa based Technical Solutions Agency TechRig supplied nearly 200
Robe lighting fixtures to the 2012 annual DFC Conference & Gala Dinner for medical aid and insurance
giants, Discovery. Staged at Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) in Johannesburg over two days, the event
included two evenings of entertainment spectacular and awards presentations with lighting designed by
TechRig’s Robert Grobler and a stylish set created by Michael Gill.
Robe is Super Cool for The Parlotones
The Robe elements included six ROBIN 600E Spots and six 600E Washes on the back bar, with another
six ROBIN 600E Washes on the mid stage bar. On the floor were two 600E Spots, six ROBIN 600E Beams
and six ROBIN LEDBeam 100s. The tiny but hugely bright LEDBeam 100 is an absolutely perfect fixture for
this type of environment.
Hirezone is based in Durban and primarily services shows and events in the KwaZulu Natal area. Recently
they have started investing in Robe moving lights, which have been delivered by Robe’s SA distributor, DWR.
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12x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 8x ROBIN ® 600E Spot™, 6x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™,
DWR
South Africa
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IAA Frankfurt 2013
Over 2400 LEDWashes at the 2013 IAA Frankfurt
Over 2400 Robe LEDWash fixtures lit several high profile stands – including Audi, BMW, Mini, Opel,
Porsche, Seat and Volkswagen - in Frankfurt at the 65th International Motor Show (IAA). One of the world’s
leading auto expos, IAA 2013 was staged at the Frankfurt Messe. The different stands were designed
by some of the leading creative practices in the country, and the fixtures supplied by primary German
rental and dry hire companies.
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Robe’s LEDWash – available in 300, 600, 800 and 1200 variants – has established itself as a firm favourite for auto show lighting designers, who like its high quality homogenised light output, excellent range
of colour temperature whites and cool running, which helps keep the environments comfortable without
needing excessive air-con.
• Volkswagen
The Volkswagen “family” with Škoda, Seat, Lamborghini and Bentley was located in Hall 3, with the VW
section occupying half of the hall. Lighting for the stand was designed by rgb gmbh studio für lichtgestaltung und technische konzeption from Essen, and all the lighting equipment was supplied by Salzgitter
based rental company Rockservice in co-operation with other leading German dry hire companies.
• Audi
Lighting designer Miko Schmidt from Cologne based creative agency 4 to 1 Scale imagineered the lighting
design for the amazing Audi stand which used LEDWash 800s to internally illuminate a series of large scenic ‘cityscape’ light-boxes. The fixtures were all supplied by rental specialist CT Germany from Nürtingen
near Stuttgart.
• Mini
The eye-catching Hall 11 based Mini stand featured LEDWash 600 RGBWs and LEDWash SmartWhites to
reinforce Mini´s funky and cool lifestyle image. PRG supplied the equipment and the lighting was designed
by Tobias Heydthausen for Niyu. Heydthausen thinks LEDWashes are great for creating even washes, and
appreciated the SmartWhites and their range of colour temperatures which enabled the different vehicle
colours to be accentuated and toned correctly.
• Porsche
All the style and panache you would expect from the crème de la crème car manufacturer was there on the
stand - whose designers and technical suppliers used LEDWash 800s. After using 280 specially modified
LEDWash 600 on the last Frankfurt Motor Show in 2011, the designers from TLD again choose the newest
LEDWashes - complete with integral beam-shaper. Neumann & Müller were the technical suppliers.
• BMW
Robe has also had a strong presence in showcase areas of BMW stands at other recent International motor
shows including Geneva 2012 and 2013 and Paris in 2012. The BMW stand lighting for Frankfurt 2013 was
designed by Martin Kuhn for the Niyu agency, and included LEDWash 1200 Daylights and RGB LEDWash
800s for different parts of the two stages. Lleyendecker from Wuppertal oversaw all the technical aspects
• Opel
In Hall 8, Opel showcased their new Monza concept car which was lit by Ralf Penkert from Atelier Stromberg, using LEDWash 800s rigged on a circular truss above the car podium - supplied by schoko pro
GmbH from Wiesbaden. More LEDWash 800s were in use on other parts of the stand.
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1502x ROBIN® 800 LEDWash™, 739x ROBIN® 600 LEDWash™, 92x ROBIN® 1200 PureWhite DL™/SW™,
49x ROBIN® 1200 LEDWash™, 36x ROBIN® 600 PureWhite SW™
LMP
Germany
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Robe Rocks in Nigeria
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Magic for “Ronald McDonald Kinderhilfe”
Solution Media and InfoTech Ltd, a high-tech multimedia company specialising in sound, stages, laser multimedia, lighting, tent and digital print in Nigeria, staged an evening of live entertainment to demonstrate the
latest Robe technology plus other brands in their inventory.
Lighting Designer Tino Weinhardt from Dessauer based rental company i:TECS Germany lit two high profile
gala fundraiser events - at the Albert Schultz Ice Hall in Vienna and the Postpalast in Munich - for the ”Ronald
McDonald Kinderhilfe“.
Five hundred special guests relaxed and enjoyed the “Memoirs and Wine” event with performances by
bands Soda Pop from the Philippines and Flame from Kenya at the Federal Palace hotel in Lagos. The event
was co-ordinated by the CEO of Solution Media, Prince Adeyanju Lipede and Executive director, Prince
Adeyeloye Lipede, together with the staff, plus Robe’s Middle East Sales manager, Elie Battah.
The events featured numerous live performers and together raised nearly 2 million Euros for the Ronald
McDonald House Charities. Weinhardt’s lighting designs varied slightly in the different venues, but the
essence was the same - being adaptable and ensuring that all the acts looked amazing!
Robe fixtures in action included ROBIN LEDBeam 100s (Solution Media is a proud owner of 84 pieces),
MMX Spots and ColorSpot Wash 2500E ATs. The specially invited guests were visual and show designers,
event planners, brand managers and ambassadors, media managers of telecommunication and oil companies together with film and TV stars adding extra glamour and… the press! All the Robe products displayed
attracted interest, however the powerful pocket-sized LEDBeam 100 stole the limelight! People were blown-away with its tiny size, incredible intensity, speed, power and light weight of just 4Kgs.
The MMX Spot was also a winner, with its dual graphics wheel among other features making it highly flexible, together with the brightness and compact size. Robe’s commitment to producing genuinely less power
hungry fixtures is an asset in Nigeria, all helping to create a greener footprint.
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Benefit Events
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84x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 6x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™
ROBE Middle East
Nigeria
In addition to the music and entertainment, the rooms were set up for dinner and the Vienna show included
an ice performance, so part of the ice rink in the auditorium was left exposed. Weinhardt used a mix of
ROBIN DLX Spots, ROBIN LEDBeam 100s, ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, ROBIN 600E Spots, ColorSpot 1200E
ATs and ColorWash 575E ATs – around 140 units in total. For Munich, they repeated the successful formula
of using LEDWash 600s and 600E Spots to light the dining area.
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LED sources only were used for the stage lighting - 34x LEDWash 600s, while the general room lighting
featured 34x ROBIN 600E Spots, 17x LEDBeam 100s and eight DLX Spots. Weinhardt, says of the DLX
Spot, “It’s a fantastic light! We have used ours solidly for the last six months and they have been completely
reliable”.
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140 Robe lights including ROBIN ® DLX Spot™, ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™,
ROBIN ® 600E Spot™, ColorSpot 1200E AT™, ColorWash 575 AT™
LMP & Robe CZ
Germany, Austria
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Robe Burning Bright at Disco Inferno
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In the Fast Lane at Paris Motor Show
Complete with the glitz, big hair, outrageous flares and dizzyingly high platform heels 12,000 disco divas
stepped out to the 2012 Studio 54 Sportpaleis event in Antwerp, Belgium to strut their best dancefloor stuff
to the sounds of the 1970s.
Over 200 Robe LEDWash 600 RGBW LED moving lights were central to Peter Heilig’s lighting design concept for the BMW and Mini booths and their respective press launches at the Mondial de l’Automobile 2012
à Paris (Paris Motor show) staged at the Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles.
An equally flamboyant lighting design for the event created by Peter Vervloesem featured all Robe moving lights, which were supplied by Total-E (Total Event Support) from Paal-Beringen. Vervloesem also
designed the set including the arena centrepiece - a massive chandelier constructed from 400 x 40 cm
mirror-balls flown above the stage.
The lighting fixtures were supplied by Rock Service from Salzgitter in Germany, specified by Heilig after
using LEDWash 600s and PureWhites for BMW at the Geneva Motor show earlier in the year.
The Robe fixtures were 24x ROBIN 300E Spots, 28x ROBIN 600E Spots and 36x LEDWash 600s. The 300E
Spots and the LEDWash 600s were installed on the same four-tiered box-truss structure as the mirror-balls
and were ideally placed for lighting the audience and the stage. The stage set design included a large set
of asymmetric cubes mapped with video projection with a row of stretched material columns at the back.
Every fixture had to be multi-purpose and also keep the pace and momentum pumping relentlessly throughout the night.
Vervloesem has been specifying and using Robe on all his shows for the last two years and says, “Robe
products are perfect for using on shows like this where you really need lots of scope and choice. The brand
is becoming increasingly popular for all the big spectaculars everywhere in Benelux”.
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Paris Motor Show
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36x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 28x ROBIN ® 600E Spot™, 24x ROBIN ® 300E Spot™
Controllux
Belgium
LEDWash 600s were positioned on the floor at the back of the Mutabor Hamburg designed BMW stand for
the press launch and unveiling of the new eco-friendly BMW Concept Active Tourer vehicle. The car was
initially concealed behind six large rotating scenic panels at the back of the booth, clad with LED screens.
Eighty-six LEDWash 600s tracked the cars during the launch presentation, with additional fixtures highlighting a specially choreographed dance piece.
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Disco Inferno
Eight Robe MMX Spots in the roof helped illustrate one of the Concept Active Tourer’s unique features,
the ‘Cool Shade’. Heilig likes the MMX Spot’s dual graphics wheel and uses LEDWash 600s for their comprehensive and even wash coverage, high quality output, versatile variable zoom and powerful fast strobe
effects. On the adjacent Mini stand in Paris, 20 truss mounted LEDWash 600s and another 80 fixtures on
vertical truss towers were temporarily installed just for the press launch.
