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UK - The charity formerly called Behind the Scenes UK has announced that its annual Live Events industry Charity Golfing day is back, re-branded and re-invented. Join the team behind Backup - the technical entertainment charity - along with friends and colleagues for a day of fun, frolics and frivolity - anything other than actual Golf!

The Gold Day will take place on Wednesday 12 April 2017 at The Drift Golf Club, East Horsley, Surrey, from 1000-1900hrs. For team entry, sponsorship opportunities and general inquiries please contact info@backuptech.uk

Last year's Golf Day was a great success, raising over £7,000 for the charity.

Backup - the technical entertainment charity - run by a Board of Trustees from our Entertainmen

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World Beater - The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has awarded Adele its global artist of the year prize in recognition of her "simply phenomenal" success. Adele's achievement is particularly notable as her third album 25 was not released until late November. It went on to become the fastest selling album in British history. It sold more than 800,000 copies in its first week and with the album kept off streaming sites, its chart success was entirely made up of physical and download sales.

The second biggest selling artist of 2015 was Ed Sheeran - despite him not releasing a studio album during the course of the year. The IFPI says its top 10 chart is the only music industry ranking to accurately capture the worldwide popularity of artists across physical formats, downloads and streams.

Early Bath - Coldplay played to an estimated

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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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USA - Apollo Design Technology, Inc. has announced the appointment of Aaron Creps as a production technician. In this role, Creps is responsible for the assembly and testing of mechanical and electronic subassemblies and products including precision calibration. He will also provide technical assistance to internal personnel and customers.

"Aaron brings great technical skills and a strong mechanical background to the Apollo team," said Mr. Joel Nichols, president of Apollo Design. Prior to joining Apollo Design Technology, Creps worked at Fort Wayne Nissan in the service department. He holds a Technical Certificate from Universal Technical Institute. "I'm excited to join Apollo," said Creps. "It's a great opportunity to grow my mechanical and technical skills while working with a fun group of people."

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Germany/UK - Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. has announced the retirement of Paul Whiting, president of strategic collaborations. A familiar face in the audio industry, Paul leaves Sennheiser enjoying a much higher profile in the professional audio, consumer and integrated systems industries than it did when he joined the company more than 25 years ago.

Paul began his career with Sennheiser in 1990, after 15 years with former UK partner Hayden Laboratories, which saw him establish a Sennheiser pro-audio network in the UK and head the company's professional division as sales and marketing manager.

On joining Sennheiser he helped establish Sennheiser UK as a wholly owned subsidiary and, as managing director, oversaw the company's continued UK expansion. His exceptional technical and organisational skills saw him being promoted to vice-president North West Europe. In 2007, h

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The Netherlands - Christie continues to strengthen the flexibility of its award-winning Pandoras Box media server system with the introduction of Pandoras Box Version 5.9. This latest evolution provides faster, more intuitive operation with a wider range of options, compatibility and user-friendly workflow solutions, unleashing the full potential of the system's powerful rendering engine. Features include a standalone Kiosk Mode, a completely redesigned Patch-Tab, the addition of a Cues Tab for an overview of all cues, and an optimized Pandoras Box Codec.

The Pandoras Box system is a cost-effective turnkey solution that more perfectly unites state-of-the-art rendering technology with intuitive media and show control, says the company. Found in some of the most spectacular multi-media presentations around the world, it is the perfect choice for any live event, projection mappin

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The Netherlands - Clear-Com will present its latest communication and connectivity tools at ISE 2016. These products demonstrate Clear-Com's intercom and connectivity solutions to enable secure, reliable and constant communications among local or geographically-disperse work teams.

Recently-released HelixNet Version 3.0, a software-only update to the acclaimed HelixNet digital network partyline platform, unlocks the overall capacity of the HelixNet system allowing it a six-fold expansion for supporting more communication channels and more users during live productions. HelixNet multiplied its basic channel count by three, with a new offering of 12 channels per HMS-4X main station. Furthermore, an additional 12 channels can be added simply by purchasing a licence, effectively enabling a single HMS-4X to provide a total of 24 channels.

The all-new, 2.4GHz DX410 wireless inte

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The Netherlands - Allen & Heath has launched two new installation mixers, the GR3 and GR4, designed to provide simple yet comprehensive control of programme audio and announcements for multiple zones in bars, restaurants, stores and other leisure and retail environments. Highly configurable, the GR3 and GR4 are suited to applications requiring multiple input sources and specific priority settings.

Both the GR3 and GR4 are 1U rack-mounting audio mixers, with standout features that include an easy access mic input on the front panel for announcements and paging, zonal auto-ducking for paging and emergencies, and optional wallplates for remote control. The innovative control layout allows system integrators to manage which controls are accessible for everyday use.

