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UK - Global club conglomerate Ministry of Sound has completed an overhaul of the audio systems in its flagship London venue with the introduction of Allen & Heath mixers. MoS, which has been using a Xone:464 for several years as the broadcast mixer for its radio station, selected the audiophile rotary Xone:V6 and MIDI-enabled Xone:92 to give DJ's a choice in the DJ booth, with an ML3000 VCA console to provide sound reinforcement for live acts.

Head of Production David Bradshaw commented: "The Xone:V6 sound is rounded and warm, never sharp and with plenty of headroom. We have had DJ's change mixer mid-set to the V6 purely because the sound is so much better than other mixers. Its best feature must be the high-pass filter on each channel. It takes a little while for DJs to unde

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UK - Entertainment lighting supplier White Light has been chosen to supply lighting equipment to the UK tours of two shows which originated on the other side of the world: the Australian productions of Hi-5 and Sleeping Beauty On Ice.

First to arrive in the UK was Sleeping Beauty On Ice, with lighting designed by Gavan Swift; this is Swift's second show in the UK following his design for Saturday Night Fever's return to the West End. His design includes ETC Source Fours, L&E striplights, Selecon Pacifics including five of the 90° unit, UV fresnels, Vari-Lite VL2000 Washlights, Martin MAC 500 and MAC 2000 Performance spotlights and Atomic strobes, as well as Wybron CXI colour changers, and atmospherics from Jem Glaciator low smoke machines and Unique haze machines. Control is from a Strand 500 series console, and White Light is also providing the show

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UK - Pictured is an unusual installation by EQ Audio & Events of Dublin. The company was contracted to specify, design and build a promotions vehicle for Red Bull - based around a 1944 US Military Police Dodge Vehicle. The original vehicle was stripped out and the rear canopy roof was cut off (vehicle modification was by Par Fit Dublin) and replaced by a hinged steel canopy mounted on hydraulic rams. A 2.6kW Dometic TEC29 generator with separate fuel tank was mounted beneath the vehicle, allowing approximately four hours of independent operation from a full fill.

Sound engineer Kevin Madigan installed the audio and visual equipment. The system was specified to be used as a DJ setup - d&b audiotechnik speakers and amplification were chosen, using two of their Ci90s mounted left and right and a single E12 subwoofer power by D12 amplifiers. DJ equipment included an Allen & Heath Xo

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Denmark - Kristian Kolding, the former President/CEO of Martin Professional, has entered the Board of Directors at Swedish gobo manufacturer Beacon AB. Martin Professional and Beacon entered a strategic partnership in 2001, in which Martin purchased 25% of the share capital to ensure the future supply of quality gobos. Subsequently, Beacon has become Martin's most important supplier of standard gobos and its preferred partner for custom gobos.

"I'm excited to join the Beacon board," says Kolding. "Beacon is - based on their own patented technology - one of the world leaders in this very specialized industry and I look forward to help continuing the positive trend."

Kolding held the CEO post of Martin Professional from 1998 to 2004, a six-year period in which he saw a dramatic growth in the company, more than doubling its size. Today Martin Professional is p

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UK - The return of David Morbey to D&M Professional Europe has led to a number of new appointments being confirmed, as general manager Mark Perrins reshuffles his 'cabinet'. Explaining the rationale, Mark states, "When the Denon and Marantz operations merged last year there wasn't a great deal of movement in personnel. But with the benefit of a year's trading behind us there is now the opportunity to restructure on a more defined European basis."

This has been influenced by the centralizing of all stock within Germany, the appointment of four country managers (each with their own reps), the newly-created position of a German-based European service co-ordinator and a product planner - all of which are central to the strategic development.

Crucial to the change in the UK is the appointment of David Morbey to the new position of product manager - where he takes on respo

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UK - We Will Rock You made its debut on 14 May, 2002 in London's West End and Tomcat say it is now proud to be a part of the exclusive North American production in Las Vegas at Le Théâtre des Arts at the Paris Hotel and Casino. The show written by Ben Elton, featuring the music of Queen, has been playing to sold out crowds since September 2004.

