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Following the success of their established venues in London's Covent Garden, and more recently in Nottingham, Scottish and Newcastle have recently opened their third Long Island Iced Tea shop in Sutton which has been furnished with a significant Nexo/Crown audio system. TTL Music in Nottingham was responsible for the installation, specified by Birmingham-based consultancy, TASC.

In the style of many current venues, the Long Island Iced Tea shop is designed to cater for comfortable eating and drinking throughout the day before turning up the energy for the night time crowd with a DJ and a dance floor. The system therefore needs to be capable of providing high quality background music during the day, whilst still having the power and the poise to deliver the same high quality at levels req

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Jonathan Adkins has returned to Lighting Technology Projects Ltd (LTP). Terry Reeves, general manager of LTP stated: "Jonathan’s departure from LTP, in advance of its acquisition by the PAI Group, left a void in the organization’s skill base. Everybody within the PAI group and Jonathan’s customers are extremely pleased he has chosen to return to the fold." Paul Adams, chairman of the PAI Group, added: "We are pleased to have Jonathan joining us, and know that he will prove an invaluable asset to both LTP and the PAI Group."

(Ruth Rossington)

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Following the sale of its Vari*Lite product manufacturing and sales division to Genlyte Thomas Group (as reported on this site last week), Vari-Lite International, Inc has announced organizational expansion and investment plans for its rental division, VLPS Lighting Services.

"We have provided professional rental services to the entertainment industry for 21 years and we will continue to build on this well established foundation," commented Rusty Brutsche, CEO of Vari-Lite International, Inc. (to be renamed VLPS Lighting Services International, Inc.). "The sale of our manufacturing division enables us to focus all of our attention and resources on pursuing and developing growth opportunities in the rental market." VLPS will continue its strategy of providing equipment for rental along with commitment to customer service and support. The company will also continue

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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!

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Pro Audio Light Middle East (PALME), the region’s first dedicated professional sound and lighting communications exhibition being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates next year, has expanded its portfolio to include systems integration solutions.

The move has been spurred by exhibitor demand, according to organizers IIR Exhibitions. With the rapid development in digital technologies, and the advent of converged communications, entire entertainment showcases are able to be controlled using centralised interfaces. "We are seeing the industry moving to a converged environment where everything from sound and lighting to audiovisual offerings are being integrated into a singular infrastructure," said Iain McLean, project manager PALME, IIR Exhibitions.

According to McLean, the move has been well received by the industry, both regionally and internationally, with key Gulf pl

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Theatre Projects Consultants has worked all over the world, but never created a drive-through theatre - until now! At the eleventh hour, the Emir of Abu Dhabi has called in Theatre Projects Consultants to work on a new 500-seat waterfront theatre being built for the Royal Court, one of the requirements being enough space between the stage and the stalls to allow the frail leader to be driven to his seat.

Although the original plan had been to erect a tented theatre, this was abandoned when the Royal Court decided it wanted a more permanent structure and contracted local company Algeemi Code to design, build and fit-out the new facility. Soon after the metal framing had been put in place, it was realized that there were opportunities to improve the design and one of the Public Works Department's architects contacted Theatre Projects: within a week Mark Stroomer, design director, was in

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Delta Sound Inc has once again supplied a complete sound and communications system for the Anniversary Convention of the International Association of Scientologists, now in its 17th year. More than 3,000 Scientologists from as far a field as Australia gathered at St Hill Manor in Sussex, the former home of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, for three days of talks, music and entertainment featuring guest artists Isaac Hayes, Dougie Fresh and the Jives and the Golden Era Musicians.

This is the fifth year that Delta has worked in conjunction with Golden Era Productions, a Scientology-owned company which produces all the association's events worldwide as well as its training videos, CDs and films. The convention was held in two venues, the 600-capacity Great Hall and an overflow tent which could accommodate a further 2,500 delegates. "The event gets bigger and bigger each year,"

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Syncrolite is offering a $10,000 reward for the return of an SX7K Xenon Skylight which was stolen from LDI 2002 in Las Vegas on October 22. In addition, the reward rises to $25,000 if information is provided which leads to the arrest and conviction of the thieves.

The SX7K is the flagship product of Syncrolite’s award-winning Xenon Skylight line and one of the largest theatrical lights in use today, so not something easily concealed. Its case measures 57" x 39" x 39" and weighs 560lbs. The company guarantees that all leads will be treated in confidence and the reward will be paid in two parts, $10,000 immediately on return of the light and $15,000 upon arrest and conviction of the perpetrators. If you have any information, contact Gary Carnes at Syncrolite on the e-mail below.

(Ruth Rossington)

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S. Leonard Auerbach, ASTC, founder of Auerbach + Associates Inc. has announced that both of the company’s divisions have changed their names to more accurately reflect recent company expansion. The name of Auerbach + Associates, Theatre and Media Facilities Design Consultants, has been changed to Auerbach · Pollock · Friedlander, Performing Arts/Media Facilities Planning and Design. Auerbach + Glasow, Architectural Lighting Design, is now Auerbach · Glasow, Architectural Lighting Designers and Consultants.

