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UK - The newly-opened Lonsdale House in Notting Hill is destined to make its mark very quickly as one of London's most glamorous new high profile nightspots. When it came to supplying the audio, owner Charles Breedan was equally clear about what he wanted. "I'm a huge fan of the restaurant Momo," he stated. "I love everything about it. Indeed, I chose the architects partly on the basis of the work they had done there, and the same goes for the audio-visual contractor. The Sound Division Group was responsible for the installation at Momo, which I greatly admire, so they seemed to be the natural choice to supply the audio for Lonsdale House."

The specification was for a sophisticated audio system capable of delivering high quality background music throughout the

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UK - The nominations for the 2003 Laurence Olivier Awards were announced yesterday. The awards, now in their 27th year, are presented by the Society of London Theatres. They reward the best productions and performances to appear in London's West End during the previous 12 months. The award winners are decided by panels consisting of both theatre experts and ordinary theatregoing members of the public.

In the award's technical categories, this year's nominations are:

Best Set Design:
A Streetcar Named Desire designed by Bunny Christie at the Lyttelton
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang designed by Anthony Ward at the London Palladium
A Play Without Words designed by Lez Brotherston at the Lyttelton
The Coast of Utopia designed by William Dudley at the Olivier

Best Costume Design:
Bombay Dreams, costumes designed by Mark Thompson at the Apollo Victoria
Taboo, costumes d

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Denmark - Martin Architectural continues to expand its line of interior colour-changing products with the introduction of the Cyclo series, a range of tubular washlights featuring RGB colour mixing or colour correction control.

The Cyclo is a surface-mounted fixture with a slim design. Designed for use in cove lighting, perimeter lighting, light walls, or behind semi-transparent materials and space where room is restricted, Cyclo comes in three varieties. Cyclo 02 is a fluorescent colour temperature changer which can recreate natural fluctuations in daylight. The smallest in the series, it consists of two dimmable T5 tubes, a warm white at 2700K and a daylight white at 6000K.

By adjusting the relative intensity levels of the two tubes, any colour temperature between the two extremes can be generated to create smooth transitions between warmer and cooler tones. Cyclo 02 can be

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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!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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USA - The layout of Level 3, the latest addition to downtown Atlanta's vibrant dance club scene, might have presented a challenge to many sound contractors, but Dewayne Walters knew exactly where to turn for performance gear. Having already installed powerful Turbosound systems in the city's top clubs, including the Velvet Room, Nomenclature, Lava Lounge, Karma and Globe Theatre, Walters carefully selected a variety of the company's loudspeakers to deliver targeted SPLs to several different areas throughout Level 3. The loudspeaker systems were supplied via Turbosound's US distributor, Sennheiser Electronic Corporation.

Level 3, which occupies over 2000sq.m in a former Planet Hollywood on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, sprawls across three floors and features a large dance floor, a VIP area and balcony seating. The club offers patrons five bars, two downstairs, two upstai

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The Netherlands - ELC Lighting, manufacturer of innovative DMX and ethernet control equipment for the entertainment lighting industry, has announced the availability of several new products. The AC612 XL controller is built in the same cabinet as the AC612 mini architectural controller. It can store and recall 12 scenes from the 512 DMX channels, and each scene can be built of up to 120 channels. Storing a scene has to be carried out via an external DMX desk. The DMX input is also able to merge 512 channels, and a Blackout function has been built in.

dmXPOINT FI is a 'Full Isolated' version of the dmXPOINT Digital DMX merger/splitter/router, with opto-couplers isolating each of the outputs. (Both dmXPOINT and dmXPOINT FI have opto-isolated inputs).

