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Benelux - Kristof van Mensel is one of a new wave of highly original LDs from Benelux, and currently part of innovative design and programming collective, TCF bvba (The Creative Factory). He's involved in a myriad of exciting lighting and visual projects that embrace multiple performance genres from hardstyle dance to choral!

The eleven 20th anniversary concerts staged by Scala & Kolacny Brothers at the Stadsfeesthall in Aarschot was a great opportunity for him to utilize nearly 150 Robe fixtures to deliver these memorable and visually compelling sold-out performances, playing to 750 people a time.

Their material is an eclectic mix of special arrangements from well-known artists like Coldplay, Metallica, Radiohead, U2, Nirvana and many others, interspersed with their own mat

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UK - Adlib supplied lighting equipment and crew for the recent tour by UK rock band James who played a mix of UK arenas, academies and city hall venues at the start of their Girl At The End of the World album campaign. Neil Anderson was the tour director, with Matt Johnson (road manager), Cally Harris (production co-ordinator) and Adam Johnston (stage manager.)

Lighting was designed by Chris Montrie and lighting crew chief Ben Hodgkins advanced and co-ordinated all the lighting tenders and related elements of the tour. Chris is based in Washington DC so he and Ben liaised closely in advance and as the tour was approaching, with Ben ensuring that everything was prepped and ready to go for Chris when he arrived at Adlib for a two-day WYSIWYG programme prior to production rehearsals.

Chris had a free reign in creating the design with some input from the band and the li

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UK - Riders are revving up to participate in the 2016 First Night Riders 'Magical Mystery' charity motorbike and classic car ride, visiting theatres across the country to raise money and awareness for The Theatrical Guild (TTG).

This year's tour will take to the road between the 7th and 11th of July somewhere within 100 miles of central London.

The Theatrical Guild, celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, has long helped those working in backstage and front of house roles during their times of need. The organisation offers advice, re-training opportunities or one-off grants to those who, due to a range of circumstances, may require support.

The ride has a new format this year. For the first time ever the route and venues that will be visited along the way are top secret. The details will be revealed at the Thursday night briefing on the 7th of July. More informati

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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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Hip-Hop-Hit - Hip-hop musical Hamilton has dominated the Tony Awards in New York, winning 11 including best musical and lead actor. The hit show about the life of one of America's founding fathers just fell short of The Producers' record of 12 statuettes in 2001. For the first time, all four musical acting winners were black, including British star Cynthia Erivo. But Saturday's mass shooting in Orlando overshadowed the ceremony, with many winners paying tribute to the victims.

Hall of Fame - Lionel Richie, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Nile Rodgers and Marvin Gaye were among those honoured by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Richie won the most prestigious prize, given to a songwriter who has already been inducted. The inductees also included Rodgers' writing partner Bernard Edwards and Wild Thing songwriter Chip Taylor. The celebration in New York also f

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Germany - In its VSM, Lawo offers OB vans, studios and complete broadcast facilities the most sophisticated and powerful control system to date. Now, customers' demands for a somewhat smaller 'crosspoint switching only' solution are answered by Lawo's VSM SNAP - a budget-friendly control tool that offers just the basic functionality on an LBP pushbutton panel.

VSM SNAP is available for a selection of LBP pushbutton panels to control third-party gear directly and without requiring a VSM server. And while VSM SNAP directly addresses small matrix applications, it can also be used as a backup router control solution for a VSM system.

VSM SNAP requires regular LBP pushbutton panels extended with a memory module and specific software. In this combination, an LBP panel can natively talk router control protocols, and provides processing for simple router control logic without the

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies will be showcasing the latest product highlights from their extensive brand portfolio at the ABTT 2016 Show - Alexandra Palace, London, UK, stand A40, 22-23 June.

AC-ET will be showcasing a selection of the very latest lighting, audio, rigging, video, and film & TV solutions available from their vast portfolio of over 200 leading brands and five specialist sales divisions.

The stand will feature the very latest premium LED solutions from Chroma-Q. Designed and built to exacting standards in North America, the range has been adopted by many leading designers and specifiers for some of today's most demanding and prestigious lighting applications. Highlights include the innovative new Space Force LED space light; the Color One 100 RGBA, homogenous output LED PAR; award-winning Inspire family of colour-changing LED house lights; the hugely

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USA - ETC has announced its Unison Mosaic Show Controller X (MSCX) has a new-and-improved version. It is now smaller, housed in a one-unit, 19-inch rack-mount enclosure. The updated Show Controller X is offered with capacities from 5,120 channels (10 universes) up to 50,000 channels of DMX-over-Ethernet. It is compatible with all existing and new Mosaic control systems that utilise Mosaic Designer 2 software.

"Mosaic Show Controller X was created for larger lighting and LED installations that demand synchronised control and extensive capabilities," explains ETC architectural product manager Lowell Olcott, "which is why the MSCX offers an extensive range of external triggering interfaces, including Ethernet, RS232 Serial, and more.

