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Australia - Hamer Hall is a premium concert hall venue, home to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) and one of the five main performance spaces at Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia, of which it is the largest indoor space with a seated capacity of 2464. It features a diverse variation of live entertainment, staging over 300 shows a year.

Built in 1982, Hamer Hall was fully refurbished in 2013 which included a full technical upgrade and updating of the lighting rig, a project specified and overseen in part by Bernie Manchee, head of lighting. The whole rig was automated for the first time as they purchased 22 X Robe MMX spots and 10 LEDWash 600s among other fixtures.

These were the first moving lights to be installed across the Arts Centre Melbourne complex. The Robes were

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UK - Star Events beat the clock to install a VerTech stage, an array of its new delay towers and other support structures as nearly quarter of million people celebrated Leicester City becoming the most unexpected champions in Premier League history.

"It's unbelievable. All the city is here," Manager Claudio Ranieri said from the stage in Victoria Park, where he was joined by the full Leicester squad ahead of a surprise set from hometown rockers Kasabian.

The spontaneous nature of the event meant Star had just five days from order to plan, prep, load, transport and build the stage and the infrastructure for the band's production and Britannia Row's audio reinforcement.

Pete Holdich, head of structures at Star Events, says, "The project quickly scaled up from a mobile stage to a VerTech and, in the spirit of the occasion, getting it across the line was a great team effor

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Asia - Further extending its international reach, Riedel Communications has partnered with Ideal Systems, a well-established systems integrator serving markets in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Japan. With a robust network of offices across Southeast Asia, Ideal Systems is positioned to provide new and existing Riedel customers with sophisticated services ranging from consultancy to complete design, build, and support.

"We chose to partner with Ideal Systems because the company is a highly respected systems integrator within Asia Pacific markets," said Cameron O'Neill, director, Asia-Pacific region, at Riedel Communications. "Ideal Systems' strength in both design and integration, and our portfolio of innovative yet intuitive solutions, combine to make a compelling offering for broadcast stations. We look forward to working with the company to deliver solutions that suppo

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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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Portugal - Production Resource Group (PRG) is working with entertainment design software developer Vectorworks, Inc. to ensure a seamless Rock in Rio festival in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Rock in Rio festival collaboration between PRG and Vectorworks will demonstrate the realisation of workflows using ESP Vision software to previsualise each lighting designer's concept. PRG, now in its 13th year of working with Rock in Rio, is supplying lighting technology and all related rigging for the festival.

"We started working with Rock in Rio back in 2004; during this time, we were able to supply lighting and video technology at festivals in Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Las Vegas and Lisbon," said Christoph Hahnl, senior account manager at PRG. "This year's festival marks the 30th anniversary of Rock in Rio, and we are excited to be on board."

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UK - ETC has announced the expansion of its European marketing team with the appointment of Katherine Walmsley as marketing communications specialist. The newly created position reflects the company's commitment to Europe and its continuing growth across the region.

Katherine, who is based at ETC's London office, will be a familiar face to many. Since joining the industry in 2010, she has held various marketing roles at Litestructures, Prolyte Group and Chauvet. Prior to this, she gained experience in both marketing and sales positions across the wider entertainment sector.

In her new role, Katherine will collaborate on a variety of marketing communications projects with colleagues from ETC Ltd, ETC GmbH, ETC Italia SRL, and ETC Inc. She will also work with ETC's regional sales teams and dealers on PR and marketing initiatives throughout Europe and the Middle East.

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Italy - Three days in early May saw Rimini's Fiera exhibition venue play host to Music Inside Rimini (MIR), a new trade show for innovation in sound, lighting and video technology. Four of the venue's halls hosted hands-on audio mixing sessions, where a pair of Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 mixing systems were the stars of the show.

Taking place from 7-9 May, MIR featured themed areas including audio, AV equipment, lighting, lasers, staging and nightclub décor. Four halls were hosted by Live You Play, an innovative showcase where manufacturers could demonstrate their products by inviting visitors to try them out with artists performing live on real stages.

Yamaha Music Europe and Nexo worked together to supply a comprehensive audio system for one of the halls, inviting front of house and monitor engineers to mix a nine-piece band of professional musicians.

Yamaha supplied

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UK - Since 2001, Siyan has been servicing the live music industry with quality lighting fixtures. That means a regular reviewing of stock and updating of the rental inventory. MD Nick Valdez was looking to fill a gap in the 'big spot' category.

"These days there are so many options on the market that we look very carefully at what is on offer before making a final choice. There are many factors to consider but I think that quality of the optics is one of the primary reason we opted to invest in the Clay Paky Scenius. It has a very even flat field and the lamp characteristics enable it to produce strong colours right across the palette."

