Harrison Ford could have been killed when he was crushed by a hydraulic door on the set of the Millennium Falcon spaceship while filming the most recent Star Wars film, a court has heard. Ford was reprising his role as Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in June 2014 when he was knocked [...]
UK - WI has supplied staging, elevators and extensive automation elements to the Take That ‘Wonderland’ tour which kicked off at the Genting Arena, Birmingham. The lively, colourful carnivalesque aesthetic is the vision of the band’s creative director Kim Gavin and the result of some serious creative and technical talents who have collaborated to bring [...]
Writer Farzana Naz, who sustained severe head and back injuries after falling from a stage at an event, has passed away. Naz's fall took place at the closing ceremony of a literary festival at Islamabad's Pak-China Friendship Hall. She fell from a 12ft high stage. The 36-year-old writer was immediately rushed to Shifa International Hospital [...]
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says he plans to appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court a state Court of Appeals ruling that could leave taxpayers on the hook for millions of dollars more in damages from the 2011 stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair. In a 2-to-1 decision, the justices determined the [...]
On the 30th of January 2017, BLUMANO participated in the conference “Hoisting Technique: 10 years later”, which was organised by VPT, the Dutch association for stage technology. The keynote speech was given by BLUMANO’s director, Cristiano Giavedoni, who entertained the large audience with a presentation called “Safety in Machinery: The Lost Island”, that discussed four [...]
ETC, Inc. has established the David North Memorial Scholarship for Lighting Technology at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. ETC's intention in making this gift is to provide financial need-based support for the study of lighting technology in memory of our longtime employee and friend, David A. North, a North Carolina gentleman [...]
UK based and international entertainment industry, engineering design and safety specialist and consultant, BLUMANO Ltd., is expanding and restructuring its operation. The move brings the service of systems control in-house, with software and hardware expert, Lluis Diaz-Guerra, and his company, Copinya, in to the BLUMANO organisation. It also coincides with a general BLUMANO rebranding and [...]
Rock concert props can be dazzling, but also dangerous. During Yes' 1974 tour, drummer Alan White once found himself trapped inside a large seashell – inspiring a similar debacle in mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. Muse achieved their own moment of stage infamy during their Thursday show at London's 02 Arena, as a large, blimp-shaped [...]
At any rock concert, the probability of walking through piss puddles, getting kicked by a stranger or being vomited on is pretty high, but at a Mötley Crüe concert, these events are expected. The legendary rock band’s final show at Los Angeles’ Staples Center was no exception. During drummer Tommy Lee’s solo, his infamous drum [...]
Two people were killed and more than 20 injured when a circus tent collapsed in a storm during a performance in New Hampshire. Authorities said about 100 people were inside the tent at the Lancaster Fairground, about 90 miles north of the state capital in Concord, when it fell down on Monday. The US National Weather [...]
