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Europe - Neutrik has further extended its etherCON TOP product offering to meet the demands of data networking in the field and addressing feedback directly from end users.

The NE8MXR-B-TOP retractable RJ45 carrier cable connector delivers the environmental protection of etherCON TOP with the capability to mate with etherCON and standard RJ45 receptacles – through a simple retraction of the shell, retaining this piece on the cable. The rugged diecast shell is retractable from the RJ45 plug to enable use in a wide variety of applications and with devices that do not use etherCON receptacles.

The carrier shell’s chuck type strain relief ensures its suitability for use in harsh application environments, for networks operating in entertainment producti

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Sold Out - Tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2025 sold out in under 40 minutes, organisers have said. The event will be held from 25 to 29 June before taking a year off in 2026 to allow the ground at Worthy Farm in Somerset to recover. Tickets cost £373.50, plus a £5 booking fee – an increase of £18.50 on 2024.

In a post on X, Glastonbury Festival said: "Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 have now Sold Out. Thanks to everyone who bought one and sorry to those who missed out, on a morning when demand was much higher than supply. There will be a resale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2025."

An automatic queue system was introduced with fans needing to be online before the start of the sale with a valid registration number. Some reported issues with the new system, with one X user saying: "I was on the booking page, clicked proceed and then

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UAE - Bose Professional recently celebrated the grand opening of a new sales office and experience centre in Dubai, with industry leaders and partners from the MEA region.

The Dubai office marks the 10th new international business location Bose Professional has opened this year, including new offices and experience centres in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Singapore, Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Osaka, and Tokyo, with plans to open a new Bose Professional global headquarters and experience centre early next year in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Located in the rapidly growing Sharjah district, conveniently accessible from the Dubai International Airport, the new office combines modern business spaces and meeting rooms with an experience centre, designed for education and demonstration and featuring Bose Professional’s line-up of loudspeakers, power ampli

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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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Poland - Wharfedale Pro has announced Mega Music as its new distribution partner in Poland.

With over three decades of experience in the professional audio industry, Mega Music has built a solid reputation for supporting musicians, public facilities, and commercial venues with high-quality audio equipment and innovative solutions.

"We are excited to partner with Wharfedale Pro, a brand known for its commitment to quality and innovation in the pro audio industry,” says Mega Music’s Dariusz Adamowicz. “Our team is looking forward to bringing Wharfedale Pro's exceptional products to a broader audience in Poland and supporting the needs of our clients across various sectors."

“The team at Mega Music will play a key role in strengthening our presence and boosting Wharfedale Pro's visibility across major Polish markets,” says Danny Clarke

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USA - Coppell, Texas-based Alford Media, an event services company with more than 220 corporate events worldwide to its credit annually, has invested in a large complement of Ayrton Rivale fixtures for use on its busy roster of projects. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America.

The purchase marked the first Ayrton fixtures in the Alford inventory. “We have always been interested in the Ayrton line; they make a creative product, and we have been looking for an opportunity to jump in,” says lighting manager Blake Taylor. “The Rivale nicely filled a gap in our profiles line and had some newer features that helped drive our decision,” such as variable CRI, infinite pan and tilt and an IP rating. “These were improvements and upgrades over the profiles we already had.

“ACT has always been great about g

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USA - The Playground creative team called upon an artful blend of dramatic colour changes and various set and video configurations to endow each chapter of the Megan Thee Stallion narrative for The Hot Girl Summer tour.

“The tour consists of three main acts that really drive the creative intent,” explained Curtis Adams, who, along with Sooner Routhier and Trevor Ahlstrand was the co-production designer of the tour. “Act 1 featured Megan's hard-hitting Snake beginnings with sharp lines, powerful silhouettes, and stark colours. Act 2 centred around Megan's Butterfly era and had a dichroic colour palette. The softer pastel-like colours were a vast departure from the hard-hitting show open, which culled a difference in mood and helped emphasise her metamorphosis.

“Act 3 focused on Megan's human embodiment,” continued

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Australia - Production company Chameleon Touring Systems has made a significant investment in Elation’s Proteus Maximus and Proteus Brutus power luminaires, greatly expanding their ability to deliver robust lighting solutions for high-profile tours and major events across the region.

The new fixtures, supplied in late September through ULA Group – the exclusive distributor of Elation products in Australia and New Zealand – have already seen action.

In early October, Chameleon upgraded the lighting rigs for two landmark events: the 2024 National Rugby League (NRL) Grand Final at Accor Stadium in Sydney and Knockout Outdoor, Australia’s largest outdoor music festival at the Sydney Showground.

Chameleon sought to replace several outdated lighting fixtures in their inventory from brands that no longer offer this category

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UK - Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express, re-envisioned for the 21st century, has taken to the stage in the specially designed Starlight Auditorium at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.