ELC also announces a number of upgrades and improvements. focusBRAIN XL is replacing focusBRAIN: hardware changes include two cont

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UK - XL Video UK has re-designed and upgraded - as well as supplied and installed - all the new AV equipment utilised for the massive 'Star Trek - The Adventure' exhibition at London's Hyde Park, which celebrates five decades of Trekism. XL was also involved in an intensive three-month pre-production period prior to opening, during which time they wrote the new show control software now running the entire exhibition's audio, lighting, AV, mechanical and automation cues.

XL Video called in by UK promoters Triple A, working for LA-based SEE - Special Entertainment Events Inc - who are staging the exhibition under license from Star Trek's owners Paramount. Sited in a 7,000sq.m tent at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, Star Trek is the largest exhibition to hit London since the Great Exhibition in 1851, and contains over 30 million dollars worth of Trekkie memorabilia.

A previous incarn

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UK - Large format projection specialists E//T//C UK supplied two PIGI projectors with double scrollers to the spectacular festive Peter Pan - A Musical Adventure production, staged at the Royal Festival Hall in December and January. The production was a collaboration between the venue, production and design specialists Imagination and promoters Raymond Gubbay.

Projection design was by Imagination's Chris Slingsby, who joined a formidable creative team including Ian Talbot (director), Will Bowen (set), Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen (costumes), Durham Marenghi (LD) and John Del Nero (sound design). Projection ran for the whole show, overlaying the top and sides of the impressive scenic false proscenium arch, covered in grey gauze, which was specially installed for the production by Unusual Rigging. This transformed the Royal Festival Hall from a concert hall into a more 'traditi

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Ireland - Bandit Lites recently completed what it hopes will be the start of a long-term relationship with The Irish Tenors. The three singers recently completed a number of highly successful performances at Odyssey Arena in Belfast and at the Point Arena in Dublin.

Although Bandit Lites has an office in Dublin, the shows were handled by its UK arm. "The Dublin office was so busy with work, that we asked the UK office to pitch in on this one," explained Bandit's Phay MacMahon. Production managing the events was Harry Tucker, with the lighting designed by Steve Fallon, and the Bandit crew consisting of Stephen 'Nipper' Fitch as crew chief and Jim Allison as moving light technician. The equipment consisted of an expansive three truss system, stacked with High X Spots, Studio Beams and PCs, and Studio Color 575s controlled by a Wholehog II desk.

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UK - At a time when the IT sector as a whole is experiencing a marked downturn, indeed, even industry giants such as IBM and Sun Microsystems are reporting reduced profits and scaling back their predictions for next year - Stardraw has announced a staggering 55% growth in sales of its traditional shrink-wrapped range (namely Stardraw Audio, Stardraw AV, Stardraw Radio, Stardraw Lighting 2D and Stardraw Professional) over the last 12 months.

Stardraw marketing director Rob Robinson is understandably pleased: "Annual growth of 55% is a considerable achievement under any circumstances, particularly as it represents almost three times the growth rate we achieved in the preceding period, but against the backdrop of the slowdown currently being experienced within the IT and entertainment technology sector, it is especially gratifying. It proves that we are on the right track with

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UK - Aztec, the new live console from Audient, has completed another sell-out tour. This time the console donned stripy leg warmers and backcombed its mullet to join some of the biggest stars of the 80s on a nine-date tour of the UK.

The Here and Now Christmas tour kicked off in Newcastle on 12 December at the Telewest Arena. It then visited Brighton, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bournemouth, Wembley, the London Arena, Sheffield and finally Manchester on 22 December. The line-up of performers included Human League, 5 Star, Kim Wilde, Dollar, Visage and many more from the decade that fashion forgot.

The sound company for the tour, Capital Sound, with the company's Mark Ballard acting as FOH engineer for the tour. Working alongside him were Becky Pell as monitor engineer, James Gebhard as monitor engineer/system technician and Andy Banks as system technician.

The Aztec Live Performanc

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UK - Tryka L.E.D. has been launched by Chris Rolph, formerly sales director of Coe-tech, to service the lighting market with a range of LED-based lighting products for the entertainment, leisure, commercial, retail and architectural market sectors.

