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UK - Lighting, rigging and visuals rental specialist HSL is embroiled in a hectic 2016-17 pantomime season, supplying lights, LED fixtures and rigging including one Kinesys automation system to 20 different productions for leading panto producer QDos, being staged up and down the country.

Some mind-boggling statistics include nearly 2000 intelligent lighting fixtures and over 500 generics, 100 plus kilometres of cabling and over 2000 custom gobos - all of which were shipped out of HSL's HQ in Blackburn in an operation that has been overall project managed by Jordan Hanson working closely with Emma Nolan and John Slevin.

Individual shows have been project managed by Andy Chatburn, who handled four productions; Mark Shakeshaft who also co-ordinated four; Sean McGlone, who look

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Tajikistan - Located in Dushanbe, the capital and largest city in Tajikistan, the newly built Loft nightclub opened its doors for visitors at the end of 2016. Modern technology and a friendly vibe have combined to create an attractive space for local and international artists, musicians and DJs.

The owners' desire to create the best nightclub in the city - in terms of sound and lighting - led to Moscow-based design and system integration company, Muztorg.PRO, being awarded the contract. It had been the success of the luxurious Versal Club, also located in Dushanbe and equipped with Martin Audio systems, that had made such a positive impression on the future LOFT owners - and so the choice of a Martin Audio loudspeaker system for the new venue became obvious.

The main speaker system includes five Martin Audio W8LM Mini Line Array elements, plus a W8LMD Downfill on each side

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Europe - In early 2016, Status Quo announced their final electric tour, the appropriately-named Last Night of The Electrics, for which London-based Capital Sound deployed their Outline GTO C-12 rig. Long-standing FOH engineer Andy May agreed to use the system following a recommendation from Dave Roden (who used it for The Stereophonics during the summer) and has subsequently taken to it.

"The Status Quo 'sound' is so well-known that nearly anyone with a passing interest in music from 60's / 70's / 80's will recognise a Quo song, even if they don't know the title. The band are very 'brand aware' and play the card well. I try to mix the show the way I would want to hear it, nice and punchy with lots of vocals so the crowd can sing along.

"The GTO C-12 has easily accomplished that task. The system sounds even across the whole spectrum and didn't seem to shift its tonal balanc

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

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!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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UK - Chichester Festival Theatre reports a successful outcome after investing in two MDG ATMe haze generators and two MDG theFAN digital units, supplied by leading creative and technical solutions specialists, White Light.

"The main driving factor behind our investment was the need for greater controllability than the on/off capability offered by our existing AtmosphereAPS units," says CFT's head of lighting and technical manager, Sam Garner-Gibbons.

"We have a purpose-built atmosphere generation system that sites the generators and fans above the rear of the audience and ducts CO2 gas through copper pipes to gas canister storage locations back of house. The units are placed front of house so the venue's air handling system pulls the haze across the stage to create the optimum coverage.

"Because we are a very exposed venue, any fan noise and or excess haze output perco

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UK - Software provider Stardraw.com has announced 2016 to have been the company's best year ever since its incorporation in 2000. The news follows the announcement last year that 2015 had already been a record year for sales and usage stats of Stardraw.com's award-winning design and documentation software, Stardraw Design 7.2, and 2016 has been better still.

"Obviously, we're delighted," said Stardraw.com CEO, Rob Robinson. "We had already recorded close to 25% growth during 2015, and we were up nearly another 20% again over the course of 2016. Our usage stats bear out the same story with an average of 10,000 sessions per month opened during 2016 which increased to a staggering 15,000 per month in 2016. That we should be enjoying this kind of growth in what has been a precarious year in so many other ways is particularly gratifying.

"There are doubtless a number of factors

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France - Innovative and cutting edge French artist / music producer DJ Snake rocked the Paris Zenith with an incendiary set and a spectacular new visual design by Romain Pissenem of creative production company High Scream ... utilizing a lighting rig of nearly 200 Robe moving lights including 64 of the new Spiider LED wash beams, 80 x Spikies, 32 x Pointes and 11 x BMFL WashBeams.

