Eve ~nts 02 32Tele~ celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2014 vision WE ARE ALL very proud of this landmark achievement, the largest Robe Review to date, featuring a fantastic new Sta and this is a big shout-out to everyone who has made it design and look. happen over the years and shared the enormous passion, The last 12 months have been among the most exciting in ~ge commitment and imagination that has helped develop and Robe’s history. We have focused on building our team and push our brand ~ and our ‘family’ ~ forward. 48 adding the experience and energy of some highly talented Thanks to all of you ~ your hard work and foresight is a people, ramping up several gears… in anticipation of constant inspiration. launching the BMFL series. 83 ~ Welcome to our 2013-14 Robe Review. It is a snapshot of We are very much looking forward to the next year and the Fest some of the diverse and innovative projects and contexts in future, to realising more dreams, expanding our community, ~ivals which our products have been used over the last year. and naturally, also to keeping firmly grounded! This is a bumper-edition of the Robe Review ~ 132 pages We will be continuing the great communication we enjoy of news, action and comment highlighting the dedication with our distributors, lighting designers, end users and all The~96 of many individuals, companies and organisations. It is interested parties - current, potential and future. atre Please enjoy reading! Josef Valchář 109Clu General Manager, CEO ~bs Chu116 ~rch ROBE12 REVIEW13 -14 Cont come Ven ~acts ~ue 121 128 Wel Photo Credit: © Louise Stickland 04 06 08 09 10 11 Glasgow 2014 Glasgow 2014 Latin Grammy Sochi Olympic Beira-Rio Metro FM Awards Opening Ceremony Closing Ceremony Awards 2013 Park in Prague Stadium Opening 2014 Scotland Scotland USA Czech Republic Brazil South Africa Eve 12 14 15 16 17 18 Beiteddine Premios 40 ALMA Battersea DanceValley Top Gear Live! Art Festival Principales Event Awards 2013 Power Station Netherlands European Tour ~ Eve Lebanon Spain USA Thank You Concert nts UK 20 21 22 23 24 26 ntsROBE was very proud to have its products with the pre-production models undergoing a rigorous of the highest profile Awards shows like the American specified and used imaginatively and with great beta testing process during their four weeks installed in Country Awards and the CMT Music Awards; in ~ the rig at Celtic Park ahead of the Opening. South Africa they’ve starred at the Metro FM Awards, 'Polio Free' TPI Awards American A State Happy New Year South African impact on such a diversity of events worldwide the Crown Gospel Awards, the Ghoema Awards and Campaigns 2014 Country Awards of Trance 650 Berlin! Business Awards over the last 12 months… and the highlights are Tim and his team worked tirelessly under some serious many more; while in the UK, Robe was again the major really too numerous to list in any entirety. pressure to ensure the lightshows for both Ceremonies sponsor of the industry’s own Total Production (TPi) India UK 2013 Netherlands Germany 2014 were amazing as well as appropriate, and it was a very Awards, providing over 300 of the latest fixtures to However, if I had to pick a stand-out event, and a special moment for all in the company to see our new the event. seminal moment for brand development, it was probably fixtures play such an instrumental and impressive role. the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2014 In Europe, Robe products were used to illuminate the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Other major events with large fixture counts included majestic setting for the Summer Night Concert at the launch of the Estádio Beira Rio in Porto Alegre, 27 28 29 30 Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna for the fourth consecutive Robe worked closely with Lighting Designer Tim Brazil, ahead of the 2014 FIFA Soccer World Cup, year… And other magical Robe moments and settings ROBE Routledge to realise his design with the supply of over which saw another dazzling lightshow, this one created have included helping India celebrate the landmark Australian NBL CMT Music Summer Night KHL All Stars 12 13 -14 500 additional fixtures to the Ceremonies which were by Patrick Woodroffe working with Sao Paulo based of being Polio Free for three years, and visiting the REVIEW produced by Jack Morton Worldwide, and have been Lighting Designer Cesio Lima and leading Brazilian rental Championship Awards 2014 Concert 2014 Ice Hockey fabulous Beiteddine Palace in the mountains of Lebanon REVIEW hailed as the best to date of any Commonwealth Games. company, LPL. 2014 USA Austria Slovak Republic 13 -14 12 - on the rig at the 2014 Beiteddine Art Festival. It was also the highest profile soft-launch of theBMFL , In the US, Robe fixtures have graced the rigs on some ROBE 02 03 SCOTLAND Raising the Games 64 x ROBIN® BMFL SpotTM 183 x ROBIN® Pointe® Sixty-four BMFL Spots were among over 500 Robe moving lights 100 x ROBIN® 100 LEDBeam™ right at the heart of the stunning Opening Ceremony lightshow 98 x ROBIN® 600 LEDWash™ designed by Tim Routledge for the 2014 Commonwealth Games 60 x ROBIN® CycFX 8™ at Celtic Park stadium in Glasgow. 