Siyan's customers are predominantly from the touring, festival and one off concert sectors; part of the decision to purchase the Scenius was driven by client request as Valdez explains, "Designers that work in the live music market tend to

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UK - It was all hands on deck as Richard Martin Lighting (RML) joined lighting designer Lee Allen for the new series of Swashbuckle fort Cbeebies.

Filmed at dock10 Studios, this show for two-to-nine-year0old children sees The Swashybucklers pitted against the crew of the Scarlet Squid.

The lighting is fun, energetic and totally fit for a show that has been referred to as 'pre-school pantomime Crystal Maze meets Funhouse'. Lee Allen has incorporated a mixture of units including the old salt Stage Zoom 1200s, VL1000TS, VL3000 Spot and the MAC Auras.

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Spain - Christie is providing all the projection for Spain's first permanent dome to showcase 360° and other immersive environments including a second dome dedicated to virtual reality. Held in Madrid, the Immersive Festival Madrid 2016 runs from 18 to 21 May at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and is free to attend.

The festival is organised by NewMedia Creative Technology Studio, FDDB.ORG (The Fulldome Database) and UCM with the goal of nurturing creative applications of 360° projections, virtual reality and other immersive environments.

Visitors can attend the event at U-Dome, the university's360°, 21m diameter dome and the only permanent projection dome in Spain.

The dome is fitted out with six 3DLP technology projectors with 20,000 lumens from the Christie J Series with 1.1:1 HD lens. Using blending and warping capabilities, the projectors will

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USA - LED video display manufacturer PixelFLEX has announced that Cornerstone AV has been brought on as its newest production rental partner for its award-winning line of LED video technologies.

Based in Orem, Utah, Cornerstone AV works on live events across the United States and they have purchased FLEXCurtain HD 6.25mm LED video wall systems to incorporate into their rental inventory.

"We have been working with LED video walls for a few years now so when I had clients start requesting LED walls that could be set-up and torn-down more quickly without sacrificing HD quality, we took notice of the FLEXCurtain HD," says Dave Schnitker, Cornerstone AV. "I really like the size of the panels and I think PixelFLEX did a great job of designing the header bars so that they are very easy to work with in the linking system. As a rental partner, they went all out to get us the produc

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UK - Ritz Rehearsal Studios in south west London has recently upgraded its facilities, including a major investment in Sennheiser equipment.

Ritz is located in Putney. During its 40-year history it has played host to such names as The Stranglers, Blur, The Clash, Led Zeppelin and Amy Winehouse. It was acquired last year by 24/7 Productions, which provides services to the music touring, event production and TV production industries on a global basis.

"We were rehearsing at Ritz with one of our artists," explains Andrew Thornton, head production manager for 24/7, which has a client list including Paloma Faith, Annie Lennox, Jessie J, Ella Henderson and Shawn Mendes. "They wanted to upgrade the facility and were looking for some investment. John Pryer, who owns 24/7, was interested in helping them and, as a result, Ritz was incorporated into the 24/7 group of companies."

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Canada - The JUNO Awards, Canada's most prestigious music awards show, recently aired live on CTV from Calgary's Scotiabank Saddledome and featured performances by many of the country's leading music artists, including Alessia Cara, Bryan Adams, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Dean Brody, Jann Arden, Shawn Mendes, The Tenors and The Weeknd.

But it was the performance by an L-Acoustics K1/K2 sound system - provided by another Canadian original, Solotech - that seamlessly kept the music sonically clear all night long.

Solotech's L-Acoustics system proved to be a particularly ideal solution for Scotiabank Saddledome, which is a beautiful sounding hall with a hyperbolic paraboloid-shaped roof (the world's longest) offering fantastic interior sightlines. However, that same design poses a number of challenges in terms of weight limitations. Thankfully, the superior weight-to-power ratio of

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World - Adele's tour of Europe and North America is possibly the biggest tour of 2016 - it certainly has the highest of production values and there is, quite simply, no room for error. This is the remit for German rental company Black Box Music and a team of engineers, who have specified equipment from some of the audio industry's best known and most well respected manufacturers. Used by Adele and her three backing singers, Sennheiser's flagship Digital 9000 system microphones are a vital component.

For Sennheiser, being part of such a prestigious, high production value tour fits perfectly with its ethos of providing world-class, innovative solutions that continually push the boundaries of audio technology, says the company. Front-of-House engineer for the tour is Dave Bracey and he was delighted with Digital 9000 from the moment he heard it.

