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Germany - At this year’s Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt, ADJ officially unveiled three new additions to its Entour series of professional atmospheric effect generators. The company used its large stand at this significant international industry event to showcase the full range of production-calibre ADJ moving head fixtures – incorporating spot, wash, beam, and hybrid models – as well as the AV Series of modular LED video panels in a stunning lightshow.
Due to the popularity of the initial two products in the ADJ Entour series – the Entourage touring faze machine and Entour Venue installation faze machine – the company is expanding the range with three new products. These new units are the Entour Haze Pro, a professional oil based haze machine; the Entour Cyclone, a high

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Germany - Czech lighting manufacturer Robe lighting enjoyed another successful Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, taking the opportunity to launch their new German subsidiary, Robe Deutschland GmbH; showcasing 10 new inventive and interesting products and creating another serious showspace for visitors to the annual expo.
People packed into the stand right from the moment the show opened on Tuesday morning to the final hour on Friday afternoon. Business was brisk, the new company announcement caused an industry-wide stir, deals were completed and people also enjoyed the networking and communication opportunities, together with great vibes and traditional Czech hospitality.
CEO Josef Valchar commented, “I know I have said this for at least the last five years after Frankfurt, but once again, the show was incredible for us! It exceeded all our expectations – and

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China - Simon Tibble, managing director of Creative Technology in Shanghai has passed away,
CT paid tribute: “We are shocked and saddened to announce that Simon Tibble, managing director of CT in Shanghai passed away suddenly earlier this week.
Simon leaves his wife Brooke and four children Samuel, Emma Jane, Jamie and Olivia. Our thoughts and sympathies are with them all.
Simon was a dedicated and unflappable character that will be sorely missed by all those to have met, worked or socialised with him over the years. Simon’s career in the event industry spanned 40 years including time in the UK and six years building CT’s Shanghai operation.”
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

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Germany - At Prolight+Sound, SGM unveiled a new powerful all-in-one 1250W LED luminaire fixture: The P-10. It carries the functionalities of a wash light, a strobe light, a flood light, a pixel light and a blinder with a non-fading continuous output, making it a multi-purpose LED fixture.
With all this crossover technology combined in one single luminaire, a solid and long-term investment is ensured .The low-profile, rectangular, full-colour LED luminaire incorporates 48 high-power RGBW 24W LEDs delivering a staggering output of 40,000 lumen and a best-in-class optical colour mixing. It features a superior dimming performance for velvet smooth fades and the avoidance of colour shifts.

This week, SGM is demonstrating the new P-10 and many more of their innovative LED luminaires at in Frankfurt (Hall 4.0, Stand D20/D25).
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Germany - Cadac is debuting the latest addition to its CDC digital console line in Europe, at this year’s Prolight + Sound exhibition. The new CDC seven builds further on the success of the medium format CDC six, offering all of its power and operational simplicity with the enhanced production capabilities of an expanded dual 23.5 inch, 16:9 hi-definition touch screen, 36 fader control surface.
The CDC seven maintains all of the feel and familiarity of the CDC six, with its major ergonomic advance in user operation and resulting minimal learning curve. Scaling up operational flexibility, the CDC seven doubles up on both the large format LCD touch screen, and associated encoders, and the physical fader count; also expanding the number of inputs to 96. The new console retains the CDC six’s 56 busses; with 54 of them now being configurable with the latest V4.0 software upda

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UK - Arena Group has acquired the seating and mass participation divisions of Wernick Events, with effect from Monday 3 April, rebranding the business to operate as Arena Seating from its existing Coventry facility, as part of Arena UK & Europe.
This multi-million pound strategic acquisition continues Arena UK & Europe’s ongoing expansion plans, with the addition of all of over 30,000 temporary grandstand seats, scaffolding, deck & truss. Arena Seating’s UK stock now rises to over 120,000 temporary seats available to the marketplace delivering over 350 projects this year.
Grahame Muir CEO Arena UK & Europe states, “We are delighted to have completed this deal which will consolidate our strength as the UK’s premier event seating supplier. We are focused on achieving a seamless integration of the business into Arena Seating, whilst retai

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Norway - Nidaros Cathedral recently underwent a major upgrade to its audio system, based around a Dante-enabled dLive digital mixing system, with an IP6 for daily remote control, and a DX32 expander rack to provide additional inputs for live performances.
Established in 1066, Nidaros is the world’s northernmost medieval cathedral, the largest medieval building in Scandinavia, Norway’s national sanctuary, and houses relics of the Norwegian king, St. Olav. Attracting over 400,000 tourists a year, the Cathedral also hosts a plethora of concerts and performances each month, many of which are broadcast on national television in addition to the regular daily church services.
The purpose of the installation was to provide the Cathedral with a central, remote-controllable system replacing the previous system, which consisted of several separate units and extensive analogu

