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UK - Following the success of FBT UK's first demonstration day, held in Purfleet, Essex in January, the company has announced a second event, this time to be held over two days, at Studio 001, Langthwaite Business Park, South Kirby, Wakefield, to showcase its speaker systems and associated products.

The event is being staged on Tuesday 23 February and Wednesday 24 February 2016 and comprises a full day session with a morning seminar, lunch, and an afternoon 'hands-on' workshop. Doors Open at 10am and visitors are invited to choose either the Tuesday or Wednesday events.

Products on demonstration will include the FBT Muse 2-way line array system, which features dual 10" custom Low Frequency drivers and dual 1" B&C high frequency drivers in birch ply cabinets. The dual 10" dri

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Germany - Guang Jian Gao, designer-in-chief and art director at the Chinese National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing, will present a keynote lecture at this year's Prolight+Sound exhibition (Frankfurt, Germany, 5-8 April 2016). The lecture will be held on Thursday, 7 April at 15.30.

"Products and subjects relating to theatre and stage technology have gained greatly in significance for Prolight+Sound. Therefore, I am particularly pleased that, with this lecture by Guang Jian Gao, we can also present a special highlight for trade visitors from this segment at this year's fair", says Prolight+Sound Director Michael Biwer. "Our special thanks go to Florian von Hofen, CTO of Rouge AVE, who made contact with Guang Jian Gao and went to great lengths to make this extraordinary highlight possible."

China's leading stage designer, Gao has been honoured many times for his work a

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UK - RH Consulting has announced its biannual count of networked audio products. These results have become the benchmark for understanding the trends in adoption of networked audio.

Every networked audio product on the market was counted, with the assistance of representatives of each protocol's alliances - Audinate, MNA, RAVENNA and AVnu.

This year's count shows Dante increasing its dominance and significant increases from

RAVENNA. AVnu has a reduction in ProAV sector licensees and there is a reduction in the number of available AVB products.

The stats reveal the following:

For the first time the total number of networked audio products exceeds 1000.

Dante has 275 manufacturer licensees and 108 of those actually shipping product.

RAVENNA has 45 manufacturer licensees and 12 of those actually shipping product.

AVnu has 23 manufacturer licensees and

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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 - Dry hire company, Niclen Moving Lights Systems GmbH, has added Elation Professional Cuepix Series LED blinders and Colour Pendant colour-changing LED luminaires to its inventory of rental stock.

. Housing two and four long-life 100W warm white 3,200K COB LEDs respectively, they provide a bright, high-density output that mimics the look of an incandescent source.

"I really like the flexibility of the Cuepix Blinders," stated Niclen CEO Bodo Valasik. "They are excellent white light audience blinders with a high CRI but can also be used permanently full-on so have use for tradeshows or other applications where a wide beam angle floodlight is required. It's also easy to mount two Cuepix WW4 Blinders together to make an 8-light audience blinder."

Marc Librecht, sales & marketing manager for Elation Europe, added, "We are very pleased that Niclen has chosen to add

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USA - Pollstar has awarded Bandit Lites the honour of Lighting Company of the Year at the 27th Annual Pollstar Industry Awards. Actor and comedian Gary Owen hosted the event which took place 12 February in San Francisco at the Marriott Marquis and celebrated all aspects of the entertainment industry, from venues to festivals and touring artists.

Bandit Chair and founder, Michael T. Strickland accepted the award, acknowledging the win as a shared success with Bandit's employees and clients. "We are again very humbled to be honoured by our peers in the industry. We credit this win to our phenomenal staff and to our wonder clients, without which we would not be where we are. We promise to work harder every day to deliver the world's finest people, service and gear in order that our clients shine as bright as they possibly can."

This honour marks the 24th 'Lighting Company of

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UK - The fast growing HSL Group has confirmed that its inventory of SGM G-Spot IP65-rated LED moving heads has now topped 100 units - in addition to the many low-profile SGM architectural LED fixtures in its hire fleet.

After investing in an initial batch of 40 to enable them to undertake projects at high profile locations such as Alton Towers, a further 60-plus units were requisitioned for use on the top of the London O2 Arena during the recent Rugby World Cup - at the request of Projection Artworks. Here they memorably delivered the flower effects onto a 'canvas' in support of the English rose - an O2 sponsored project, claimed to be the world's largest projection in terms of light output (totalling 1.42million lumens).

HSL's managing director Simon Stuart recognised that G-Spot, attached to the O2's masts, would comfortably withstand all weathers over the seven-week per

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USA - UK-based production design company, Okulus, chose a bank of 40 Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures to back the up-and-coming American rock band, PVRIS, on their first-ever televised appearance. The band appeared in January on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show, the longest-running late night chat show on America's ABC television network, where they were watched by over 2m viewers.

PVRIS may still be in its infancy, but the band recognized the significance of this prime exposure, and were keen to invest time in ensuring their appearance was memorable. They turned to Okulus' lighting designers and programmers, James Scott and Louis Oliver, to bring their ideas to life.