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Over 200 ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 8x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™
LMP
France
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Xmas Party
Motor Show
Robe Drives the Style at 2012 Australian Motor Show
Lighting equipment for ten of the highest profile stands – including Ford, Holden, Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti,
Lexus, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Mercedes and Toyota – was supplied by Clifton Productions. Lighting was designed by Ziggy Ziegler for the Toyota booth and by Mark Hammer for Ford, and for the rest of the stands
by the Clifton Productions lighting team.
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Robe fixtures were specified by both the LDs and by Cliftons – which has the largest Robe rental stock in
Australia – as the best option creatively and because they are robust and reliable. A wide variety of Robe
products were utilised overall – including the ROBIN LEDWash 600 which was used extensively as it is ideal
for automotive applications. The Hyundai stand also featured ROBIN 600E Beams. Other fixtures site-wide
included ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200E ATs and ColorSpot 700 and 2500E ATs. Robe was also specified
after Clifton’s excellent experience with using the fixtures at the 2011 AIMS in Melbourne.
Clifton’s Project Manager for the show was Michael Parsons, and their team operators were Matt Hansen
(Holden), Dave Wier (Honda), Tim Beeston (Hyundai), Josh Evans (Infiniti / Lexus), Rowan Denny (Mitsubishi
/ Mazda) and Kane Meade (Toyota).
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Over 200 Robe lights including ROBIN® 600 LEDWash™, ROBIN® 600E Beam™, ColorSpot 1200E AT™,
ColorWash 1200E AT™, ColorSpot 700E AT™, ColorSpot 2500E AT™
ULA Group
Australia
Slovenia welcomed the 2012 Festive season in massive style at the Red Xmas Party, the country’s largest
and hottest EDM event, headlined by Armin Van Buuren, staged at the Arena Stožice, Ljubljana by Black
Pony Entertainment and enjoyed by 12,000 wildly enthusiastic fans!
The lighting design was based on a plot by Van Buuren’s LD André Beekmans operated on the night by
Michael Seeverens both from Dutch based The Art Of Light, and it featured 70 Robe moving lights supplied
by Slovenia’s largest lighting rental company, Event Lighting.
The Robes were positioned all over 12 trusses hung above the stage, and comprised ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, ROBIN 600 Spots and ColorSpot 1200E ATs. As well as forming a vibrant nucleus for Van Buuren’s
high energy set, they were the workhorse lights for the other DJs in the 8 hours of non-stop performance
which included Van Buuren’s headline slot followed by Ferry Corsten who wrapped the party up from 3 – 5
a.m.
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Over 200 Robe moving lights graced the 2012 Australian International Motor Show (AIMS) staged at the
Sydney Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour.
A Robe Red Xmas in Slovenia
Lighting for all artists apart from Van Buuren and Corsten was operated by freelance LD / operator Uroš
Vovk. His main task was to make the show look interesting and different for the long stint, which he achieved with great panache using the Robes and the rest of the lighting rig. Having a good number of Robes
on the rig helped him enormously in lighting the event and ensured that he would never be short of creative
options!
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25x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 24x ColorSpot 1200E AT™, 20x ROBIN® 300E Spot™
MK Light Sound
Slovenia
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TPi Awards
Award Winning Robe Products Light 2013 TPi Awards
Robe lighting supplied over 350 fixtures used to light the 2013 Total Production International (TPi) Awards,
staged in the Ballroom of the Novotel, West London which was attended by over 1000 leading industry
professionals.
The TPi Awards is the industry’s highest profile celebratory event, and this was the second consecutive
year that Robe was the exclusive lighting supplier.
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The show’s visual design this year was created by Tim Fawkes from top UK rental company HSL, who
supplied all the rigging and other technical infrastructure needed to rig the lights. The Robe fixtures – including several award winning products in their own right which was very topical for the evening - were all
delivered directly by Robe UK to the TPi Awards for show producers Mondiale Publishing.
The pressure was on for Tim to produce something amazing with the lighting – given that the Who’s Who
of the industry was in attendance – and he had no shortage of creative options with this many Robe units
at his disposal! His aim was to bring a contemporary rock ’n’ roll look to the space – where one of the
challenges is low headroom – and make it a funky and fun environment to reflect the party atmosphere.
The fabulous beamy looks he wanted were achieved with the use of 132 x LEDBeam 100s. Robe’s versatile
multi-purpose CityFlex 48 flexible LED fixtures came into their own dotted around the room. Thirty-two
Award Winning ROBIN MMX WashBeams were used over the stage and around the space for breakups
and beam effects and another award winning Robe product, the ROBIN DLF LED Wash (PLASA Innovation Award), was used as the primary stage lighting tool. Tim found the internal barn doors very useful in
shuttering off the light neatly when working with the onstage LED screens.
The ROBIN LEDWash 600 which has collected several awards in addition to being one of the most popular
LED wash luminaires worldwide – was used for the main layer of table lighting around the Ballroom.
The light weight - of the LED products in particular - aided the overall rigging process in the room… which
has restricted weight loadings and flying points. Tim operated all the Robes using a Hog 3 Full Boar console. And there have been numerous comments that it was the best looking TPI Awards show to date!
Robe’s CEO Josef Valchar and Sales Director Harry von den Stemmen flew in to attend the event, where
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Josef presented the Award for the Favourite Lighting Rental Company, won by PRG.
Mondiale’s Event Manager was Ben Chadwick and HSL’s Project Manager for the show was Spantax.
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The 2013 TPi Awards were presented by singer, TV personality and radio DJ, Lauren Laverne.
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166x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 88x CityFlex 48™, 41x ROBIN ® MMX WashBeam™,
40x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 26x ROBIN ® DLF Wash™, 10x ROBIN ® DLS Profile™
Robe CZ & Robe UK
United Kingdom
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BMW&VW&Audi
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Robe Sparkles for Haute Coiffure Française Trophy
Robe MMX Spots together with ColorWash and ColorSpot 700E ATs were used by LD Nicky Tisserand
and DoP Encre Brune to light the final of the prestigious 2013 Haute Coiffure Française Trophy (HCT) event
in Paris.
Several hundred Robe fixtures were in action on two of the highest profile stands for leading brands – BMW
and VW - at the 2013 Geneva International Motor Show. The event was staged at the Palexpo Centre in
Geneva. It is one of the ‘Top 5’ motor shows in the world and attracts over 700,000 visitors.
Organised by global hair brand L’Oréal, it was staged in the Carrousel du Louvre venue and recognised the
talents of some of the best international hair stylists. The competition inspired over 100 competitors from
20 countries, which were whittled down to the ten finalists appearing before the jury and the public in Paris.
Twenty-four Robe ROBIN MMX Spots, 24x ColorWash 700E ATs and eight ColorSpot 700E ATs were used
by Nicky in her lighting design, all supplied by rental company Impact Evènement based south of Paris.
BMW
Four hundred Robe LEDWash 600s lit the special showcase area on the BMW stand highlighting the new
BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo. These were specified by Lighting Designer Peter Heilig and supplied by rental
company Rockservice from Salzgitter, Germany. Peter and SfS Project GmbH were asked to produce a
spectacular lighting design for the booth that made a connection with the car’s interior. The lighting helped
emphasize the sense of space and the whole occasion.
Nicky has been using Robe products for some years. It’s the third year she has lit the HCT Final show, and
the third time she has used MMX Spots on it! She specifically likes the dual wheels, the gobo selection,
colour mixing and the power and intensity of these fixtures, and they were used extensively to back light
the action and texture the stage and the models during the show.
The Robes were positioned on four overhead trusses and on the stage floor. The ColorWashes were used
for what they do best - bathing the stage and audience in a wide selection of colours to match the flamboyance of the hair artwork on show!
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Robe at 2013 Geneva Motor Show
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24x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 24x ColorWash 700E AT™, 8x ColorSpot 700E AT™
Axente
France
Photo Credit © Nicky Tisserand & Didier Adam
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Française Trophy
VW
On the VW stand, 129x LEDWash 600s were used by LD Jens Langer from technical consultancy RGB
GmbH for lighting the stand's architecture. The LEDWash 600s - in a combination of black and white
housings - were used to illuminate the World Racing Car and Innovation sections of the stand.
Robe’s LEDWash product, with its range of ‘real’ whites, authentic colour temperatures, high CRI and
tungsten emulation effects complete with very low power consumption and expedient size… is ideal for
auto shows, and has become popular worldwide for this application.
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Switzerland
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Robe For 2013 Metro Radio Music Awards in SA
Lighting designer François van der Merwe of Wizardry Group chose Robe moving lights as a large part of
his classy lighting scheme for the 2013 Metro FM Music Awards event, staged at the Durban International
Conference Centre Arena in South Africa.
François was working for Dream Sets, commissioned to deliver the technical elements of the event for
producers, Blue Moon Corporate Communications. Dream Sets’ Robert, Sean Hoey and Eben Peltz
were Technical Directors and worked closely with leading SA rental company Gearhouse South Africa,
whose Durban facility supplied most of the equipment used on the show.
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Seventy Six Robes were used – 24x Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600s, 24x LEDBeam 100s, 12x ColorSpot
2500E ATs and 16x ColorSpot 700E ATs. The design was a careful blend of theatrical and televisual
elements. The LEDWash 600s were mainly used for powerful back lighting and for in-fill from the sides.
The upstage units could be zoomed for a nice even spread across the stage area and set, and then zoomed right in for more “beamy” effects.
Another reason for picking LEDWash 600 was “Their rich colours” François explains, adding that he
also likes the range of soft pastels and the individual ring control for eye-candy effects! The LEDBeam
100s were rigged on scaff ‘nodes’ around the set and used to illuminate the scaff pipes and accentuate
the depth of the structure.
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24x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 24x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 16x ColorSpot 700E AT™,
12x ColorSpot 2500E AT™
DWR
South Africa
Jaguar&Land Rover
Robe in Paradise for Jaguar & Land Rover Event
Beautiful, cosmopolitan Mauritius was chosen as the location for Jaguar & Land Rover’s 2013 annual Dealer
of the Year Awards for Africa and the Sub Sahara region.
Technical production for the three venues involved was managed and co-ordinated by Christiaan Ballot and
Ryan Lombard from Blond Productions, based in Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa working closely with
Mauritius based Impact – the country’s top rental company.
