You can see us at PLASA in September.

Steve Chapman July 10, 2024 Comments Off EK Community

Catch up with everything Electro Kabuki at PLASA 2024 this September. It’s London’s international event for entertainment technology and takes place at Olympia from 1^st to 3^rd September. You’ll find us in our usual location, on Stand A35.

As visitors to previous PLASA events will know, we run countless ‘flop & drop’ demonstrations through the show using our EK rig. Some people love to press the ‘fire’ button on the Firing Box, while others like to reset the EK modules and re-hang the drape ready for the next drop.

Because this demo is always so well-received and interactive, we’re rigging it up again this year. There’s nothing quite like a bit of hands-on action to get the feel of this sophisticated yet supremely simple-to-operate kabuki effects system. Of course, Flop & Drop is just one of the many configuration options open to users of Electro Kabuki.

It’s our pleasure to invite you to register for PLASA 2024 for free and get a full access pass, courtesy of us at Electro Kabuki, by using this SPECIAL LINK. The good news is that registration will continue to be free via this link even when the entry price increases.

You can find out more about PLASA 2024 on the event’s website here. And when you visit the website, watch the opening video to catch a glimpse of the Electro Kabuki Firing Box in action! (It’s about 7 seconds into the video roll).

Colour Sound Experiment uses EK at high-profile gigs.

Steve Chapman July 8, 2024 Comments Off EK Community

An interview with Alex Ryan of Colour Sound Experiment (London) proved engaging and informative. We were surprised to learn just how often the firm’s Electro Kabuki system is used in its staging work.

With EK so dependable, kabuki drop effects are actively recommended by Colour Sound Experiment, so EK features regularly in its staging for high-profile events. “It’s a stable product and we’ve used it for years,” says Alex, explaining that the company has around 100 EK modules deployed on international touring projects in the UK and the US.

Electro Kabuki features in Tom Odell’s current Black Friday tour (see video), was used recently by Colour Sound Experiment at Coachella California in April and for the Jungle set at this year’s Glastonbury, as well as for David Gray and Saxon in 2023.

We know that EK systems endure a challenging life on tour and at festivals. Alex says that occasional cable issues in the past, resulting from rough handling, have been eliminated by always using the End of Line Indicator (EOLI) to confirm all connections and cable integrity.

Successful training day for our Singapore & Asia distributor.

Steve Chapman July 4, 2024 Comments Off Distributor News, EK Community

We were delighted to be able to host Thomas Tan and Cheryl Fong of Audio Light Asia, our respected Electro Kabuki distributor for Asia based in Singapore. Thomas and Cheryl visited us for EK training. It is the first time we’ve met, and the day proved very productive.

The whole point of the Electro Kabuki system is that it’s designed to be straightforward to set up and simple (and dependable) to use. Nonetheless, training helps to convey just how easy it is to configure an effective kabuki drop. It also lets us introduce and demonstrate more sophisticated reveal effects, including staged drops and flop & drop configurations.

Although we’re all used to dealing with our business colleagues remotely, this training day with Thomas and Cheryl proved how enjoyable and effective it is to be able to collaborate in person. These top people at Audio Light (Thomas is MD, Cheryl a director) are now fully briefed on Electro Kabuki’s capabilities and ready to communicate that to their expanding Asia customer base.

Photo caption: Audio Light MD Thomas Tan (left), Director Cheryl Fong (centre) and Magnet Schultz EK specialist Tim Lloyd (right).

Great videos of kabuki drops from our friends in Canada.

Steve Chapman March 20, 2024 Comments Off EK Community

As the name suggests, our friends and industry colleagues at Curtain Call Creative Fabrics based in Vancouver and Ontario, Canada, are specialists in the provision of design, production and installation of drapes, backdrops and event textiles (amongst other things).

Naturally, many of the drapes and fabrics they produce are used in reveal effects, mostly kabuki drops using Electro Kabuki modules and system. Check out the ‘Reveals’ page on the company’s website for some great examples – including a simultaneous three-way Electro Kabuki reveal of an Air Canada airliner that took place in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Yes, we are exhibiting at PLASA 2023!

