dbn Lighting Limited – Event Lighting Specialists

dbn Lighting is an event lighting company based in central Manchester in the United Kingdom.

We offer bespoke, high quality lighting and rigging design and hire/ rental services for the professional live events industry, primarily in the corporate, conference, exhibition, club/ party, rock & roll, outdoor event and theatre sectors.

Latest News

May 18, 2012

We’ve built a crane – out of truss.

Nick Todd designed a truss mother grid to support 25 massive verticle wooden poles installed into the Whitworth Art Gallery South Gallery space for Pascale Marthine Tayou’s installation that forms part of the forthcoming “We Face Forward” season of contemporary African art.  He also devised and built a special ‘crane’ made from slick minibeam trussing [...]

April 16, 2012

Passionate Rigging from dbn

  dbn provided the rigging skills and equipment to erect three 9m high crucifixes live, as part of the BBC’s Easter ‘Preston Passion’ show.  Nick Todd and James Collingwood worked with Walk The Plank to bring the Crucifixion to life on the roof of a Preston Car Park.  They designed a system based on Slick [...]

April 3, 2012

May the Color Force be with You!

We absolutely love Chroma-Q Color Force RGBA LED fixtures and now have even more of them – 28 of the CF72s, 12 of the CF48s and lots of CF12s. All versions offer a huge range of rich, saturated colours and are incredibly bright to give great transmission.  Perfect for uplighting cycs, backdrops and set elements.

Latest News

dbn has taken the plunge into the world of digital moving lights with the purchase of Robe Digispot 3000s. We were impressed with these fixtures when we first saw them, but now we’ve used them on live events we’re absolutely blown away!