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Lost & Found - A 1969 Led Zeppelin session for the BBC that was thought to have been lost when archives were wiped has been recovered from a recording made by a fan. The set went out on the BBC World Service as part of Alexis Korner's Rhythm and Blues programme and was taped from an AM radio in Europe.

It includes the band's only known recording of the track Sunshine Woman. The session recording has been restored with help from guitarist Jimmy Page for inclusion on a new compilation. The Complete BBC Sessions, which will be released in September, is a remastered update of a 1997 collection of tracks recorded for the BBC between 1969 and 1971. It includes eight previously unreleased recordings, including the first broadcast of Stairway To Heaven, from

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UK - Music technology and pro audio distributor Source Distribution has announced the appointment of Darren Power to the position of director of sales and marketing.

Power will be responsible for ensuring continued growth of the business. This includes the responsibility of overall strategy and management of its sales, marketing and admin teams, as well as the development of innovative and effective new initiatives to support, enhance and grow the business and its practice.

Joining Source following his role as European director of Yamaha Music Europe's Professional Music Division, Power draws upon a strong management record, having been responsible for leading pan-European sales and marketing strategic planning, operation, and performance reviews, as well as developing and championing best practices in its sales and marketing teams on a multinational scale.

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South Africa - The Parlotones Orchestrated Live saw the band deliver a mesmerising performance together with a chamber ensemble, arranged and conducted by composer and musician Brendan Jury, at the Teatro at Montecasino, Johannesburg.

For the first time in his career, lighting designer Kevin Stannett from Crosslight had an entire Phillips Vari-Lite rig at his disposal and as always, he programmed on a grandMA2 light. Gearhouse Splitbeam was the full technical supplier at the venue.

Recently awarded as the Naledi Lighting Designer of the Year, Kevin is experienced at creating dramatic lighting effects, fuelled even more so having worked exclusively for Natani

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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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Spain - The summer season is in full swing and this is when live entertainment can be enjoyed in the open air on terraces, in parks and town squares all over the northern hemisphere. Some of the most popular and exclusive holiday destinations put their trust in the quality products from the Spanish manufacturer GUIL to ensure their events are a success. Stage platforms, aluminium barriers, trussing and lifting towers, all manufactured in Spain, are not only chosen for their stylish and innovative designs but also because they meet the strictest safety regulations.

For example, the prestigious Ushuaia Club in Ibiza not only use GUIL aluminium crowd barriers to restrict access to the main stage where the best DJs in the world perform (David Getta, Bob Sinclair, Dj Luciano, etc.), but also to separate the private and VIP areas from the rest of the club.

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Mexico - With five Billboard Top 20 albums and a wildly dedicated fan base, Ha*Ash, the Mexican sister duo of Hanna Nicole and Ashley Grace, has seen their career take off like a rocket. Responding to this success, the pair have put together an ambitious schedule for their Primera Fila tour, often performing two or three shows a week separated by hundreds of miles across multiple national borders.

Given this fast-paced itinerary, it was essential that the lighting floor package for the tour be compact, rugged and easy to setup. Mexican lighting designer Jonathan 'Goofy' Galicia built the Primera Fila tour rig around 12 Next NXT-1 moving LED panels from Chauvet Professional that were supplied by Meridian Pro.

"Creating the lighting design for the Ha*Ash Primera Fila tour represented several challenges," said Galicia. "Due to the enormous success Ha*Ash has achieved, the tou

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UK - Servicing tours with Clean Bandit, Laura Mvula and Massive Attack, CS Audio engineered for Massive Attack at their BST gig in Hyde Park in July. The sound equipment hire company has a strong emphasis on touring control and monitor packages, and particularly IEM's due to company MD Paul Hatt also being a monitor engineer.

KLANG:technologies 3D IEM system had been on Hatt's radar following a discussion with Andy Huffer of HD Pro Audio, the UK distributor of KLANG:technologies. Huffer had loaned a KLANG:fabrik system for a short UK tour but, due to time constraints with late load-in's and no sound checks, Hatt didn't get a chance to fully audition the system. However, he was suitably impressed with both the overall sound and build quality of the unit, commenting, "It felt like a solidly engineered product, with dual redundancy and a generous amount of output mixes. Aside fro

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UK - dbn Lighting, working for Somme 100 and Manchester City Council, provided lighting, LED screen and rigging equipment, an enormous electric-art sun piece and crew for a major cultural concert as the finale of the Somme 100 Manchester, a massive public art and performance event in Heaton Park, Manchester marking the UK based commemoration of 100 years since the start of the First World War's deadly Battle of the Somme.

dbn's Pete Robinson led their team and worked closely with lighting designer Chris Davey to realise his specification and design for lighting a main orchestra / choir stage plus a smaller dance performance stage that was built just in front.

