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USA - Some of the University of Tennessee's most exemplary students arrived at Legislative Plaza 17 February to share the impact the university has had on their lives at the 10th Annual UT Day on the Hill. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the event which was coordinated by The UT Office of Government Relations and Advocacy.

Bandit provides these services at no cost as a means of giving back. Bandit set the stage floor with VL 2500s to cover the room with patterns and colors, while GRNLite LED Battens lit the upper balcony walls. ZR 44 smoke machines gave the senators and representatives a dramatic entrance. Additional lighting came from custom UT gobos shot with ETC 5 degree ellipsoidal, while the stage lighting and control was provided by the venue.

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UK - When the European premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens came to London, Utopium were on hand to illuminate the red carpet royalty and Nelson's Column.

Thousands of dedicated fans flocked to London to celebrate the latest instalment in the Star Wars franchise, where Stormtroopers and Jedi knights joined the cast and celebrities for the biggest premiere of the year.

It was in Leicester Square that the cast and crew were joined by celebrity guests, as the area around the Empire and Odeon cinemas were transformed into a space-themed venue.

LED lighting from SGM illuminated the entire length of the red carpet, as well as the two cinemas and the stage set where the world's media captured the stars.

Utopium's Colin Bodenham, who designed and project managed the event, called on a wide range of fixtures from the SGM portfolio, including 68 SGM P-5s, 12 SGM

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Korea - Indie band, Standing Egg, embarked on a recent national tour with Allen & Heath's dLive digital mixing system and ME personal monitoring system, supplied by rental company, G Audio.

Formed in 2010, the band has three members, known as Egg No.1, Egg No.2, Egg No.3, plus a host of renowned guest vocalists. I>.

Based in Busan, G Audio is a renowned rental company, which selected the dLive S3000 Control Surface with DM32 MixRack for FOH, and ME monitoring system comprising ME-1 mixers for each musician and a ME-U hub, from its hire stock.

"Using dLive was a refreshing experience, the design is optimal and versatile for every engineer and live mixing application. dLive has a lot of useful features; additional inputs and outputs are available by connecting the DX32 expansion rack, and Dante, Waves, and MADI cards can be inserted to give dLive networking options. More

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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 - Ranked by US News & World Report as America's best institution of higher learning for entrepreneurship, Babson College has long been an incubator of future business leaders. Arthur Blank, founder of The Home Depot, went to school here; so too did legendary former PepsiCo Chair Roger Erico, as well as members of the Ford and Toyoda automobile families. In keeping with this tradition, the school often sponsors talks by prominent business leaders, the most recent of which was A Conversation With Governor Mitt Romney. In addition to be treated to a vigorous exchange of ideas, the sold-out crowd at this session saw a clean, crisp stage presentation created by Image Production Services using a collection of fixtures from CHauvet Professional.

The session at the college's 440-seat Stephen D. Cutler Center, which featured the former US Presidential candidate and fo

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Germany - Every year, during Marburg b(u)y Night, Marburg city centre lights up: more than sixty public and private buildings become the stars of the show, and the shops stay open until midnight. The centrepiece of the event this year was the Blickpunkt Schloss project - with lighting up and regular intervals backed with appropriate music. Flashlight Veranstaltungstechnik GmbH dealt with staging the events.

Among the equipment the company chose to use were 39 Clay Paky Mythos units, one grandMA light, one onPC command wing, one 8Port Node onPC and four VPU plus MK2s (video processing units). An MA remote control system was also installed to control the lighting around the castle using tablet computers. The show was pre-programmed with the help of a 3D MA and a 3D model of Marburg castle.

The lighting designer, programmer and operator Sebastian Haffer comments, "We used Cla

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UK - The Father is one of the most successful theatre productions to have opened in recent times. Following an initial run at Theatre Royal Bath and The Tricycle, the play made its West End debut last year and received five star reviews. Due to popular demand, the show is returning once again, with both a West End run at the Duke of York's Theatre and a UK tour. Following its previous work on the production, along with its reputation as the West End's leading lighting supplier, WL is once again providing the lighting equipment for the show, with ETC products playing a significant role.

Written by Florian Zeller, The Father tells the story of 80-year-old Andre who lives with his daughter Anne and her husband Antoine. Or does he? Still in his pyjamas and becoming increasingly unaware of his surroundings, Andre begins to wonder whether he's losing control...

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Fettes Brot back on the road with MLA

Germany - Six years after Martin Audio's MLA system made its world deb MLAut with veteran Hamburg hip hop band Fettes Brot, the system's first adopter - Complete Audio's André Rauhut - has just completed another successful tour of duty, this time supporting the band's Teenager vom Mars tour.

