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UK - Adlib Audio has installed a predominantly proprietary sound system into the restaurant and bar at one of Liverpool's first boutique hotel - The Hope Street Hotel - a collaboration project between three individuals, Andrew Bentley, David Brewis and chef Paul Askew. At Hope Street, the bottom line is to ensure guests are comfortable and relaxed in a well-designed environment, as they enjoy the hotel's facilities including the London Carriage Works restaurant and the resident's lounge bar.

Andrew Bentley is a concert pianist and local show promoter, so he knew the importance of sound as a creative element of making the right ambience, he said: "I chose ADLIB because I have known them for many years. Apart from getting an excellent sound for the room, they've always been str

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We know there are numerous demands on Members' time, however this is a rare opportunity to get free advice on how to develop your business, discuss common concerns with others in the industry, hear about market trends and network with other PLASA members.

On Friday 11 June, we are heading to Celtic Manor in Newport (two hours from London) for our AGM and Association Day. The first part of the day - the AGM - will cover what we are doing for members and will be a chance for you to raise questions or highlight issues you'd like feedback on.

Following lunch, Mike Southon, better known as the Beermat Entrepreneur, will get you thinking about how you can rekindle the entrepreneurial flame in your business. After a mid-afternoon break for coffee, you then have two options - you can either join a 45-minute workshop on sales or one on leadership, motivation and teamwork.

During the cours

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PLASA is working with the VPLT on the translation of the new German rigging standards.

Consulting with International members about new initiatives.

Launching a new healthcare scheme for members. Full details next issue.

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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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UK - Tower Productions of Edinburgh has opened an hire facility just South of Oxford at Watlington to better serve an ever increasing client list in the South and Midlands. Offering a full dry hire service of; lighting, dimming, control, rigging, mains distribution, and event heating equipment, hires can be delivered at very cost effective rates, or may be collected from the warehouse just off the M40 and only an hour from North London.

Tim Shaw of Tower Productions said: "The company aim to offer the slightly less usual items like; single phase Prostar motors (run 11 from one 13a socket) and rated keder clamps for tent rigging, white minuettes and birdies, 240v exterior birdies, exterior par cans etc."

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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Full: Sico Europe (+44 1233 643311), specialists in floors, stages, screens. Laser Light International (+44 1234 326777), manufacturer of 'Stealth' laser systems.

International: Oxo (+33 1 69 10 33 90), developer of intelligent lighting.

Associate Business: (+44 117 971 1490), supplier of lamps, colour and equipment.

Associate Student: Alex Lewer, a student on the BSc (Hons) Multimedia Technology and Design Course at Brunel University.

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UK - SA Sound Services of Wellingborough has just completed a full A/V installation for the 500 capacity Brickhill Baptist church in Bedford. Steve Ashley CEO of SA Sound commented: "The church had a historical problem getting intelligible sound to the rear seating which is under a low ceiling running around the entire perimeter of the room. The choice of the L-Acoustics MTD112b has solved that problem. Using an L/C/R format we were able to cover the entire auditorium very evenly and just as importantly cost effectively with just three elements".

Both Pastor Paul Woodward and Paul Templeman the resident sound engineer have confirmed that the new system is much clearer with excellent vocal clarity throughout the room. Templeman said: "There is no problem now in reaching the perimeter seating, and we have a very even SPL coverage at all frequencies around the venue.

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USA - For the third season in a row, Kieran Healy is the designer responsible for the stunning lighting display on the live hit talent show, American Idol. VLPS Lighting Services is providing the full lighting package, including the digital lighting. Utilizing the soon to be released Virtuoso EX1 media server, a combination of EX1's abstract and graphical 3D digital images are manipulated and controlled from a Virtuoso DX2 console and projected onto LED and plasma screens during each performance.

"Every season I try to make the lighting better and keep the looks different and dynamic," notes Healy. "By using the EX1, we obviously added impact because we're able to play around with the digital images and integrate them with lighting. The digital content library on the EX1 is pretty extensive so we've been able to use terrific images to light and set the back

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April - Design Considerations for Buildings: 28 April, Interbuild, Birmingham.

This RIBA-supported seminar has been developed to provide architects, designers and installers with essential information when designing buildings for corporate or entertainment use.

To register email: nicky@plasa.org

May - Working at Height Update: 11-12 May, AC Lighting North, Leeds.

To continue the momentum from the two seminars held earlier this year, PLASA's technical standards manager Ron Bonner will deliver an overview of the compliancy issues surrounding the new legislation with examples on how to risk assess working at height.

To register call A.C. Lighting on +44 (0)1494 446000

Employment Law Seminar: 18 May, Victoria, London.

Free to members: Businesses have been faced with radical changes to the Employment Law in recent months and there is more to come. Delivered by Cl

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UK - A dazzling new look for one of London's most famous icons, the BT Tower, was recenty unveiled when a brand new sign and lighting scheme at the top of the building was switched on.