"This is the first time that A

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UK - Inspired by The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, The Buskers Opera is a new musical currently running at the Park Theatre in North London. Written by Dougal Irvine, it stars Olivier Award-winning actor George Maguire and is set in London in 2012 as a group of street performers gather in protest against the over-priced, corporate games.

Alongside the performances, the production company is working closely with local homeless charities as a means of engaging them with theatre. With its strong reputation in all types of theatre, WL is supporting the production by sponsoring the lighting equipment.

The show has opened to rave reviews, with The Stage calling it "the best and most original British musical score since Bend It Like Beckham". Neil Marcus, one of the show's producers, comments, "We are delighted with the response so far. We've been workin

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Belgium - What is now known as 'the old K3' exited their career as the most successful girl band in the history of Benelux finishing a 122-date sold-out concert tour that finished on 8 May at Antwerp's Lotto Arena, having sold over 450,000 tickets in six months ... complete with lighting design and video content delivered by leading Belgian visual design practice, Painting with Light, led by Luc Peumans.

Concluding a remarkable 17-year career of music, TV, movies, musicals and numerous other associated projects, Karen Damen, Kristel Verbeke and Josje Huisman double headlined the show with 'the new K3' - Marthe De Pillecyn, Hanne Verbuggen and Klaasje Meijer - who were selected by a national TV competition in Belgium in late 2015 to ensure that the K3 concept, managed by production company Studio 100, continues to delight their enthusiastic audiences.

Luc and his team have

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The Netherlands - DJ, music producer and international superstar Armin van Buuren launched his new Armin Only spectacular at Amsterdam Ziggo Dome - Armin Only Embrace - once again uniting the technical and creative team that delivered the Armin Only - Intense world tour in 2014.

Central to the energy, excitement and emotion of the four-hour trance extravaganza in Amsterdam were 162 Robe moving lights - a megamix of Pointes, LEDWash 600s and LEDBeam 100s - among other fixtures crafted into the visual landscape.

The world class production values demanded by the show were supplied locally.

This was one of the practical starting points for the lighting department, comprising LDs Marc Heinz and André Beekmans (The Art of Light) who created the design, and Armin's long term lighting director on-the-road, Michael Seeverens also from The Art of Light. Marc, well known f

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UK - Once again, the d&b GB team had plenty tucked up its sleeve for PLASA Focus Leeds in the North of England. Visitors to this year's booth left fully acquainted with all the latest solutions, plus practical advice from the Education and Application Support team - now something of a regular feature on the show's annual seminar programme.

As if this regional exhibition didn't make things easy enough, the d&b booth divided itself in half, offering installation solutions on one side, mobile on the other.

Making their Leeds debut were the two four channel installation specific amplifiers 30D and 10D, each providing targeted power outputs and features for permanent applications.

Further introductions were made to the award winning V-Series point sources, and d&b NoizCalc - the new modelling software for calculating noise immissions in the far field. Released only last mon

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Germany - Lighting designer Thomas Gerdon of gerdon Mediadesign has used an Elation Professional lighting package to light artist performances on the German television programme Verstehen Sie Spa

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China - Allen & Heath's dLive digital mixing system was recently employed at FOH for a large concert held at Jinhua stadium, Zhejiang Province in China, to promote the cultural relationship between Kyrgyzstan and China.

The 30,000 seater venue hosted a line-up, which included several top artists from both countries, including Asian super stars, Jay Chou, Wilber Pan, Xie Tianxiao and Elva Hsiao. Managed by PA company, Shanghai Jiexin Entertainment Equipment Co. Ltd., the production was technically complex, featuring state-of-the-art stage, lighting and sound systems.

The audio team employed more than 100 line array speakers to create an optimal listening experience. For signal control, a FOH mixing system comprising the new dLive S7000 Control Surface and DM64 MixRack was chosen.

"dLive has very flexible architecture and a quick response, allowing us to save a lot of ti

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UK - The top-rated fantasy drama show Game of Thrones is back for another series and with such a large fan base it has its own companion series, Thronecast, which Richard Martin Lighting (RML) has helped to light again, assisting lighting designer Iain Davidson.

Aired every week after the main show, Thronecast sees Sue Perkins and Jamie East host interviews with members of the cast and crew, interaction with the audience and social media alongside analysis of the previous episode and a preview of the next episode of Game of Thrones.

The rig comprises Robin LED Beam 100s, Sharpy Wash 330s and, much like Jon Snow to Westeros, the VL4000 Spots have made a welcome return to the rig.

The VL4000 Spot boasts 33,000 lumens and features a quiet Studio mode outputting 25,000 lumens, which is ideal for a show such as Thronecast, allowing big imp

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