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Called to the Bar - Fans of Motorhead frontman Lemmy raised more than $22,000 (£16,600) for a life-size statue at his favourite bar in Los Angeles. Dozens of fans turned out to see the unveiling of the 6ft bronze sculpture that will immortalise him at the Rainbow Bar and Grill on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Cheryl Keuleman and Motorhead's long-time manager Todd Singerman were among those who paid tribute to Stoke-born singer who died in December. Singerman, who managed Motorhead from 1992 until the group disbanded after Lemmy's death, said he thought the Ace of Spades singer would have been "extremely proud" of his statue.

It's for You - A long-lost demo disc recorded by Paul McCartney that was given to Cilla Black has sold for £18,000 at auction, the Beatl

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UK - Martin Audio has announced that it has started to ship its award winning CDD-LIVE! from the company's British factory.

CDD-Live! features the company's patented Coaxial Differential Dispersion technology, delivering class-leading performance, fidelity, coverage and consistency. Each system also incorporates a powerful electronics module, on-board DSP, Class D amplification and Dante digital audio networking, with VU-NET compatibility to simplify set-up, enhance control and eliminate amplifier racks.

The pre-orders have been unprecedented as Dom Harter, managing director, explains. "The specs and pricing alone have been sufficient for many to jump onboard, and when people have heard the series they are truly astounded with the level of performance, depth and nuance to the top boxes - especially the 8" - alongside the efficiency of the subwoofers, that sound loud, low a

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Europe - Shure has announced today that a new version of its ShurePlus MOTIV Mobile Recording App - designed for use with the Company's MOTIV Digital Condenser Microphones - is now available for download.

Version 2.0 of this iOS App offers a suite of advanced new features, including an editing tool, improved user interface, and fluid sound metering for a more accurate, jitter-free experience. Additionally, version 2.0 offers access to a playback window, enabling users to review, assess, or simply listen to a recording of their choice.

"We're always listening to our users, and these latest updates are a direct result of their feedback, requests, and needs," said Thomas Banks, senior product management specialist at Shure.

"We understand that the ability to edit and play back a recording is paramount to achieving an optimal, high-quality audio file. With the upgraded nav

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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 - Focusrite will be hosting a fun and informative event on its RedNet line of products and Audinate's Dante protocol on Thursday, 15 September, 2016, 12:30-6:00 p.m., at Belmont University Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, Nashville, TN.

RedNet is the premier audio-over-IP solution, based around Audinate's industry standard Dante protocol. It comprises a suite of top-notch, modular network audio interfaces, combining renowned Focusrite audio quality with the internet-age flexibility of audio-over-IP.

Audinate senior technical sales engineer Barnie Farkus will help lead a Dante training session. Following that, Ron Romano, Belmont University technology specialist, will demonstrate how Belmont uses RedNet and Dante for their audio-over-IP networking needs.

Next, RedNet national accounts manager Kurt Howell will hold a presentation on the RedNet p

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USA- Since its introduction in 1993, Student Life has been running inter-denominational Christian summer camps and conferences for young people. The camps travel with a production team striving to set the stage which will foster an environment of worship and praise.

To create these worship environments, director of production Jake Brantley understands that the gear chosen must have the ability to adapt to several locations across the country, so he once again turned to Nashville-based tour provider Elite Multimedia to help him create a cohesive and modular lighting, audio and video production design.

"Each Student Life Camp lasts one week with both morning and evening worship services, so at a typical camp our production crew will run eight services," began Brantley. "One of the most challenging aspects about putting the designs together is that we have to be modular becau

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USA - With the US elections intensifying, The Democratic National Convention took place in July, while SGM fixtures lit up landmarks and historical monuments in the host city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Lighting Practice of Philadelphia was approached by Amtrak to highlight the 30th Street Station during the DNC 2016 event. The Lighting Practice commissioned Starlite Productions of New Jersey to form a collaboration in order to create a lighting spectacle.

Furthermore, the Centre City District of Philadelphia commissioned the team to light up the iconic clock tower of Philadelphia's City Hall - equally for the duration of the DNC.

The initial brief for the 30th Street Station project entailed lighting up the large windows on the east and west side of the station but the scope elaborated to include the east portico, which is highly visible from the city center. A

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China - Foster and Partners have refurbished the business and first class lounges at Chep Lap Kok, Hong Kong International Airport. This is the home of Cathay Pacific and the new upgraded lounges make a clear statement - "this is how we treat travellers in our home port, the best airport in the world".

The new lounges are not opulent. They are smart, elegant spaces devoid of superfluous distractions that are irrelevant to the guests. There is everything you need and nothing you do not.

The signature theme in all of the lounges is the ceiling to floor glass feature wall illuminated by LED lighting found at the reception and within the overall space. The reception walls are neutral white. The inner wall changes colour, subtly.

Hong Kong International Airport is full to capacity. There is not a millimetre to spare in the lounge and any additional elements will compete wit

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South Africa - DWR Distribution welcomed the founder of ArKaos, Marco Hinic and colleague Benjamin Bauwens to South Africa for the very first time in August. They visited clients in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town and also presented training at DWR's offices.