Tomcat standard and custom trusses comprise overhead lighting, scenic elements, front of house lighting as well as several lighting towers. The main overhead lighting trusses utilize twenty four, 10', two 6', four 5' and two 2.5' sections of medium duty plated truss. These sections are configured to create spans of 85', 72' and two 60' spans in the theatre. In the house, seven 12' sections of curved MD plated truss create a 73' 10" arch for front of house lighting.

One lighting tower package included thirty six - 10' MD pl

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Europe - Bandit Lites has supplied full lighting production and crew for Queen. Currently touring for the first time in 13 years, Paul Rodgers is on lead vocals to great acclaim and an ever-broadening fan base. The tour plays arenas across Europe before hitting the UK for a series of summer stadium and outdoor shows. LD is Barry 'Baz' Halpin, said to be one of the industries brightest young designers.

Bandit's Mark Powell said: "Working with Baz is always a fantastic experience, couple that with the legendary music of Queen and a massive lighting rig and the end result is amazing. Add to that some Free and Bad company classics and it makes for a great show".

Queen was renowned for having monstrous lighting rigs in the 1980 before moving light technology really took off, so Halpin was in the position of being able to make the show look huge, with fewer fixtures and th

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UK - Harman Pro UK has supplied Sound Division with an integrated audio solution including JBL speakers, BSS routing and processing, dbx zoning and Crown amplification for the impressive new Albannach venue in Trafalgar Square. The contemporary Scottish restaurant, bar and cocktail lounge is divided into three distinct areas - the bright and open main lounge bar on the ground floor, featuring large windows, lots of natural light and the stunning urban views; the more intimate mezzanine restaurant area above the rear portion of main lounge bar; and a discreet cocktail bar area downstairs. All three areas have diverse ambiences and so all required a variety of acoustic treatments when it came to the sound design. The three zones also had to be able to function either independently or simultaneously, so the global audio design had to be highly versatile.

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Ireland - In the heart of Dundalk in Co. Louth on Ireland's North East coast, The Spirit Store is one of the leading venues for progressive and up and coming musical performers in the country. Housed in the former Port Merchants house dating back to the 19th century and now renovated and refurbished by its owners Mark Deary and Mark Mulholland, the Spirit Store originally opened in 1999.

It has quickly become a magnet for lovers of all types of popular music in the fields of acoustic, folk, traditional and rock. Besides being a popular live music venue, the Spirit Store now leads the way with a state-of-the-art sound system, having recently installed a d&b audiotechnik Qi-Series supplied by pro-audio dealers Mosco. Kevin McGing, Mosco's designer and sound engineer who specified and installed the system was enthusiastic about the result: "After the Store had considered a num

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USA - Signing on as one of Selecon's latest dealers in the USA, Portland-based Hollywood Lighting Services Inc couldn't be happier with their decision to support the "already in demand" range of performance lighting which includes the award-winning Pacific and Hui lines. Dwayne Thomas, president of Hollywood Lights, reports that the company is currently in the middle of an ongoing project to remake and modernize their over-the-counter conventional fixture rental inventory.

This process was underway last year when they were approached by their biggest production client, Nike, to design and produce realistic (but necessarily theatrical) lighting for a retail space mock up at their Asia-Pacific Spring Sales Meeting in June 2004 at the Oregon Convention Center. "The Nike job was what pushed our Acclaim Fresnel purchase initiative over the top, but at that time we had

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USA - Color Kinetics recently announced the largest-ever, landmark installation of its lighting systems at the new $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas resort and casino. The venue boasts a three-acre, man-made lake as its highly anticipated visual centerpiece and encompasses more than 4,000 individually controlled, submersed Color Kinetics C-Splash 2 systems. The lake represents the largest intelligent solid-state lighting installation of its kind, and seamlessly changes color as part of a spectacular, multimedia light-and-water show, it also features a five-story waterfall that cascades from a 150-foot man-made mountain.

