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UK - Vieta Pro loudspeakers have been chosen for the Harbour Bar in Portrush, Northern Ireland, a venue which has one of the best panoramic views in Europe. The installation was carried out by Light & Sound FX of Coleraine, NI.

The Harbour Bay has been extensively refurbished by owners George and Jane McAlpine, who operate two other outlets - the Ramore wine bar and Coast Italiano - which share the stunning location. Now the Harbour Bar also presents live music and AV programming in its lounge-bar environment. Owner George McAlpine had a clear idea of what he wanted from his investment in new sound and vision equipment, says installer Darren Gardiner, owner of Light & Sound FX.

"George wanted to create a sophisticated, but cool atmosphere, with a lot of emphasis on the look

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Croatia - Jazz/fusion outfit Yellowjackets performed a live two-hour concert on Radio Zagreb recently to wide critical acclaim. For the event, they used a system supplied by Croatian sound company Mr. Pink.

The sound team led by Mr. Pink's MD, Zoran Hügl, employed a mixture of Dynacord, EV and Klark Teknik components, the centrepiece of which was a Dynacord Cobra-2 rig.

The group, which comprises bass player Jimmy Haslip, saxophonist Bob Mintzer, keyboard player Russell Ferrante and new drummer Marcus Baylor, emerged in 1977 in the course of sessions for a Robben Ford album. Since, they have released over twenty albums. They are presently on an extended European tour.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The new PixelEight fixture from James Thomas Engineering is the first in a new series of contemporary versions of classic lighting instruments. Traditionally called a 'blinder' or '8-lite' this LED version allows the exploration of innovative design ideas using the latest technology, say the company.

Ideal for audience and stage/studio illumination, the fixture offers long-throw capability and a 6° beam. The independent control of each LED cell allows creative programming opportunities and the powerful internal effects engine produces colour strobing and colour scrolling effects. There is no heat projected by the unit, allowing it to be positioned in close proximity to performers, stage sets, screens or drapes. It can also be hung vertically or horizontally for further flexibility. It is robustly designed for touring and boasts extremely low power consumption. Black powder

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UK - A.C. Lighting's Audio division has been appointed as the exclusive UK dealer for Kling & Freitag sound systems. Kling & Freitag are one of Europe's leading manufacturers of high end loudspeaker systems for the professional sound reinforcement market, producing an extensive range of system solutions for PA, touring and permanent installations.

Under the new deal, A.C. Lighting will be working closely with VME, the manufacturer's UK importer and distributor. VME, based in Cheshire, have the largest hire stock of Kling & Freitag products in Europe, and are the service and technical team for K&F in the UK.

After various demo's and following a recent install, A.C Audio sales manager Peter Butler commented: "The K & F range fits very neatly into our current portfolio and the quality is outstanding."

Jon Sugden, VME business manager commented: "A.C. Lighting is

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Denmark - DPA Microphones continues to broaden its network of European distributors with the appointment of representatives in Slovakia and Hungary.

G-Tec Professional was established in Slovakia in 2003 by Martin Gustafik, who has wide experience of working in the audio industry. The company specialises in the broadcast, theatrical and rental markets.

Gustafik comments, "Although our company is still not large, after just two years of operation we are distributing internationally-renowned brands, our network of customers is growing, turnover is increasing all the time, and the G-Tec Professional name is acknowledged and respected by much older competitors in the local market."

Bluesound in Budapest has been appointed as the new DPA distributor for Hungary. Founded early last year, Bluesound brings a range of high-end pro audio brands to the country. DPA joins Sadi

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UK - Clockaudio, the Hampshire-based microphone specialist and ancillary equipment manufacturer has increased its world-wide network of distributors, having signed new distribution agreements with Bose India for India and with VTI Marketing for The Middle East. These developments follow on from Clockaudio's recent signing of distribution agreements for Sweden (Electrosound), Portugal (ABC), Germany (Pro Audio-Technik) and The Netherlands (Tau AVLP).

Clockaudio sales and marketing manager Rod Geary says: "We are delighted to have confirmed these new appointments, continuing to strengthen our global brand awareness and market position within the industry.

"India has the potential to be a major market area for us - there is so much development happening in PA installation, the conference market and in AV integration generally," continues Geary. "We will be wor

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UK - Summit Steel installed over 7km of 4mm steel wire rope (SWR) in the five largest (of nine) structures in Regents Park for the 2005 Frieze Arts Fair in London. The largest tent measured 200 by 40m and approximately 9m high. The others were 120 x 40m, 35 x 24m, 45 x 32m and 55 x 50m. The 200m tent is the largest structure of its kind that tent supplier Owen Brown has built to date.