Lighting was programmed and directed by UK based Rob Lister who has worked as DJ Snake's LD for the last year and has a long-standing working relationship with Romain and High Scream from visiting Ushuaia Ibiza with DJs Axwell & Ingrosso ... for which Romain is also the production / show director.

Tickets for this landmark Paris show by the hugely popular and proudly French electronic music guru sold out almost immediately so the pressure was on for all to produce a truly amazing visual and sonic

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Final Curtain - The curtain is coming down on the most celebrated circus in the US, the Greatest Show on Earth, run by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey. After 146 years in the business, the owners said declining tickets sales and high operating costs were to blame. Activists who campaigned for decades against the travelling circus's animal acts welcomed the news.

"After much evaluation and deliberation, my family and I have made the difficult business decision that Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey will hold its final performances in May," said a statement from Kenneth Feld, CEO of Feld Entertainment, the family business which has run the circus since the late 1960s.

Sep Outside Love - A life-size bronze statue of Cilla Black has been unveiled outside Liverpool's Cavern Club as the venue celebrates its 60th anniversary. The club, credited with launching

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The Netherlands - ISE 2017 sees Alcons Audio returns to its 'home show' both as an official ISE Technology Partner and with an expanded Alcons Pro-Ribbon Immersive Experience.

The Pro-Ribbon Immersive Experience was one of the highlights of ISE 2016 and returns this year in expanded form, having also enjoyed critical acclaim at the CEDIA home technology exhibition in Dallas last year. Taking place in an acoustically-optimised demo room on Alcons stand 6H148 in Hall 6, the company will be demonstrating systems for both the residential/home theatre and professional installation markets.

The residential/home theatre demos are taking place in co-operation with Barco, DreamScreen and Trinnov. This kind of co-operation between manufacturers shows visitors the very best home theatre experience, combining exceptionally detailed, HiFi sound at concert SPLs with high impact, high re

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World - ETC's new Response 4 Port Gateway is now shipping. This affordable product is available as a table-top, rack-mount, DIN-rail, or pipe-mounted device. It uses bidirectional Ethernet communication with other network devices to send or receive up to 2048 channels of DMX512-A data and RDM messages.

Using ACN and streaming ACN protocols, the Response 4 Port supports up to four DMX universes and distributes up to 2048 channels over Ethernet. The 4 Port uses the same integrated LCD screen as ETC's other gateways for status display and configuration information.

While this Response gateway does not offer interchangeable sleds, the gateway is substantially lighter than other gateway variants and is available in the following standard models: 4-DMX out XLR, 4-DMX in XLR, 3-DMX out and 1-DMX in XLR, 4-in/out RJ45 ports, and 4-in/out terminal ports.

(Jim Evans)

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The Netherlands - Pliant Technologies, the new professional products division of CoachComm, is exhibiting its innovative professional wireless intercom product, CrewCom, at Integrated Systems Europe 2017 (ISE, Booth 7-E223). The CrewCom wireless intercom system marks the first product launched by Pliant since the Professional Division was announced last year.

CrewCom is based on a new technology platform that offers the industry's highest user density, unparalleled range and scalability. The product features excellent voice quality, the industry's smallest fully-featured professional full-duplex wireless radio packs, multiple simultaneous frequency bands, as well as a host of user features, says the company. With CrewCom, production crews large or small can now easily and quickly deploy communications solutions to connect more people in more places than ever before.