"The new name recognizes the firm’s growth and evolution from a San Francisco-based consultancy to a national entity with a thriving New York City office and a busy Minneapolis project office, marking yet another step in the ongoing development of the firm," said Len Auerbach.

The change of name also reflects the rise of two of the company’s principa

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transtechnik Lichtsysteme is expanding its national sales network, adding four new dealers to further serve the German sales regions. The dealers will be authorized to sell an extensive portfolio of transtechnik Lichtsysteme, ETC, and Avab brand products.

The new transtechnik Lichtsysteme dealers are WIBA Theater-und Studio-Equipment of Cologne; Think Abele of Nufringen; Fischer Vertriebgesellschaft of Berlin and Lucifer of Wolfenbüttel. In Germany, ETC Source Four-line luminaires will continue to be distributed exclusively by Paderborn-based Lightpower, whilst WYSIWYG lighting-visualisation software will remain exclusively distributed by Arcus Licht-und Präsentationstechnik of Hoevelhof. transtechnik Lichtsysteme, which also supplies advanced studio automation systems and components, was acquired from parent company transtechnik GmbH by ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) in Ma

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Akusta, the UK’s leading line of PA/GA and other life safety systems, has appointed Aberdeen-based Dron & Dickson as its GL industrial loudspeakers distributor for the Scottish offshore oil and gas industry. The move now enables Akusta to service the entire North Sea oil and gas industry following the appointment earlier this year of Profitek AS as its Norway distributor.

The two to 25W range of GL high performance loudspeakers are available in heavy-duty horn, GRP (glass reinforced plastic) and self powered versions. A safe area version for marine and industrial applications is also available. Paul Clark, Akusta’s European industrial sales manager, said: "We now have a presence in the strategically important North Sea market. The focus for both distributors will be stocking products for upgrades and new installation contracts."

Akusta is part of Federal Signal

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Anyone who used the original 2001 Microphone Data Book from Rycote will know that besides being a comprehensive source of information, it was also 50mm thick and very heavy to carry around. Increasing to nearly a thousand microphones and more than 60 manufacturers, the move from paper to CD format became inevitable. Microphone Data - the CD-ROM is the successor and will be available from mid-January 2003.

It will feature an impressive search facility: type in the name of a manufacturer, a microphone - even its nickname - and you will get all the details you ever wanted. Rycote have sacrificed nothing of the standardised presentation of data, the pictures and the common-reference graphs. But now you can also search for all P48-powered cardioid microphones, costing less than $1000, that are shorter than 140mm to fit into that space on the presenter's desk. The original collection of arti

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Owen Wynn-Jones has joined HW International as sales and technical co-ordinator. He was previously employed at the London branch of LMC Audio Systems, where, during his five years with the company, he reached the heady heights of assistant sales manager. At HW, he will be acting as a support between the sales desk and the area sales managers coordinating his skills and knowledge of various markets and applications.

(Ruth Rossington)

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Skye Media, the Toronto-based outdoor advertising specialist, has installed a giant Lighthouse LED video billboard - the first of its kind in the world - overlooking the city’s prestigious Dundas Square project in the centre of Toronto.

The 64-panel LVP1650 (15.875mm pixel pitch, 5000-nit brightness) screen is in an 8x8 configuration 26.7ft wide by 20ft high. The 13-bit panels utilize Lighthouse’s M4 uniformity control and the screen has an overall resolution of 512 x 384 pixels. Although the high brightness, high resolution LVP1650 screen has been installed at the new Seattle Seahawks stadium, this is the first billboard application for it worldwide.

Skye Media’s newest outdoor advertising location is in the heart of Toronto's retail, financial and theatre district, on the south-east corner of Yonge and Dundas Square. Overlooking the new Dundas Square project, whic

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Lighting Services Inc, a leading US manufacturer of track, accent, display and fibre optic lighting systems, is opening a UK operation.

The New York-based architectural lighting company, whose new BP150 Series Metal Halide Image/Framing projector won the award for Debuting Product of the Year for Architectural Lighting at the recent LDI show in Las Vegas, already enjoys success in Europe through distributor Enliten. However, with the products in demand throughout Europe, and equipment in retail stores across the continent, plus other installations such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the company is keen to establish a more formal presence in the European market. A UK operation will also enable the company to work directly with the designers who are now doing work all over the world.

"Lighting Services collaborates with designers worldwide and in recent years we have become

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Twenty-year laser industry and special effects veteran, Kevin McCarthy, has launched a new firm, Holo-Walls, specializing in producing large holographic environments and effects that are available for sale or rental to the entertainment and display industries.