Summit was working for production company 20/20 Events, production managed by Steve Cunningham. Their team of four riggers and two crew was led by Jay Call, and came onsite just seven days before the event opened. The Kent-based company has worked on Frieze Arts for the last three years, each year its role has steadily increased with the stature and popularity of the event.

The wires served two purposes: Firstly, to enable the installation of false ceilings at 4.2m above the floor; these were con

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The Netherlands - Midas Consoles Holland has supplied a Midas Heritage H-1000 48 TP to the Amsterdam RAI Centre, where it will be used mainly in the complex's Auditorium/Theatre which was recently refurbished, including the installation of a new audio system. .

The RAI has become one of the busiest exhibition, conference centres and venues in the world since it opened in 1961. The decision to purchase a large-frame Midas console for its new showcase auditorium was taken following the earlier purchase of a Verona V400 as well as several Venice consoles.

"The RAI decided to go with the Midas brand because of its market acceptance, reliability and sonic performance," says Midas Consoles Holland's Axel Nagtegaal.

Previously used as the country's largest conference facility, the Auditorium now doubles up in the evening to become a theatrical venue. It has already hosted

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UK - Allen & Heath's flagship ML5000 VCA live sound console has been installed in London's Marquee Club. The 48-channel mixer handles all the FOH and monitor duties for the bands that appear in the Club's busy event schedule.

One of London's legendary live music venues, the Marquee Club has historically hosted The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Small Faces, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix, and the new 900-capacity venue continues to attract cutting edge acts, which recently included Dirty Vegas, Ash, The Bees, The Others, Brand New Heavies, Art Brut, The Magic Numbers, Dogs, Mylo, and The Ordinary Boys.

The ML was selected by Terminal Studios, which manages all of Marquee's audio equipment. "We originally specified the Marquee's audio system 18 months ago when the club moved from its Islington home back to its roots in Soho," comments Terminal's MD, Charlie Barrett. "

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UK - Staging, lighting and sound company Stagecraft has reported a record Summer for its Hire Department. Based in Salisbury, the hire team from Stagecraft has travelled throughout the country, with hire projects in Edinburgh, Reading, Southampton, Winchester and Windsor.

"We have been delighted to work with so many festivals, concerts and parties this Summer and are hoping to build on this success in 2006," says technical director Mike Naish. "Not only have we been involved in short hire projects this year, but also long-running events such as the Edinburgh Festival and locally at the Salisbury Festival. Some of our staging even made its TV debut on the set of Channel 5 programme, The Farm, and we have thoroughly enjoyed working on such a variety of different projects."

One of the largest projects for the company this Summer has been its work with t

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Europe - By combining the best elements of one of the largest trade communities in Professional Lighting and Sound with Europe's biggest trade show in Audio Visual Systems Integration, Integrated Systems Europe and PLASA plan to augment their knowledge of AV Systems, Lighting and Sound to turn ISE 2006 into the most stunning visual trade event ever held in Europe, the organizations have announced.

This collaborative effort is the result of a joint co-operation agreement to establish a framework to heighten the awareness and importance of AV systems integration in the rental and staging environment by harnessing the influence and standing of a major trade show with the world-leading Professional Lighting and Sound Association.

To demonstrate this, PLASA, in conjunction with their publications Lighting&Sound International and Lighting&Sound America, will be organizing the Lighti

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Germany - Everything Flows was the motto of September's Drinktec exhibition in Munich, Germany, where G-LEC installed its biggest LED PhantomFrame system ever.

International market leaders in the field of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle production and labelling, Krones AG, took over an entire hall at the popular exhibition, central to which was a striking and dynamic two storey construction known as the Think Tower. Used as a meeting and business centre, the tower was clad with 288 1m x 1m PhantomFrames, creating almost 300sq.m of video and moving graphics.

The video content comprised a combination of solid colours flowing through to graphics and video footage, ensuring that the activity going on inside the tower was complimented by the liveliness of the images on its fascia.

G-LEC provided six of its own trained technicians to construct the T

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Worldwide - Yamaha Commercial Audio reports that sales of its new M7CL digital mixing desk - launched to a worldwide audience at the PLASA Show in London last month - have significantly exceeded their own "ambitious" expectations.