Like Blond Productions, Impact has a big inventory of Robe fixtures! Christiaan received an available kit list
from Impact’s Project Manager Stephane Lafort and designed lighting for each venue around this. The main
Awards and Gala Dinner was staged in a clear roofed marquee constructed in the gardens of The Heritage
Le Telfair Golf & Spa Resort Hotel. The welcome reception took place at the C Beach Club at the same
hotel, and the primary conference session was held at the St Regis Hotel in the south of the island.
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Radio Music Awards
In the marquee the lights included Robe LEDWash 600s and ColorSpot 700E ATs. The light weight, small
size and expedient power consumption of the LEDWashes in particular enabled more lights to be used.
In The C Beach Club, ColorSpot 700E ATs were used for gobo patterning the floor and walls, adding
to the generally very chilled vibe.
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8x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 6x ColorSpot 700E AT™, 6x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™
DWR
South Africa
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Showlight 2013
Showlight 2013 A Massive Success
In 2013 the Showlight Conference was staged in the Czech Republic for the first time, in beautiful
Český Krumlov and with Robe lighting as the very proud main sponsor. Nearly 400 visitors embraced
the mediaeval town for the three days to enjoy a lively mix of presentations by industry professionals
from all areas of lighting and visuals.
Various fact-finding and sightseeing visits were an integral part of the Conference itinerary, allowing delegates to see some of the local commerce and business activities first hand. This included a tour of the city’s famous Baroque Theatre complete with original wooden and rope stage machinery, and other specially
arranged visits encompassed pencil and cosmetics factories and a graphite mine.
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The visit programme also took in the Městské Theatre, where Lighting Designer Andy Webb from the UK
was commissioned by Robe to produce a special 15 minute live performance with a cast of five, titled “An
Enchanted Realm”, which he lit entirely with around 50 Robe fixtures – all of them LED. This was followed
by a Q&A session.
The main Showlight venue was in the former Winter Riding Hall of Český Krumlov’s famous castle, a 15
minute walk up from the town centre, with an amazing view from each and every street corner and vantage
point.
Monday evening’s gala dinner took place in a large marquee adjacent to the Riding Hall in the attractive
Castle Gardens, fortuitously blessed with excellent weather! As a very special finale to a magical evening,
guests walked out to witness the Castle Gardens illuminated by over 2,000 candles, and a specially arranged Baroque firework display set to Handel’s ‘Music for The Royal Fireworks’ overture. On the Tuesday,
one of the presentations was by leading Israeli Lighting Designer Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi), who spoke
about his seminal work in lighting three seasons of the Israeli Opera performing at the foot of Masada
Mountain near the Dead Sea.
Each delegate was presented with a coffee table book produced by Robe which told the story of the
technical and creative challenges of this extraordinary piece of work. At the end of the Conference, a long
queue of people wanted Bambi to sign the book. The event was a massive success and the feedback has
been amazing! For many delegates, it was also their first visit to the Czech Republic.
Robe’s CEO Josef Valchář comments, “Every other person I spoke to throughout Showlight was saying
that they would return to Český Krumlov with their families and friends and also come back to the CZ! It has
been a completely positive experience for everyone, and we are very happy and privileged to have been
part of Showlight 2013 – it is a real forum for discussion and ideas in our industry, and we were so happy
to be able to represent our country in this way”.
Immediate feedback suggested that this was the best Showlight ever… and everybody enjoyed a great
time in Český Krumlov.
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24x ROBIN® DLS Profile™, 23x ROBIN® DLF Wash™, 20x ROBIN® 100 LEDBeam™, 14x ROBIN® DLX Spot™,
™,
9x ROBIN® 1200 LEDWash™, 8x ROBIN® 300 LEDWash™, 8x CityFlex 48™, 4x ROBIN® MiniMe®,
3x DigitalSpot 7100 DT™
Robe CZ
Czech Republic
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Mauritius Event
CMT Awards
Robe Scores More Pointes at 2013 CMT Awards
The fan-voted awards show’s lighting rig included 24 of Robe’s newest moving light fixtures, the Pointe,
along with a variety of Robe’s other ROBIN series moving heads. After successfully using the brand new
Pointe on the MTV Upfront Presentation in New York, Kenny again specified the versatile and multi-functional Pointe.
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The lighting equipment was supplied by VER, and all of the Robe equipment was located on the deck
of the multi-layered stage set. The Pointes were used as the main lights in that position, all directly upstage
centre. Twelve were on the main deck and twelve on another elevated deck about 10 feet above the main
stage and performance area.
The expedient and unobtrusive size of the Pointes meant they could be left onstage throughout the entire
event for which they were a real show workhorse, featuring in almost every look, scene and performance.
The show’s Lighting Director & Programmer Michael Appel explains that from wide-beamed ‘glamour’
looks to completely contrasting waves of tight panning beams, “We were able to get a wide variety of usage
from these versatile fixtures… which would have been difficult with other lights of its class”. In addition
to the 24x Pointes, the rig included Robe ROBIN MMX Spots, LEDWash 600s and LEDWash 1200s.
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30x ROBIN® Pointe®, 24x ROBIN® 600 LEDWash™, 12x ROBIN® 1200 LEDWash™, 8x ROBIN® MMX Spot™
™
Robe Lighting Inc.
USA
Mauritius based Impact Production Group and Johannesburg SA based Multi-Media - joined forces to
provide design services and full technical production for an exclusive four-day conference and incentive
event on Mauritius.
The two largest sites – The Gala Dinner in a marquee at the Hotel Trou aux Biches and the Segala Beach
Stage – were lit with Robe fixtures. Lighting and set designs for each venue and the conference layout were
all created by Multi-Media’s Jason Fritz, who was also the event’s Technical Director working closely with
Impact Production’s Project Manager, Jeremie Lamarque. Equipment and crew was supplied by the two
companies, which both have a reputation for technical excellence.
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The 2013 CMT Music Awards were staged at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee with a spectacular lighting design by Tom Kenny.
Robe Adds Impact for Mauritius Event
Lighting on the Beach Stage included 12x Robe ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, 12x Robe ColorSpot 700E ATs
and 4x ColorWash 1200E ATs, together with 48 LED PARs. A variety of entertainment acts played throughout the evening. The Gala Dinner was lit with 12 x Robe ColorSpot 575E ATs and 12 x ColorWash 575E
AT moving lights plus a selection of LED PARs and LED battens. The primary creative task was to make it
an atmospheric and attractive environment for the 700 guests to enjoy the evening.
Jason says, “I like Robe products very much and they have proved extremely reliable over the years”.
Multi-Media have Robe LEDWash 600s and 300s, ROBIN 600E Spots, ROBIN 100 LEDBeams and Robe
LEDForce PARs in their rental stock.
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48x LEDForce Par 18™ RGBW, 12x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 12x ColorSpot 700E AT™,
12x ColorSpot 575E AT™, 12x ColorWash 575E AT™, 4x ColorWash 1200E AT™
Event Strategy
Mauritius
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Robe Lights Watan Al Ahlam Event
UAE based Lighting Designer Terry Miranda specified over 120 Robe fixtures to realise an eye-catching
design for “Watan Al Ahlam” (Country of Dreams), a musical performance staged by the UAE Ministry of
Education at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The Robe lights were all supplied by Dubai based Lighthouse
Productions of which Miranda is also a Founder / Director. The stage design was based on a futuristic
theme and all the moving lights in the rig were Robe.
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The fixture count included 12x ROBIN MMX WashBeams, 24x ROBIN 300 Beam Classics, six ColorSpot
2500E ATs, 12x ColorSpot 1200E ATs, 28x ColorWash 575E ATs, 18x ColorSpot 575E ATs and 24x ColorMix
240s.
Miranda especially likes the MMX WashBeams which he first saw in action at the 2013 PALME Dubai exhibition and immediately placed an order! Robe’s Middle East office headed by ME Regional Sales Manager
Elie Battah ensured that the new units were delivered to Lighthouse in super-quick time for this show.
They were used as beams and washes as well as shuttered down tightly for specific scenes. They were
also used for spotting and gobo work. “It’s the first time I have been able to achieve so much from one
fixture,” Miranda declares. “They are hugely versatile and I’m delighted with them,” he enthused, adding
“They are an absolute dream to work with – so multi-functional and so light in weight!”
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28x ColorWash 575E AT™, 24x ROBIN® 300 Beam Classic™, 24x ColorMix 240 AT™,
E AT™
18x ColorSpot 575E AT™, 12x ROBIN® MMX WashBeam™, 12x ColorSpot 1200E AT™, 6x ColorSpot 2500E
ROBE Middle East
United Arab Emirates
FC Union Berlin
Robe MMX WashBeams Have Grandstand View
Twenty thousand excited FC Union Berlin fans packed into their An der Alten Fösterei Stadium to watch
a specially commissioned show to officially inaugurate their new grandstand. The jaw-dropping visual / set
design and lightshow concept was created by Gerd Helinski from Berlin based HELICON-Media – featuring
60 Robe MMX WashBeams – together with a special soundtrack.
The 20 minute spectacle was creatively directed by Gerald Ponesky and Uwe “Leo” Auerswald for Berlin
based event agency the Compact Team. Helinski wanted to integrate the entire field of play into the theatrical
production, and his idea involved three trussing circles which could be rolled into the middle of the pitch rigged
with all 60 MMX WashBeams, flame jets and various pyro effects.
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He chose Robe’s MMX WashBeam as a powerful and dynamic lightsource that could produce multiple effects
including projecting across the grass, onto the new stand and all the other buildings around the stadium.
This ‘crown’ like lighting feature was the centrepiece of the high-impact show and absolutely vital to the
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aesthetics and drama of the piece. He says, “The MMX WashBeam with its excellent photometric properties
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and wide range of effects - including the fact that it works equally well as both a wash light and a beam
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ssource – ticked all the boxes”. He was highly impressed during programming to see the clarity and power
of the beams and the efficiency of the wash.
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60x ROBIN ® MMX WashBeam™
LMP
Germany
Photo Credit © Gerd Helinsk, HELICON-Media
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MTV Music Awards
2013 MTV Video Music Awards Get The Pointe!
The bold stage and presentation aesthetics for 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) at the Barclays
Center in Brooklyn, New York, took inspiration from the ultra-cool MTV Moon Man Award statue that received a special 30th anniversary makeover this year by New Jersey street-artist KAWS.