"Although we have worked remotely with DWR for a few years now, it was our first physical contact with South Africa," said Marco. "I had a feeling that we were in for a nice surprise and indeed we were overwhelmed by the warm welcome and hand of friendship from everyone. I was thrilled I could take a day at the end of the trip to explore the beauty of Cape Town. All we can think of is now is when can we plan to come back."

A day's training was hosted in Johannesburg and presented by Benjamin Bauwens and Marco and both were encouraged by the good attendance. "I took a group picture of everyone to bring back to our o

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USA - Far from being just another event space, Community Courtyard has a history and aesthetic reaching back to 1850. It was then that a carriage works and livery stable laid its foundation in Plattsburg, Missouri. In the century that followed, the lovely brick building became a roller skate factory, a car dealership, and a cabinetry shop, but in the 1980s it fell into disrepair.

Inspired by its beauty and cultural significance, a local non-profit raised the funds necessary to turn it into a community event space. After two years of extensive renovations, Community Courtyard opened in the late 1990s. Until this year however, users had to bring their own sound reinforcement systems to their events. Kansas City A/V integration firm Advanced Sound & Communication changed that with a system centred on an Ashly Audio Pema 4250.70 combo Protea matrix digital processor and four-chann

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USA - Barco and High End Systems, a Barco company, are providing their AV solutions to help create a mind-blowing visual spectacular for rap artist and songwriter Drake's current North America concert tour. The company is part of a team led by world-renowned lighting designer Guy Pavelo and tour director Steve Kidd of GP-SK Design & Production.

Now traveling across the United States, the Drake Summer Sixteen tour represents a massive undertaking in audiovisual theatrics, with the design and programming expertly directed by Pavelo and GP-SK. The artist came to the table with some highly imaginative show elements in mind, requiring a mammoth production effort: an expansive stage and set design, an 86' curved video wall, and a Kinetic system comprising hundreds of custom LED spheres.

Pavelo specified a significant amount of Barco and High End Systems gear to augment the exten

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USA - The Frendly Gathering in Windham, VT is to music festivals what the nearby Ben & Jerry's company is to ice cream makers: iconoclastic, slightly eccentric, wildly creative and flower child sweet. How else to describe a music festival started by two champion snowboarders to commemorate Frends Crew, a group formed to take the ego out of the sport? (Hence the removal of the "I" from the word friends.)

Along with morning yoga and skateboarding, the festival features nonstop performances from bands covering the gamut of rock, jam, reggae and bluegrass styles. This year a total of 26 acts, including Big Gigantic and Smooth Antics, took to the stage at Timber Ridge, an old ski resort tucked in the Green Mountains. They were backed by a lightshow that featured a collection of Chauvet Professional fixtures and an impressive video wall created by Tristan Rudat using the company's P

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USA - This year, Adele made a welcome return to the stage with 25, her first arena tour, which received rave reviews during its European leg. Now travelling round the US, the tour's much anticipated nature, and Adele's status as one of the world's favourite artists, prescribed a production with values that aim for nothing less than perfection - right across the board. In audio world, that aim is aided by the use of DiGiCo SD7 mixing consoles, which are situated at both the Front of House and monitor positions.

Front of House engineer Dave Bracey has been using DiGiCo consoles since the company first started manufacturing 14 years ago but is new to the Adele crew. Whilst Joe Campbell at monitors is new to the desks, he has been working with Adele since her 21 tour. Both are happy that they have all the right tools for the job.

"For me, DiGiCos are the only properly engineer

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Europe - German rock legends The Scorpions celebrate 50 glorious years of being ultimate heroes of heavy metal. 2015 actually marked the anniversary of their formation and they continue to tour.

Associate LD and lighting operator Manfred Nikitser from MANIK Show Lighting, Vienna, is running the lighting for the current touring schedule together with Rainer Becker. The summer shows are a mix of festival and own-headliners, 90% of the time using local productions matched as closely as possible to their generic spec.

Robe's BMFL Spots are among a number of primary moving light fixtures on the rider that Manfred is happy to accept from local vendors.

The biggest challenge of the current leg of the tour - with all the lighting, rigging and LED provided locally - is the need for good pre-production and advancing to still make a show happen in countries with radically differe

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UK - In 2011, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds released their debut album and embarked on an understated tour of theatre sized venues. Since then the band hasn't stopped and 2016 has seen it embark on a world tour, with an L-Acoustics audio system provided by Britannia Row Productions.

Unsurprisingly, the size of the venues has increased, with the latest tour including six UK arena dates, the tour concluding with a final show at the Brixton O2 Academy in September. Front of House engineer, Dan Lewis, has enjoyed a long working relationship with Gallagher, having worked with him since 2002.

"My relationship with Noel started as system tech for Oasis, after which I became their Front of House engineer," says Dan. "Since then I've been FOH engineer for both Noel's High Flying Birds and Beady Eye. I started using L-Acoustics with Beady Eye in 2011 and have used it ever since

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UK - British image processing expert, Calibre has appointed Peng Wu to sales & marketing manager, APAC.