"After considerable research, this new range of LED fixtures has been developed and is now in production offering many options and solutions," explained Rolph. "The company intends to lead the LED market by offering a range of fittings hitherto unavailable, and to produce new products driven by customer needs. Constant ongoing development will allow the technical boundaries to be pushed forward, and the LED lighting market will thrive and progress with Tryka LEDs, which will be used in many additional areas in the future."

All Tryka products use the Luxeon LED: this has high power output and allows the production

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UK - CP Sound has designed, specified and installed a discreet, powerful audio system at The Zinc Bar & Grill in Fulham, London, for Conran Restaurants. This follows hot on the heels of their other successful sound reinforcement projects at Zinc sites in Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh.

This latest Zinc occupies a prime location amidst the bustle of Fulham Broadway, one of the liveliest parts of London. Although a smaller space than the other restaurants, the same aesthetic and sonic requirements were applied to this venue. Sound equipment had to be invisible, to offer comfortable and almost imperceptible background levels and dispersion, yet also be capable of pumping up the volume in the venue when needed. Zinc's bar area is designed for multi-purpose use, and can be converted into DJ/dancing mode. It was also important that sound in the two adjacent areas - restaurant an

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The Netherlands - In less than three months, Electric Audio BV has found takers for three complete EV XLC systems. Since the summer of 2000, the team led by Axel Nagtegaal, managing director of Electric Audio BV, has been pulling out all the stops with its marketing: advertisements placed in all relevant magazines, demos and comparative tests are just as much a part of the business repertoire of this Almere-based EV and Klark Teknik distributor as regular direct mailing, intensive customer service and a range of made-to-measure campaigns targeted at dealers and rental companies. The EV Europool, a loose association of Electro-Voice users that today comprises seven sound companies and offers many advantages to its members, is another idea that originated in Electric Audio BV. The slogan of the company is 'We power your ambition'.

In the three months since the official launch of t

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UK - With the country's flagship aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal now on its way to the Mediterranean, it's interesting to note that part of the ship's complement of equipment for the military exercise includes two HK Audio E.L.I.A.S. active PA systems.

"We were really surprised when we got the call," explains Paul Siddall of Bradford-based Pro Audio Systems. "This happened a couple of months ago, when the Navy were fitting the aircraft carrier out for the exercise, and were looking for some powerful, yet compact PA systems for off-duty entertainment purposes. They must have been browsing the web, found our site and decided to put in an order with us for various bits and pieces of equipment for the carrier, which included the two HK Audio systems."

Following a drive down to Portsmouth to deliver the order to the Ark Royal, Pro Audio Systems were further rewa

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UK - Leading lighting supplier, LCA (Lights, Camera, Action) has introduced Filmgear, a new range of lighting to the film and television industry. Manufactured in Asia, the Filmgear range is being exclusively distributed by LCA to the European, Australian, New Zealand, Middle East and African markets.

The range consists of Daylight Fresnels: 575W; 1.2kW; 2.5kW; 4kW and 6kW. Pars: 575W; 1.2kW, 2.5/4kW, 6kW and 12kW as well as a 2kW and 6kW space light. What makes Filmgear different? Not only is the construction of the lamp head sturdy with its hard wearing castings and aluminium extrusions, but the performance of the light is far better than any other on the market with the output and throw of light being noticeably more effective.

Nick Shapley, managing director of LCA, told us: "Together with our manufacturer, we have listened to a huge number of our customers to ensure

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USA - BSR E1.6, Entertainment Technology - Powered Hoisting Systems for Places of Public Assembly, is available for public review until the end of the business day in New York City on 11 March 2003. This draft American National Standard establishes safety requirements for the design, manufacture, installation, and use of motorized rigging systems in theatres, theme parks, studios, and other places of public assembly and performance. This document does not address manually powered systems or lifting equipment used in the construction of these spaces.

