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Robert Juliat and Ambersphere Solutions have announced an exclusive agreement that will enable Ambersphere Solutions to represent French manufacturer Robert Juliat throughout the UK. This agreement enables Ambersphere to extend its unique sales, service, support and training facilities to cover all Ro

Award-winning lighting designer James Thompson is using pure beam Clay Paky Sharpys to throw laser like beams across the audience in his show design for The Script’s current sell-out world tour.

“I’m having the time of my life with these,” said an ebullient Simon Tutchener, lighting designer for Mark Knopfler. “I’m still getting to know the lights but everything I’ve seen so far is just what I was expecting.”

It’s arrived. A new member of the family joins the legendary Sharpy from Clay Paky: it imitates its speed, weight and size but fills the space beyond 6deg making it the obvious choice to complement the Sharpy’s beam capacity. With a range from 6.5deg to 50deg the Sharpy Wash is designed by the boffins at the Clay Paky optical lab to be the flip-side to the Sharpy coin. The 330W lamp equals the output of a 1000W luminaire and weighing in at only 18.5 Kg it is the ideal tourable unit.

Peter Barnes really is one of those lighting designers who needs little introduction. Dubbed as ‘the UK’s guru of pop lighting’, Barnes has been lighting shows for nearly forty years; it is safe to say that he knows more than a thing or two about what works well on a stage. Equally at home on the big event spectacular, the Saturday night TV talent show or the touring stage production, Barnes has an enviable reputation amongst his peers.

English indie rock band Bloc Party are currently in the midst of their biggest, most ambitious tour to date. The ‘Four’ Tour completed 2012 in Mexico and, so far, 2013 has taken them across the USA then on to Europe, via Japan. The end of February will see the band playing to a 19,000 strong audience at Earls Court before March escorts the tour down to Australia and the Far East.

The jump from just eight shows to twenty-five, forced by overwhelming demand for tickets, is as powerful an indication as any that Gary Barlow is very much in the zeitgeist of contemporary pop music.

It is becoming difficult to turn on the TV on a Saturday night and not be treated to a dazzling display of that virtuoso moving light, the Clay Paky Sharpy. Flexible, bright, power and size friendly, their use is limited only by the imagination of the lighting designer.

Viva Forever!, the musical based on the songs of the Spice Girls, had its World Premiere in London's West End on 11 December and has the audiences dancing in the aisles and happily humming the whole way home.

Ambersphere Solutions will be demonstrating their commitment to excellent customer service with a series of regional open days throughout 2013. The first one will take place in Glasgow on Tuesday 19th February between 11am and 4pm at the Scottish Ballet’s headquarters (Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE).

It has been three monumental years for Manchester stalwarts Elbow. Yet whatever their successes, a more unassuming and firmly grounded band you could not wish to meet. This doesn’t mean they’re averse to the odd risk, as show designer Cate Carter found out on their recent flurry of UK arena dates.

As every good conductor knows, even the most tried and trusted musical score can warrant a revisit from time to time. The same is true of production, as has happened on the latest outing of Classical Spectacular.

Buckinghamshire based Lightsmiths, owned by Bruce Rutter, has made a significant investment in Clay Paky’s first professional LED lighting fixtures.

Challenge anyone to name a landmark tour from the 1980’s and many will say Peter Gabriel’s ‘SO’ Tour. Lighting fixtures played a starring role on that tour thirty years ago, interacting with Gabriel from a number of strategically place lighting booms that were integral to the stage set.

Ambersphere Solutions has had a tremendously busy year, serving the needs of their regular customers whilst getting involved in many of the high profile 2012 summer events that took place across the UK. And with Christmas just round the corner, they are pleased to announce their Christmas Open Day!

It’s exciting times in the TV lighting world with the news that Chris Rigby, Gurdip Mahal, Ross Williams and Nick Edwards have joined forces to create Aurora Lighting Associates Ltd.

Among the most memorable live extravaganzas of 2012 will be the four Ceremonies that opened and closed the London Olympic and Paralympic Games, all featuring lighting designed by Patrick Woodroffe.

A.LEDA is the Clay Paky RGBW-LED moving head range featuring three models: A.Leda Wash K5 (150W, 3,500 lm, 12° beam angle), A.Leda Wash K10 (350W, 9,000 lm) and A.Leda Wash K20 (600W, 18,000 lm).

Ambersphere Solutions is pleased to announce that Matt Cowles has joined the company, effective Monday 3rd September.

In one of the biggest comebacks of recent times, the Stone Roses chose to work with renowned Lighting Designer Paul Normandale to design what can only be described as a awe-inspiring light and video show to complement their highly anticipated reunion tour this summer.

Ambersphere Solutions has recently worked with Entec Sound & Light to supply a number of GlowUp fixtures used for a premium jewellery product showcase.

As part of their on-going commitment to providing ‘quality products with total support’, and following a ‘sold out’ schedule of courses during the spring, Ambersphere Solutions is set for a busy summer, offering training for the MA Lighting products that they distribute exclusively throughout the UK.

Clay Paky Sharpys, sporting Union Jack coverings, shone brightly alongside some of the world’s most famous pop royalty to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee.

Having just reported its best month of trading ever, Ambersphere Solutions Ltd is looking forward to exhibiting at the ABTT Theatre Show, taking place at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, London on 13th and 14th June.

Rapper and Singer/Songwriter ‘Example’ has kicked off his first ever arena tour with a stunning lighting system designed by imaginative LD Graham ‘Grum’ Leesmith.

Siyan, long term customer of Clay Paky has recently increased their investment in Clay Paky products, alongside a brand new purchase of the grandMA2 light, all from Ambersphere Solutions.

It’s an exciting expansion time for new company Dry Hire Lighting, as they announce a significant purchase of Clay Paky products from exclusive Clay Paky UK distributor Ambersphere Solutions.

British rock/hardcore band Enter Shikari have been lighting up Hammersmith Apollo on the latest date of their current tour, before they embark upon a summer of festivals across the UK and Europe.

Ambersphere Solutions, the exclusive distributor for MA Lighting products into the UK, has been overwhelmed by demand for the recently launched MA onPC command wing.

Ambersphere’s regional tour of the UK continues in March and April with two headline appearances – at the Black Light Open day in Scotland, and at PLASA Focus in Leeds.

Elstree Light & Power has recently invested in a significant number of Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1500s, supplemented by a healthy order of Sharpys.

Sam Tamplin, Lighting Designer and MD of flourishing Brighton-based rental company TSL Ltd has just returned from a successful tour of France and the UK with the popular Church band ‘Worship Central On Tour’, accompanied by his recent purchase, the grandMA2 lighting desk.

In a new initiative to introduce the latest MA Lighting and Clay Paky products to their customers in a ‘hands on’ environment, Ambersphere Solutions have announced a series of regional showcases in performance venues throughout the UK.

Demonstrating their commitment to supplying Clay Paky and MA Lighting products across the UK entertainment market, Ambersphere Solutions are pleased to welcome Kent based company Automated to the growing list of Ambersphere customers.

For all of those parents out there wondering if their teenagers will venture out from their bedrooms for anything other than food or presents this Christmas, the answer is yes, but only briefly.