Wu reports directly to Richard Laberge, vice president, international sales at Calibre. The appointment coincides with Calibre's first presence at the upcoming LED China event where the sales and engineering team will be present to meet with local manufacturers as well as visiting organizations looking brand their own equipment inventory.

Based at Calibre's global headquarters in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK, Wu joins Calibre from several years in the local manufacturing industry, working in senior management where he acted as the service point between clients and suppliers.

CEO Tim Brooksbank says the appointment results from Calibre's increased presence in the Asia Pacific region and China in particular. "Wu's great knowledge of Chinese business culture and internationa

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UK - Shepperton-based Marquee AV is expanding its production and theatre lighting operations with the appointment of Paul Barker, who brings substantial technical experience of lighting systems and control to his new position as project manager.

Senior project manager, Rob Whitaker explained, "Main contractors and venue operators alike are increasingly looking for a single provider for the complete package of audio, video and lighting. With the integration of technologies and the infrastructures now being designed into many venues, this is also a logical progression.

"Whilst this is something Marquee has always provided, we have also partnered with lighting specialists on larger projects. Bringing Paul on board now expands our capability to handle projects of any size or complexity completely in-house."

Paul Barker continued, "I'm really pleased to be joining Marquee A

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Singapore - Jens Poehlker has joined the Robe Asia Pacific team based in Singapore as managing director, where his industry and commercial experience, personality, communication skills and large network of contacts will pave the way for the Robe's next stage of development in the region.

Robe Lighting s.r.o. CEO and co-founder Josef Valchar said, "We welcome Jens to the Robe Family. He is very well respected and liked in our industry, his passion for the business and can-do approach is a perfect fit with our core values, and we are really excited about the future that lies ahead in the Asia Pacific region".

Jens opened and ran the Singapore office of MA Lighting for the last nine years. He knows about the demands, expectations and pressures of heading up a pivotal regional sales operation for a global brand and premium European based manufacturer that is also a market lead

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Europe - Connectivity specialists DirectOut has announced that they have entered into a SoundGrid licensing partnership with Waves Audio. The collaboration has led to the development of a new device with a SoundGrid and MADI interface that will be unveiled at IBC in Amsterdam this month.

SoundGrid is an audio-over-Ethernet networking and processing technology developed by Waves offering extremely low latency, high channel count audio processing. Running on standard Intel CPUs and 1Gbps Ethernet networks, SoundGrid uses standard computers, switches and servers and integrates easily with analog and digital mixing consoles. Real-time audio processing is performed on standard Intel-based plugin servers running a Waves-customized version of the rock-solid Linux platform, making it an ideal solution for studio facilities, live sound, broadcast, post-production and more.

"SoundGr

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Hungary - Renowned Hungarian dance group, Experidance, recently purchased two Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing systems to manage audio requirements for their national touring shows.

Experidance's repertoire includes musicals, live orchestral events and theatre productions, and the team was looking for an ultra-flexible digital mixing system to replace the incumbent FOH and monitor consoles. After evaluation, they selected two dLive systems, comprising S5000 and S7000 Surfaces, with DM32 and DM48 MixRacks. Experidance's touring PA also includes an L-Acoustics Line Array system and a wide selection of premium microphones.

In most scenarios, the company is using the system as a traditional FOH and monitor split via ACE for big orchestra shows, but the system is also versatile, and can be installed in different locations functioning as two separate FOH mixing systems, using

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UK - The splendid and ornate surroundings of the Blackpool Tower Ballroom were recently home to the Lancaster University Student's Union 2016 graduation ball, an evening marked by celebration and reflection.

Lighting designer Oliver Wilkinson contributed to the festive mood, creating a memorable and colourful lightshow that was anchored by 10 Rogue R1 Spot and 22 Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving fixtures from Chauvet Professional, as well as six MotionOrbs and 12 PiXPar 24 par fixtures from its sister company Chauvet DJ.

Having designed the LUSU grad ball twice previously, Wilkinson - who is a fulltime designer and chief LX for local production company Arranpaul - understands the expectations of the students all too well. "From previous years, I know that these students want to go out with a bang," commented Wilkinson. "For this reason I needed to create the most impressive lighting

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Malta - The walled Cittadella, situated on the Island of Gozo, next to Malta, has recently undergone a major revamp through two restoration and rehabilitation projects co-financed by the European Union.

International creative design and AV installation company, Sarner, has been instrumental in bringing 2000 years of Gozo's history to life with a visually captivating and immersive journey in an all-embracing visitor experience located within the historical walls of the island.

The island of Gozo is rich in history and natural beauty, resources which, woven in with local customs and traditions, were key factors in creating this new tourist attraction. Being greener, less densely populated and urbanised than Malta, Gozo boasts an idyllic lifestyle that draws inspiration from its unique island setting and Sarner's brief was to convert and restore the city's disused reservoirs

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