It also provides astronomical, real-time and lunar-time time-based control as well as video output for multiple pixel matrices simultaneously.

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UK - d&b GB is all set for this year's ABTT Theatre Show at London's Alexandra Palace, 22-23 June. The show will be an ABTT first for the celebrated V-Series point source loudspeakers.

Renowned for their remarkable sensitivity in the vocal range, the V10P will take centre stage in show's 'pop up' Studio Theatre (PBS). Accompanied by Y7s, V-SUBs, E6s and E8s all powered by the flagship D80, whilst the V7P will take pride of place on the d&b stand no. A54.

Live Performance Masterclasses will take place in the PBS, an opportunity for aspiring technicians to get practical insights into the everyday challenges facing production teams in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. The Education and Application Support team at d&b GB - always ready to go back to basics, or share their latest experiments - will be offering sessions on choosing the right loudspeakers and tuning a system usi

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USA - Based in Brooklyn, NY, St. Lucia recently released their second studio album entitled Matter, which Rolling Stone says "bursts with light". Now needing to embark on a nationwide tour to support the album release, the band turned to production design house Cour Design who enlisted the assistance of Nashville-based tour provider Elite Multimedia to help them create a hard-hitting visual experience.

"Before we even started Cour Design, we were working with St. Lucia and it was actually their openness to implement our system for automatic playback of visuals that got our business going," began Gordon Droitcour, Cour Design. "The band has an evolving and different stage design aesthetic than most other artists, so we wanted to push the creative envelope on a design that also works well logistically. Using the Matter album cover as inspiration we knew wanted to i

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USA - It was a sight to behold on Nashville's famous Broadway street as fans filled the famous stretch of honky-tonks to celebrate country music's biggest night at the CMT Awards. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the outdoor stage where long time Bandit client Jason Aldean ignited the crowd and the sky with his newest single, Lights Come On on live television.

Additional performances throughout the day included Billy Ray Cyrus, Cheap Trick and Thomas Rhett, meaning lighting designer Tom Kenny had to create a design that would balance daytime and evening looks, wow the live audience and translate well to the millions of viewers watching at home.

Bandit provided VL 3500 washes for fill, VL 3500 Spots as key light for band members, while VL 3000 Spots created patterns and chunky beams in the air. A combination of Robe Pointes, Solares Flares and Clay Paky Sharpys

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USA - As musical director, bandleader, and announcer for The Late Late Show on CBS, improvising vocalist, comedian, and actor Reggie Watts is a busy guy with a lot to keep track of on stage. To monitor his band, Karen, while interacting with host James Corden and taking direction from the control room, he uses Sensaphonics 3D AARO Active Ambient IEM System on stage. The patented system uses microphones embedded in custom soft silicone earphones to add controlled ambience to the in-ear mix, which includes the band feed, host James Corden's mic, and the IFB feed from the control room.

"I'm really big into using the 3D," says Watts. "I love the Full Ambient mode, where you just open up the mics and hear the room as your ears would be hearing naturally, I really appreciate that. It's extra cool during the show, because I get people coming up to tell me things, or when James

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Italy - Following the resounding success of the September concerts in the Arena Centrale of the Foro Italico in Rome and the two triumphant evenings on live TV on RAI UNO in October, Baglioni and Morandi have embarked again - by popular demand - on a bright new adventure around Italy, together with Clay Paky.

I Capitani Coraggiosi (the Courageous Captains), as they are known, will do a new series of three-hour concerts, consisting of 50 memorable Italian songs from the last 50 years. A super group of 21 multi-instrumentalists will perform on an innovative high-tech stage hosted in the sports halls of various Italian cities.

The challenge the new production team faced was to resume from the show's Rome format. Lighting designer Carlo Pastore had the task of explaining the choices the two artists helped make.

"Every sports hall has its own characteristics. We need

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USA - Memorial Day marks the traditional kick-off to summer in the U.S. and music fans in southern Texas celebrated the long weekend at the Neon Desert Music Festival in El Paso, dancing to the rhythms of Dutch DJ phenom Ti

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UK - Hammersmith's legendary live music venue the Eventim Apollo - renowned for hosting global superstars including David Bowie, Kate Bush and The Rolling Stones has renovated its space for premium corporate entertaining.

The actual unveiling was last year, two years since its notable revamp in 2013, which saw it returned to its 1932 former architectural glory; it remains one of the United Kingdom's biggest and best-preserved Art Deco super cinemas. Now, as the venue is halfway through a 10-year capital investment plan, the beautiful interiors, ornate plasterwork, marble staircases, and meticulous finishes, plus a new flat floor in the auditorium are all set to establish the venue as one of the most coveted private hire venues in the UK.

The venue has made significant investment in an aluminium modular platform floor produced by Prolyte Group, which can be installed overni

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Germany - The Museum of Communications in Frankfurt recently invested in Allen & Heath's Qu-16 digital rackmount mixer with AR2412 remote IO rack to manage its varied events calendar.