The tower's new signage, which replaces the previous 'piper' design, is a three hundred and sixty degree structure featuring constantly changing illuminated colours drawn from the company's 'connected world' identity. Ben Verwaayen, BT's chief executive, said: "The BT Tower is a communications icon and a prominent landmark on the capital's skyline. It is also one of the most visible representations of the BT brand. When we launched the new identity last year we said that we would roll it out over time, so I am pleased that the time has come for the new colours to shine out from the BT Tower."

BT launched its new 'connected world' visual identity in 2003 to more accurately reflect the w

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Switzerland - The 74th International Motor Show at the Geneva Palexpo saw numerous innovations and highlights - and not only among the automobiles. As leading technology service providers, CT Creative Technology Germany and London fielded the latest media technology for a number of stands, including Opel AG, SAAB Automobile AB, GM-Corvette, Volkswagen AG, Ford Motor Company, Mazda, Land Rover and Jaguar. They were able to deploy the latest LED technology, including the groundbreaking VersaLIGHTGUIDE for SAAB Automobile AB.

But the highlight, delivered by CT Germany, was on the GM-Corvette stand where more than 7,000 Barco MiPIX LED modules where used to build a fascinating, 80sq.m illuminated flat media floor, which was the platform for the world premier of the Corvette Convertible.

The unique application of MiPIX was conceived, planned and installed by CT Germany, working in

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UK - The Chroma-Q Cascade colour changer is continuing to demonstrate in the theatre sector how its low maintenance CMY colour-mixing system is ideally suited to permanent house lighting rigs, say A.C. Lighting.

In addition to Cascades recently being specified for the Royal Academy of Music's annual musical double bill, leading Manchester producing theatre company, the Royal Exchange Theatre, has used Cascades for two plays at the heart of a season which celebrates the work of British dramatist Robert Holman. The two plays, Rafts & Dreams and Across Oka, show ordinary people undertaking extraordinary and epic journeys in the world so both required a challenging array of lighting states to create the changing atmospheres throughout the plays.

Richard Owen, head of lighting at the theatre, chose the Cascades for the two plays in order to overcome a specific lightin

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USA - Robe Show Lighting's US operation has undergone a radical restructuring that sees Michael Carattini appointed as president, and a new HQ and warehouse opened in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Tony Perez has also been appointed as Eastern U.S. sales manager.

The existing West coast office and warehouse continues under the direction of Ron Ramirez, VP of Robe America and director of Western U.S. operations. Both East and West coast offices will carry comprehensive product stocks and run full service and support departments.

Robe Show Lighting's MD Josef Valchar stated: "The changes enable Robe America to offer the very best and most efficient sales and after sales service for the Robe brand across the US. Having bases on both East and West coasts is vital to consolidating our resources and operation, and in supporting our growing client base in all areas of the entertainme

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USA - Apogee Sound International, renowned for state-of-the-art sound reinforcement products for the professional audio industry, announced that its new digitally-controlled APL-500 DSP self-powered arrayable loudspeakers and ADAM (Apogee Digital Audio Management) software were used to provide live sound at the Independent Film Producers' (IFP) Independent Spirit Awards ceremony.

The prestigious event, held this year on 28 February, annually attracts 1,300 guests and 350 members of the international press in a large tent on a beach in Santa Monica, CA. Veteran Hollywood sound designer Bruce Burns of Innovative Audio Technologies selected the Apogee equipment. Burns serves as sound designer and audio coordinator for the Independent Spirit Awards show, he commented: "This is a challenging event. We couldn't use trusses to hang the speakers, and we couldn't have any of

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Australia - LSC Lighting Systems has supplied Melbourne-based lighting and presentation solutions company, Resolution X Pty. Ltd. with five maXim lighting control desks, each fitted with the LSC PaTPad moving light controller. The purchase is part of an upgrade to Resolution X's control desk inventory.

Resolution X's MD Tim Hall selected a maXim MP 48 fader console with 24 Intelligent fixture control, two maXim LP's 72 fader desks with 36 Intelligent fixture control and two maXim XLP's - 96 fader with 48 Intelligent fixture control.

The new consoles will go into immediate action on Resolution X's busy schedule of fashion, exhibition, event and general production work. Hall chose the LSC brand following plenty of experience with the equipment in the past, he commented: "It was an easy choice, specially once I saw the power of the moving light controller, I knew this was th

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USA - American DJ has just-released new products the Fog Storm 1200HD and Fog Storm 1700HD professional fog machines (the HD stands for heavy duty). Both products featuring major enhancements to American DJ's already-popular Fog Storm 1200 and 1700 model fog machines and now include an all-new Advanced Cut-Off System and are capable of being operated via a standard DMX-512 lighting controller.