"Since

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The Netherlands - Allen & Heath's dLive C Class, a new compact range of surfaces and MixRacks, will make its European debut at the ISE show next month. Exhibiting on stand 7-K175, Allen & Heath will be also be showing models from the Qu range of digital mixers, including the new iPad-controlled ultra-compact faderless Qu-SB, along with the ME personal mixing system.

dLive C Class is founded on XCVI, the same 96kHz FPGA core which drives Allen & Heath's flagship dLive S Class mixers, and also shares its DEEP processing architecture, allowing class-leading compressors and processing emulations to be embedded directly within the inputs and mix channels. The new range includes the first 19" rack mountable dLive surface, the ultra-compact C1500. C Class opens up the dLive platform to a wider spectrum of AV, installation and live event roles.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The Warehouse Sound Services Ltd will once again be exhibiting on stand D2 at this year's PLASA Focus Glasgow on 18-19 January 2017 at the SECC.

The Warehouse will be displaying the Adamson E15 and S10 line array loudspeakers. This is the first time leading loudspeaker brand has been showcased in Scotland.

On the stand will be Craig Buckley - Adamson brand manager for The Warehouse, Justin Frost - southern sales manager, Douglas Martin - hire manager, Simon Meadows - technical manager, Aidan Thomson - hire co-ordinator and Graeme Brown - sound engineer.

The Warehouse Sound Services are distributors for Adamson in the UK. Already one of the largest suppliers of pro-audio equipment in Scotland, The Warehouse opened a third branch in the North of England together with sales and support based in London to support Adamson's UK growth.

Over the last few months The W

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. is showcasing many UK-exclusive and other product highlights from their extensive portfolio of over 200 brands, at PLASA Focus Glasgow 2017, SECC, Glasgow, UK, stand B1, this week.

A leading one-stop provider of professional equipment to the entertainment industry, AC-ET's expert lighting, audio, rigging and video sales divisions will showcase how they can supply and advise on leading brands from each major product category, to offer customers access to complete technology systems suitable for touring, theatre, venues, education, film & TV, corporate and other markets.

The company's Lighting division will showcase highlights from their massive portfolio of industry-leading and popular-selling brands, which cater for a huge range of budgets. The stand includes LED washlights, hybrid luminaires, blinders, moving lights, lante

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Korea - Total Korea Lighting & Sound (TKLS), one of the leading rental companies in Korea, has recently purchased 24 of GLP's award-winning X4 Bar 20 revolutionary lighting battens from GLP.

The fixture is the first purchase of GLP solutions by Total Korea, but it has already found immediate success for the company, having gone straight onto a major production which will be running in Seoul until March 2017. The opera Aida has placed all the fixtures onto a four-month production run.

Mr Shin, Owner and CEO of Total Korea, stated that he had been extremely happy with the X4 Bar 20. "This is our first purchase of GLP - we are very impressed with the quality of the product, and confident that the X4 Bar 20 will prove to be highly successful in our rental stock going forward. We are also very pleased with the service from the GLP staff and look forward to working with them in

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USA - In October 2015, Pulpit Rock Church in Colorado Springs received extensive water damage due to several days of heavy rain that unfortunately fell during a re-roofing project. With almost every room damaged, including their main worship space, Pulpit Rock underwent a building renovation that included a house lighting upgrade to Elation Colour Pendant LED color-changing downlights.

The new design for the non-denominational church's main sanctuary called for a warm, inviting atmosphere that allows everyone to worship however they feel comfortable. Design/build company SOA of Colorado Springs (secondopinionaudiollc.com) steered the church in the direction of the Colour Pendant fixtures, a dynamic lighting solution that replaced outdated fluorescent architectural fixtures.

"The project architect had spec'd white light LED pendant fixtures for the space to replace the fluo

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USA - The new 28-story Oceana Bal Harbor condominium has elevated the art of luxury to a new level, quite literally. This is readily apparent as soon as one steps inside the gleaming understated, but elegant, structure, which is located at the northern edge of Miami Beach Island. Inside its two grand lobbies, with their 22' vaulted ceilings is a multi-million dollar collection of 10 modern art masterpieces, including the dazzling liquid gold Pluto and Proserpina statue by the world-renowned sculptor Jeffrey Koons.