Lighting Designer Tom Kenny worked the same style – blurring the lines between fine art and pop art - into
multiple areas of the onstage lighting treatment, with 80 of Robe’s new Pointe multi-purpose moving light
fixtures, a vital element of his rig of over 1000 moving heads. These were supplied to the event along with
32x Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600s and 20x LEDWash 1200s by rental specialist, VER.
Robe’s powerful, super-bright Pointes were positioned left and right of the stage and behind the VIP stage
/ seating area. They were used - metaphorically - to “blow people away!” For those watching the lighting,
they even gave Miley Cyrus’ much talked about “twerk-tastic” performance a run for its money! “I needed
a big beam look and a wash light in the same position,” explained Kenny.“ The Pointe does it all, and is way
brighter than anything else … so it’s a Win-Win situation,” enthused Kenny - who gets the Pointe! Having
the Pointes on the lighting rig also enabled him to use their beams in a ‘structural’ role for certain looks,
particularly for the big dance numbers.
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Kenny – always keen to road-test cutting-edge technology - likes the fact that they are a new and fresh
luminaire on the market, “I love them - they have loads of extra features that no other lights have, they are
fabulously bright… and really fast”. He also appreciates the zoom, the gobos and the prism effects. Along
with the stellar line up of artists performing live at the VMAs this year and the star-studded winners list,
the Pointe won its share of adulation as well… “It was the most talked about fixture of the show,” declares
Kenny!
The 2013 VMAs is the third major high-impact event on which Kenny has used Pointes. He was the first
in the US to use them ‘live’, for the MTV Upfront presentation in the Beacon Theatre, New York in April.
Showing great faith in the brand to embrace a new product at such a high profile event, he liked the Pointes
so much that they were on his spec a few weeks later for the 2013 CMT Awards in Nashville, Tennessee.
On the 2103 VMAs he once again worked with his regular Lighting Director and Programmer Michael Appel
and Gaffer Mike Grimes.
Florian Wieder was the event’s Production Designer, Tamlyn Wright was Art Director and the show was
directed by the legendary Hamish Hamilton and produced by Jessie Ignatovitch, Jen Jones, Lee Lodge
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and MTV Productions.
The 2013 MTV VMAs scored the highest rating yet in MTV history for an Awards show, attracting an
impressive 10.1 million viewers.
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TELEVISION
80x ROBIN ® Pointe ®, 32x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 20x ROBIN ® 1200 LEDWash™
Robe Lighting Inc.
USA
Photo Credit © Rachael Wright
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Scholarship Pageant
Beautiful at Miss Mississippi
Award winning lighting designer Joshua Cutts from Visual Frontier designed lighting and video for the
2102 series of Idols South Africa, with Robe moving lights featuring prominently on the rig. Staged at the
Mosaiek Theatre in Northcliffe, Johannesburg, it showcased the rich array of local singing talent.
It’s the fifth year that Huff has designed lighting for the Miss Mississippi event, which includes a live
entertainment production as well as the beauty competition. He and Chris Bennett also designed the set.
The starting point for lighting the show was giving it a theatrical look. Huff and Bennett created a series of
three large trussing arches, also giving the space a basic architecture. Lighting equipment was supplied by
Knoxville, Tennessee based TERI Productions.
It was the third consecutive year that Cutts has helped design the look and feel of the show, produced by
Sic Entertainment and recorded for broadcast on MNET HD and Mzani Magic. The stylish stage setting
for the series was the result of the pooled imaginations of Cutts, set designer Dewet Meyer and series
director Gavin Wratten.
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27x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 18x ColorSpot 1200 AT™, 12x ColorSpot 700E AT™,
8x ROBIN ® 300 LEDWash™, 4x ROBIN® MMX Spot™, 4x ColorWash 2500E AT™,
4x ColorWash 700E AT™
Robe Lighting Inc.
USA
Photo Credit © Jay Coatney
Behind the main onstage screen - which opened for entrances and exits - was a block of Robe StageQube 324 LED used for apocalyptic ‘blinding’ effect for artists as they walked through. The Robe moving
lights were a carefully considered mix of ColorWash 2500s, ColorSpot, Wash and Beam 700E ATs,
ROBIN 600 LEDWashes and the new ROBIN 100 LEDBeams. These were all supplied by Dream Sets.
These were rigged on a series of overhead trusses, including a prominent arch shaped truss which defined the front edge of the stage - in contemporary proscenium fashion - and an advanced truss just in
front of stage. The Robes were used for all the major stage and artist lighting and effects, and everyone
was stunned with how much impact just six LEDBeam 100s could have on the stage!
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Residents and full time students in Mississippi competed for the title of "Miss Mississippi", a preliminary to
the Miss America program which awards scholarships to young women in 50 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
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Robe Gets The Idol Treatment Again in SA
Lighting designer Andre Huff specified Robe moving lights for the 2012 Miss Mississippi Scholarship Pageant
held at the Vicksburg Convention Centre in front of a capacity audience of 2,000 people and broadcast live
on NBC’s affiliates in the state of Mississippi.
The Robe elements included ROBIN MMX Spots, ROBIN 600 and 300 LED Washes, ColorSpot 1200 and
700E ATs and ColorWash 2500 and 700E ATs – around 80 fixtures in total – all specified by Huff and
Jay Coatney and supplied through TERI's production inventory. Robe was chosen because of the quality
of the fixtures, the intensity of the output and also for the amazing array of gobos and effects that the MMX
Spot’s dual graphics wheel can provide.
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Idol SA
24x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 16x ColorWash 2500E AT™, 16x ColorSpot 700E AT™,
12x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 12x ColorBeam 700E AT™, 6x ColorWash 700E AT™
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Robe Helps Build New Fan Base
Fan Base was an exciting, new hi-energy games show TV series recorded in South Africa for SABC 1 the public competed with a variety of celebrities in assorted games.
The show was recorded in Q-Studios, Kew, Johannesburg and lighting included Robe moving lights supplied
by Centurion-based Blond Productions – one of SA’s leading rental companies. Blond’s key lighting designer
Peter Reick and director Christiaan Ballot created the show’s production lighting design.
This was based around a colourful set designed by Wayne Sproule from Pendragon and complimented
the up-tempo pace of the 30 minute show targeted at youth audiences with a Kwaito/Hip Hop/Afro Pop slant.
Lights were also rigged on six vertical trussing towers surrounding the circular shaped set and on the floor.
Each tower featured two Robe Scan 575 XTs. On the floor were four Robe ColorSpot 700E ATs at the back
of stage, with another two ColorSpot 700E ATs either side.
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There were only 18 Robe fixtures in the house, but these offered more than enough features and functionality
to keep things moving and grooving! Lighting, set, clever camerawork and some very enthusiastic audience
participation combined to enlarge the space and produce a clubby environment , a technique honed to a fine
art by series director Warren Bleksley who says “Lighting is absolutely imperative on a show like this which is
all about the visuals”. The first 26 episode series which was produced by Dzuguda Communications.
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Face of The Year
Robe - More Than A Pretty Face!
Top Lighting designer Martin Kubanka created a fabulous setting for the Slovak Republic’s 2012 ‘Face
of The Year’ contest and gala evening, broadcast live on national channel STV1 and scouting for budding
new modelling talent.
The Czech and Slovakian girls – renowned for their natural beauty - were further enhanced by Robe
moving lights prominent on the rig installed into the Slovenské Národné Divadlo venue in Bratislava.
The show also featured live entertainment and music from a host of international artists.
Martin worked closely with set designer Dano Šichma, who adapted the original set designed by Miťo
Ferenčík for the National Theatre’s production of Netopier (The Bat) for this show. The Robe count included 10x ROBIN MMX Spots and 48x ROBIN LEDBeam 100s, 24x ROBIN 600 Beams and 20x ROBIN
300 Beams, four ColorWash 1200E ATs and 10x ColorMix 575s. Behind the opening LED wall were
pillars rigged with ROBIN 600 Beams used for dramatic back-lighting. An 8x 3 metre ‘wall’ was created with
the Robin 100 LEDBeams – hung flat above the stage ceiling for some of the show, and flown in for special
scenes and full throttle ‘burn-out’ effects!
Martin says the LEDBeam 100s are “Amazing and made a jaw-dropping TV effect”. He loves the Hot-Spot
control on the MMX and the very clear, high-clarity light output. All lighting, LED and sound equipment
was supplied by leading Slovakian rental company Q-99.
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48x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 24x ROBIN ® 600E Beam™, 20x ROBIN ® 300E Beam™,
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Robe a Winner at La Grande Battle 2012
Lighting Designer David Seligmann-Forest from lite4life incorporated over 120 Robe moving lights - supplied
by rental company Yes via LightCo. - in his design for ‘La Grande Battle’, recorded at Le Carrere studios in
St. Denis, Paris. The ‘La Grande Battle’ concept is a slightly different take on TV music talent competitions.
An orchestra performs classical pieces which are reinterpreted by a series of contemporary performers - in
their own style.
Broadcast annually on France 2 it's fast become a cult 'must watch' event for popular music lovers and
this last series attracted over 2 million viewers! Seligmann-Forest is a big Robe fan, and has been a loyal
user of the brand right from the start back in 2002! Having also lit La Grande Battle the previous year, this
time around he used some of Robe's newest technologies, including the LEDBeam 100, together with
LEDWash 300s and 600s and ColorSpot 700E ATs.
The fixtures were rigged all over the roof of the large studio and used as multi-purpose instruments.
Seligman-Forest specifies Robe for all his projects – which are mostly for television. "Robe is without
doubt the best moving light brand currently available”, he says.
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The LEDBeam 100 has recently been added to his regular kit list. He loves its smallness, brightness and finds
it infinitely useful for filling black holes in a set, "You can literally squeeze them in anywhere!"
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Robe lights including ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, ROBIN ® 300 LEDWash™,
ColorSpot 700E AT™
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Voice of Germany
Robe Adds Its Voice to Top German Talent Show
Nearly 200 Robe moving lights added glamour, sparkle and dynamics to Manuel da Costa’s lighting design
for The Voice of Germany (TVOG) 2012. The mega popular talent show was produced by Schwartzkopff
TV Productions GmbH & Co KG and Talpa Distribution B.V., recorded in Am Studio 20 of Studio Berlin
and broadcast on ProSieben and SAT.1, also featuring a live audience of 1200.