With new orchestrations, choreography and songs, the story of a child’s train set that magically comes to life retains all its original wonder, with thrilling roller skate races around the auditorium and powerful performances from the 40-strong company of ‘rolling stock’ (engines and carriages) in an immersive production that begins from the moment the audience steps into the theatre. The audience is closely entwined in the action which takes place on a near in-the-round main stage with racing track ‘spokes’ leading off between sunken areas of seating and around the auditorium.

In anticipation of a long run, the show’s producers, Mi

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UK - Paolo Nutini’s world tour recently wrapped after 130 shows, where DPA Microphones brought clarity, reliability and a powerful impact to each performance.

Leading the sound team for Nutini’s tour were three industry veterans: Front of house (FOH) engineer Ben Findlay, monitor engineer Grace Howat and stage technician Chad Chadwick. Together, they harnessed DPA’s microphones to capture Nutini’s signature sound in every venue.  

“For the tour, we integrated an array of DPA microphones across the stage,” says Findlay. “We tailored the setup to meet the demands of a nine-piece band. The equipment chosen reflected the needs of each instrument and artist.

“Four DPA 4011 Cardioids were positioned to enhance the detail and precision of the snare drums, while four 4099 Instrument mics provided coverage across hats, rides and toms.

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Europe - Highlite International has announced the new Furion Series from Infinity, a collection of IP65-rated, high-performance moving heads. The Furion Series combines power, precision and versatility with a comprehensive range of high-end features.

The Furion line-up offers eight models that span the essential categories of spot, profile, beam, hybrid and washbeam. Each is designed to enhance creativity and provide a comprehensive set of tools for lighting designers.

Each specific Furion model has its own strengths and is optimised with many built-in features for creative freedom to push the boundaries in professional environments.

The Furion Spots and Profiles (S602, S402, P602 and P402), for example, feature a 'flat field LED' light source that produces a uniform field of light with very little loss of brightness towards the edges. The Pr

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Estonia - Kuressaare Castle on the island of Saaremaa provided a magical backdrop and a beautiful setting for the 2024 Saaremaa Opera Festival, staged in a 68m-long 29m-wide 2000-capacity temporary arena elegantly butted up to the castle.

This year’s host company, Fundació Òpera Catalunya (The Catalan Opera) from Spain produced a week of special back-to-back opera shows and related events, with lighting equipment and crew supplied by Tallinn-based rental specialist E&T, comprising almost all Robe luminaires.

The Robe moving lights included eight MMX Blades, 23 x LEDWash 800s, 16 x MMX Spots and four LEDBeam 350s, joined by 24 x ParFect 100 SWs, all rigged and tech’d by a crew of five led by Andres Sarv working closely with the Catalan Opera’s lighting designer David Galvez.

Catalan Opera’s technical manager Raul Vilasis

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UK - Lighting designer Phil Supple utilised 56 x Astera Tubes – 40 x Titan and eight each Hyperion and Helios – to illuminate 137 windows across 57 rooms at the George Heriot School in Edinburgh, Scotland, for Where to Begin, the opening event of the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival (EIF).

This Edinburgh International Festival production was created by Pinwheel and delivered in partnership with The Macallan, for which Phil worked closely with creative agency Pinwheel under the artistic direction of Katy Fuller and co-director Simon Sharkey, together with composer Roma Yagnik and video artists, Yeast Culture.

Where to Begin celebrated the energy, vibrance and spirit of Edinburgh, Scotland’s heritage and mythology as well as the alchemy of invention, carefully blended in with a festival atmosphere evoking emotion, inspirati

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USA - Dierks Bentley’s Gravel and Gold tour concluded with its 21 September show at the American Family Insurance Amphitheatre in Milwaukee.

The tour celebrated the landmark 10th album in Bentley’s successful career, and he wanted to make it memorable. Talking to a reporter, Bentley described how the concept behind this tour grew out of a single question. “What we do if this was the last time we were going to play this city? What kind of show would we put on?”

With a mandate like that, Bentley and his production team strove to create something special, which is precisely what they did on this 30-city tour with production design by Bruce Rodgers, lighting by Chris Reade, and video by Luz Studio.

Collectively this team created a massive, wide open panorama with minimal props and fixtures on the stage deck, a potent flown lighti

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UK - Coda Audio has announced the completion of its premium and versatile HOPS-Pro range, with the launch of the new HOPS10-Pro. The HOPS10-Pro has been designed in two versions - HOPS10T-Pro for touring and HOPS10i-Pro for installation.

The HOPS10-Pro is a high output three-way point source loudspeaker with an advanced triaxial design, featuring dual 10” neodymium ultra-low distortion cone drivers, and LF drivers to provide power and accuracy across low frequencies, and a 1.4” coaxial neodymium mid/high driver in a compact enclosure. This alignment of the acoustic centres ensures a perfectly coherent and uniform wavefront.

Complementing CODA Audio’s existing HOPS7-Pro and HOPS12-Pro models, HOPS10-Pro completes the range to ensure that users have maximum flexibility in addressing the widest variety of applications.