Although the tour originally kicked off early in 2015 using largely local PA, the production values were ramped up towards the end of the year when Fettes Brot played venues ranging from around 3,500 to 15,000.

The Berlin-based production company based its rig design around a core of between 7 and 10 MLA cells per side, plus MLD Downfill - and depending on venue size, they also carried 12 x MLA Compacts for out-fills in the larger venues. Along the front of the stage, 14 MLX were set up as a broadside cardioid array.

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USA - Since their beginnings in 1997, The Passion Conferences have served to bring college students together for worship with a line-up of concerts and speakers. In the 10 years since the organisation was founded events and tours have been held around the US and the entire world. This year the conference was held simultaneously at three venues in two different cities all linked together to share content by an Optocore digital fibre network. The three-day conference saw attendance at more than 40,000 people with six bands and six guest speakers to entertain the crowds in all three cities.

Rat Sound Systems from Camarillo, CA is a leader in providing state of the art sound reinforcement systems for major productions around the world. They were hired to provide the staging for all three venues. Each venue had an identical system: three DiGiCo SD7's with four SD Racks and a Mini R

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Sweden - Latour Industries AB has signed an agreement to acquire 24.7% of the shares in LumenRadio AB through a directed share issue and acquisition of existing shares. Other large shareholders in the company are Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund and Almi Invest.

LumenRadio develops, manufactures and sells equipment for wireless radio communication. The products are based on multiple patents, where the basic idea is to enable reliable communication without interference in a world where the available frequency space becomes more and more limited.

LumenRadio's technology is based on "Cognitive Coexistence" where the units scan the frequency spectrum continuously to locate and use free channels. The company has 10 employees and annual revenue of SEK 20 million in 2015.

"I am very pleased that Latour Industries will become a partner in LumenRadio. Latour's long-term investment

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UK - Stage One Creative Services Ltd has completed its acquisition of WGH Transportation Engineering, the UK's leading leisure ride design and manufacturing company.

This move will see the transfer of employees and intellectual property and will secure the future of the WGH product portfolio under the Stage One brand.

This acquisition, says a statement, represents a significant joining of forces and enhances Stage One's engineering and design capability. Together, the two companies represent best of breed engineering and manufacturing in the creative, entertainment and theme park industries.

Mark Johnson, Stage One CEO, commented, "This represents a very positive step for our company and our clients. Our automation and engineering offering has always been well regarded. However, this recent development adds real breadth and depth. We're looking forward to better suppor

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Germany - Together with existing management, Ardian, the independent private investment company, is acquiring d&b audiotechnik GmbH (d&b) from the investment companies Odewald & Compagnie and COBEPA.

d&b specialises in acoustic systems and has operations worldwide. The participation in d&b is already the 13th investment by Ardian LBO Fund V, which is capitalized at

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Headline News - Muse have been announced as the Friday night headliners on the Pyramid Stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival. The Friday slot makes Muse the first band to have headlined every night of the festival - they played on Saturday night in 2010, and Sunday in 2004. Coldplay revealed last week they would headline the Pyramid Stage on Sunday. The Saturday headliners are yet to be announced - but Jeff Lynne's ELO have been confirmed for the Sunday teatime slot. The 2016 festival runs from 23 to 26 June.

Sweden Bound - Pop duo Joe and Jake have been selected to represent the UK at May's Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden. The singers, both former contestants on The Voice UK, won a public vote with You're Not Alone, an uptempo, piano-driven song "about unity and love". The duo will be hoping to avoid the fate of last year's entrants, Electro Velvet,

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USA - Martin by HARMAN lighting fixtures were at the centre of the annual Los Angeles holiday special, L.A. Zoo Lights, a not-to-be-missed night time light show extravaganza. Martin MAC Quantum Washes and MAC Quantum Profiles were chosen to provide innovative designs for the event. The fixtures were part of an elaborate water, light and laser show that takes place a few times a day at a vacant sea lion exhibit.

This year's event, both bigger and brighter than last year's, included self-guided tours of an expanded area of the zoo, featuring all-new LED lights, lasers, 3D projections and a musical water-and-light display. L.A. Zoo Lights is produced in collaboration with theatrical set designer Gregg Lacy and Bionic League, a production design company known for innovative, large-scale events and stage credits that include Daft Punk, Deadmau5 and Kanye West.

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USA - A lineup of Martin by Harman lighting fixtures, including the new Atomic 3000 LED strobe, are illuminating the way for Disturbed's world tour. In support of the release of their new album, Immortalized, the band wanted to deliver an in-your-face, larger-than-life show.