The concert section of the event included Manchester's Hallé Orchestra playing several well-known pieces of music related to the First World War and a major physical dance piece which was staged on the forestag

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Germany - Jugend Forscht is the biggest youth science and technology competition in Europe. The event was created by the then editor-in-chief of Stern magazine, Henri Nannen, way back in 1965. Every year, in addition to the regional contests organized in the individual states, a national competition is held, which is the highlight of the event. It is contested by the young scientists and researchers who win the first prizes in the regional competitions.

During the final, the best competitors are tested in the seven Jugend Forscht subject areas. This year there were 51 participants, and the contest was managed by the Jugend forscht e.V. Foundation, together with the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn.

The Paderborn-based firm Jansen Lichttechnik dealt with installing the rig and lights in the Sch

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The Netherlands - DeFabrique is a canal-side event space located in the former Ulbe Twijnstra oil mill and processing plant in Maarssen, Utrecht, Netherlands, which dates back to the 1920s and oozes style and industrial chic.

In 1996 the plant - which supplied linseed oil for the manufacturing of paint, soap and margarine - closed and was rejuvenated as an event location by a local couple who took great pride in maintaining the historical and industrial character of the building. DeFabrique is now a successful, well-equipped venue for meetings and events from 50 to 3,500 people offering eight charismatic halls for hire which have been lit with around 400 Robe PARFect 100 fixtures supplied by Bijman Audiovisual.

Bijman Audiovisual, based in De Meern, specialises in supplying sound, lighting and AV to corporate events. It's now run by Ramon Bijman, was originally founded and

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UK - Coldplay's live-show video director Ben Miles chose to work with British manufacturer Avolites and Avolites' Ai media server distributor and technical specialist RES (Realtime Environment Systems) to design what he describes as 'the ultimate video system' for the Brit rockers' current world tour.

Crossing four continents, A Head Full of Dreams is a major stadium tour in support of Coldplay's seventh studio album of the same name. The Latin American dates ran from 31 March to 17 April. The European dates - including the band's seminal headlining of the Glastonbury Festival - were from 24 May to 6 July. On 16 July the tour moved to the US, where Chris Martin and his bandmates are playing 22 stadium and arena dates. It continues in December, with six stadium dates in Australia and New Zealand.

Coldplay's live shows are renowned for their high production values - requirin

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USA - Genelec has appointed Dave Maclaughlin to the position of education sales director. Based in Florida, Maclaughlin will be in charge of educational sales for the entire US., as well as a direct sales rep for the state of Florida.

In his new position, Maclaughlin will help Genelec focus on sales to educational institutions and students, as well as present seminars and act as brand ambassador to the educational market. He will report to Lisa Kaufmann, Genelec Inc. managing director, and work closely with Paul Stewart, Genelec Inc. Eastern territory sales manager, on new and ongoing sales initiatives. For the past four years, Maclaughlin has served as the vice president of sales for Parsons Audio.

"Dave's diverse background, especially his expertise in audio education, makes him a perfect fit for this position," states Genelec's Will Eggleston. "He knows the priorities,

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Canada - After several years of growth, Adamson has announced an expansion of its management team at its global headquarters in Port Perry, Canada.

Benoit Cabot is promoted to director of R&D while Marc Weber joins in a director capacity to launch a new Product and Brand management division. They join director James Oliver to continue the strengthening of a young leadership team that has been instrumental in the increased visibility of the brand.

"Our product vision has endured generations and we've built a management team that will lead it through many more," explains Brock Adamson, founder and president of Adamson Systems Engineering. "We're driven by engineering and the production of high performance systems; not a corporate obsession of satisfying a group of investors. Our young leadership has been tasked to maintain this focus while our company rapidly expands."

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USA - AIMS has announced that Riedel Communications is the latest of the world's leading media technology companies to join the alliance.

Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany, Riedel Communications is renowned as a leading pioneer of real-time networks for audio video and communications applications; in particular, digital audio matrix systems and fiber-based real-time media network technology.

Their products and technologies, including MediorNet, the world's first fibre-based video network for integrated signal transport, are in common use throughout the world in broadcast, pro-audio, events, sports, theatre and security applications. These include applications in the staging of major global sporting events and within international sports governing bodies.

Commenting for the company on joining the alliance, Lars Hoehmann, product manager MediorNet,

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USA - The AmericanAirlines Arena, located in Miami, FL, home to the NBA's Miami Heat, recently completed an entire audio-visual upgrade using Audinate's Dante Audio-over-IP networking solution for low-latency, multichannel audio routing and distribution. The HEAT Group, the marketing and booking group within the AmericanAirlines Arena, has spent the last 15 years renovating and expanding areas of the arena. This latest technology upgrade not only included the arena bowl, but also a recently built exterior performance area.