Scott and Oliver decided the unique appearance and reliability of Ayrton's MagicBlade-R fixtures were a sure-fire way to achieve this and used them as a dynamic backdrop to the band's equally dynamic performanc

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Germany - Around 18 months before Stage|Set|Scenery (20 to 22 June 2017) is due to open its doors, bookings are high for places at the international trade show and congress for theatre, film and event technology. Already, 56 per cent of the available floor space has been taken. Compared to 2015, exhibitors have increased the size of their stands by an average six per cent, a positive sign for the show 2017, say the organisers.

Currently, exhibitors from 11 countries - Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Serbia, the UK and the USA have registered to take part.

The signs are that the stage technology section will be well represented again at Stage|Set|Scenery 2017. Hall 21 is almost completely booked and Hall 22 is already filling up. Major machine and systems manufacturers, among them Bosch Rexroth AG, SBS B

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UAE - Maestra Group has provided a complete turnkey technical solution to the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan (SMK) Emeriti Ladies Tennis Tournament in Abu Dhabi for the second consecutive year. The competition was staged in a private residence in the city.

Central to this year's event was a 23m x 5m 10mm outdoor LED video wall provided by Maestra and run on the company's new Dataton 6 Watchout servers which were linked with Hawk-Eye Innovations software to provide real-time game feedback, analysis and results to spectators.

Maestra designed and produced a range of custom video content that played during the opening of the tournament each evening.

Inside a private pool-house also on the property, Maestra provided a further 6 x 6mm LED screens running from a separate Watchout Server. This was used to show stunning visuals and more custom content around on

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Egypt - More than 300 LED and discharge fixtures from PR Lighting graced the for the inaugural opening of the 22nd 2016 African Handball Cup of Nations Championship, which took place over 10 days at the end of January.

They were deployed by the Chinese manufacturer's Egyptian partner, Hi-Lights, to meet an inspired concept by Ahmed Arafa, considered the best designer / operator in Egypt.

Hi-Lights themselves are the country's largest service provider (and one of the biggest throughout the Middle East). They were awarded the contract by the Egyptian Handball Federation & Ministry of Youth and Sports to provide the lighting, sound, video projection and LED screens.

One of several international companies working for the client, their appointment was based on their creativity and quality of service and production over 25 years' experience.

To illustrate a united 'Afric

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UK - An audio system supplied by pro audio specialists, The Warehouse Sound Services, hit all the right notes at the inaugural Celtic Connections on Campus concert series produced by Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) this month.

The world's largest Celtic music festival, Celtic Connections saw Glasgow play host to 2,100 artists and 300 events across 20 venues last month. This year, as part of the festival, more than 500 people enjoyed four days of live music performances at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).

More than 500 people enjoyed the four days of live music performances at the GCU campus, as part of the world's largest Celtic music festival.

GCU Audio Technology and Audio Systems Engineering students used a system provided by The Warehouse at the free concert series which featured up-and-coming talent drawn from Scotland's universities, colleges and schools.

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South Africa - Wild & Marr, distributors for Harman Professional audio products in South Africa, will be hosting a free one-day workshop on all the latest techniques and workflows that Soundcraft Vi Digital Consoles can provide in today's Live, Broadcast and Theatre environments. This will be held on 3 March 2016 at MGG Productions, Marlboro, Johannesburg.

It will be hosted by Harman senior application engineer for tour sound, Ed Jackson. The course is open to audio industry professionals on a reservation basis, including sound engineers, broadcast, events, theatre, houses of worship, rental, installation and production companies.

Practical topics will be covered in the workshop including: Vi basic operations and patching, How to best accommodate visiting engineers, Troubleshooting, Show Management, Copying, pasting and the use of library functions and Vi local rack, stage

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USA - The Long Reach Long Riders and Behind the Scenes will host their annual fundraising raffle at the USITT Conference in Salt Lake City 117-19 March. This year's raffle will celebrate the 13th Anniversary of the Long Reach Long Riders annual charity motorcycle ride. The Riders have raised over half a million dollars for charity in their years of touring some of the country's most beautiful areas.

The Behind the Scenes Boutique will also be open for business during the show featuring an assortment of great Behind the Scenes swag and the famous Long Reach Long Rider T-shirts and kazoos.

Tickets for the raffle are an affordable $5 each or five for $20 and can be purchased at the Behind the Scenes booth throughout the show. Winning tickets for nine regular prizes and one grand prize will be drawn at 1pm on Saturday, the final day of Stage Expo.

The prizes, provided by t

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UK - Last month, famous landmarks across London were completely transformed with extravagant and colourful lighting displays. These were part of Lumiere London - a free lighting festival which took place across some of the capital's most iconic spaces. As the complete production solution specialist, White Light was called upon to provide the lighting support for several of the installations.

Taking place from 14 - 17 January, Lumiere London was produced by Artichoke and supported by the Mayor of London. The range of spectacular displays included the lighting of Westminster Abbey, a purpose-built Garden of Light in Leicester Square and even images of A-list actors projected onto BAFTA's headquarters.

