The already excellent training facilities for the theatre course have recently been boosted with the purchase of 20 x Robe DL4X Spots and 20 x LEDWash 300s which are being utilized for teaching on all the course’s Lighting modules. The 250 or so Technical Theatre students – it’s the largest such course in the Netherlands - also benefit from being able to use the TV broadcast and recording studios...
Quantum P1 pilot-navigators Vin Burdock and John Donnelly also currently hold the National and World Water Speed Records for the Panther P1 race boat class – established last year at Coniston Water in Cumbira during Records Week. They smashed the previous record set in 2013 - and were awarded a silver star from the RYA Powerboat division. With the first P1 UK Championship race of 2016 completed in...
The company was founded in 2009 by Justin Fish whilst still studying at the University of Cape Town. Graduating in 2011, Ampere’s growth trajectory has been impressive and interesting, currently with 30 full time employees and a busy order book ranging from top end corporate events to trendy music festivals! Entering the offices of the industrial unit in Paarden Eiland, you immediately realise it...
Around 150 shows covering a wide array of performance genres are staged annually, an eclectic mix ranging from rock ‘n’ roll to choral music, shows to drama, musicals, stand-up comedy and dance – a massive cross section involving a host of one-nighters to much longer runs of 2 or 3 weeks. Last year, the CTC invested in its first moving lights …which were Robe! These were specified by head of...
The company has enthusiastically embraced Robe as an in-house brand – with LEDWash 600s, MMX Spots, LEDBeam 100s - and was an early adopter of Robe’s game-changing BMFL series fixtures. MPH started as ‘Matt’s Party Hire’ 11 years ago with the fabulously tongue-in-cheek trestle table and balloons logo for which Matt is still known and loved, a free-spirited attitude to life plus a selection of...
Mr. Bilyk has enjoyed a long and successful career in the entertainment lighting market working for numerous leading companies including most recently a fifteen year stint as the Canadian Sales Manager for Dallas-based Vari-Lite. Robe North America CEO Bob Schacherl commented “I’ve had the pleasure of both knowing and working with John most of my professional career. He has a deep and extensive...
This new sale follows Storm’s initial Robe purchases made in 2014, of LEDBeam 100s, LEDWash 600s and Pointes. These fixtures have all been a great success, and impressed with their reliability and the excellent customer service from Robe UK, Storm founders Dave Knapp and Pete Kramer decided to continue their commitment to the brand. The BMFL Blades and LEDBeam 1000s replace some older moving...
One of their new customers is Medio Angular, a rental company based in the Las Aguilas area of DF (Mexico City), run by Juan Pablo Guzman (AKA Paul) … which has recently bought Pointes and LEDWash 300s. When you rock up to Medio Angular’s office – it looks like an ordinary roller shutter garage door on a quiet residential street – full of leafy trees and cool cars. The other side of the door is a...
This harmonises LMP’s technical support across the Robe product range - with Robe’s own renowned worldwide ‘certified’ training programme, qualifying the company to set up its own training sessions, issue official Robe product training certificates and give full access to Robe’s Technical Centre. In addition to the LMP staff, technicians from four key German rental companies attended the product...
In the theatre world, Robe’s highly refined DL series of LED luminaires - built for the theatre and performance sector - bring all the advantages of LED technology combined with the accuracy, finesse and quality that theatre professionals demand. Robe has listened carefully to all these requirements in order to perfect the DL series, with super-smooth dimming curves, silent running, excellent...