Lighting designer Matt Mills, who worked with Disturbed on the band's last tour in 2011, deployed an array of Martin MAC Quantum Washes, MAC Viper Profiles and Atomic 3000 LEDs in a light show aimed at mesmerizing huge arena crowds. Mills' previous work includes tours with Nelly Furtado, Motley Cr

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Germany - GLP has taken a major step to boost its domestic sales force in the face of increasing product demand, by recruiting one of its former senior employees.

Dejan Hajdukovic, who had been part of the sales team between 2008-2012, returns as sales manager, and will be based at company HQ in Karlsbad, Germany.

Dejan brings a wide network of contacts, particularly in the lighting design and rental company sectors. Now he will team up with key account manager Oliver Schwendke to undertake responsibility for field sales, largely in the southern part of the country.

Having started his professional career in the hotel and catering industry, he says that lighting had always been a hobby "and in 2008 GLP offered me the opportunity to turn this into a profession".

Stated GLP managing director, Udo K

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UK - Blackout has appointed new project manager, Alex Duke, to join its expert team of riggers, February 2016.

As the complete supplier of rigging and drapes to the live events industry, Blackout has recently worked on projects such as the BRIT Awards, the National Television Awards, London International Horse Show and The Sound of Music Live.

Duke has worked for Blackout as a freelancer since 2000 and now joins the team on a permanent basis; overseeing sight visits, quoting, logistics and overall project management. His 18 years of experience in the rigging industry has seen him work on the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony, Les Miserablés Korea, and international theatre productions.

Duke comments, "I am extremely excited to be given the opportunity to work at Blackout and be part of a fantastic team. I have very big shoes to fill but I'm loo

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UK - John Hornby Skewes who started work in the UK musical instrument and pro audio industry in January 1960, and in 1965 founded John Hornby Skewes & Co, has announced his retirement.

"Now, after 56 years of activity, I am retiring from business," says Skewes. "On 31 March 2016 I am resigning as executive chairman of the company, and on 30 June 2016 my wife Madge and myself will be retiring from the board of directors.

"I take this opportunity to thank all the many employees, customers, suppliers, support service providers and members of the press who have worked with me over all these years. Without this support, John Hornby Skewes & Co Ltd would not have succeeded. My wife and I are very grateful.

"The company continues as a family owned and family run business with our son-in-law and daughter - Dennis and Linda Drumm - heading up a board of dedicated and experience

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UK / USA - With the NAMM announcement of DiGiCo's Stealth Core2 upgrade, you will soon be able to upgrade your current SD9 with the latest processing and application code. This upgrade will be an option for the company's SD series digital mixers and is due to be released this summer across the range.

Whilst the external architecture of the SD9 remains in its familiar form, Stealth Core2 will open up a massive additional amount of processing ability, thereby taking the complete range to a new level of processing and flexibility.

"Being able to expand not only the features, but the audio processing in the SD range consoles, is really allowing our customers to gain more value from their existing and future investments," confirms James Gordon, managing director, "In fact, we are even going to apply discounts to the upgrade to make it even more accessible for all our existing c

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UK - Pearce Hire reports that after a five year hiatus they will be showcasing their production services and rental business this week at the Event Production Show (EPS) at Olympia in London.

With an ever increasing client portfolio in the outdoor event and corporate conference sectors, alongside continuing investment in a significant brand inventory, Pearce Hire have made the decision to return to the Event Production Show for the first time since 2011.

"The extended opportunities the co-location of Event Production Show alongside Confex offers Pearce Hire makes the show an interesting proposition," explains Shaun Pearce, MD, Pearce Hire. "Having not exhibited here for a few years we are looking forward to seeing plenty of our long standing corporate, conference, festival and outdoor event clients, as well as expanding our network with new connections across these industr

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Germany - Market-leading Finnish media playback experts, Picturall Ltd., are gearing up for a busy Prolight+Sound 2016 in April. The company will be presenting a range of media servers including their flagship Octo server as well as the all-new Duo media server. In addition to their own displays, visitors can also witness Picturall products in action on the Panasonic stand where the Japanese electronics giant has elected to use a Picturall Octo server to run a number of screens.

First launched in 2009, Octo was the first media server in the world to have eight physical dual link DVI outputs, ten optional Full HD inputs and to fully control sixteen Full HD displays. Still going strong at the heart of the Picturall range, the latest incarnation of Octo - as shown at ISE - raises the bar still higher with up to sixteen physical outputs (DP 1.2/HDMI/Dual DVI) and the ability to pl

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