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Germany - SGM has announced the appointment of Venuetech LLC as the sole distributor for the Middle East. Relations go back to 1992, where dynamic lighting made its entrance to the global market. Venuetech is renowned for illuminating a long list of landmark buildings and entertainment projects in the region. With their strong presence and SGM as key player in the global market for dynamic lighting products, together they form a strong alliance.
Peter Johansen, CEO of SGM Light, says, “We have high expectations and we look forward to exploring this strong relationship in a market with such big growth potential for LED dynamic lighting. Together, we create the foundation for cementing a number one position in the region.”
Elie Kheirallah, technical director of Venuetech, adds, “SGM is going to reinforce our presence due to the extensive product range ideally suit

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USA - Since first partnering with Philips on their Platinum lamp technology in 2009, Elation Professional has experienced a great deal of success in putting Philips Platinum lamps into moving head lighting fixtures. The latest examples are Elation’s hybrid Platinum FLX and IP65-rated Proteus series luminaires.
Stage lighting is all about creating impactful and powerful effects with high brightness and high-contrast beams. The powerful and intense light of the compact Philips Platinum lamps offer brilliant light, a long lifetime and high efficacy and have allowed for stage lighting solutions that are more efficient, more powerful, more compact and easier to handle.
The multi-functional Platinum FLX with its Philips 470W Platinum 20R lamp is an excellent example. The fixture has won praise for its independent dual optics and full list of design features, optimized usin

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Germany - Funktion-One has added to its extensive range of bass reflex speakers with the release of the BR132. The British loudspeaker manufacturer launched the impressive 32in unit at Prolight + Sound 2017 in Frankfurt.
The BR132, which utilises Powersoft’s high power M-Force linear transducer and M-Drive amplifier along with Funktion-One’s own cone, surround and enclosure technology, is around 40% smaller than the horn-loaded F132, which debuted at the show last year. The 32in bass reflex speaker delivers elastic bass and super-low frequency extension and is particularly effective in applications requiring deep, strong and well defined sub-bass at close range.
The BR132’s development was pushed forward by a requirement at Output in New York.
Funktion-One founder, Tony Andrews, said, “Following the launch of the horn-loaded F132 at Prolight + Sound last

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USA - The American Cancer Society recently wrapped its second annual RelayLIVE event 1 April, a music festival which advocates “fighting cancer at every stage”.
Bandit Lites donated the lighting package at no cost for the outdoor fundraiser, which featured a performances by Arts Fishing Club, Mandy McMillan, Zack Dyer, Tony Winkler, Melissa Mickelson, Ali Morgan, Tyler Jordan and David Adam Byrnes.
Leading up to the event, participants and businesses formed teams which raised both money and awareness towards eliminating cancer. This year’s effort has raised 39,000 dollars and counting towards programs for patients in Nashville including transportation to and from treatment, counselling, and the operation of Hope Lodge, a haven where patients can stay for free during the duration of their treatment.
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UK - The Natural History Museum has invited event suppliers to apply to be added onto the venue’s refreshed accredited supplier list for 2018-2020.
With a wealth of renovations underway and new event spaces now available within the museum, the venue hire team are keen to ensure that the new accredited supplier list provides event organisers with an increased breadth of styles and budget options, complementary to the wide range of events booked within the Natural History Museum.
Nigel Mullins, senior operations managers at the Natural History Museum explains, “The Museum is going through notable changes this year including the installation of a jaw-dropping Blue Whale skeleton transforming our grand Hintze Hall. We have new intimate galleries opening up for smaller private dining and bespoke exhibition experiences which will add a new dimension to the venue.

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USA - The high flying 2013 Tony Award-winning coming-of-age musical Pippin revels in the thrill of a touring troupe’s adventures. Still, as the play’s lead character discovers, life on the road is not without its trials and tribulations. In a classic case of life imitating art, Prather Touring is currently in the midst of a six-month 73-city cross-country US tour that has it performing Pippin in Spokane, WA, one week, Springfield, IL, the next, and Shreveport, LA, the week after that.
This relentless traveling schedule places a unique set of demands on a touring company – and its lighting rig. To address the latter, Prather Touring’s lighting director and production manager Russell Thompson has replaced the company’s old incandescent ellipsoidals with 12 Ovation E-260WW LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
“Anything we can do to simplify ou

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USA - First opening its doors in November of 2011 with a gala concert featuring Rod Stewart, Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center (WNPAC) is an $81m, state-of-the-art music and theatre complex at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Home to a 1,800-seat performance hall, intimate 200-seat recital hall and the University’s music department, the facility is a visually striking beacon for the arts for the communities of Midland, Odessa and beyond.
However, the main hall’s original PA system - modern as it was - was never able to match the venue’s acoustical needs: the sweeping balconies that ring the interior right up to the stage previously made proper sound coverage virtually impossible using conventional sound reinforcement technology. That’s why WNPAC recently turned to AV systems integrator LD Systems, which designed and installed a new L-Acoustics K2 audio