People interested in reviewing the draft BSR E1.6 standard may access it by visiting the website below or by requesting information from Karl Ruling via the e-mail address below.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Gobo specialists Projected Image UK Ltd announce an exciting new catalogue containing over 350 stunning new gobo designs from the Beacon Gobo Group. As UK members of the international Beacon Gobo Group, Projected Image can now offer the full range of new designs from this innovative catalogue - 'Beacon Choice'. These are available in all sizes to suit both conventional and automated luminaries. To celebrate the launch, Projected Image is offering a selection of special promotional rates, available between now until the end of April 2003.

Projected Image is using the latest graphics technology to create even better gobos, offering high resolution, sharper text and vector shapes, an improved range of greyscales and smoother gradients. Their unique black-coated glass reduces unwanted reflections and produces a sharp, crisp image, say the company. For copies of the catalogue, c

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USA - Color Kinetics Incorporated, the pioneer of intelligent LED-based illumination technologies, today announces the appointment of Chris Davis as vice-president of North American sales and Joopvan Aard as vice-president of international sales. Both Davis and van Aard bring a wealth of domestic and international sales, marketing and operational experience to help continue the growth of the company.

Davis brings over 25 years of experience in business development, sales, and strategic partnering in the high-tech, manufacturing automation, and software industries in the US and abroad. Prior to Color Kinetics, Davis held the Singapore-based position of managing director and President, Asia Pacific Operations, for Varta Batteries Private Ltd. He held sales and marketing positions with Schneider Automation, AEG Modicon, Automatix Inc, Pfizer Medical Systems and IBM.

Van Aard has

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USA - Club Nero, the hot nightspot at Caesar's, Lake Tahoe, keeps its patrons buzzing 365 nights a year. Techno and House music, Go-Go dancers and a laser light show have made this Lake Tahoe's premier nightclub. When Adam Camp of Neu Visions Design was looking for some LED accent lighting, he visited LDI 2002 in Las Vegas, looking for a cost-effective, simple lamp replacement with colour LED sources that didn't need a separate controller, power supply or transformer. The only lamp he saw with all the requirements he was looking for was the new CHIP series lamp, launched at LDI by OptiLED.

Neu Visions Design has now installed OptiLED CHIP lamps in down-lighting bars, to up-light glass tables and edge-light acrylic. "A great attribute is variable voltage," said Camp, "but probably the best feature of this simple unit is the variable lens configuration, which allows

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UK - The last few months have seen the introduction of some significant new technology to the Stardraw product portfolio via the unique 'Feature-per-Month' update service. The newest feature to be added is the Symbol Wizard.

Even with the hundreds of products added to Stardraw's libraries every month there are likely to be times when users wish to create their own symbol. The Symbol Wizard can be used within the Block Schematic environment of Stardraw Audio, Stardraw AV and Stardraw Radio to create a high-quality symbol in seconds. The new symbol can be based on one of hundreds of pre-drawn templates which are grouped by product types such as Amplifiers, Loudspeakers, Players/Recorders etc. Alternatively, the user can start from scratch with a blank template. The Wizard's dialogues allow set up of the product details (for instance manufacturer name, model number and product desc

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USA - High End Systems' Catalyst system and a range of its automated luminaries recently burst onto the Broadway stage with the 8 December opening of the opera La Bohème. Though Puccini's La Bohème has been staged countless times over the years, this production is given that contemporary sizzle from the production team of Baz Lurhmann and his production designer/wife, Catherine Martin, who produced visually captivating films such as Moulin Rouge and Strictly Ballroom.

Scharff Weisberg are supplying the producers of La Bohème with two Catalyst systems to project supertitles onto the stage for its performance at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. Lighting designer is Nigel Levings, who also specified 10 High End Systems Studio Spot CMY and 24 Studio Color 575 automated luminaires into the show. Control of the Catalyst is via a Flying Pig Systems Wholeho

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