Da Costa had a relatively open brief, which included all the main criteria of a high profile talent TV show
– being flexible enough to give each artist individual treatment for their performances and ensuring it
worked well on camera and looked good to the studio audiences. There was also a visual harmony with
Florian Wieder’s impressive modernist set design.
Da Costa, one of Germany’s leading TV lighting designers, opted for Robe products because he knew
they could deliver the desired effects and for their reliability and consistency. The full Robe count was 98x
ColorSpot 2500E ATs, 62x ColorWash 2500E ATs, 26x ColorWash 1200E ATs and two ColorBeam 2500E
ATs. “The Robe 2500 Series overall delivers a bright, strong and punchy beam,” he states.
utilised the rotating gobo and prism effects – always a winner for ‘light entertainment’ – and finds
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the vvariable frost helpful for creating wash effects and the iris and shutter features excellent for cool stuff!
The Robes were supplied by rental company MLS Magic Light + Sound from Cologne.
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98x ColorSpot 2500E AT™, 62x ColorWash 2500E AT™, 26x ColorWash 1200E AT™,
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Talent Show
Money Drop
Robe Lights The Money Drop
Robe moving lights – including new ROBIN LEDBeam 100s, MMX Spots and 600E Beams plus ColorSpot
250E ATs, ColorSpot 700E ATs and 575 XT Scans - were used extensively – with Anolis ArcLink optic 4
LED strips used to illuminate the set. Centurion based Blond Productions came up with a staging concept
and supplied the full technical production. Wayne Sproule from Pendragon Dezign created the set based
on Endemol’s brief, which was built by Dream Sets. It was vital that texturing, depth and definition could
be added to the set with lighting, so Peter Reick and Blond’s MD Christiaan Ballot got together with Robe’s
South African distributors DWR to find fixtures which would work best.
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The LEDBeam 100 caught their eyes and Blond decided to purchase the 48 to use in the show, together
with six new Robe ROBIN 600E Beams. The LEDBeam 100s were used highly effectively – complete with
the 25 degree frost filter – to light and texture the four outer pillars of the set, bringing a real three dimensionality to these key features. The LEDBeam 100s are “Phenomenal” reckons Christiaan Ballot, who is
delighted with the purchase.
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48x ROBIN® 100 LEDBeam™, 24x Scan 575 XT™, 12x ROBIN® MMX Spot™, 12x ColorSpot 700E AT™,
12x ROBIN® 600E Beam™, 12x ColorSpot 250 AT™ and Anolis LED fixtures
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Robe caught the action again in South Africa when specified to light the new South African TV talent
show series, ‘Clash of the Choirs’. The Endemol SA produced series was broadcast on DSTv channel
Mzansi Magic and had massive impact in a country with a fantastically rich heritage of choir music and
performance.
Seven amateur choirs mentored by celebrity musicians competed for the top prize of half a million ZAR and
the first series’ rounds were recorded at the new Soweto Theatre, Nr Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, with
lighting designed by Peter Reick from Blond Productions.
The rig included over 100 Robe moving lights - a combination of Blond's own hire stock and the Soweto
Theatre’s in-house rig. The full Robe count totalled 12x MMX Spots, 48x LEDBeam 100s and 12 Scan 575
XTs supplied by Blond, which were joined by 12x ROBIN 600E Spots and 30x LEDWash 300s owned by
the theatre, all programmed and controlled by Reick.
The gently curved set design was based around 10 vertical columns and a scenic ‘horseshoe’ flown above,
all made from white fabric stretched over metalwork superstructures, which Reick lit very effectively.
The MMXs were positioned upstage at the back behind the horseshoe and used for gobo and beam
effects, supported by the ROBIN 600E Spots which produced variations on these effects. The LEDBeam
100s internally lit the columns – their small size and high brightness ideal for the job!
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“The Money Drop” (Nigeria) is a new version of Endemol’s high-tension TV games show and was the first
such series to be aired on the African continent. It was recorded in Kew Studios, Johannesburg, with lighting supplied by rental company, Blond Productions and designed by Peter Reick.
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48x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 30x ROBIN ® 300 LEDWash™, 12x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™,
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Let’s Dance
Miss Universe
It’s A Beautiful Thing for Robe
A substantial Robe moving light rig was used for the final of Miss Universe Slovak Republic 2013, a high
profile co-production staged at the Aegon Arena National Tennis Centre in Bratislava and broadcast live on
national TV channel, RTVS 1.
Over 100 Robe moving lights were spec’d for the sixth series of ‘Let’s Dance’ produced by ITV Germany
and recorded in Studio 32 of the MMC Film & TV Studios in Cologne. The Production Lighting Designer
was Manfred Ollie Olma, one of Germany’s best known LDs.
Lighting was designed by Martin Kubanka, Slovakia’s top television LD, and included over 100 Robe fixtures
- LEDWash 600s and 1200s, ROBIN MMX Spots, ROBIN 300 and 600 Beams and LEDBeam 100s. Kubanka
worked closely with set designer Daniel Sichman on the show aesthetics which also featured a plethora
of LED screens and lightsources. These and all the Robes were supplied by leading Slovakian technical
solutions provider, Q-99.
His company, mo2 design GmbH is also based in Cologne. Executive Lighting Designer & Director
of Photography David Kreileman took care of the week-to-week running of the show’s lighting, working
alongside mo2 Project Managers Sebastian Kirsch and Matthias Allhoff. They used 40 x Robe ColorSpot
2500E AT fixtures and 70 x ColorWash 2500E ATs.
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A big challenge in lighting Miss Universe was lighting the 12 contestants perfectly for the cameras – for which
they needed fabulous skin tones, achieved using 10 carefully positioned LEDWash 1200s as 3200K soft lights
in the central area of the stage.
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The Robes were positioned above the dancefloor easily reaching all the various points of action, including
the entrance steps sweeping around an eye-catching abstract diamond video centrepiece at one end
of the studio. Robes were used for all the key lighting. Using moving lights for this task is a really fast and
flexible solution that gives the director complete freedom to place the dancing couples anywhere in the
space and for them to be quickly and properly key-lit.
“Robe’s 2500 series is really powerful with a good light output and excellent gobo projections and that’s
vital to the ambience we create,” states Kreileman. The Robe kit was supplied by Cologne based Magic
Sound & Light.
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The slickly choreographed presentation was directed by Thomas Eibner and a cut above the average beauty
pageant in terms of production values. “We have a reputation in Slovakia for producing one of the best Miss
Universe live shows and telecasts, so each year we ‘up the ante’ getting more ambitious in our use of technology,” explains Kubanka with pride. He has been using Robe products in his work for over 10 years. Even
more than ever with the latest ROBIN ranges, it is still overwhelmingly his moving light brand of choice.
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Stepping Up for Let’s Dance Germany
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X-Factor
Chart Show
Making A Pointe on the Chart Show
Initially six Pointes were delivered to the studio. Being the very first time Olma had road-tested the Pointe, he
did not know what to expect. He was so impressed that he asked for more! Six extra Pointes enabled him to
integrate all 12 lights around the set, designed by Jürgen Schmidt-André. Olma then created eye-popping
aerial effects and bright, piercing beam work which worked brilliantly on wide camera shots.
The lighting rig featured multiple curved trusses at varying levels, and the concept was to create one
fabulous lighting look which looked amazing and appeared different but complimentary from all camera
angles.
Overall he was very impressed. “This very small and compact lightsource is a massive step forward for
lighting itself,” he stated. Compared to the 700 Spot and Wash fixtures being used in the studio (from another
manufacturer) he confirmed, “They easily out-perform these with their 280W lamp”.
It was the first time Tom had used Robe’s LEDBeam 100s on this scale for which they were absolutely
fundamental to the aesthetics. They were positioned on two rows of audience-facing trusses flanking
the stage wings and followed through, with another two rows running down both the sides of the stage.
“The Pointe is a top class beam effect – the light cuts through everything around (like smoke and LED
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and the “Sharp, crisp and clean” gobos. “The Pointe is an extremely versatile tool either as a spot with greatt
projection capabilities or as a wash unit with stunning effects”, he enthused.
Two more rows lined the two advanced trusses at front of the stage, all pointed out into the audience.
Tom specifically used the LEDBeam 100s to accentuate and amplify the apparent size of the rig –
a clever visual trickery ploy that worked brilliantly! He chose LEDBeams because he wanted a fixture with
a strong and powerful beam but not one that was too dominant. “It was vital for the beams to look ‘fluffy’
rather than harsh,” he explained, “and they were perfect”.
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Lighting Designer Tom Sutherland - one of the UK’s emerging talents - utilised 60 LEDBeam 100s on
the 2013 X-Factor Auditions staged at London’s Wembley Arena. Around 250 hopefuls gave it their all
in front of the judges in four very intense days which saw them ruthlessly culled to 100 who progressed
to the next stage of selecting the 12 finalists for the 2013 edition of the hugely popular reality TV series.
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Leading European lighting and visuals designer Manfred Ollie Olma of Cologne, Germany based mo2 design
tried out 12 of Robe’s brand new Pointes for a recent episode of “Die Ultimative Chart Show”, recorded at
Nobeo 8 Studio in Hürth, near Cologne. The programme is broadcast weekly on RTL.
Robe LEDBeams Audition for X-Factor
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Pantomime
Robe Adds MMX Magic to Jack & The Beanstalk
The Johannesburg Theatre took delivery of its 20 new Robe MMX Spot fixtures from Robe’s South
African distributor DWR just in time for their annual Jack & the Beanstalk pantomime, a production by
special arrangement between the Theatre and Qdos, the world’s largest panto producer.
The MMXs were specified by the Theatre’s Technical Manager Enos Ramoroko, Production Manager
Simon James and Senior Lighting Technician Patrick Mbatha, all of whom were “Hugely impressed” by
what the lights had to offer. The Theatre already owned 18 Robe ColorWash 700E ATs which have been
a big success with all the various productions so it was a logical decision to choose Robe again.