The GR3 has two mic inputs and two stereo inputs, and the GR4 has four mic inputs and four stereo inputs. Additio

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The Netherlands - Avolites is on stand 8-K330 at ISE Amsterdam, which opens today at the RAI Exhibition and Conference Centre, to launch its powered up new range of Ai R Series media servers.

The Ai R Series is Avolites' most powerful range of media servers to date, and comprises the Ai Infinity R4, Ai Infinity R8, Ai Infinity Rx4 and Ai Infinity Rx8. All servers in the range take advantage of the increased speed and power of the latest processors, solid-state drives and AMD graphics cards.

"We've packed the very best technology into the Ai R Series so we can be sure it satisfies even the most demanding of applications," says Avolites' MD, Steve Warren. "The servers offer smooth playback of up to 8K media using the leading AiM Codec plus 4 or 8 full 1080p HD outputs. The Ai R Series is the future of media technology now, direct from Avolites. We can't wait to showcase what

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USA - As part of an ongoing project to upgrade its technical infrastructure, Northside Christian Church in New Albany, Indiana, has recently purchased an SSL L300 live console.

Founded in a small basement in 1970, Northside has gone from strength to strength, now serving over 5000 people each weekend. Ted W. Roberts, administrator at the church, provides oversight of technical infrastructure, drawing on his own extensive, high-end live sound and touring experience. Most recently, Roberts helped specify the new console: "It's very different when you work with only one or two key department heads and then everybody else is a volunteer," says Roberts. "They have to be set up for success. If you don't provide the right tools for the job, the volunteers can't enjoy it because they sense imminent failure all the time."

When Roberts came to Northside five years ago it already had

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UK - New Order's recent UK and European tour in support of their latest album, Music Complete, featured a vibrant lighting design controlled via an Avolites Arena console.

The tour marked the first time lighting designer Andrew Liddle opted for the Arena - Avolites' latest console.

"I was really keen to give the Arena a try and it proved very worthwhile," says Liddle. "I saw it to be a natural progression from the Avolites Tiger Touch I've been using since 2010, and found it to be a whole lot more. Hardware wise, it's the complete package - lid off and good to go. For what it is, it's really compact, not too bulky or weighty, and the layout's great and the second screen is useful too."

Alongside the main display, the Arena offers a second touch screen providing an additional workspace window and also labelling the adjacent macro buttons and rotary pots. These fu

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UK - Working with production designers, Louis Oliver and James Scott of Okulus Design, PRG XL Video supplied lighting, rigging, and video for Chvrches most recent UK tour.

The package combined specially adapted trussing, a variety of lighting types, plus custom-built LED video towers.

Oliver's multi-layer design centred around three monoliths of LED video screen. This was built from PRG XL Video's MC-7T LED, supplied by senior account manager, Paul McCauley, and housed in custom units built specially for the tour. The 7mm LED was selected because of its visual clarity.

Senior account manager, Roy Hunt worked closely with Okulus on the lighting and rigging specifications to ensure a smooth and perfectly executed tour.

The lighting package included 33 Martin MAC Auras. Okulus specified nine in a mid-stage truss and 24 on the floor. Eight of these were used to surroun

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UK - Utopium worked alongside lead contractor Richmond Event Management (REM) to help shine a spotlight on the Bristol Green Capital closing ceremony, as the city celebrated a successful year, February 2016.

As Bristol prepared to hand over its 'European Green Capital' title to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, residents gathered in Bristol's Colston Hall to reflect over the innovations in 2015 and consider the legacy of Green Capital 2015, hearing exciting plans for the year ahead.

REM contracted a range of local suppliers, including Utopium and Evans Audio Visual Staging, to help transform Colston Hall where this event took place.

Within the main Colston Hall auditorium, Utopium installed a truss system, which enabled drape reveals throughout the ceremony. Following the presentation, moving drapes revealed a procession of children with illuminated umbrellas, first

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Germany - At the recent 165th IAA motor show in Frankfurt, experiential sound design company PaniX GbR responded to specific client demands for "surround sound to follow video content" by employing TiMax audio showcontrol and 3D audio animation capabilities for the exhibits and conferences of two separate auto brands.

For Hyundai, the PaniX team used a single 32-channnel TiMax SoundHub with MADI to create a dynamic and immersive press conference for the Korean manufacturer.

