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DINE AND DANCE AT TIGER BAY
The venue features nine distinct audio zones, which allow for flexible sound management across the different areas of the restaurant. These zones encompass both the ground and first floors, as well as the reception area and mezzanines on each, ensuring that every part of the venue can maintain a high standard of audio quality. To achieve all of this, Middlesex selected KV2’s ultra-compact ESD5 loudspeakers, which offer exceptional clarity and performance for both the upper and lower floors. The ESD Cube was also used in the design for its ability to blend into the venue’s decor while delivering premium audio quality. “The ESD Cube is discreet but powerful,” said Jones. “It’s ideal for a venue like Tiger Bay, where aesthetics are just as important as the performances.”
Tiger Bay, one of London’s late-night shisha lounges, has continued its expansion with the opening of a new venue in Enfield. Being more than just a restaurant, Tiger Bay has built a reputation as an exclusive party destination that combines dining and entertainment in a vibrant, late-night setting. “The client reached out to us via word of mouth, bringing a set of detailed drawings,” explained Toby Jones, AV designer at Middlesex Sound & Lighting, the team that’s responsible for the sound system installation. “They were looking for a distributed audio system that could maintain impeccable sound quality whether at low levels during the dining hours or cranked up for DJ sets later on. Plus, it needed to cater to both indoor and outdoor spaces in the shisha lounge.”
Live venues come in many different shapes and sizes, which doesn’t make life easy for lighting designers tasked with enhancing artistic performance by creating stunning light shows. For lighting designer Alex Conde, the solution to this problem is Light Shark, a range of DMX-based hardware lighting consoles manufactured by Spanish company Equipson. Conde recently used Light Shark when he was commissioned to design the lighting for the band Xeria, who are touring Spain to promote their new album Fuego . “My main responsibility was designing the layout of the lighting equipment, programming the lighting for each song and automating MIDI commands with Xeria’s Cymatic Audio LP-16 MIDI audio system and an iRig MIDI 2 adapter,” he said. “For this tour, Xeria are employing four Equipson Mark Beam 201 moving heads, eight Equipson Mark Mbar RGB 4 lighting bars and four Equipson Mark MF 1500 VT fog machines. “To ensure that the lighting set-up matched their music, I used the Light Shark LS-Core to create a complete set-up with static lighting and moving heads. As this tour visits venues and festivals with large stages, as well as pubs with small stages, it was important that the lighting could be adapted and adjusted to suit both types of space.” ILLUMINATING XERIA’S SPANISH TOUR
PARK PLAYGROUND EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
Following Center Parcs’ successful adoption of The Park Playground’s virtual reality solution at Hochsauerland in Germany in 2023, the leisure giant will integrate the solution at an additional location in Germany, Park Allgäu, this year. The system will also be integrated at two further locations in Oudenaarde, Belgium, through its partnership with Bowling Stones – a bowling destination with venues across Europe – and in Los Angeles through its partnership with Player One VR World, an immersive virtual reality destination. Player One VR World will mark The Park’s first location in the US.
Park’s technical VR workflow and its full library of immersive VR experiences as a way to enhance entertainment for up to 16 guests per hour. This means they can drive footfall and revenue at venues while benefiting from the solution’s minimal space and resource requirements. Launching The Park Playground into the US, Player One VR World’s new venue featuring The Park VR System will open on 14 October in Hollywood. It will integrate a two-field, 7x7m playing area to accommodate a range of The Park’s VR experiences, including its strategic esports-inspired virtual battle arena, Nanoclash Focus.
As consumers demand more social-led entertainment, the VR System helps any leisure location quickly and easily meet these expectations. The turnkey solution lets operators take advantage of The
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