They needed a fixture that offered optimum versatility for the price … and that would be ideal for their wide
range of productions. Several key factors made them choose MMX explains Ramoroko. The principle ones
were that the MMX Spot is “Bright, compact and has a host of very easy-to-programme effects and brings
big energy savings”.
The MMX Spots are installed in the Theatre’s 1063 capacity Mandela auditorium – the largest of four performance spaces – and Jack & The Beanstalk was the first show to use them. The classic pantomime’s
lighting designer was UK based Graham McLusky, who has been lighting Joburg Theatre (formally known
as The Civic) pantos for the last 10 years and panto in general in the UK for 35 years!
Lighting Designer Luke Harnett knew exactly which Robe moving lights he needed to light a production
of Bernstein’s comic operetta Candide at the Amey Theatre, Abingdon School, Oxfordshire, UK. He
specified six Robe ROBIN DLX Spots and six LEDWash 300s, supplied by Tring based Universal Event
Productions – who have a large stock of Robe fixtures.
Harnett currently works full time at the theatre and has been using Robe products for around five years.
He chose Robe’s latest products for this one for several key reasons. Firstly, the CMY colour mixing.
The show visited multiple locations as the complex jittery-paced and fantastical 30 chapter narrative unfolded - each scene morphing into the next without blackouts! So they needed the superior smoothness
and subtlety of this feature. Secondly, the zoom on both fixtures was a massive advantage. The different
scenes featured anything from epic scale all-singing-all-dancing ‘production’ musical numbers with a full
cast onstage to poignant solos. The 15 to 60 and 10 to 45 degree zooms of the LEDWash and DLX fixtures
respectively gave numerous options. Another issue was the limited amount of hard power available onstage
at the Amey Theatre, so the LED moving light solution brought serious latitude to the design. The DLX’s
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Cirkus Cirkör
Cirkus Cirkör at Peace with Robe
Scandinavia’s leading contemporary circus company Cirkus Cirkör from Stockholm, Sweden have purchased Robe MMX Spots and LEDWash moving lights for their current touring schedule, which presents their latest breath-taking work, “Knitting Peace”. Renowned for their original, intimate, exciting and
thought-provoking work, Cirkus Cirkör was Sweden’s first circus group of the genre.
Lighting is an absolutely integral element of Cirkus Cirkör’s work. It’s used to emphasise the drama, seatedge acrobatics and sheer physical power, emotion and aesthetics of the performance. Lighting for
“Knitting Peace” is designed by Ulf Englund, and the new Robe fixtures – five MMX Spots and 16 LEDWash
600s – were specified for this show by him and Cirkus Cirkör’s Technical Producer, Stefan Karlström. “They
are well specified lights and fitted our budget,” says Karlström.
Using 21 Robes is a much faster, dynamic and far more practical solution then using hundreds of conventionals! The Robes are currently the only lights on the show and are rigged onto the custom trussing
structure also used by the performers and for various props, with some units on the floor.
This enables Cirkus Cirkör to be completely self-sufficient. Their crew can rock up at any venue or performance space and have their show area and technicals exactly the same each time – all they need is
power! Owning the lights will also save substantially over hiring in kit for a show which might run for two
to three years!
Moving lights from Robe’s latest ROBIN MMX and DL Series ranges were utilised by Lighting Designer
Michael Grundner for the world premiere of “Moses – The Ten Commandments”, a new musical extravaganza by Michael Kunze and Dieter Falk staged at the Theatre St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Grundner’s lighting design aimed to mimic the ‘contemporary rock and pop with gospel elements’ style
of the show for which the Theatre decided to purchase the new system of Robe moving lights.
The package comprised eight MMX Spots, two DLS Profile, two DLX Spots and 16x DLF Wash fixtures,
all specified by Head of Lighting, Andreas Enzler and his Deputy Andreas Volk on the recommendation
of Grundner among others. They were delivered via Robe’s Swiss distributor, Audio Tech.
They wanted a versatile, energy saving moving light rig containing high light output fixtures with
excellent optics and fast movement. The rig also had to be cost efficient to run – and Robe’s DL and
MMX ranges fitted the bill perfectly with their ‘smaller, lighter, brighter’ design concept.
The DL range is fast becoming a popular choice for theatre productions with important and relevant
features like full tungsten emulation, completely shadow free LED lightsources and silent running.
Michael Grundner has been using and specifying Robe products in his work for some time, which
includes musicals, corporate event designs and concerts worldwide for José Carreras – whom he has
LD’d since 2011.
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Robe Specified for ‘Moses – The Ten Commandments’
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Grease
‘Robe’ is the Word For New Grease Production
Vanemuine Teater in Tartu, Estonia, launched its new production of “Grease” directed by Georg Manlius, with
a vibrant lighting design by Palle Palmé utilising over 100 Robe moving lights. The fixtures were part of a new
installation at Vanemuine in the theatre’s 660 seater Big House venue (see separate story under ‘Venues’),
part of a much wider upgrade programme which sees all eight Estonian state supported arts and culture
venues equipped with Robe moving lights!
Palle Palmé is based in Stockholm. This was the first time he’d used the new Robe rig comprising 55x LEDWash 1200s, 30x LEDWash 600s, 20x MMX Spots, 10x 600E Spots and 24x 600E Washes – all from Robe’s
latest ROBIN series.
The LEDWash 1200s and 600s were used for strong rear and side lighting and cross stage washes, all hung
on the house LX bars with eight 600 ‘shin-busters’ for low-level washing. Fourteen MMX Spots were used
mid stage for back beam effects and for texturing the stage and set. The other six MMXs on three FOH bars
were perfect for front key-lighting.
Palmé has been using Robe products for about 10 years and appreciates the reliability and good engineering,,
however this was the first time that he’d used MMX Spots. “They are excellent,” he comments. ‘Powerful,,
bright and great for both front and side lighting, and highly versatile using the graphics wheels and gobos”.
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Robe All Around The Globe Theatre in Rome
The Globe Theatre in Rome is an exact replica of the famous Shakespeare’s Globe venue in London,
and like its English counterpart, is equally high profile in the Italian capital, specializing in producing the
works of Shakespeare.
A major new investment has been made in Robe LED moving lights, which were specified by award
winning Lighting Designer Umile Vainieri and delivered by Robe’s Italian distributor, Robe Multimedia.
The new fixtures are eight ROBIN DLX Spots, 12x ROBIN LEDWash 600s and two DigitalSpot 7000DT
moving projectors. Vainieri, a freelance LD working regularly at the Globe since 2005, also works on
a host of other shows in Italy and internationally. He wanted the fixtures installed because he knew they
would add “Real production value” to the venue’s acclaimed performances.
He wanted moving lights onboard to speed up focusing, make it easier to re-set between performances
as well as producing more complex and sophisticated lightshows. Having used Robe for some time, it’s
a brand he knows and trusts. The new Robe installation at The Globe reduces the roof weight loading
considerably – it’s now less than three-quarters of what it was previously!
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Penthouse
Penthouse Club San Francisco
Lighting for this premium venue in the charismatic North Beach district of San Francisco was designed
by David Chesal who consistently uses both Robe and Anolis products in his creative work. His brief was
to bring a completely unique look - but with a similar signature style and flair - to the independently owned
venue following his highly successful lighting at the Penthouse Club in Reno in 2011.
Working closely with Penthouse SF owner Joe Carouba, local architect Gary Henderson of Collins-Henderson Inc. and installer Karl Keislich from Sound Stage Systems, David also completely re-designed
the interior space, formally the Broadway Showgirls Club, bringing it in line with the slick modern marque
of the Penthouse global brand.
The Club covers around 15,000 square feet split over two levels, and is divided into several different areas
including the main room and ‘ultra lounge’, main bar, hallway, a series of dining booths, two stages,
a second floor bar, VIP Rooms, Dance Stations, Skybox, elevators, the bathrooms and entrance / lobby.
No area is unlit!
The lighting experience starts outside the building with Anolis ArcPad 48 wash fixtures shooting up the walls
and the doorway delineated with Anolis ArcSource 1 cool whites, immediately identifying it from its surroundings. A full range of Anolis fixtures is utilised throughout the club – ArcSource, ArcLine, ArcLink, ArcPAR and
ArcPad. Anolis was selected for its wide and dynamic range of fixtures, their high quality European-manufactured specs, and also because of the ability to customise certain fixtures according to the precise needs
of the design. Special features include a very smart Champagne Display.
The feature itself is highlighted and the huge opening in the celling above is also revealed enabling people to
see how to access the second level – for which a large section of existing wall was removed. Proper architectural lighting brings the impressive display ‘alive’ using eight Anolis ArcLine Optic 24 smart whites with
25x 6 degree lenses. The light grazes up the front of the bottle labels in a colour temperature specially
tweaked to produce the perfect tone for showing off this effective art-work.
The Main Stage lighting rig comprises six Robe ROBIN 300 Plasma Spots – chosen for their CRI of 94
- perfect for flesh tones, and also for their 10,000 hours of lamp life. Washing the stage are five Robe
LEDForce 18 RGBWs and upstage are four Robe Scan 250 XTs, seven LEDForce 7 RGBWs and an Austrian drape which is lit with Anolis ArcLink Optic 4 RGBAs.
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Two Robe DigitalSpot 3500 DTs are used to project onto the far back wall of the stage and its metal bead
curtain. These are also used to produce versatile ‘room decoration’ elsewhere, like on a lattice feature wall,
the chef’s table and the ‘tapas bar’ area. David sums up, “The overall lighting of the environment has an
incredible all-over encompassing effect, helping to make all the spaces look interesting and intimate and
everyone in them feel comfortable and relaxed”.
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7x LEDForce 7™ RGBW, 6x ROBIN ® 300 Plasma Spot™, 5x LEDForce 18™ RGBW,
4x Scan 250 XT™, 2x DigitalSpot 3500 DT™ and Anolis LED fixtures
Robe Lighting Inc.
USA
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Hakkasan
Top 6 Club
DLX Spots and LEDBeam 100s are Top in Ljubljana!
Robe For Hakkasan Las Vegas at MGM
Ljubljana’s hottest, trendiest and most glamorous nightclub – Top 6 – refreshed its lighting rig and installed
the first Robe ROBIN DLX Spots and LEDBeam 100s in a Slovenian club.
Hakkasan Las Vegas is a high-profile, ground-breaking new 80,000 square foot and restaurant experience
at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino.