"This milestone installation underscores the incredible applications that are now made possible by the combination of today's power LEDs and Color Kinetics' technology and system infrastructure," said Bill Sims, President and COO, Color Kinetics. "We are

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Belgium> - ADB Lighting Technologies has recently appointed SF Dis Tikaret A.S. as ADB authorized Distributor in Turkey. This move comes as a confirmation of an informal relationship, which has already proven to be beneficial to the two partners and their customers.

Said, Larry Busch, ADB's area sales manager: "SF Dis Tikaret, with its long experience and impressive reference list in the entertainment lighting and sound market, was a natural choice for us to further strengthen our position in the stage and studio markets, and become a real Partner for Light in Turkey."

ADB's broad product range has recently been enhanced with WARP, a fully automated profile spotlight, specifically designed for the theatre.

Installations that include ADB products in Turkey include: Ankara Odti Multipurpose Hall, Antalya Talya Hotel, Bursa Olay TV, Eskisehir Anadolu Universitesi, Ist

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UK - Wilkes Iris Ltd, of Bexhill-on-Sea, a world leader in the manufacture of precision irises for scientific, lighting and other applications, announce the acquisition (merger) of Temple Shearing and Engineering Ltd (Burgess Hill). In addition to the complementary manufacturing processes Keith Woods, managing director of Wilkes Iris, has plans for improvements and expansion for the mutual benefit of both businesses.

Wilkes Iris, a fourth generation family business, was founded in 1884, and after more than a century of iris technology, provides an unparalleled range. From the entertainment and television markets to the scientific and fibre optics sectors, its irises have found many uses. One is fitted to a popular compact microscope whose low weight and size make it ideal for expeditions: it was included in both the first ascent of Everest and the first moon landings, and is now

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The Netherlands - Two prominent sound rental companies have taken the decision to add Nexo's GEO S compact line array to rental stock; ACS is a a leading player on the international audiovisual scene buying into Nexo for the first time, whereas Skyline has been supplying Nexo systems for many years. In Alphen aan de Rijn, in the Netherlands, Skyline Sound & Light has added a new Nexo GEO S to its rental inventory, supplied by Iemke Roos. The system will be used for exclusive events, one of the first of which was the annual Debutantes Ball, held at the Grandhotel Huis ter Duin Noordwijk aan Zee.

Skyline's Bart Bakker has been a satisfied Nexo PS series and Alpha-E systems user for a number of years. Now he has invested in a GEO S compact line array system, comprising 10x S805, with 2x S830 downfill cabinets. Four CD12 sub-bass units complete the system, with Nexo NX241 system con

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UK - The BBC has chosen ECT projection screens to be used during the election broadcasts on national TV, while BBC Scotland will also use ECT screens, for similar presentations on the election night itself. The two main screens will be employed for interviews, analysis and diagnosis by the news and political broadcaster teams. The 26ft x 26ft Repro HS rear screen was manufactured in the UK, and then customised with eyelets and stretched across a truss frame. Repro HS projection material is favoured by broadcast cameras, as it does not suffer from hot spots. The company says that the BBC producers wanted the wide viewing angles offered by the Repro HS screen material, which is exclusively available from ECT.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - Audio-Technica microphones were used throughout this year's VH1 Save The Music Concert, which saw a host of musical greats turn out stellar performances at Manhattan's legendary Beacon Theatre. The concert made extensive use of Audio-Technica's Artist Elite 5000 Series UHF Wireless System on lead vocals for artists including Alicia Keys, Rob Thomas and John Legend.

