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UK - ER Productions has announced the appointment of Jean Pierre Jammaers to the role of project manager. He joins ER with over 10 years of experience in the lighting and production industry and was the lead in lighting the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the Chinese New Year Celebrations in 2016 and 2017. He has also produced various installations for light festival Vivid Sydney.
Alongside Jammaers, George Baker has been appointed as special effects project manager for the organisation. Baker has over eight years of experience within the live events sector and has delivered special effects for international stars, including Robbie Williams, and for a number of popular festivals.
Based in the London office, the duo will be responsible for managing the communication for

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South Africa - DWR Distribution will host a grandMA2 training course this month.
Presented by Jannie de Jager from DWR Distribution, the grandMA2 Advanced Training will be held on 16-17 August from 9am to 5pm in DWR’s Johannesburg office. The cost is R2,550 per person and includes lunch and refreshments. Delegates are requested to supply their own grandMA2 console and laptop for the MA 3D Visualiser.
After completing the training, participants should be able to programme and operate mid to large-scale productions using advanced techniques including building macros, timecode programming, advanced effects, XYZ programming, moving data between shows and building custom fixtures.
The training takes place at DWR Distribution, Block C, Unit 1, Kimbult Industrial Park, 9 Zeiss Road, LaserPark, Honeydew.
To book your place, please visit the DWR Distribution web

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Australia - With soaring ceilings, cavernous naves, and smooth surfaces of stone or stained glass, cathedrals can present unique acoustics challenges. St John's Cathedral in Brisbane, Australia is no exception, having been bestowed the distinction of having one of the longest reverb times for a chapel in the southern hemisphere, ringing in at a whopping 7.2 seconds - delightful for Gregorian chants or pealing bells, but a sound reinforcement conundrum.
The solution was an L-Acoustics distributed 5XT system, installed in November 2017, which has since been providing the congregation with crystal-clear audio at the renowned Brisbane landmark, while preserving the architectural integrity and beauty of the heritage-listed structure.
St John’s Cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Brisbane, which was created in 1859. Built as a mixture of French and English Vic
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Europe - As much of western Europe has basked in high summer temperatures, thousands of happy revellers have been enjoying the annual crop of outdoor festivals. Sound engineers using Yamaha’s Rivage PM7 digital mixing system at these events have been very happy too. Leading German FOH engineer Olli Voges explains how the new system ensured that the only high pressure he’s experienced has been in the weather.
Olli has worked with Yamaha digital consoles since the early 2000s. As well as his work at live concerts, he is an experienced engineer on the biggest live television shows. This summer he is out on the European festival circuit, mixing a number of well-known German rap and electronica acts, including Casper, Sido, Kool Savas and 187 Strassenbande.
Caspar is on a full festival tour, mainly playing as headliner / co-headliner, which started with the twin Rock

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France - Paris cabaret venue Moulin Rouge has invested in two DiGiCo S21s purchased through DiGiCo’s French distributor DV2.
The historic venue, based in Paris’ Pigalle district, opened on 6 October 1889 boasting chic interiors, large dance floor and picturesque garden resplendent with a large elephant statue.
In the spring of 2018, Paris sales and installation company Synoptic Broadcast provided the S21s - one as the main console and one as a backup - at the request of Moulin Rouge sound engineer, Bruno Ravary, who wanted to replace the existing desks with a compact format console that would fit into the amount of space available.
“I decided to change to DiGiCo simply because I went to a concert where a friend was using an SD10 and I liked the sound,” explains Ravary. “But we’ve also worked with the SD9 and SD11 for the recording of a TV Show, so we

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USA - Indie pop/folk rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise are touring with High End Systems SolaFrame 750s as the focal point of their production. Described as Kings of Leon meets Modest Mouse, the North Carolina band is selling out venues on their 2018 tour, How to: Friend, Love, Freefall.
Cour Design’s Erik Anderson and Gordon Droitcour of Nashville designed the show, specifying the SolaFrame 750 LED automated fixtures from tour vendor 4Wall Entertainment for its wide range of features in a compact unit. “We have been very happy with the SolaFrame 750s,” says Anderson, citing speed and multi-functionality on a small club tour as key reasons for their spec. “They are doing a whole lot of work, since overall this production is quite minimal.”
As this was the first tour with production for RKS, Anderson says the design key was to balance the aesthetic and

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UK / USA - On a weekend when Mars traversed the Moon, the d&b Soundscape delivered otherworldly sound, transferring listening experiences for audiences whether wide awake or fast asleep.
Following a successful weekend at the Klassik am Odeonsplatz open air classical music festival in Munich, the d&b Soundscape spanned both the globe and a universe of musical styles. While Max Richter performed Sleep in Los Angeles, the WOMAD Festival took place in an unusually sun bleached English countryside looking more like Southern California.
This was Max Richter’s first outdoor and largest performance of Sleep, an eight-hour lullaby performance that runs right through the night. Under the Moon, stars and eclipse, the piece had the audience safely tucked up in bed in Downtown LA’s Grand Park for a performance of the score for piano, strings, and vo

