We have just taken delivery of some brand new moving lights – yet more ClayPaky Alpha Range fixtures.  This time they’re QWO800s to complement our stocks of 300, 575, 700, and 1200 fixtures – and we love them already.  As well as having the longest, most unwieldy name of any moving light currently on the market, they offer exceptional brightness from an 800w lamp in a fixture the same size as our Alpha Profile 700s (i.e. very small/compact), and are super quiet!  They have an incredible zoom range that goes all the way from really, really narrow right up to stupidly wide and this, coupled with the Dynacue system, allows for the creation of some really unique effects.  Of course, being from ClayPaky, the QWOs (for short) are packed with all the other high quality features you hope for in a moving light – rich, vibrant colours, fast movement, cosmic effects and a really intuitive control interface.  We can’t wait to get pointing them at stuff – look aout for them appearing at a show near you soon!

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 to raise the 200kg poles to the verticle prior to their attachment to the mother grid.  He was assisted on site by Chief Crane Driver Pete Isherwood, and Pete Robinson.

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 Mini-Beam trussing and used our new Broadweigh wind & load monitoring equipment to ensure safety at all times and in all weathers.

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.

Some Color Force - one of each

A big load of truss including 2 Folding Truss Hinge pieces

We have just taken delivery of a brand new Ground Support Truss System.   Manufactured by Slick we have six, up to 12m high 2tonne G/S Towers along with the option of Folding or Mini-Beam truss for the horizontal elements, including some beautiful Folding Truss Hinge Pieces pictured above.  It arrived in the warehouse last week and immediately went out again to work on the Easter run of the new Warehouse Project in a top secret Manchester location.  We’ve got plenty of bookings lined up for it over summer and into the Autumn too.  Very exciting news for people like us who like truss!

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!