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The latest addition to Philips CSI’s range of public address equipment is the FlexiLine family of mixer/amplifiers aimed at budget conscious applications ranging from retail, restaurant and catering establishments to schools, leisure facilities and workplaces.

The new FlexiLine family of 120W mono-mixer amplifiers are easy-to-use and ideal for a wide variety of PA requirements where a combination of emergency announcements and voice messages are required, with optional background music. FlexiLine allows up to 3 microphone inputs to be mixed together with music to provide the right combination of public address messages and background music for any application. Microphone 1 can be set as a priority override, automatically muting other microphone inputs and the background music to en

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From its now established base at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London, the ABTT Show continues to underline its role as a key event for the theatre industry. The trade show, which took place last week, attracted well over 100 exhibitors from across the wide spectrum of supplies and services, as a result pulling in over 2,500 visitors.

ABTT’s emphasis on training and education was demonstrated by the wide-ranging seminar programme which accompanied the event, but the highlight was the ABTT Dinner staged on the first evening where Major Sir Michael Parker, famed for his work on such events as the Royal Tournament and more recently All the Queens Horses, was the guest speaker. The Awards announced during the Dinner recognized the work of sound designer Andrew Bruce of Autograph Sound who collected a Lifetime Achievement Award, whilst the Technician of the Year award went to Nick

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US company Lightswitch has announced that Howard Werner, formerly of hwdesigns, has joined its design team, becoming a Principal Designer alongside original founders, John Featherstone and Norm Schwab.

Werner has over 20 years of lighting and projection design experience, having worked on an impressive number of projects. He is currently designing the lighting and multimedia for a new play, ‘Say Goodnight Gracie’ directed by John Tillinger, which is scheduled to open on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre in October. Other theatrical credits include the 2001 revival of ‘American Buffalo’, which premiered at the Donmar Theater in London, as well as designs for the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and the Atlantic Theatre in New York. His corporate credits include such clients as McDonalds, Toyota, Ford, GM, Anderson Consulting, Jack Morton Worldwide, Liz Claiborne

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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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Wybron has added two Scandinavian lighting companies to its worldwide dealer network - Bico Professional A/S in Denmark and Stockholm Lighting in Sweden.

One of Sweden's leading lighting sales companies, Stockholm Lighting had been looking to add colour changers to its existing range of lighting equipment for some time and negotiations with Wybron were finalised this spring. Originally concentrating on selling lighting equipment to the film and TVindustries, Bico expanded into the theatrical market in 1999 and has been looking to extend this part of its product range ever since. After making initial contact with Wybron at last year's NAB show, Bico now has a range of Wybron's lighting accessories in stock.

(Lee Baldock)

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Britannia Row really pushed the boat out for the PSA, transforming its London warehouse into a mini venue for a PSA Get Together on the evening of June 12th. Mike Lowe and Bryan Grant demonstrated their corporate hospitality expertise, laying on food and drink and providing audio and visual entertainment for the near 100 attendees. Brit Row’s warehouse, usually home to flightcases and equipment was completely cleared and 'dressed' so that it resembled a well appointed night club. No mean feat!

Guests ranged from well-known industry figures to those at the beginning of their careers: whatever their background or experience, the evening gave an opportunity for everyone to mix and talk over the recent Jubilee celebrations. £400 was raised for the Welfare & Benevolent Fund in a raffle organised by Brit Row with prizes donated by Telex Shuttlesound, Yamaha and Brit Row.

(Lee Baldoc

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The annual music industry Great Googly Challenge cricket event, which raises money for the Music Therapy Charity, will be bigger and better than ever this year thanks to the addition of two extra teams. Eight teams will compete in the one-day league that takes part at the Brondesbury Cricket Club, North London, on Thursday August 22, 2002. Teams already confirmed include event sponsors Pro Tape, last year¹s winners Sanctuary, the FX Group, Arrogant Behaviour, Jolly Singh and Sky Broadcast.

The money raising efforts will be assisted by a raffle with high value prizes, including some exceptional prizes that will be announced on the day. Pro Tape’s ’Butcher’ Bob Matthews will be manning the BBQ again, with all proceeds going to charity. Nick Dimes, one of the event organisers and managing director of PR agency Dimes & Sillitoe (who will be playing for the FX Group) say

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A pair of giant Lighthouse LED video screens are relaying the World Cup action throughout the tournament to fans outside the Korean Convention Centre in Seoul. Two 5.12x3.84, 20sq.m 20mm pixel pitch Lighthouse outdoor screens have been erected on behalf of Korean Telecomm Corporation in Seoul by AV rental company Hibino Korea and have been in use since the opening ceremony and will continue until the final itself on June 30.

KT Corporation is one of the World Cup’s sponsors and has secured rights to provide the screens, which are officially sanctioned by world football body FIFA. Seoul was the venue for the World Cup’s first match, when France faced Senegal. Jimmy Lo, at Lighthouse’s Hong Kong office, commented: "It’s a fantastic honour that Lighthouse screens have been chosen to show the tournament in Korea during the World Cup."