In the first instance TiMax created an intimate atmospheric soundscape for the very large press conference space. TiMax delay-matrixed Image Definitions also drew sharp focus onto locations at the left and right of the conference, as J

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USA - The ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas features a technologically advanced convention and event operation that each year hosts an extravagant New Year's Eve celebration. /I> winding down the proverbial rabbit hole so they reached out to PRG and Vickie Claiborne, lighting and digital media product specialist, for the lighting design. During the planning stages, she was asked to accentuate the interaction between the audience and the performers, so she chose the small yet powerfully creative Showline SL 300 BEAM FX LED luminaire from Philips Entertainment for the task.

"I've worked with ARIA on lighting designs for a wide variety of special events since its opening in 2009," began Claiborne. "I've always done ARIA's New Year's EvRinging in 2016 for VIP and invited guests, event producers wanted to take the night to Wonderland

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USA - A winter storm couldn't stop the prestigious 24th Annual Trumpet Awards which celebrates and honours African American achievers and those who support the African American experience.

, and honours accomplishments in diverse fields including law, medicine, business, politics, the Arts, civil rights, sports, entrepreneurship, entertainment and other careers.

Hosted by actress Nia Long and actor Mike Epps, the honourees of this year's Trumpet Awards included EVP and COO of General Motors Alicia Boler-Davis, Former Secretary of Labour Alexis M. Herman, Chancellor of Wayne Community College Dr. Curtis L. Ivery, HRH Princess Masmah Bint Saud, R&B singer Ne-Yo, film and television producer Will Packer and legendary actor George Wallace. TBandit Lites provided the lighting package for the event which took place 23 January at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centrehe African A

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USA - ESTA's Technical Standards Council has announced the recipients of the third annual Above & Beyond Awards designed to recognize outstanding Technical Standards Program volunteers. The awards celebrate those volunteers that have made a significant contribution or effort that advances the Technical Standards Program.

The TSP exists because hundreds of individuals from across the industry volunteer their expertise and significant amounts of time throughout the year to write standards that increase safety, solve problems, and make life easier. These awards are particularly meaningful to the recipients because the nominations are made by their peers within the Technical Standards Program.

The Above & Beyond Awards for 2015 were presented to:

Tyrone Mellon Jr. (Electrical Power Working Group) was cited "As a significant contributor to ANSI E1.24, Dimensional Requiremen

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Europe - At ISE 2016, which opened in Amsterdam today, AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV confirmed the appointment of two new distributors in Eastern Europe.

Stefan Kr

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USA - Bose Professional has expanded its F1 Flexible Array Loudspeaker product line, to include a new passive full range model and a full suite of mounting brackets. Together with a powered model introduced in 2015, both Bose F1 loudspeaker models are suitable for portable and installed applications.

The F1 Model 812 Loudspeaker is the first portable loudspeaker offering "FLEX array technology," which lets installers focus sound to target listening areas with four different patterns, offering exceptional power and clarity for a wide range of applications and venues.

Engineered with an array of eight Bose proprietary 2.25-inch drivers, 100-degree horizontal waveguides, a high-powered 12-inch woofer and a lower crossover point, F1 Model 812 loudspeakers deliver high SPL performance while maintaining vocal and midrange clarity that's dramatically better than conventional inst

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The Netherlands - Ampco Flashlight Sales is showcasing the latest products from its stable of high-end brands at ISE Amsterdam. Ampco is exhibiting products from companies including Allen & Heath, Clear-Com, d&b audiotechnik, DiGiCo, Martin Audio, MeTrao, Microtech-Gefell, Optocore, Powersoft and Renkus-Heinz.

Highlights of Ampco's stands include Martin Audio, which unveils an innovation in the field of outdoor audio equipment, and illuminates the CDD series; Powersoft, which shows the impressive X-series, in addition to the complete range of powerful M and K series and Ottocanali amps; Optocore, which showcases the latest developments in interconnectivity; and Allen & Heath, which exhibits the new GR3, GR4 zone mixers, as well as D-Live including the latest functional additives and the full range of QU and GLD mixers and racks. DiGiCo showcases the S21, and also has an impres

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The Netherlands - Community has expanded the system design versatility of its flagship I Series Engineered Loudspeaker Systems at ISE 2016 with the addition of five new Compact models, and Weather-Resistant options featuring breakthrough PolyGlas outdoor enclosure technology.

I Series Compact loudspeakers are designed to match the performance, appearance and voicing of the larger I Series Point Source and Subwoofer models. All Compact I Series have best-in-class LF extension, sensitivity and maximum output, ensuring high quality sound reproduction whether used as fill speakers or in distributed applications.

The 6.5-inch IC6-1062 features unprecedented LF extension for its cabinet size and a very wide dispersion 100 x 100 degree fabric dome HF on a shallow waveguide, providing a pleasantly smooth response while retaining high sensitivity.

The single 8-inch IC6-1082 and

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