Ljubljana based specifiers and installers MK Sound Light were the ones to suggest some of Robe’s latest
moving light technology explains their Project Manager Dean Karov, who was asked to come up with
‘something special and cool’ for the 700 capacity venue by Top 6’s owner, local entrepreneur Anthony Tomzin.
Intricately designed over five levels, Robe moving lights are integral to a stunning lighting design created by Frank Murray of Irish based installation specialists, Audiotek. His brief for the lighting design
was simply to help create “The BEST electronic music and clubbing experience EVER”. Murray and
Audiotek’s Project Technical Director Len Bolger worked with Audiotek programmer Andy Taylor.
The Robe equipment was delivered by Robe Inc. and installed by 4Wall and local electrical contractor,
Sun City Electrical.
The music policy is a steady mix of hip-hop, urban and R ’n’ B with commercial house / electronic, so they
wanted a classy lighting rig with multiple options. With the low headroom both types of fixtures are ideal in
size, especially the tiny LEDBeam 100s. Being LED, the power consumption is minimal but the light jockeys
and operators have the maximum features and flexibility! It also represents a massive saving for on-going
running costs, avoiding any lamp replacements.
Another big advantage is that the units generate almost no heat, making the environment infinitely more
comfortable for the movers and groovers with less AC required-another cost saving! So big smiles all
round! The eight ROBIN DLX Spots and 12 LEDBeam 100s are all rigged in the roof above the club’s main
dancefloor and in front of the DJ booth.
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52x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 28x ROBIN ® 300E Beam™, 15x ROBIN ® 300 LEDWash™,
12x ROBIN ® Pointe ®, 6x ROBIN ® DLX Spot™
Robe Lighting Inc.
USA
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12x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 8x ROBIN ® DLX Spot™
MK Light Sound
Slovenia
In the Pavilion annex to the main room are 12x ROBIN 300E Beams and another four DLXs, while the
balcony is illuminated by 18x ROBIN LEDBeam 100s. Four Anolis ArcSource 4 MC fixtures illuminate the
welcome stage just off the elevator. The Ling Ling Club space is an open format destination and features
another 16 of the tiny super-bright LEDBeam 100s, eight LEDWash 300s and eight more Pointes.
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Murray and Audiotek have known and used Robe products successfully for many years and so Robe
was again a natural choice. The main room located on the fourth level - which hosts all the international EDM DJs - features 16x 300E Beams, six DLX LED Spots for dancefloor key lights and 12 Pointes.
The DJ area is lit with eight 300E Beams and another four Pointes.
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Royal Chapel
Family Church
Robe at New McAllen Family Church Auditorium
The Family Church of McAllen, Texas (TFC) chose Robe for its new 1400 capacity main worship auditorium.
The Robe fixtures were specified by TFC’s Technical Director Obed Castillo and supplied by Phil Rapp
of Gear Systems Design from Edmond, Oklahoma, who partnered with TFC to supply and install the full
technical production package.
The new larger sanctuary was the result of a much needed expansion to the existing premises to accommodate popular and well-attended worship services. The stage systems for the new auditorium were designed
for concerts and broadcasts in addition to the five weekly services. Currently TFC has a web-based ministry,
but future plans include going to a multi-site format, so good broadcast lighting was vital to the final technical
plans.
Gear Systems specified four ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, eight ROBIN 300 LEDWashes, four ROBIN 300E
Spots, eight ColorSpot 250E ATs and ten LEDForce 18s plus a Robe Faze 1050FT hazer. Most of the lights
are installed on trussing above and around the stage, with some on the stage floor. Any light can be moved
to any position for full adaptability.
The auditorium has limited available power, so fixtures with low power consumption were important and
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practical on-going operational costs were another consideration. McAllen’s location on the southern tip
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of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley means that high temperatures are also a factor, so fixtures outputting less
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heat will also help with the utility bills!
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Lighting Designer Örjan Fjällström used Robe LEDWash 1200s to light a special broadcast for Swedish
Television to celebrate the first birthday of HRH Princess Estelle, daughter of HRH Crown Princess
Victoria and second in line to the throne.
The Sunday morning service took place in the Royal Chapel, Stockholm, a beautiful Rococo period church
located in the Royal Palace, which was key lit by Fjällström using six Robe ROBIN 1200 LEDWashes. These
proved an ideal solution to the many practical challenges he faced in lighting the event.
The Royal Chapel is a heritage site so the only equally awkward options for lighting positions were on floor
stands – and even these are limited - or a series of window recesses down one side to the Chapel. Power
is also limited. And Fjällström really needed to use a 5K source equivalent to match the 4.200°K colour
temperature of his 2K fresnels gelled with half CTB that were dotted around the building. Enter the Robe
LEDWash 1200!
During tests he soon realised its smooth colour mixing, fabulous range of proper whites and excellent zoom
capabilities was the answer. The units were located in the window recesses opposite the pews where
the Royal Family sat for the service - making perfect key lighting. Each pair of LEDWash 1200s was
powered by a single wall socket and simplified the required rigging enormously. The fixtures were supplied
by Skovde based rental company Sound Stars.
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Sweden
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10x LEDForce 18™ RGBW, 8x ROBIN ® 300 LEDWash™, 8x ColorSpot 250 AT™,
4x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 4x ROBIN ® 300E Spot™, 1x FAZE 1050 FT™
Robe Lighting Inc.
USA
A Swedish Royal Flush For Robe
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Photo Credit © Stephanie Castillo
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Supernatural
Lux Eucharistica
Robe Supports Epic Projections
Tübingen, Germany based visual artists and large format projection specialists Casa Magica created
a spectacular daily evening show – Lux Eucharistica - for the 2013 International Eucharistic Congress, staged
in Cologne’s iconic Cathedral, organised by the German Bishop’s Conference. The stunning projections were
produced using six large format projectors fitted with single scrollers, manufactured and supplied by PANI/
Hardware Xenon. These were supplemented by lighting from four Robe ROBIN DLS profiles and a single
ROBIN MMX WashBeam, all sourced from Dortmund based Niclen.
The drama and ethereal nature of projected light filled the space, highlighting the magnificent Gothic architecture and the presence and role of light in religious symbolism. The evening show was an hour long artwork
combining the projections, lighting, a-capella singing, organ music and the spoken word.
“Support lighting was absolutely crucial to the look and feel of the work and to fill in some of the areas
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around the projections,” explains Sabine Weissinger. The four ROBIN DLS Profiles were located at the
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edges of the main altar platform in the transept, while the MMX WashBeam was at the far end of the choir.
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Robe fixtures were chosen for their small size and light weight and because they wanted truly multi-functional
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luminaires. The requirement was to keep the technical installation as unobtrusive and concealed as possible
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so as to fuse with the surroundings.
The project to light the event was instigated by Eddy Puerta from KJM and the Robe fixtures used were a
combination of those from the in-house system plus 24 additional units hired in from James Watson at Arts
of South Florida. The house rig – installed in 2006 by Paradigm Lighting from Tamarac when the building
was completed – features six Robe ColorSpot 575E ATs, 24 x Robe ColorWash 575E ATs and 12 Robe
ColorMix 575s.
The Supernatural Revolution event was shot in HD and broadcast globally by KJM so it needed to look great
on camera as well as live complete with plenty of dramatic theatrical style lighting – so additional Robes
were specified for the show.
They comprised 12x LEDBeam 100s, eight LEDWash 300s and four LEDWash 600s, plus a Robe Haze 800
FT fog machine. Arts of South Florida also brought in Florida based freelance LD Peter Moore to light and
programme. The additional lighting for this event was used to enhance the general performance lightshow,
strengthening the colour and movement around the room and boosting the visual effects onstage.
EQUIPMENT
SUPPLIED BY
LOCATION
24x ColorWash 575E AT™, 12x ColorMix 575 AT™, 12x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™,
8x ROBIN ® 300 LEDWash™, 6x ColorSpot 575E AT™, 4x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™
Robe Lighting Inc.
USA
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4x ROBIN ® DLS Profile™, 1x ROBIN ® MMX WashBeam™
LMP
Germany
Robe fixtures were central to the stage lighting scheme created jointly by Edward Puerta, Silvio Sanchez
and Elvin Quinones for the “Chosen Generation Conference – Supernatural Revolution” event staged at the
King Jesus International Ministry (KJM) in Miami, Florida. Hosted by Apostle Guillermo and Prophet Ana
Maldonado, the youth outreach event attracted over 4500 enthusiastic participants.
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Photo Credit © Casa Magica
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Vanemuine Teater
The Largest Robe Theatre Installation To Date
Robe’s Estonian distributor E&T Ltd completed the largest single supply to date of Robe moving lights for
a theatre installation. Over 200 fixtures were delivered to the Vanemuine Teater in Tartu, Estonia’s lively
second city and the country’s cultural and intellectual hub.
The deal – part of a much wider programme in which Robe luminaires have been supplied to all eight of
Estonia’s state supported theatres – involves a mix of LEDWash 1200, 600 and 300s, MMX Spots, DLX
Spots and ROBIN 600 and 300E Spots and Washes. Vanemuine, Estonia’s oldest theatre founded in 1870
and named after the Estonian god of music and poetry, has three separate venues - The Big House, the
Small House and the Harbour Teater (Sadamateater).
Its reputation is for being at the cutting edge of European theatre and performance, with numerous acclaimed and ground-breaking productions staged against all manner of political and social landscapes! Over
350 productions (both produced and received) a year encompass all genres – drama, musicals, opera,
dance shows, comedy, live music etc. It also produces numerous outdoor and off-site shows and events
throughout the summer. The specification for new lighting in all the theatres was compiled by Paavo
Nõgene who, at the time, was Managing Director of Vanemuine and now prominent in the Ministry of Culture.
During the process, he consulted with Andres Sarv, Vanemuine’s current Head of Lighting and Margus
Vaigur, Head of Lighting at Teater Endla in Parnu, another of the state supported venues.
The requirement for the new equipment to be eco-friendly was right at the core of the document that went
out to tender. This was won by E&T, who proposed a package based on Robe’s latest technologies for
the moving light elements. Over 500 Robes in total were delivered across all eight venues.