Previously with Laser Media until 2001, he moved on to work with Hiro Yamagata, producing spectacular holographic art installations throughout the world - the largest being the critically acclaimed 'NGC6093' at the Ace Gallery in New York, which comprised of 25,000sq.ft of holographic mylar panels covering floors, walls and ceilings.

In his new venture McCarthy has a total of eight patterns with five patterns producing varying multi-coloured effects while three patterns simulate the raw look of steel such as galvanised metal, diamond deck or brushed aluminium. "Holo-Walls are basically a product that incorporates a thin fi

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The Entertainment Services and Technology Association (ESTA) has announced the election results for its 2003 Board of Directors. The new directors are: Mark West, re-elected as Affiliate Vice President (President, Downhome Productions); Rick Rudolph, re-elected as Dealer Director (Vice President, Stage Equipment & Lighting, Inc.); Fred Mikeska, elected as Manufacturer Director (Marketing Manager, Creative Stage Lighting Co., Inc.); and Greg Meeh, elected as Affiliate Director (CEO, Jauchem & Meeh, Inc.).

In addition, Cindi Manning of Vincent Lighting Systems has been appointed to fill the recently vacated position of Dealer Vice President and Patrick O’Rourke of Big Apple Lights has been appointed to fill the remaining two years of Cindi’s previously held position of Dealer Director. ESTA has also paid tribute to two long-time and highly effective Board members - Beverly In

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The newly opened Bar Trafik on Hoxton Square in EC1 is in one of London's most up and coming nightspots. Sporting a compact but powerful Crown-driven Nexo sound system installed by Bart Cameron, Bar Trafik is an intimate venue which offers food and drink in the early part of the evening, making way for a DJ later on.

LMC Audio in London supplied Bart Cameron with a total of six Nexo PS-8 compact loudspeakers and three LS-400 subs controlled by a PS-8TD controller. Power comes from a Nexo PS-8 amplifier with an additional built-in controller, which is supplemented by a Crown CE 4000 and a Crown MT2400. The system is distributed over two floors with the upstairs area being primarily for background music, while downstairs offers more of a bar/club environment. A Symetrix 308 VCA volume control/loudness EQ provides independent level control across the two zones.

LMC Audio's Paul McMullan

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Leading Leeds-based independent music trade distributor, John Hornby Skewes & Co Ltd topped no less than five categories at the recent prestigious Music Industries Association awards ceremony, including Best Live/PA Microphone Award, which was won by The Scanner Radio Microphone System. The Scanner range of radio microphone systems and accessories offers a totally cost-effective solution to the requirement for reliable and natural transmitted sound reproduction with straightforward trouble-free operation.

(Lee Baldock)

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This season’s opening at Madison Square Garden for the New York Rangers was a spectacular theatrical mix, featuring kabuki drops and FireFly projectors, along with dozens of moving lights. The Firefly projectors were used by Dierson to project large format images of the season’s players on to free-floating white drapery which then dropped, right on cue, to the ice.

Lighting designer Patrick Dierson and assistant lighting designer/programmer Demfis Fyssicopulos pre-programmed the entire show at the Prelite Studio in New York City. Their console of choice is the grandMA from MA Lighting, distributed in North America by A.C.T Lighting Inc, and supplied, along with the rest of the lighting equipment by Light Action of Willmington, Delaware.

"This was a pretty interesting show from the control point of view," said Dierson. "We were using the main grandMA console

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Mellow rock band Toploader have been wooing audiences all over the UK this autumn on their latest tour – with a little help from Pulsar. Lighting designer Rob Davies (aka Bobby Dazzler) has worked with the band on and off for three years, having also designed shows for the likes of Marillion. For the current Toploader tour he was looking for a visual effect that had not been widely used and that would appeal to the band’s varied audience.

As a result, Davies designed no less than 32 Chromapanels into the tour set - and even went as far as creating an arch to use as a frame for any centre-stage action. "It turned out to be a very cost-effective way of covering a big area of the stage," he explained. The entire lighting system was supplied by Colour Sound Experiment, who helped Davies to prepare the ChromaPanels for life on the road. "The panels are very lightw

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The McKenzie Group has acquired its fifth live music venue which will allow for further expansion of the successful Academy brand to Scotland. The Group has concluded negotiations to purchase the former New Bedford Cinema on Eglington Street in Glasgow from Scottish property developers E.D.I. Group, and will fully refurbish the venue before its relaunch in March 2003.

MKG currently owns and operates three other Academy branded live music/club venues - Brixton Academy (London), Birmingham Academy and Bristol Academy; and also London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire and Bar Academy in Birmingham City Centre.

An extensive £3,000,000 planned refurbishment programme will commence immediately by MKG’s in-house project team headed by Archie McIntosh - previously responsible for the refurbishment programme of McKenzie Group’s Birmingham Academy, Bristol Academy and Bar Acade

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