The grand opening of such an extraordinary edifice calls for more than a mere ribbon cutting. Argentinian art collector Eduardo Costantini, who developed the $1.3 billion sellout condo, celebrated its completion recently with an A-list event orchestrated by ACT Productions that featured star-studded entertainment, an art show and celebrity appearances. In conj

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UAE - When the touring version of the musical Les Misérables arrived at the newly opened Dubai Opera in November 2016, members of Showforce's experienced team of stage crew and event staff were on-hand to assist. Running from 17 November until 2 December, there were 18 performances in total and as the first show of its kind to be held in the UAE, it was hailed a huge success.

Working directly with the team at Dubai Opera, as part of its on-going contract with the venue, and long-standing client, Sports & Entertainment Solutions, the Showforce team supported the touring production throughout the load in, the three-week run of sell-out performances and subsequent load out.

Initially, a team of 10 crew members was tasked with the unloading of no less than 17 40-foot shipping containers, that had arrived in Dubai from Singapore, the previous stop on the tour. Dur

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UAE - Cutting an elegant swathe through the city, the new Dubai Canal opened with a spectacular ceremony hosted by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai. When it came to providing the ultimate in fanfare, drama, and excitement, creative agency and show producers Prodea Group, engaged the services of Protec.

"With such a prestigious opening spectacular nothing can be left to chance," said Paul Flint, head of production international team for Prodea. "The delivery of this event by Protec did exactly that; their attention to detail was superb."

With over three kilometres of canal side to cover, the provision of equipment was huge, as Protec's project manager for this event Simon Travis explained. "Prodea is an Italian company, they brought a clear creative vision for the event. The brief they gave

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The Netherlands - Philips Lighting, a global leader in lighting, has announced that its stage lighting will be used in the next leg of Justin Bieber's rapturously received 'Purpose' world tour. Lighting designer Cory FitzGerald has declared the multi-functional Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 BeamWash luminaire as 'essential' for the redesigned 2017 leg.

"There's going to be a few changes when the tour continues next year as we will be heading to outdoor venues and stadiums," said lighting director Nick van Nostrand, who is in charge of realizing FitzGerald's design out on the road. "The show is going to be reworked and we are currently making decisions on what's going to come with us. Cory has stated that the Philips VL4000 BeamWashes are high up on the list. There's not anything else out there that's a good substitute for all the roles it performs in the show."

"The VL4000 Beam

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USA - Jim Mack (Teac America, PreSonus, SaneWave, Tascam, Alesis) has joined the Ashly Audio team in Webster, New York as CEO. He will report directly to Marty Szpiro, president & CEO of Jam Industries, Ashly's parent company.

"On top of being a great person to work with, Jim has a depth and breadth of experience that makes him a real asset to Ashly, especially at this moment in Ashly's history," explained Szpiro. "He has proven people and recruiting skills, and a tactician's instinct for the right moves at the right times. Ashly is an essential and strategic asset in Jam Industries' portfolio, and we're thrilled to have Jim on the Ashly team."

Mack began his career in the mid-1980s as a sales rep for Sound Marketing, a position he held for a decade before transitioning to management-level positions in Alesis, Tascam, SaneWave and Teac America. In addition, he served as CE

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USA - Meyer Sound has announced that its Galileo Galaxy network platform has been certified by the AVnu Alliance as fully compliant with the open AVB/TSN networking protocols developed through IEEE.

AVnu certification assures consultants, system designers and rental company operators that Meyer Sound systems based around GALAXY can be integrated into larger networked audio and video systems involving input, playback and processing components from multiple manufacturers.

"Galaxy processors were designed from the outset to function as keystone components in the large-scale networked sound reinforcement systems of the future," comments John McMahon, Meyer Sound's vice president of solutions and strategy. "For over a decade the Galileo platform has won acceptance as the 'go-to' loudspeaker processing system, and now Galaxy's AVnu certification ensures that these capabilities c

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