28 x ROBIN® 1000 LEDBeam™ Distributor: Robe UK ~ Eve THE two hour highly visual show, produced by global brand At the back of the stage was a 95 metre wide by 10.5 high LED nts experience agency Jack Morton Worldwide (JMW) and directed by screen with another 40 Pointes on a goal-post style truss structure nts Eve David Zolkwer featured a cast of 2,000 plus special guests including that were used for illuminating the field-of-play action, for animated ~ Rod Stewart and Susan Boyle, offering a snapshot of the history, beam effects and specials like ‘crowning’ the Commonwealth flag character, culture, industry, quirkiness and humour of Scotland. It when at the top of its mast. The flag itself was lit with eight dedicated presented the 4500 athletes from 71 participating nations to a live LEDBeam 1000s around the base. audience of over 40,000 plus around two billion TV viewers. Twenty LEDBeam 1000s formed a semi-circle behind HM The Joining the amazing brand new BMFLs were 28 of Robe’s new Queen’s Arrival Stage. After she went up to the Royal Box, the screen LEDBeam 1000s. Tim also used 183 x Pointes, 100 x LEDBeam was removed and the LEDBeam 1000s formed a powerful nucleus 100s, 98 x LEDWash 600s and 60 x CycFX 8s, together with other for generating aerial looks. lighting fixtures to create one of the most spectacular Commonwealth At one metre intervals running along the front of the stage were Games Opening Ceremonies ever. the 100 x LEDBeam 100s - their tiny size meant they were neat and The BMFLs were positioned along the very highest layer of lighting unobtrusive on camera. on a specially rigged platform at the back of the venue’s seating bowl, Sixty CycFX 8s were strategically rigged in Vom 2, the main Athlete’s from where the 1700W lightsources easily cut through to illuminate Parade entrance into the stadium, utilised for vibrant chases boosting all the pitch action, a good 85 - 100 metres away. They were also the vibe and excitement as the athletes walked out to a tumultuous clearly visible in daylight during the first half of the show. Scottish welcome. “Super-bright, very fast and with a great selection of colours, gobos Immediately above each of the two entrance/exit voms were another and other effects,” states Tim. ten Pointes and six LEDWash 600s. ROBE Also on this level were 96 x LEDWash 600s, primarily used for Routledge worked with a control team of three - Lead Programmer 12 13 -14 lighting the underside of the seating stand roof. Jonathan Rouse, Programmer Tom Young and the project’s Design REVIEW At floor level, Routledge used the majority of his Pointes in 16 Associate and follow spot caller Chris Henry. REVIEW clusters of six (in weather domes) positioned all round three sides of “Robe was extremely enthusiastic about the project and offered 13 -14 12 the field providing most of the low level eye candy. “As always, the some fantastic opportunities to work with new and innovative ROBE Pointes were hugely versatile and worked very hard”. technologies,” concluded Tim. 04 Photo Credit: © Louise Stickland 05 x ROBIN® BMFL SpotTM 64 SCOTLAND 96 x ROBIN® 100 LEDBeam Praising the Games ™ 50 x ROBIN® CycFX 8™ Eleven days after the highly acclaimed Opening Ceremony for the Glasgow 2014 30 x ROBIN® 600 LEDWash™ Commonwealth Games… it was time for the Closing Ceremony, with lighting 28 x ROBIN® 1000 LEDBeam™ 4 x ROBIN® Pointe® again designed by Tim Routledge and featuring Robe’s BMFLs together with Pointes, Robe UK LEDBeam 100s, LEDBeam 1000s, CycFX 8s and LEDWash 600s. Distributor: ~ Eve THE Closing Ceremony was staged at Hampden Park Stadium, a they could have maximum impact. nts completely different venue from the opening, with a heavily music nts The remaining 14 were positioned on the stage floor at the back, right Eve based presentation and a complete contrast to the Opening. behind the main artist performance area. Their incredible brightness ~ The vibrant energy-pumping show included appearances by some registered even as the show was starting in daylight, and as well as of Scotland’s finest music stars including the evergreen Lulu, creating plenty of razzmatazz for the music sets they also looked rockers Deacon Blue and trendy Glasgow electro-synth band Prides.