The Advanced Cut-Off System automatically shuts off the pumping system when the fluid tank reaches a minimum level. This feature warns the user when it's time to refill and helps to maintain the life of the machines by preventing clogging and damage to the units.

American DJ's FS-DMX-T remote control/timer, which comes standard on the Fog Storm 1700HD but is available as a separate option on the Fog Storm 1200HD, can be used to connect either unit directly to a DMX-512 lighting controlle

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UK - In the three short months since Christmas, Colourhouse, the White Light Group's conference and corporate lighting specialist, has found its services called upon at land and on sea, with Colourhouse's crew surviving both real storms (a force ten gale while lighting shows on board the Pride of Bilboa in the Bay of Biscay) and the potential political storms of the party conference season, during which Colourhouse provided the lighting for the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties.

Other shows presented unique challenges of their own. For Heroes at the Honorable Artillery Company in East London, the Colourhouse team supplied 1200kVA of generated power, twenty-four hours a day, six days a week to 4500m2 of marquee covered event space spread across six acres. Luke Bennett of Luke Bennett Production Management was full of praise for the Colourhouse's team led by lighting designer Da

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Germany - The X-Tra is one of the largest and best-known entertainment venues in Switzerland. International live acts such as The Rasmus, Seeed, Sean Paul and De La Soul regularly appear at the club, which has a capacity of around 2,000 people. The club's sound consultant, Granary Sound, recently searched for a new audio system, and received five tenders - one of them from the Basle-based Audio-Tech KST AG, which since the first of July 2003 has been a partner of EVI Audio.

"Our bid was undoubtedly the most expensive," confesses Edi Mosch, divisional manager pro audio for Audio Tech KST AG, "but the experts at Granary Sound considered that the EVI Audio equipment provided the most professional solution in view of the very high standards required. When it then emerged that the X-Tra's own sound engineer favoured Midas, Klark Teknik and EV equipment, nothing more st

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USA - Britney's hotly anticipated Onyx Hotel tour in support of her album In The Zone is currently taking America by storm. A three-month international trek, the tour kicked off in early March in San Diego and has so far proved to be a storming success.

Britney's show features an extravagant set based around the theory of the mysterious Onyx stone. The theme of the show is a hotel on the edge of reality - the Onyx hotel - that Ms. Spears checks into. A magical "wonderland of the subconscious" where, according to a creepy character that plays the M.C, your ''darkest side'' can be explored, with ''titillation'' guaranteed.

Stage Technologies, in conjunction with Ocean State Rigging and The Rigging Partnership, helped create the scenic wow factor for the show, with Stage Technologies providing an automation system to fly Ms Spears backwards and forwards over the

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UK - Entec Sound once again supplied the sound system for the five day Teenage Cancer Trust charity event at the Royal Albert Hall. This is the forth year that Entec has been involved with the show.

The main audio issue at the Royal Albert Hall - a notoriously challenging acoustical environment - was designing and installing a system capable of dealing with a wide variety of performers and musical genres.

The 2004 line-up was headlined by The Who, Jools Holland and friends, The Stereophonics, Tom Jones, and - for the first time - a comedy night featuring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge and others. Entec supplied a centre speaker hang comprising of d&b C4/7 enclosures, which matched the distinct curvature of the famous venue, with B2 subs under the forestage, and C7/690 ground fills. The main array was four wide and seven deep left and right, and it followed the same sonic princ

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UK - The PLASA Show 2004 takes place at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London from 12-15 September. Now in its 27th year, the PLASA Show focuses on innovation with new features, product launches, professional development opportunities and displays and demonstrations from the leading brands and pioneering manufacturers and innovators in the industry.

Emphasising the importance of training and education, the PLASA Professional Development Programme (PPDP) reinforces the importance of continual learning as an integral aspect of the show. This year's sessions are designed to focus on technical hands-on training, industry debate and networking to appeal to lighting and sound professionals at every stage in their career.

Building on the success in 2003 of the inaugural Architectural Audio & Visual sector, this year there will be a village of exhibitors that are associated with v

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UK - Opus Audio Developments, designer and manufacturer of high-end PA systems based in Plymouth, UK, has announced the appointment of pro audio sales specialist, Alan Lochhead, to handle its sales throughout the UK and Eire.

Andy Fox, managing director of Opus, explained: "During the past three years Opus has embarked on an intensive research and development programme to complete a line-up of systems that we believe are unequalled for audio quality and reliability. Design of the full range of controllers, amplifiers and loudspeakers is now complete and all of the products are in production. It is now time to focus on sales and marketing and we are very pleased that we will be working with Alan, whose considerable experience in our key market sectors, including nightclub and theatre, will be a great asset to the company."

Lochhead has 20 years' experience in pro audi

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