With its strong reputation in lighting across various markets, WL was contracted by Unusual Services and White Productions on behalf of Artichoke to provide its support.

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UK - Novus Leisure has carried out a major upgrade to its multi-room Sway Bar in London Holborn's fashionable Great Queen Street, imbuing it with a cool New York vibe.

Of the venue's five rooms, three were earmarked for a major technical and design overhaul as part of the £1m refurbishment, and Middlesex Sound & Light (MSL) specified Martin Audio's new CDD (Coaxial Differential Dispersion) installation range of loudspeakers in each. The spaces concerned were the now sophisticated basement Cocktail Bar (previously Crystal Bar) and Club Room (a conversion of the former Groovy Wonderland), as well as the Ground Floor Bar and Kitchen upstairs. MSL also installed new lighting.

Novus Leisure project manager, Graeme Sutherland, says that the aim was to bring a traditional 1980s style disco into the modern age and give the venue greater flexibility, with the ability to host

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USA - The North American International Auto Show held each January in Detroit steers the upcoming year for global car sales. The primary goal of every manufacturer at the show is to create focus and impact for the latest models, ensuring the world is geared up and ready for the latest and greatest from each brand.

Creating the cohesive vision this year for Fiat Chrysler Auto's booth, designed and built by George P Johnson Experience Marketing, James Klein Events were brought in to curate the show production. This featured a spectacular hourly 'Superstorm' that saw each of the Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Alfa Romeo, Mopar, Chrysler and Fiat brands 'takeover' the entire stand with hundreds of moving lights, dozens of HD video pixel-mapped elements and "awesome surround sound scores".

James engaged Michigan-based Sound Reality Corp. who incorporated the much sought-after dynamic audio

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USA - Powersoft delivered the audio to a crowd of 71,088 gathered for Super Bowl 50 at Levi's Stadium last week, with over 120 of its K10 high-performance power amplifiers and eight custom subwoofers featuring Powersoft M-System drivers. The pre-game and halftime entertainment portions of the event - powered solely by Powersoft amplifiers - featured energetic performances by Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars, and reached no less than 111.9m viewers worldwide.

Elite audio services supplier, ATK Audiotek, provided system integration and audio services for the landmark event, creating an agile audio solution that consisted of 18 mobile speaker carts - each equipped with JBL VT4889 line array elements, JBL VT4880A subwoofers and Powersoft K10 amplifiers. The speaker carts were rolled onto the field for the pre-game, halftime and post-game portions of the event.

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Grammy Awards - Taylor Swift's 1989 won the album of the year award at this year's Grammys in Los Angeles last night. The singer - who is the first woman to win the award twice - also won best pop vocal album and best music video for her track Bad Blood. Rapper Kendrick Lamar won the most prizes on the night with five awards.

Ed Sheeran also won his first two Grammys for song of the year and best pop solo performance for his number one hit Thinking Out Loud. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars won two awards for their hit Uptown Funk, including record of the year, while Meghan Trainor was named best new artist. Muse won best rock album for Drones, and Tony Bennett collected his 18th Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album.

There were also a number of acts who gave tribute performances - Lady Gaga sang a medley of David Bowie songs, Jackson Bro

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South Africa - Brian Madiba is a theatre crew freelancer who is passionate about running. This year will be his tenth Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon race but many are not aware of what it takes for this man to be there. A couple of friends in the industry, Alistair Kilbee from Gearhouse Splitbeam and Duncan Riley from DWR Distribution, decided to lend a hand.

Running is in Brian's family, it's what his brothers and uncles do, and the sport he has participated in for the past 27 years. He trains every day, twice a day in fact when he is not working.

Based in Johannesburg, Brian makes use of public transport to get to the Two Oceans in Cape Town. It means catching a mini bus and travelling some 1 400 kilometres.

When he arrives in Cape Town, usually on a Thursday, Brian stays in a tent in Newlands at the Runner's Village, designed to give runners who have financial const

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UK - Sound Directions Chessington based UK distributor for Active Audio, Ashly, Cambridge Sound Management, Fulcrum Acoustics and SoundTube has appointed Hanieh Motamedian in the role of business development manager.

Hanieh will be responsible for account management and sales functions in the UK market, this position arising as a result of increased sales growth and demand for Sound Directions.

Having previously been engaged in the Voice-Alarm market with Application Solutions Limited in the role of sales manager where she was responsible for sales forecasting, securing new business and providing excellent customer service, Hanieh has plenty of experience to bring to her new role at Sound Directions.

Hanieh added, "Customers can expect an excellent level of attention and service from me in my new role. My aim is to quickly analyse requirements and provide service level

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Germany - Swedish lighting designer, Palle Palmé provided an imaginative lighting design for a pre-Christmas season at Stockholm's famed Berns Salonger - using exclusively LED fixtures from the GLP impression catalogue.

The Motown Featuring Afro-Dite revue is one of the Dr

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