Steve Chapman June 29, 2023 Comments Off EK Community

Look out for Electro Kabuki at the PLASA 2023 show in September. You’ll find us on Stand A35.

As visitors at the last two years of PLASA events will know, our flop & drop demonstrations are highly engaging and interactive. That’s why we’re rigging it up again this year.

Come and see the effectiveness of a two-stage kabuki reveal for yourself – and feel free to press the Fire button. In fact, make sure you do because there’s nothing quite like a bit of hands-on action to get the feel of this sophisticated yet supremely simple-to-operate kabuki effects system. Flop & Drop is just one of the many configuration options open to users of Electro Kabuki.

This year’s PLASA event takes place live at London Olympia from Sunday 3rd to Tuesday 5th September 2023. Electro Kabuki is on Stand A35. Be sure to visit when you attend the show.

Should you hire or buy Electro Kabuki? It depends…

Steve Chapman June 14, 2022 Comments Off EK Community

If you need to stage a reveal or curtain drop while being absolutely certain that your effect will work perfectly first time every time, you really have no choice about the mechanics: it must be Electro Kabuki.

if you don’t already own EK, you have a choice. Do you hire or should you purchase?

There are arguments in favour of each. It comes down to the scale of your kabuki drop rig or how often you’ll be rigging these types of theatrical reveals.

Kabuki Drop on Strictly Final.

Steve Chapman December 20, 2021 Comments Off EK Community

We were delighted to see a kabuki drop used to truly great effect in the ‘Strictly’ 2021 Final this weekend.

Dependable as ever. Check it out during John and Johannes’s show dance routine on the YouTube clip at the 44-second mark…

Presidential appointment for Electro Kabuki in France.

Steve Chapman October 14, 2021 Comments Off EK Community

The French high-speed train network (TGV) celebrates its 40^th anniversary this year. That railway milestone was commemorated in style with a special unveiling of a new TGV train at an event attended by France’s President, M. Emmanuel Macron. The drop was rigged by our good friends at Blackout France using Electro Kabuki to ensure a faultless reveal.

As you can see from a post on President Macron’s own Instagram account, the result was ‘parfait’.

The train unveiled is the TGV-M, a new class of high-speed train due to enter service across France in 2023. President Macron’s Instagram post calls it “The TGV of the future” that will be “more accessible, more connected and more ecological.”

New rigging company chooses Electro Kabuki.

Steve Chapman August 17, 2021 Comments Off EK Community

We have a new direct Electro Kabuki customer in Erlend Webb, director of newly formed business Webb’s Rigging Ltd and a highly regarded professional in the rigging sector.

While Webb’s Rigging may be a new business in the events industry, Erlend is not. In fact, he’s a veteran with more than 20 years of experience in TV productions, theatre, film and live events including rock & roll tours and Olympic ceremonies – and he is acutely familiar with Electro Kabuki.

Erlend set up his business in March 2020, which unfortunately coincided with the arrival of the first coronavirus lockdown. Despite the difficulties imposed by Covid on the events sector, Erlend’s reputation and expertise have kept him busy over the past 18 months.

He has used Electro Kabuki many times over the years, predominantly with his work in TV using rented EK systems or EK kits belonging to studios or venues. That’s why the dependable system became his kabuki drop solution of choice for any rigging project that required curtains, drapes or props to be released with precision timing.

Are those green shoots we see?

Steve Chapman March 5, 2021 Comments Off EK Community

Some of the glimmers of hope we saw at Electro Kabuki HQ over the first couple of months of this year have turned into a reassuring resurgence of interest.

In the past weeks, we have received EK enquiries from companies in Norway, the United Arab Emirates and in the US. We know that the customer in Norway has rented Electro Kabuki systems in the past and is now looking to purchase its own system for tours planned later this year. We look forward to that order.

This week, we are packaging up a full Electro Kabuki demonstration system and sending it off to the Dutch National Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam.

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