(Lee Baldock)

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Fuzion has appointed Gary Furman to its sales team. Furman will provide office-based support in handling sales enquiries and generating new leads to complement the activities of the three regional sales managers who are not office-based.

Sales director Paul Ward is pleased with the new development: "We now have an extremely positive sales scenario," he said. "We already have a very strong sales force out on the road who are doing a good job, despite the relatively tough climate. With Gary's appointment they now have the additional reassurance of knowing there is someone back in the office whose sole task is to handle sales enquiries, which leaves everyone else, including those of us based in the office, free to focus on our own particular role."

Furman has several years of pro audio sales experience in his native South Africa where he started in a telesales role b

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Entec Sound & Light has purchased its first Yamaha PM1D digital mixing console. The desk’s first outing will come with the series of David Bowie performances planned for the summer. At the helm will be Pablo Wheeler as front of house sound engineer and desk technician Tristan Johnson.

The addition of the PM1D to Entec’s stock, complements a growing list of audio control systems which now includes the Midas’s XL4, Heritage 3000, XL3 and XL200, along with desks from the Soundcraft range. These are accompanied by a stock of d&b audiotechnik loudpeakers and amplifiers, together with the legendary Entec manufactured APW212 Floor Monitors.

Established in the late 1960s, Entec provides sound, lighting and production services to the concert touring industry, and has grown over the years to service TV, concerts, conferences, theatre, exhibitions and outdoor events.

(Ruth R

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Until now commercial and architectural lighting controls have generally been served by two independent systems with interfacing provided via volt-free contacts. With its latest lighting control module, iLight has integrated both the commercial and architectural functions within a single system, providing a fully integrated solution in terms of both hardware and software.

The new SCH1000T is a 10-way pluggable lighting control module. Most commercial lighting control products have only eight output ports on the lighting control module which can cause problems when dealing with a regular ceiling grid. The iLight system’s 10 outputs will enable a 3 x 3 or 2 x 5 luminaire matrix, creating shorter cable lengths to the lights, as well as reducing the total number of units required. The system is easy to install since all connections are via a plug and socket arrangement. As part of the

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The festival season kicked in for DPL Production Lighting at Maldon in Essex, for the Maldon Promenade two-day event, staged against the picturesque backdrop of the tidal River Blackwater.

The festival was production managed by the redoubtable Dick Tee, who was engaged in other projects when the site build started, so the co-ordination of the Maldon event fell to his associate Laura Sands. DPL were called in to suppy lighting production for the fifth time. The first night had a pop cabaret theme and starred Jaki Graham, Rose Royce (with Gwen Dickey) and The Three Degrees, rounded off with a specially choreographed Techno Show son et lumière number, complete with fireworks and projection, directed by Sean Canning from Hotcakes UK. The following event was dedicated to popular classics.

DPL’s lighting rig was shaped to follow the curves of the Orbit stage (supplied by Serious Str

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RMS - Rental Management Systems has introduced new options to link its rental management software to external software programs. With the 'input-link', users of RMS are able to import equipment-lists from drawing programs such as AutoCAD and Stardraw. Once a design has been created in a drawing package, a list is automatically generated containing all the elements within the drawing, which can then be imported into a project within the RMS software.

The 'output-link' provides an easy way to connect RMS to the most popular accounting packages.After the completion of a project, all relevant financial information can be exported into a file, which can then be read by the accounting software.

(Lee Baldock)

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The newly renamed Warehouse nightclub, on Friar Gate in Derby, has just taken delivery of a Nexo Alpha E system supplied by Showcom Audio. The system comprises four stacks of Alpha E driven by the new lightweight Vortex 6 amplifiers from Camco with Klark Teknik EQ. An NX241 digital controller from Nexo completes the line-up.

Mike Symes, the club’s owner, commented: "This system represents a great investment for us. The audio quality of an underground club like ours is hugely important. With a lot of the larger clubs down-sizing, potential customers/promoters need a venue of this size to build up a solid core of faithful punters. With resident DJ Jools associated with the club it can only strengthen our position in this market as a growing high quality venue. This is reflected in the fact that we’re the only club in Derby to be granted a 6am licence every Friday and Sat

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AV industry veteran Alan Barber has joined Lighthouse to support the company’s AV Rental and Staging sales team in the US, with a new office on the West Coast. Barber joins Lighthouse from rental company Creative Technology’s Los Angeles office. His arrival will mean a wealth of experience from 13 years at the front line of the AV rental and sales market, with four years in the LED screen industry.