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Germany - PMC Speakers is taking its popular Hear More Tour to the next level in Germany and Austria during April and May, giving musicians and producers the opportunity to explore the intricacies of its high end professional monitoring systems.
The events are being held in conjunction with renowned recording studio group Dorian Grey. UK console manufacturer SSL will also be taking part in the German leg of the tour by hosting demo sessions on its XL desk and Matrix systems.
PMC’s new MB3 XBD-A main monitor system, which won a Best of Show award when it was launched at NAMM earlier this year, will be the centre-piece of each seminar. All attendees will get hands-on, both physically and sonically, with these world-class monitors which are typically only found in the most exclusive and highest quality studios around the world.
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Germany -Proel UK has announced the appointment of Richard Powell to the position of sales manager, taking over sales responsibility for its Axiom professional audio division. Richard has 20 years’ experience in sales management up to director level across international, commercial and retail markets.
A highly competent jazz musician, Richard’s career has focused very much on professional audio – including two years as manager of Sound Control in Leeds, where he was responsible for overall performance of the large retail environment; five years in charge of the national sales team at Tascam before moving on to sales manager at Source Distribution; and most recently he was professional audio director at Production Room, the professional wing of Red Dog Music, where he headed up the UK team in branches across the UK in London, Leeds, and Edinburgh.
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Germany - Digital audio solutions company, DiGiCo has announced the appointment of Austin Freshwater as its general manager.
Austin joins the DiGiCo team from Canon, the world-leading innovator and provider of imaging and information technology solutions, where he spent the previous 10 years working in sales, latterly becoming sales director for UK and Ireland.
“During my time with Canon I developed sales into the professional broadcast sector working with the likes of NEP, the BBC and Sky as well as the AV market via their range of projectors. This gave me a valuable insight into some of DiGiCo’s markets before I joined the company.
Austin will be working closely with DiGiCo’s VP sales, Ian Staddon who says, “It’s great to have Austin on-board as he brings different expertise and a new perspective to the team. I am sure he will be an asset to the busin

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Germany - The Tourflex Cabling brand is showcasing its bespoke cable assembly service for the international entertainment and broadcast industries at Prolight + Sound 2017, Frankfurt, Germany.
Knowing how critical cables and connections are to these sectors, Tourflex Cabling prides itself on providing the best connections, for a faultless performance.
Although recently re-branded, the service has over 40* years of experience and has earned an enviable reputation for quality and reliability. It understands when 'the show must go on' – often processing emergency orders in 24 hours, and having the ability to despatch orders worldwide.
Tourflex Cabling has the manufacturing capacity to make tens of thousands of cable assemblies, using hundreds of thousands of metres of exceptional quality cabling, every year. It holds a vast level of stock and choice of raw cables

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Germany - Allen & Heath has expanded the digital interface options for its dLive mixing system with the introduction of superMADI and a range of AES3 I/O cards.
Designed to help integrate dLive into a wide range of broadcast, live interface and recording scenarios, the superMADI interface card has numerous connectivity possibilities, including 8 BNC connectors and 4 SFP slots for fibre optic transceivers. Both coaxial and optical formats offer up to 128 I/O at 96kHz each, and redundancy and sample rate are switchable per link pair, with a choice of Smux or HighSpeed 96kHz mode. The superMADI card can also be used by engineers and rental companies to link to any MADI-enabled third party console, allowing high-channel count digital splits, for example, between FOH and Monitors.
The four new AES3 I/O cards are offered in a choice of I/O formats, comprising 2 in / 8

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UK - The Cure recently completed a 76-date world tour, with lighting, video and rigging supplied by PRG XL Video. The lighting and video design was by Angus ‘Mac’ MacPhail, with creative input from lead singer and founding member of The Cure: Robert Smith.
Mac explained the creative process behind bringing the production to life, and how they dazzled the expectations of die-hard Cure fans: “It’s important to note that Robert Smith was very hands-on with the design for the show—he’s been as much a member of our creative team as he has a band member. When Robert and I first discussed the design, we wanted a very simple look, where the set is the lighting rig, and it’s a very clean, uncluttered stage.
“We started off with the idea for a curved screen at the back of the stage, added a curved riser and pulled the ends of the truss back to extenuate the curve

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UK - The UK event industry’s biggest recognition ceremony, The M&IT Awards, returned to Battersea Evolution on 3 March 2017, celebrating 30 years of Conference & Travel Publications. For the fifth year running, Hawthorn designed and delivered full technical production for the largest networking event in the event industry’s calendar.
Organised by Meetings & Incentive Travel magazine, the annual awards bring together agency and association organisers and suppliers, from the UK and overseas, to recognise excellence of service and product within the industry. Themed around ‘pearl’ in a nod to the 30th anniversary of CAT Publications, Hawthorn created a production design that captured the glitz and glamour of the occasion.
Guests entering the reception were met with an impressive display of projected logo strips, projected on with two Christie 10
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