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Utopium Lighting Ltd. Having been busy over the last month with their move to new premises, Utopium Lighting has also taken the opportunity to restructure the company, improving the procedures for maintenance and preparation of the equipment and customer support. Now housed in a 4000 square metre ‘open’ single storey warehouse they have the room to build and fly lighting rigs prior to shipping. Parking is ample, with room to turn their 45’ trailer outside. Invitations to the opening party will be landing on doormats soon!
On the touring front Zero 7 are out on tour for the second time this year, again serviced by Utopium. LD Stuart Farrell, operating an Avo Pearl, is using MAC500 and Studio Beams mounted on a semi- circle truss. Uriah Heep recently performed in Guernsey with equipment and crew from Utopium, with LD was Chris Bushell. Chris also worked with Utopium on the recent ‘Goldie Looking Chain’ tour.
Mercury Music Award Winner Dizzee Rascal has just finished his first UK Tour with Utopium and Leggy Armstrong.
Jonny Gaskell has chosen Utopium’s Pixel Drive control system on Embrace. The eight Pixel Lines are controlled from Utopium’s packaged control system. The Pixel Drive takes the signal from the desk, processes this through the Pixel Drive computer and outputs up to four DMX universes to run the images on the Pixel Line Battens. The main rig on Embrace is run from the Whole Hog II and Hog Extension Wing. Delirious, with LD Neil Whitehorn, used an Avolite D4 along with Radlite to run the show and video sequence along with the X-spots and Pixeline – all supplied by Utopium Lighting Ltd.
On the television front Daryl Noad has used Utopium for the four-part series of the Welsh TV show ‘Risg’ at Studio 1 in Cardiff. X-spots, Pixeline, P36 LED Chroma Cans and single ACL cans were used in the design with Theo Cox programming the Whole Hog II. The Royal Television Awards 2004 were held at the Cardiff Museum and Martyn Rourke had Utopium to light the event. He used a mixture MAC500s, MAC300s and conventional lighting on a six-leg 195’ ground supported Litebeam structure. John Davies continues to use Utopium for his work with Avanti TV. at the Pop Factory in Rhondda.
In the field of film premieres AD Events picked Utopium to service their events, which amongst others recently included a promo for the ‘Be Witched’ movie at Sounds Republic, a preview at Battersea Park of the latest BBC ‘Voyage to the Planets’ and the celebrity premiere of the animated movie ‘The Incredibles’. The new Tom Hanks movie for Christmas, ‘Polar Express’ premiered at Leicester Square where West Design asked Steve Hicks to design the show supplied by Utopium Lighting.
Bonfire kept Utopium busy - at the Hurlingham Club Fireworks Display with the Band of the Royal Marines and also with Robinson’s Juice at Alexander Palace. The former show was lit by Chris Bushell and used the new SGM-Palcos, along with High End X-spot Extremes and City Colors. Angus Chinn oversaw the Ally Pally Event for KLP, with a kit list of 20 City Colors, 12 Cyber Turbos and 144 Par 64s.
Elsewhere, Jack Dee performed at the Deloitte & Touché event at the Hilton Park Lane – lit by Matt Button and Utopium and LD Matt Button used a combination of 18 HES.PC Beams, 32 ETC Source 4s, 48 Thomas 4-cell cyc-lights and 36 1.2 kW Selecon Fresnels. Matt Button also used Utopium to light the Regent Street Christmas Lights and Jamie Cullam for Andy Cheeseman Productions.
Finally, The Mackenzie Group employed Utopium Lighting to install an Avolite D4 this month at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
22nd November 2004
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