Barber has worked on a wide range of shows including the 2000 Democratic National Convention; automotive trade shows; corporate trade shows; product intros, and television productions including the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Academy Awards; the 2002 Emmy Awards; the 2001, 2002 ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards and the 2001 AFI Awards Show. He comments: "This is an exciting time in the LED business, and I am proud to be involved with the company that created the indoor market. I t

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News has come in this week that Nexus Media (part of the Highbury House Communications Group) has decided to put on hold the publication of two of its titles serving this industry - Live! and Disco International (DI) - part of the portfolio which also includes DJ magazine and Making Music. Both titles are well known in the industry - DI has been one of the main magazines addressing the late night venue market, whilst Live! has concentrated on the live performance industry.

Although we’ve contacted Nexus for comment, there has been no official announcement from the company as to why the decision has been taken. We’ll feature more on this story in our July issue.

(Ruth Rossington)

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tsg, the media programming and systems provider has recruited Natalie Trivass as technical manager. The appointment is part of the ongoing strategic expansion at the company, which will see other key positions filled by experienced and respected industry people over the coming months. Trivass brings a wealth of experience to the role through her previous positions with Sound Power and Greenalls Pubs and Restaurants.

Commenting on her appointment, Natalie stated: "I wanted to work for a company with control over their own media content and product development, rather than working with third party providers. Also, tsg's policy on its people appealed greatly and developed initiatives such as Investors in People and ISO9002 demonstrate that the company is striving to stand out from the pack and put customers at the centre of everything they do."

(Ruth Rossington)

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Bandit Lites UK supplied lighting to the European section of Neil Young’s latest ‘Are You Passionate’ tour, which visited Brixton Academy for two nights as part of an extensive European jaunt.

Despite his worldwide profile and his stage presence, Young is relatively shy as a performer, always wearing a hat onstage, and disliking spotlights so LD Keith Wissmar, who has worked with Young for nine years, has his work cut out. The tone of the Are You Passionate tour - a retro Motown style - much softer and more rounded than much of the material that Young has produced in the past, inspired Wissmar to design a pseudo 1960/70’s TV set look into his show lighting, typical of the US Bandstand teenage music shows of that era. Simple in presentation when compared to the slick productions of today, they nonetheless yielded a certain aesthetic charm. Wissmar reproduced this

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The British Airways London Eye was turned Gold between 31st May until 9th June to highlight a charity fundraising initiative over the Jubilee period. Once again, Park Avenue Productions, working with producer Ajay Parekh and lighting designer Paul Cook, called on the services of Vari-Lite Europe. Cook specified a rig of 80 VL5 Arcs at the base of the Eye, to create a gold wash capable of dynamic colour and intense chases in harmony with the many Jubilee beacons being lit around the country.

Paul Cook commented: "The combination of the Whole Hog control system, pre-focusing work in Vari-Lite Europe’s WYSIWYG suite and the use of the VL5 Arcs enabled a stunning sequence of looks to be created with only limited on-site time. The shimmering golden effect was created with complex sequences of fast colour changes. The 10-day run of this event meant that we had to take tidal chang

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Since Fuzion introduced the WORK line of loudspeakers and amplifiers dedicated to the installation market at PLASA 2001, the brand has gone from strength to strength. The newly introduced SP Series amplifiers are no exception and represent solid, reliable design in an attractive 2U package.

There are four units in the range with power ratings ranging from 420W per channel into 4 ohms to a beefy 1500W into 4 ohms. They are extremely well-featured for the price with all models offering jack and XLR inputs, binding post and Speakon outputs, a 30Hz high pass input filter, a defeatable clip limiter and integral fan. There is also an impressive amount of built-in protection circuitry to guard against thermal and ultrasonic overload or short-circuiting as well as RF protection to guarantee stability under reactive or mismatched loads.

(Lee Baldock)

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ARX has introduced the MSX 8 microphone and line splitter. Active microphone and line splitting has a number of benefits over passive splitters: primarily these are improved sound quality, noise figures comparable to the best microphone inputs, increased resistance to RFI, consistent microphone load and, where required, total signal Ground isolation between outputs.

The MSX 8 consists of two channels of actively buffered ultra low noise microphone and line splitter. Each of these channels has four electronically balanced splits - two on the rear panel, two on the front panel. All four output splits have the option of transformer balancing if required. A 'Link' switch links channel 1 with channel 2, providing an maximum of 8 outputs from a single input, ideal for multiple Press Splits. Each channel has a 20dB pad switch and a +20dB Gain switch, plus silently switchable 48V Phantom power

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A.C.T Lighting Inc dealer, C.I. Tronics of Blumenau, Brazil, recently staged the first in a series of workshops at the highly regarded ‘Chips’ music venue in Porto Alegre in the South of Brazil. The workshop tour is to publicize the Zero 88 Frog range of consoles to Brazilian lighting professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds. The highlight of the workshop was a live performance by a local band with the automated lighting controlled by a Fat Frog console.

The Frog range of consoles offers low cost, high quality moving light and conventional control while maintaining and simple and intuitive operating syntax. Amongst the assorted professionals checking out the range of consoles from the Frog to the Bull Frog were designers from the State Theatre, a large number of representatives of local lighting rental and production companies and music venues, as well a sprinkling

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