Having been to Stage Electrics Pie and Pint event the other day, I thought it only fair I pop along to Northern Light’s ‘Plug and Play’ jolly at the rather beautiful College Quad in Edinburgh.
On arrival I immediately bumped into Ashley Lewis from Clay Paky, Alex Cowan from Pixel Range and Tom from iPix. This was the second of the two day event and I was pleased to hear that Ashley and Co had been enjoying everything Edinburgh Festival had to offer! They were certainly in very high spirits when I arrived!
This was hardly surprising given Northern Light was providing some delicious Scottish single malts, fabulous locally sourced food including: smoked salmon, haggis and cheeses plus the usual array of wine, beer and soft drinks. For those interested in the technical side there was also a wide range of lighting and sound products on show.
Ashley Lewis showed the range of Clay Paky 300, 1200 – spot and wash fixtures, Avolites Stephen Baird Smith demonstrated the new Art 2000 power cube and Alex Cowan of Pixel Range previewed the company’s latest architectural LED fixture – to be launched at PLASA – along with the Pixel Par, PixelLine 1044, 110 amongst others. He was very impressed with the event and said . . .
Also going great guns was Peter Kirkup product manager for Zero 88, who was offering what proved to be very popular demos of the new Orb desk. This product seems to be taking off in a big way across the theatre lighting industry – more about that tomorrow.
Nick Read who took on the role of head of hire and events at Northern Light last October said . . . (coming soon!)
