Blackburn UK based lighting rental company HSL is supplying all lighting equipment and crew to Production North for the current 6 week UK tour by massively popular boyband JLS. HSL's project manager Mike Oates says, "It's good to be back on the road with the Production North team and working alongs [ ... ]

A comprehensive Technical Training Workshop covering the cutting-edge Kinesys automation system will be staged on March 1st & 2nd 2010 in Blackburn, at the premises of leading UK lighting rental company, HSL. The Training is open to all interested parties. It has been designed to work as a 1 or a 2 [ ... ]

HSL supplied lighting and video equipment plus crew, and designed a bespoke DJ booth for two recent sold-out incendiary performances by The Swedish House Mafia at London's Brixton Academy. The shows were presented and produced by Cream and Loudsound Events and HSL was working for technical co-ordin [ ... ]

Blackburn, UK based lighting rental company HSL supplied lighting equipment, a Kinesys automation system and crew to the final leg of Snow Patrol's 2009 world tour, named "Snow Patrol Reworked".  This follows HSL's servicing of all the band's UK and European sections across the whole tour, which ki [ ... ]

Blackburn UK based lighting rental company HSL supplied lighting equipment and crew to the latest UK White Lies tour, which featured a spectacular, high-impact, edgy, lighting design - based primarily on white and near white light - by Chris Megginson. HSL was brought in to work with White Lies by  [ ... ]

Blackburn, UK based lighting rental company HSL supplied all lighting and necessary rigging - including 8 A&O 7K Falcon Beams and Flowers and over 100 Robe moving lights for a DVD and Holiday TV Special performance by Sting at Durham Cathedral.  Lighting designer for the two shows was Manfred "Oll [ ... ]

HSL continues its touring relationship with legendary Bristol-based electronic/trip-hop collective Massive Attack, supplying all lighting equipment and crew to the current UK and European tour, working with lighting designer Robin Haddow. Says HSL project manager Mike Oates, "It's great to be workin [ ... ]

HSL supplied all lighting for the Stereophonics incendiary homecoming show at Cardiff Castle, Wales, UK last weekend - including 8 of the new Robe ROBIN 300E Beam moving lights, which made their UK show debut, specified by LD Tim Routledge.The gig celebrated the band's forthcoming album "Keep Calm & [ ... ]

HSL supplied all lightingand necessary rigging for the recentNordoff-Robbins Music Therapy "Rockwell" fund-raising event at London'sO2 arena. Technical productionwas co-ordinated by Production North and the lighting design was by Peter Barnes. The show united a galaxy of stars - including Tom Jones, [ ... ]

Leading UK lighting rental company HSL supplied site wide equipment for the main stage, 5 indoor arenas and 2 outdoor terraces at the 2009 Global Gathering dance extravaganza, staged at Long Marsden Airfield in Warwickshire.  Once again, HSL was working for Electric Fly Productions, whose Nick Jev [ ... ]

Leading UK lighting rental company HSL has made a substantial investment in Robe’s new Digital Series products – including 6 DigitalSpot 7000DTs and 36 REDWash 3.192s along with 16 REDBlinder 2.96’s – primarily for the Pussycat Dolls European “Doll Domination” tour, for which they were s [ ... ]

HSL Supplies Lemar tour Blackburn, UK based HSL is supplying lighting equipment and crew to the current Lemar UK theatre tour.  It is the first time HSL and Producers Production North have worked on a Tour together. HSL`s Project Manager Mike Oates comments; "It's a great pleasure to be working  [ ... ]

Leading UK rental company HSL is supplying lighting equipment – including Robe and Vari*Lite moving lights and an MA Lighting grandMA console - to the current Bill Kenwright UK touring production of “Cabaret”. The lighting design for this version of the hugely popular musical, set on the cus [ ... ]

HSL supplied substantial quantities of ColorWeb and ChromaStrip LED products to the latest ratings-busting series of "Britain's Got Talent" - the high profile and super-hyped final of which saw teenage dance troupe Diversity beat hot favourite, singer Susan Boyle.The series, presented by comedy duo  [ ... ]

HSL supplied moving and digital lights plus LED elements to the latest series of "0 ond 1", a Welsh language travel quiz show produced by Boomerang for S4C. The rig was specified by lighting designer Martyn Rourke and the 8 shows were recorded in a week at Omni Studios near Cardiff, Wales.Rourke's  [ ... ]

HSL continues a busy 2009 theatre season supplying lighting to a number of productions including the UK tour of Evita, being produced by Bill Kenwright.A very tasty lighting design was created by Mark Howett which perfectly captures the mood and feel of 1940’s Buenos Aires. The tour is project ma [ ... ]

 Leading UK lighting rental company HSL is supplying lighting, a 26-point Kinesys automation system and crew to one of 2009’s most visually exciting world tours to date – Snow Patrol’s “One Hundred Million Suns”. This has kicked off in the UK and Europe with a provocative, molten mix of  [ ... ]

HSL continues its relationship with Granada TV Studios in Manchester and lighting designer Tom Kinane with the supply of LED and digital lighting for the latest series of singing games show “Don’t Forget The Lyrics” presented by Shane Richie. The project was managed for HSL by TV specialist  [ ... ]

HSL supplied lighting equipment and crew to the most recent leg of UK rockers Thunder’s “Bang” tour, LD’d by Ian “Scampi” Bintliff. It’s the second Thunder production tour that HSL has supplied, and was managed for the Blackburn-based rental house by Howard Dean. Scampi states, “It� [ ... ]

HSL supplied all lighting equipment and crew to Loudsound Productions for Fatboy Slim’s Beach Boutique 4 event, which saw the legendary DJ deliver an awesome homecoming performance for 20,000 fans on Brighton Beach last weekend. Lighting designer Steven Abbiss worked closely with visuals director [ ... ]