Vanemuine’s Big House now has over 100 new Robe moving lights in its 660 capacity auditorium, including
56x LEDWash 1200s, 20x MMX Spots, 10x ROBIN 600E Spots, 24x ROBIN 600E Washes, 24x CitySkape
Xtremes – six of which are used to illuminate the front façade of the building – and two DigitalSpot 7000DTs.
In the first month of the installation being active, they saved 88% of electricity consumed for stage
lighting… impressive by any standards!
Having such a dynamic choice of fixtures available means the Big House can offer all visiting LDs a huge
choice of tools to light any performance with style and panache. For their own LDs, it greatly expands the
creative scope of the work they can produce … and accelerates the time needed to achieve good results.
The Harbour Teater now has 30 new Robe moving lights including eight DLX LED Spots, 12 LEDWash
600s, eight LEDWash 300s and two CitySkape Xtremes. The Small House, a beautiful 300 capacity Art
Nouveau style building has 40 new Robes including ROBIN 600E and 300E Spots and Washes and LEDWash 600s and 300s.
The overall project is also the biggest single sale to date in Robe’s history.
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63x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™, 55x ROBIN ® 1200 LEDWash™, 24x CitySkape Xtreme™,
20x ROBIN ® 600E Spot™, 20x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 18x ROBIN ® 300 LEDWash™,
8x ROBIN ® DLX Spot™, 2x DigitalSpot 7000 DT™
E&T
Estonia
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GH Hotel
Robe for the GH Hotel
Landmark Australian live music and performance venue The GH Hotel in St Kilda, Melbourne, took
delivery of twelve Robe DLX Spot moving lights, adding to the main room lighting rig. They were specified
by Technical Manager Jason Rooney and join 16 existing Robe ColorSpot 250E ATs, which joined the rig in
an upgrade of the whole lighting system earlier in the year.
The GH Hotel likes to offer the best quality technology and production values for all its shows. It’s open five
nights with a lively schedule of entertainment. Once Jason and his technical team saw the DLXs in action
- demonstrated by Robe’s Australian distributor The ULA Group - they knew these were the right moving
lights for the venue!
“We wanted a TV friendly moving light around the stage that had real power and punch for the reds, blues
and deeper saturates – the DLX is a huge step forward and the output is incredible,” he states. Jason handles lighting design and production for all GH’s events and operates many of the shows himself.
He loves the smooth iris and speed of the DLX’s versatile 10 – 45 degree zoom, and uses both these featuress
extensively in his shows, together with most of the others and also likes the super-sharp gobos. The DLXss
are positioned all around the main stage area on ladders above the upstage LED screen and on the FOH
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gantry for full coverage all around the room.
Legendary Brussels live music venue the Ancienne Belgique – commonly known as the AB – has 20 new
Robe ROBIN MMX Spot moving lights that have replaced the previous spot fixtures in a major lighting
system upgrade.
The AB’s 2000 capacity Main Room is one of the most prominent live music and performance venues in
Europe, featuring a plethora of profile artists. The venue stages over 300 live events a year featuring around
500 bands which are enjoyed by over 300,000 people! Around 90% of the artists visiting the AB use the
in-house lighting system, and approximately 75% of these will bring their own LDs, so it is vital that they stay
at the forefront of the latest technologies.
The decision to invest in Robe moving lights was a collective one made by all four members of the AB’s
in-house lighting technical team led by Kris Noerens. They reported their recommendations to the AB’s
Technical Director Marc Vrebos, who co-ordinated the deal. All the options were very carefully considered
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and several shoot-out comparisons took place before they committed, but all agreed on key features like
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the speed and smooth colour mixing of the MMX Spots.
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Other stand-out MMX features were its dual animation wheel, “The unit is great for specials and for creating
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sspecial FX,” comments Kris Noerens and Cedriek Stoffels (the AB’s incoming Head of Lighting), who also
lilike the speed and range of the iris movement.
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20x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™
Controllux
Belgium
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12x ROBIN ® DLX Spot™, 16x ColorSpot 250 AT TM
ULA Group
Australia
Robe MMX’s Specified for Ancienne Belgique
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Patronaat Venue
Košice Cathedral
Live at The Patronaat, Haarlem
Košice Shines for European Capital of Culture
MMX Spots, LEDWash 1200s and LEDBeam100s were chosen by Robin van der Plas, Head of Lighting and
Media at Patronaat, a popular renowned alternative music venue in central Haarlem, Netherlands, which
has received a technical revamp.
The magnificent Gothic Cathedral of St Elizabeth in Košice, Slovak Republic, became the glowing centrepiece of the city’s Opening Ceremony celebrations for its year as European Capital of Culture in
a spectacular Robe and Anolis LED lighting scheme.
Patronaat has two Concert Halls - at 950 and 350 capacity - both featuring an action-packed programme
of the latest sounds and contemporary music. The stage lighting is optimised to provide excellent environments for bands and DJ / dance performances alike. In addition to 300 plus live shows a year, the venue is
frequently hired out by TV production companies and corporate organisations.
The overall OC event lasted two days with over 1000 artists performing in 70 different locations in and
around the city. The Cathedral – the largest in Slovakia - was lit for the entire time in a design by Petr
Kolmačka, providing a jaw-dropping backdrop for the finale of the OC.
The lighting re-fit trebled the amount of moving lights in the house, with 36x Robe ROBIN MMX Spots,
18x ROBIN LEDWash 600s and 24x ROBIN LEDBeam 100s split between the two rooms.
Van der Plas assessed the various options when deciding on the new fixtures. He has also worked as a
freelance LD and been impressed with the quality and reliability of Robe. He likes the colours on all the
Robe fixtures and dual graphics wheel of the MMXs together with the incredible speed of the very compact
LEDBeam 100s, which remind him of the original moving mirror fixtures which everyone loved for being so
fast and reactive! He sought the opinions of Patronaat’s team of eight regular freelance LDs, programmers
and operators who liked features like the MMX’s zoom function and the hot spot control.
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LOCATION
18x CitySkape Xtreme™, 18x CitySource 96™ Integral, 6x CitySkape 48™ and Anolis LED fixtures
Robe CZ
Slovak Republic
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36x ROBIN ® MMX Spot™, 24x ROBIN ® 100 LEDBeam™, 18x ROBIN ® 600 LEDWash™
Controllux
Netherlands
The church - with its origins dating back to 1230 - is over 200 square metres in size and can accommodate
5000 people. It is located right in the heart of the City’s main street, dominating the vista. The lighting scheme was a massive success! The OC was broadcast live by national broadcaster RTVS and the Cathedral
llighting was enjoyed by approximately 60,000 people who flocked into Košice over the weekend event,
iincluding the Slovakian President, Ivan Gašparovič and a host of other politicians, dignitaries and VIPs.
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Lighting comprised 18x Robe City Scape Xtreme Wireless fixtures with 9 degree lenses, six Anolis ArcPad
Xtremes with 9 and 22 degree lenses, 18x Robe CitySource 96 Integrals, six Robe CitySkape 48s and
32 lengths of Anolis ArcLine Outdoor Optic 80 MC/SW 27°. Half the fixtures were run via Lumen Radio
wireless DMX to reducing cabling and the time needed for setup.
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Dear readers
Welcome to another incredible year for Robe – which has been our most
successful yet for product development and business in key markets
across all sectors!
Global Network
ROBE lighting is distributing directly all over the world through the stable network of distributors.
As ideas and commerce continue to flourish, our dynamic and talented ‘Robe
Family’ continues its dedication to building our brand with such a vitality and
passion, taking it to new levels of visibility and excellence.
The ROBIN product ranges have been expanded and further consolidated and
continue to become even more established as market leaders for quality and
innovation in their classes.
There have also been some inventive and different additions to the product lines, to ensure that we can also offer
more diversity and interesting applications of the technology and knowledge… whilst keeping our finger on the pulse
of global visual design trends. The factory and HQ has seen a major expansion programme to boost the production
capacities needed to keep pace with the growing demand for all our products.
We wrapped up an amazing 2012 ‘Working With Winners’ - a highly appropriate motto - and steamed into 2013,
experiencing the ‘best ever’ Prolight+Sound Exhibition in Frankfurt followed closely by hosting and co-organising
a very memorable Showlight 2013 in Cesky Krumlov - a fantastic introduction to the Czech Republic for many guests.
We go into PLASA 2013 in an exciting new venue… with a large and stylish new stand design, showcasing nine
innovative new products!
This year we also intend to launch new products at LDI, reflecting our growing success in the Americas – both North
and South.
As always at this time, I’d personally like to say a massive ‘thank-you’ to all those designers, creative and artistic
directors, installers, distributors, rental and production companies who have invested imagination, time and energy
in using and promoting our products worldwide. We also know that nothing stays still, and that to sustain, we need
to continue the process of actively listening to the constant feedback and communication on all levels, keep this
process proactive and bi-directional and take note of the opinions, thoughts and demands. We have our ears and
eyes open!
I also want to thank each and every one of the Robe Family members involved from our side - all the distributors
and our staff locally and internationally.
Everyone at Robe is vital to its strength and vibrancy, all are appreciated and valued, and I am extremely proud to
share my world with some very special
individuals.
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ALBANIA | ALGERIA | ARGENTINA | ARMENIA | ARUBA | AUSTRALIA | AUSTRIA | AZERBAIJAN | BAHRAIN
Josef Valchář
| BARBADOS | BELARUS | BELGIUM | BOLIVIA | BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | BRAZIL | BULGARIA |
General Manager, CEO
CAMBODIA | CANADA | CHILE | CHINA | COLOMBIA | CROATIA | CYPRUS | CZECH REPUBLIC | DENMARK
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | ECUADOR | EGYPT | ESTONIA | ETHIOPIA | FINLAND | FRANCE | GEORGIA |
GERMANY | GREECE |
GUATEMALA | HONDURAS | HONG KONG | HUNGARY | ICELAND | INDIA
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| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | UKRAINE | UNITED KINGDOM | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | URUGUAY |
UZBEKISTAN | VENEZUELA | VIETNAM
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2012 | 2013
ROBE lighting s. r. o. | Hážovice 2090 | Rožnov p. R. | Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 571 751 500 | Fax: +420 571 626 515 | E-mail: [email protected] | www.robe.cz
Published by ROBE lighting s. r. o., Czech Republic
October 2013 © ROBE lighting s. r. o.

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