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UK - O2 Academy Bristol is the latest Academy Music Group (AMG) venue to receive a complete new audio system design, specification and installation in conjunction with Liverpool-based Adlib.
Academy Music Group’s divisional manager, Helen McGee and O2 Academy Bristol’s technical manager, Mickey Spillane worked with Adlib’s John Hughes and Roger Kirby to specify an L-Acoustics Kara PA system.
The final design was based on offering all visiting artists a high specification, in-house system, as with other recent new audio installations within the group.
The main auditorium, at 24m wide and 14m deep, has an audience area split over two levels. The balcony, while offering excellent vantage points for a standing audience, places them relatively close to the stage, making this an interesting space to fill evenly with sound.
The positioning of the main PA

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France - Held in the port town of Barcarès on France’s southern coast, Electrobeach is the country’s largest electronic music festival, featuring more than 100 DJs and hosting around 100,000 people over its three days.
For this year’s event, organisers broke new ground by employing Funktion-One sound systems on all four of its stages - in the process reducing power draw for the main stage to a 10th of that required last year.
To meet the needs of such a large-scale event, Funktion-One specialists from across France and beyond came together to work on the festival. Heading up the project was Concept Group, based in the south of France, who in turn brought together Solution One from Montpellier, Remote from Paris and Think! AV from the Netherlands - each providing the equipment and expertise required to ensure this year’s sound systems would surpass all those th

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Lithuania - Located in the Baltic coastal resort town of Palanga, the eponymous concert hall has just been outfitted with an Outline audio system designed to handle the demands of a contemporary performance space.
The Palangos Concert Hall was completed in 2015 with a capacity of 2,200 seats, its near-circular design providing both intimacy and space for a range of productions including concerts, festivals, TV projects, theatrical performances, conferences and other events.
Specified and installed by Outline’s Lithuanian distributor No Noise LT, UAB under the guidance of their CEOs Kestutis Dulinskas and Linas Kazlauskas, the system draws extensively on Outline’s product portfolio but features their latest product, the Superfly compact line-source module.
The brief from the client was very specific, demanding powerful but unobtrusive sound reinforcement tha

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Malaysia - CAST BlackTrax has appointed Acoustic & Lighting System (A&L) as its South East Asia distributor.
A&L serves the local market as well as Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand through a network of nine offices and 200+ staff. It already represents Avolites, Claypaky, disguise and Luminex among others.
Andrew Gordon, BlackTrax director of business development, comments: “BlackTrax has already executed over 9,000 events around the world, but we continue to look for strategic opportunities to grow the business, and the South East Asia market represents a considerable market potential. A&L is the ideal team to help us establish a strong presence in the region. Their extensive experience, technical expertise and commitment to customer support represent what we strive for in a partnership.”
Eugene Yeo, general manager of Acoustic & Lighti

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Off Air - The broadcasting regulator Ofcom has scrapped the roll-out of further local TV channels across the UK. More than 30 local TV stations have been set up since 2013, but some have faced financial difficulties and have struggled to attract an audience. Ofcom has now halted plans to seek people to run new channels in 13 areas.
The regulator said it had taken the decision in light of "the significant financial challenges that the local TV sector is facing". Continuing with the plans for the new channels would, Ofcom says, "have an adverse impact on the economic viability of the local TV sector."
Licences will now not be advertised for Bangor (Wales), Barnstaple, Bromsgrove, Derry Londonderry, Forth Valley, Gloucester, Inverness, Kidderminster, Limavady, Luton, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent and Stratford-upon-Avon. Local TV was launched in the UK under a plan laid out in

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USA - Hailed as “biggest hip-hop and rap festival in the world”, Miami’s fourth annual Rolling Loud drew a sold-out crowd of 70,000 enthusiastic fans over three days this past May to hear L-Acoustics loudspeaker systems drop the bomb, bass-heavy beats of their favourite artists.
Hosting performances by more than 140 of the genres’ top stars - including headliners J. Cole, Travis Scott, and Future - the festival featured eagerly anticipated sets from Lil Uzi Vert, Migos, Post Malone, N.E.R.D., Meek Mill, Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Lil Pump, Rick Ross, The Diplomats, Lil Yachty, and scores of other artists.
The festival took place at Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium, after outgrowing last year’s Bayfront Park location. 3G Productions’ Miami office was once again tasked with providing sound reinforcement for the festival’s two l

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UK - Retford based Rope Assemblies has been praised for its professionalism and expertise by ScottWhitbystudio for its role in helping create The St Paul's Gateway as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
The contemporary gateway structure creates over 400 mirrored images of St Paul's Cathedral as pedestrians arrive out of St Paul's Underground Station. The design features hundreds of highly reflective anodised aluminium poles suspended vertically from a simple lightweight structural canopy. In the middle of the structure, users will find a reflective oculus and dome of poles which have been derived using the same mathematical geometry Christopher Wren used when designing the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
Osman Marfo-Gyasi, studio project leader at ScottWhitbystudio comments: "We were initially approached by the Cheapside Bid Alliance alongside the London