The concert was held on 11 April, and employed A-T wireless and wired mics in numerous applications. A-T Artist Elite 5000 Series Wireless systems were also used in presentations by Heidi Klum, Gisele Bundchen, Christina Applegate and LL Cool J. The large selection of hardwired A-T microphones on hand included the AE2500 for bass guitar amps, ATM35 and AT4054 on horns, AT4051a for hi-hat and ride cymbal, AT4054 on background vocals, and AE5100 for audience.

Audio production mixer Al Centrella, whose credits in

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UK - To optimize the presence of MA products in the UK market and to strengthen the support and communication MA Lighting is going to found its own UK subsidiary. For this, Richard Lambert has just joined the MA team as Technical Director UK. Lambert will support the UK sales and project business in a decisive way, especially for tenders and complex system integrations. Richard is both a product and system expert and he will become an active part between sales and the market.

Lambert is highly experienced and competent in the field of entertainment lighting and technical services. With a BSC (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, PGCE (Physics) and senior management roles with previous employers such as Walt Disney's World on Ice and ETC Europe, Lambert has gained longstanding experience in managing, training, commissioning and supporting many large projects.(Sarah Rus

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UK - UK staging and live events company Stagecraft, has launched a new subsidiary company, Stagecraft Theatre Services Ltd. The new subsidiary will be run by newly appointed director Martin Palmer, who has worked for Stagecraft's sales and projects department for five years. Stagecraft Theatre Services will offer a complete staging, lighting and sound supply and installation service to the educational, amateur and professional entertainment sectors.

Managing director of Stagecraft, David Goodrich, explained: "Sales and Projects has always been a very strong division of Stagecraft and we have been delighted with this department's growth over the past few years. We made the decision to split this area from the main company to enable it to continue to grow independently and so started Stagecraft Theatre Services."

Joining Martin Palmer at Stagecraft Theatre Services wil

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Australia - Critical acclaim for the Smart Console continues following its recent debuts at NAB2005 and Frankfurt MusikMesse, as Smart AV announced that it received the Australian Design Award for Business and Technology. Open to products designed in Australia or by nationals working abroad, the Australian Design Award was given to 20 winners - out of more than 200 entries - judged to have added significant value to the country's cultural and design identity.

"It's a great honour to be recognized by your own countrymen, and this Australian Design Award is more than just another feather in our cap," said Joe Narai, Smart AV's CEO. "This recognition of the Smart Console is a testament to its groundbreaking design and the value it provides in delivering improved efficiency to engineers mixing large numbers of audio sources in high-pressure situations."

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USA - Some have dubbed Miami-based Churchill's Pub the CBGB's of the American South. Locals have been calling it Miami's Best Rock Club every year since 1991, according to Miami's alternative weekly, New Times. But most people just call it "The Church" - an appropriate nickname given that it's a popular destination for music lovers looking to celebrate underground rock.

Churchill's austere exterior and interior presence reflect the spirit of underground rock and roll - where the music itself rules, and the glitz is left at the door. It's a place where silver HVAC ducting doubles as stage decor, and where the floor is more often bathed in Guinness than clean water. During the day, it successfully masquerades as a quirky British sports pub, serving up UK imports to fans watching world soccer and rugby.

However seven nights a week for the last 20 years, Churchill

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Germany - Over 100 moving lights from Robe Show Lighting have been specified for Top Of The Pops Germany, recorded in Köln. The lights have been specified by LD/DOP Patrick Nicolas, who has been lighting the show for the past seven years for Germany's largest privately owned channel, RTL. The move to Robe follows the latest redesign and launch of the show. Nicolas decided to test some Robe products after hearing good reports from his LD contacts; after the test he decided to swap the rig out to Robe at the first possible opportunity.

The new-look show features two stages, while the central floor area is also utilized as an impromptu stage area. Nicolas, who also designed the set, is using 35 Robe ColorSpot 1200 ATs, 20 ColorSpot 575 ATs, 31 ColorWash 1200 ATs and 10 ColorWash 575 ATs, plus a large generic rig and lots of LED-lit scenic pieces. The ColorSpot 1200s are fitted wit

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