"The Museum is well known for its regular change of exhibitions and hosting world-famous speakers. We needed a console that is both reliable and with excellent sound quality," explains audio engineer, Kai Grumpe.

The Museum of Communications hosts various events throughout the year, including regularly changing exhibitions, private functions, concerts and conferences. The venue needed a new console that could manage a variety of functions, including live sound and broadcast feeds, for a diverse event programme ranging from jazz bands to panel discussions.

"Allen & Heath's Qu-16 offers everything we need to manage the Museum's daily business. It has stunning FX and very good sound quality,

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UK - The list of clients that use London's Factory Studios is a testimony to the quality of its sound design and mixing work. Last year Factory became the first UK facility to include a Dolby Atmos-licenced suite for commercials and trailers, which features 35 Alcons CRMS Cinema Reference Monitor System speakers.

Founded in 1997, the award-winning facility has produced the sound for projects by many high profile clients, including EE, O2, Renault, Nike, Three, eBay, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Harvey Nichols, BT, Sony and Samsung.

"We aim to be at the forefront of developments in audio technology," says Factory sound engineer Ben Firth. "We have a close relationship with Dolby and are always interested in new formats. We were introduced to Atmos at an early stage and, with an increasing volume of work, have been able to build two new sound studios, one with dedicated 9.1 surround

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Cyprus - ARX Systems has appointed Nicosia based V HyperSound & Light Ltd as its exclusive distributor for Cyprus.

"V HyperSound & Light's is a well known and respected distributor of Professional audio and lighting products," says ARX MD, Colin Park. "Here at ARX, we're looking forward to working with Vassos Mouzouras and his team. They're the ideal partner to grow the market and user base for our digital and analogue product range throughout Cyprus."

"ARX fits perfectly into our portfolio, and will be of great interest to our installation, live sound, corporate, broadcast and studio customers," says V HyperSound & Light's managing director Vassos Mouzouras. ARX joins a distribution portfolio that includes Mackie, Clock Audio, Logic Systems and Pan Acoustics.

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Germany - Over 350 Robe fixtures rocked the main stage of the 2016 Mayday dance event at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, specified by lighting designer Ronnie Santegoeds from Netherlands based 4Light, who was asked to create a memorable lightshow by promoters, I-Motion.

Ronnie is a regular LD for Dutch hardstyle dance producer / promoter Art of Dance, with whom I-Motion co-promoted the most recent Syndicate event at the same venue.

On the strength of his work for that event, he was invited to produce the production lighting design for this leading house / trance phenomena.

The Robe count was impressive - 202 x Pointes, 121 x LEDWash 800s and 28 x CycFX 8s - all supplied by leading Netherlands based rental company, The Purple Group.

Ronnie created the visual design - lighting and video - working with Chris Das who coordinated the technical preparations for

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USA - Belmont University in Nashville is about 468 miles from the border separating Florida from Georgia. But it was at this leafy Christian university where the world-famous Florida Georgia Line began in 2008, when Floridian Brian Kelley met Georgian Tyler Hubbard. It was an encounter that would lead two years later to the formation of one of the most successful country duos of all time. The group's current Dig Your Roots Tour gives fans a chance to learn more about the story behind Florida Georgia Line, while enjoying Kelley and Hubbard's latest hard driving country bro music, all animated by a Baz Halpin designed lightshow.

Halpin and his co-designer Chris Nyfyeld, both of Los Angeles-based Silent House Productions, are creating a visual mood that manages to be both intimate and impactful on the 60-city tour with a lightshow that's anchored by 62 Strike 4 multi-formated war

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Australia - Vivid Sydney, a festival of light aiming to transform the Australian city into a wonderland of "light art", has recently reached out to Taronga Zoo, and lit up a trail with giant animal multimedia light sculptures.

The project was created by Ample Projects, with interactive lighting, sound effects and moving parts. The sculptures were presented with a great technologically advanced setup - the tender was won by Mandylights who created a colourful and atmospheric setting for the sculptures.

"The zoo is basically pitch black at night and in many areas we really had to start from scratch," commented Richard Neville of Mandylights. "There were some areas where we had complete free reign and others where we were complementing the lanterns."

Crucial to the lighting design were 130 x ShowPro Hex 18 LED PARs and 24 x ShowPro EX36 LED Floods, both of which have an I

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UK - Having helped establish the inaugural Wild Life event at the Shoreham Airport festival site near Brighton last year - fulfilling an idea floated by dance music specialists Rudimental and Disclosure - Capital Sound returned in 2016 with their Martin Audio MLA system to build on that success.

With SJM Concerts again promoting the event on the Sussex coast, and the experienced Simon Barrington and Mike Oates in charge of production duties, Capital equipped three of the four featured stages with the MLA Multi-cellular loudspeaker arrays - including the Indoor Stage (Supercharged) for the first time.

Another first was that they were able to road test the new Beta version of Martin Audio's latest Display software release simultaneously in all three zones, with Robin Conway reporting 100% satisfaction. "The tonal quality is excellent as is the pan control of the lower freque

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