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UK - With the exceptional summer in the UK, festival season has been basking in a bumper year.
For the first time, this year, Gunnersbury Park in West London has seen part of the festival action, hosting Lovebox and Citadel festivals which took place in mid-July. Pearce Hire continued working with their client MAMA Festivals (a Live Nation company) as long term contractor at these festivals, supporting the festival re-location with their temporary power infrastructure and site lighting services.
Jake Vernum, project manager for Pearce Hire, explains: “At Pearce Hire we relish a challenge, and know the team at MAMA Festivals incredibly well - this being our eighth year working with them on these festivals. With a well-established format for Lovebox and Citadel, we needed to ensure that we played our part in providing a seamless transition

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New Zealand - Bay Audio Visual recently upgraded their lighting inventory with Martin by Harman RUSH MH 7 Hybrid fixtures, which were supplied by Show Technology.
Bay Audio Visual is an AV production company that works on a range of indoor and outdoor events from the Coromandel to the Whakatane regions, including concerts and conferences, rentals, sales and installations.
In order to service their wide range of clients, Bay Audio Visual needed to update their inventory with a flexible and affordable fixture capable of creating lighting effects for everything from corporate events to live concerts. To achieve these goals, Bay Audio Visual reached out to Show Technology, who suggested Martin Professional RUSH MH 7 Hybrid fixtures for their versatility, power and dynamic effects capabilities.
"The versatility of the RUSH MH 7 really appealed to us," said Jordan Ba

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Belgium - Thomas Boets has been creating spectacular production designs incorporating lighting, set and video for Belgium’s high-profile gay techno party La Demence for several years, and has known the phenomenon’s mastermind Thierry Coppens for over 20.
Regular La Demence parties are staged throughout the year including three large weekenders that currently include a ‘main night’ in the 11,000 capacity Palais 12 at Brussels Expo centre. This challenges Thomas to produce an epic look and ambience as a suitable backdrop to 12 hours of techno and non-stop raving.
The most recent one coincided with Pride Weekend and Thomas populated his lighting rig with around 200 Robe moving lights.
Assisting Thomas in glamming and glittering up the lumens were 24 x Robe LEDBeam 150s, 48 x LEDBeam 100s, 24 x BMFL WashBeams, 18 x Spiiders, 48 x Pointes and 48

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UK - Currently playing to packed audiences at Trafalgar Studios in London’s West End, Tracy Letts’ black comedy Killer Joe is the queasily gripping play that’s got everyone talking. Full service technical production company Hawthorn is supplying lighting equipment to the production which sees Orlando Bloom take to the West End stage for the first time in more than a decade.
Killer Joe follows The Smith family who plot to murder a wealthy matriarch and claim her insurance money. They hire Joe Cooper (played by Orlando Bloom), a detective who doubles up as a part-time hitman, to go through with the job, but the plan takes a turn when Killer Joe meets the family’s innocent daughter.
Hawthorn have worked closely with the show’s lighting designer Richard Howell to supplying lighting equipment to his specification.
“All of the action plays out

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UK - A host of Blackpool’s famous entertainment venues have upgraded to Avolites consoles and dimmers to supercharge their new season shows.
Perhaps best known are the Blackpool Tower Ballroom, which has enhanced its control ability with a Tiger Touch II and The Winter Gardens, which has purchased Quartz and Tiger Touch II consoles.
The Blackpool Tower Ballroom hosts the hit show Legends, which features tribute performances to icons including Elvis, Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury.
Oliver Wilkinson, from entertainment lighting specialist ArranPaul, supplied the Tiger Touch II (TTII) to Legends and designed and programmed the show, which is run nightly by in-house operators.
“This is an energetic, fast-paced show, along with some beautiful dramatic moments and solos - it’s certainly not a ‘flash and trash’ experience,” says Wilk

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USA - Lighting designer Justin Townsend is using Elation Professional lights more and more since his first experience with them on the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. The multi award-winning and Tony-nominated LD was recently one of the first designers to use the new Artiste Picasso LED moving head, employing them along with the company’s ZW37 LED moving head on the record-breaking premiere of the musical Jagged Little Pill, featuring the music of Alanis Morissette.
The world premiere of Jagged Little Pill ran for 79 sold-out performances - 5 May to 15 July - at American Repertory Theatre’s Loeb Drama Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the longest run of any production at the theatre. The show, which incorporates music from Morissette’s 1995 Grammy Award-winning album such as Ironic and You Oughta Know, is an original story tha

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UK - FOH engineer Mark Kennedy has been out on the road with an SSL once more, this time for Robert Plant. Kennedy has selected an SSL L500 live console, supplied by Solotech and Britannia Row Productions.
The current Robert Plant tour, according to Kennedy, has an 'organic' approach that works well. It is by no means a silent stage, with 15 monitor wedges plus side-fills in use, and in-ear-monitoring has been put aside. "It's a very real show," says Kennedy. "There's no playback, and quite a few acoustic instruments: Banjos, mandolins, acoustic guitars... And almost everybody sings."
His approach to the console and mixing the show has been back-to-basics: "I turn everything off and start with a blank slate - the simplest set-up I can create. Then as I need to I turn features on - apart from the normal channel processing, I use the SSL’s Bus compressor, reverbs, dela
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