The 19,600 seat arena that sits on the Biscayne Bay waterfront hosts more than 80 live events annually, including major concerts, family shows and national conferences. The new outdoor entertainment venue, Xfinity East Plaza (XEP) is a 23,000sq.ft covered space located on the east side of the arena. The initial XEP planning focused on the careful placement o

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USA - Taking centre stage inside the Lakeland Centre, the 2016 Miss Florida Scholarship Pageant showcased 48 contestants all vying for the opportunity to compete for the title of Miss America. Held in conjunction with the Miss Florida Outstanding Teen Pageant, production designer Trenton Dick was once again working behind the scenes at Miss Florida, and was asked this year to build upon the previous pageants LED video design.

So with an expanded budget and some increased expectations, Dick decided to create three LED video walls for the event using FLEXLite Plus 6.9mm and FLEXCurtain HD 12.5mm LED video technology from Nashville-based PixelFLEX.

"We used the PixelFLEX LED video technology for the first time in our 2015 pageant design and the producers loved it so much they really wanted to expand our video design for 2016," said Dick. "With the opportunity to expand the de

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New Zealand - Pink Floyd's legacy of bright, visually powerful stage productions lives on today in New Zealand, thanks to a tribute band formed (quite fittingly) by a lighting designer who uses the colour and intenstity of Chauvet Professional fixtures to create lightshows that do the group's legacy proud.

"We want to celebrate the Pink Floyd experience, not just with music but with lights and the entire stage presentation," said Anthony Macdonald, the LD who created the show. "Lighting was essential to the original Pink Floyd experience, so we try to replicate that feeling, but with the efficiency and intensity of today's fixtures."

Mcdonald has two STRIKE 4 multi-formatted LED fixtures in his band's road rig along with 12 Rogue R1 Spots, two Rogue RH1 Hybrids and five COLORado Zoom WW Tour fixtures. The fixtures were provided by Mcdonald's own company, MDR Sound and Ligh

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UK - HSL supplied lighting, rigging and a Kinesys automation system for the recent European leg of Chris Brown's "One Hell of a Nite tour, working for production designer and manager Tom E. Marzullo from Out Of Our Minds Creative Services, LLC.

HSL project managers John Slevin and Jordan Hanson co-ordinated everything for the Blackburn- based rental company and ensured that the production design - created collectively by Tom E with input from Christie Lites' Robert Roth and Robert Achlimbari from All Access - was supplied with all the lighting, rigging and automation elements it needed.

The tour's technical director Brian Spett who ran video content for the show and lighting director Charles Ford (also the lighting programmer / operator) additionally had their input, while HSL supplied a top crew chiefed by Simon 'Piggy' Lynch, to ensure that everything ran as smoothly and

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Australia - The CMC Music Awards 2016 were held at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), with some of the biggest names in country music including superstars Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line, Australia's own Adam Harvey, and rising country star Kelsea Ballerini taking to the stage to perform.

Broadcast live on Foxtel's Country Music Channel the event celebrated the music and artists who are most-loved by their dedicated country music fans in Australia.

Mandylights were responsible for the production design, production management, stage management, lighting design and operation. Lighting gear came from Crystal Productions, Resolution X and Mandylights themselves.

The event was the first time Scenius, Clay Paky's moving head spotlight, was used in Australia as Crystal Productions had received 14 a few days prior.

"We are among the first companies in Aust

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Australia - Robe BMFL Spots blasted stunning, crisp, clear images of Australian broadcaster 7 News' logo from 300m away, positioned near the top of the southern hemisphere's highest building, Q1.

The four 24m wide gobo images seared into the sand of the beach at Surfers Paradise right below the 322m high Q1 ... for the launch of the new 7 Gold Coast News operation.

The ingenious optical stunt was one of a number of high impact logo activations created for the event by lighting designer Adam Volz of TLD Services, who was asked by Channel 7 to sprinkle some visual magic and get their logo out there captivating audiences and involving known local landmarks.

Adam and the client decided on the concept of four logos beamed on the sand - the beach is right at the essence of Gold Coast culture and community - covering an area of approximately 100 metres wide as part of the vis

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UK - A.C. Audio, a sales division of A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd., is hosting Digital Wireless Days in association with Shure in August, to demonstrate the brand's wireless solutions, decode the jargon, and explain why the future of wireless is digital.

The free events will take place at the company's UK headquarters (High Wycombe) on Tuesday, 9 August, and Northern sales office (Leeds) on Thursday, 11 August 2016.

RF (radio frequency) spectrum for use by wireless microphone operators has changed a lot over recent years. From the digital TV switchover to the rise of mobile phone ownership, demand for clean spectrum is greater than ever.

As the airwaves the industry operates in continue to evolve, so must the technology that is used. Digital wireless systems have much to offer in securing a positive future for wireless microphones through spectral effic

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