HOPS-Pro Series prod

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Germany - AV Stumpfl’s Pixera media server platform played a pivotal role in delivering an immersive gaming experience for the recent Red Bull Levels: Elden Ring event, conceived and created by Red Bull and delivered by German event technology specialist Neumann & Müller.

The high-profile event, intended as a showcase for the new Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, brought the fantasy setting of Elden Ring to life, bridging the virtual and physical worlds with a dynamic blend of haptic elements and high-definition visuals.

Part of Red Bull’s Levels video series, which takes fans behind the scenes of some of the biggest gaming launches, Red Bull Levels: Elden Ring transformed Atelier Gardens in Berlin in partnership with Bandai Namco, Elden Ring’s international publisher, and big-name streamers including MissMikkaa, eliasn97 and The_Happy_Hob.

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UK - CrowdGlow has announced a new addition to the CrowdNet family of products. The CrowdNet Nano transmitter is a small USB-based transmitter that allows lighting designers to control up to 2,000 phones at smaller sized shows to create amazing light shows. The new Nano transmitter is available for purchase with a life-time usage licence, compared to the company’s full-size transmitters which are dry hire only.

“The CrowdNet full size transmitters are suited to larger arenas and stadium sized shows, however we wanted to create a new product to cater for the smaller end of the market,” says CrowdGlow. “We’re thrilled to be able to enable the same level of high-end crowd light shows, but making them more economically feasible for smaller shows.”

The CrowdNet Nano has all of the same CrowdGlow features available including: RGB screen colours

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UK - Red Haute Glammies is the annual celebration of the ‘Glambassadors’ of the UK skincare brand, Tropic. Utilising over 500 ROE CB5 LED panels in giant video walls, CPL Enhanced Technology deployed Brompton Tessera SX40 processors and XD data distributors to power the ever-changing backdrop, chosen because of their extensive range of features and built in redundancy.

Tropic is a UK based company owned and created by Susie Ma, founder and CEO who has grown the company from 400 to 20,000 ambassadors, each selling the organic, sustainably sourced products to clients across the UK and beyond.

The Red Haute Glammie Awards is a celebration of this work and a moment to recognise the work done, not only for the company, but for charities, too. Working closely with event producers, Pandora Events, CPL Enhanced Technology supplied the s

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Switzerland - The EBL Elefantehuus (Elephant House) in Liestal is a one-of-a-kind, 300-capacity venue, hosting events, from jazz performances to comedy evenings. It was originally designed to house two huge, grey, elephant-shaped generators in the early 1900s, from which the building inherited its name. By the mid-1930s, the diesel-generators were usurped, and the building became an under-utilised storage space.

It remained over-looked and under-appreciated until owners EBL (Genossenschaft Elektra Baselland, the main local electricity provider) decided that the storage space should be included in scheduled upgrades, happening across the entire EBL campus.

In 2021, after initial discussions with the operator of the venue, Eric Rütsche of Kulturhotel Guggenheim, and Architect Pascal Epple of Otto Partner Architekten, WSDG were entrusted with the acous

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USA - The Vine Theatre, a 1,600-seat live performance venue located within the Del Lago Resort and Casino, has upgraded its concert system to a completely installed 1 Sound system.
The decision to upgrade the audio system came in response to ongoing concerns regarding sound quality, system reliability, and the deteriorating condition of the previous self-powered line array system. Tom Knauss, principal consultant at NV5 Consultants, was brought in to review the current system and provide recommendations.

"The existing system had reached a point where many components were beyond repair, and the overall sound quality was suffering," said Knauss. “We initially received three rider-friendly proposals generally based on the replacement of the existing line array system with new line array components.”

Within NV5’s review of the three proposals,

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UK - Absen has once again partnered with carbon neutral digital sign specialist, EcoVista and retail & lifestyle destination media experts, Limited Space to transform digital advertising within Romford’s The Liberty shopping centre.

Located centrally in the heart of Romford, Essex, The Liberty, which welcomes an annual footfall of 23m, has recently embarked on a multi-year £7m renovation, including the introduction of innovative digital signage to its main South Street entrance and internal layout.

Centre owner, Redical, appointed Limited Space as media operator to oversee the management of the new digital signage. Subsequently, Limited Space chose long-standing partners, EcoVista to provide full turn-key and high-quality internal sustainable solutions, required to meet strict planning applications and sustainability objectives. To meet these

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Spain - The AV community in Spain has announced the formation of #AVforValencia (www.avforvalencia.org), an initiative that aims to raise funds to support all those affected by the devastating floods that decimated Valencia in October.

#AVforValencia is working with other Valencia-based charities (including Fundación-In Jóvenes contra el Cáncer and Casa Caridad) to provide direct assistance to all those affected by this unprecedented natural disaster. All funds raised will be distributed through the Unidos por Valencia initiative, which connects victims with volunteers and aid resources.

Over 200 people are known to have lost their lives in this disaster, which has also destroyed homes, businesses and infrastructure and left countless families heartbroken and home

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