Eventful Belgian Lighting Market

Apparently, Belgian rental house and production company D-Rent doesn’t like to give its Martin gear too long of a breather. D-Rent, which gets its Martin gear from Martin’s long time Belgian distributor EVDV, keeps the equipment busy on one event after another from special son et lumieres to corporate events to concerts.

M-kids Power Tour
Some 82 MAC 600 NT, 80 MAC 500 and 12 MAC 250 were used for a sold out show by kids group M-Kids at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, the biggest indoor venue in Belgium. The show was drawn and pre-programmed on the Martin ShowDesigner’s Offline Visualizer thus saving programming time in the venue. The rendered ShowDesigner pictures were then used for press presentations and billboard design.

Magisch Antwerpen
D-Rent recently employed their stable of MACs on a special son et lumiere, Magisch Antwepen, a sound and light spectacular held every spring in the port city of Antwerp. Some 18,000 people crowded the city hall square to see the show which featured 28 MAC 2000 Profile, 18 MAC 600, 72 MAC 250 and other intelligent lights in a visual extravaganza that included a ballyhoo of effects and colorwashing across the city hall and square.

Station Europa
For a midwinter fest held in a large Belgian open-air museum, event promoter Croissant Bleu produced a circus show called Station Europa. D-Rent used 24 MAC 250 Krypton, 20 MAC 600 NT, 12 MAC 500 and 6 Atomic strobes on a show that was performed five times a day for ten days with an average audience of 1,500 per show. The show was drawn and completely pre-programmed on the Martin ShowDesigner, which helped to shorten set-up and rehearsal time. Control was from a Martin Maxxyz desk with pre-production completed at EVDV.

Corporate Events
D-Rent also used 26 MAC 600 and 24 MAC 250 for a corporate event for telecommunication’s company Euphony Benelux, an event that combined live music, dancers, video animation and speeches.

And last but not least...snowboarding on the steps of Brussels’ Museum of Fine Arts? Why not? Some 24 MAC 250 Krypton, 12 MAC 600 and 4 MAC 500 were used for a Red Bull: Rail Battle of the Lowlands event, a snowboard contest on the stairs of the Brussels Museum of Fine Arts.