"We've been astonished and delighted," said Nick Cook, recently appointed general manager for Commercial Audio in the UK. "The level of interest in the M7CL has exceeded all our expectations. In the UK alone we've already sold over 40 units since PLASA, which must be something of a record."

Not only in the UK have sales exceeded all expectations, worldwide, over 250 sales have been made since the PLASA Show.

The new desk with its Centralogic interface is simplicity itself to use and is likely to appeal even to those purists who remain wedded to analogue desks. Chris Headlam of Orbital Sound is in no doubt of the desk's

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UK - HSL supplied lighting and sound for all main performance areas at the Isle of Wight's Bestival festival. The event, produced by Loud Music, was enjoyed by over 25,000 people across three days of music. This is the second year that Lancashire-based HSL has supplied Bestival. In addition to the main stage, HSL provided lighting and sound for the Big Top, the Bollywood Bar, The Hidden Disco and the JD Lounge. It was co-ordinated for HSL by Mike Oates and followed hot on the heels of HSL supplying the majority of the sound and all the lighting production to Creamfields 2005.

The HSL site crew consisted of 15 lighting and sound technicians, crew chiefed by Ian Stevens. The event was production and site managed by Lee Charteris and Jo MacKay for Loud Music. Bestival 2005 was headlined by Magic Numbers, Mylo, Royksopp, Soulwax, Howard Marks and the Super Furry Animals.

"The

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UK - Le Mark has been 'short listed' for a 2005 Cambridgeshire 'Hunts Post' Business Award. This particular award category was introduced in 2002 when Le Mark won for the development of its Gel-Tak Filter fix product.

The 2005 nomination is for "Innovative Management Approach" or "how to improve staff and directors motivation and performance" This followed Le Mark's application and selection to BBC TV 3's new business programme Office SOS to be aired in December this year.

The company was filmed over a 6 month period, both 'in' and 'out' of working hours. This also included a day at Le Marks booth during the PLASA show.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Ali Baba is a major new creation to the tableaux this year at Blackpool Illuminations. Designed by Graham Ogden and the Blackpool Illuminations team, eleven James Thomas Engineering PixelPar 90s saturate the feature in continuous colour.

The all-weather PixelPars are rigged facing the construction, animating the characters via complex programming sequences - bringing the busy seafront traffic to a halt.

The huge complex scene features moving illusions, authentic sound effects and a giant illuminated waterfall. Housed deep in the water, a submersible IP68 PixelPar 90 provides the radiance to light up the waterfall.

Illuminations manager, Richard Ryan enthuses: "The PixelPars were selected for this project due to their outstanding build quality and technical flexibility. Blackpool promenade is an extreme environment and to be frank only high quality well desig

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UK - As reported in the October issue of Lighting&Sound International magazine, Slingco has installed the largest CABLEnet tensioned wire grid system in the world to date at the newly refurbished Bournemouth International Centre. The 2500 square metre installation covering the entire roof space of the BIC's main Windsor Hall was part of an £22 million refurbishment project for the building, undertaken by Warings Contractors Limited from Portsmouth for Bournemouth Borough Council in partnership with the South West Regional Development Agency.

It expands the seated capacity of the Windsor Hall to circa 4,200 and the seated/standing capacity to 6,500, making the BIC a truly world class multipurpose venue suitable for all types of productions - from conference to arena sized stage shows. The CABLEnet installation pips Slin

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Austria - dBLuX has been appointed the Austrian distributor for LSC Lighting. Following the appointment, Thorsten Sattler of dBLux visited the LSC Melbourne headquarters to undertake three days of intensive training on the LSC range of lighting equipment.

"It was great to see inside the company and to meet all the people who work there," said Sattler. "Now I understand what will happen inside the company when I send my orders through to them. Richie Mickan spent a lot of time with me and he has showed me so much - products, people and anything else I was interested in.

"It was a great start for both of us. I have had the chance to get to know the guys more than I can do over phone. We had many discussions on what we can do together in the future and I am looking forward to a long term partnership."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Digital media specialist Projected Image Digital has supplied the Hard Rock Café London with a bespoke Element Labs VersaTILE installation for their newly refurbished Basement Bar. Hard Rock Café London, the first and most famous venue of this landmark brand, has just reopened after extensive renovations. Its interior was designed by Paula Reason of Cadmium Design, a London-based designer involved in creating many of the Hard Rock Café interiors worldwide.

Reason wanted a central light feature in the bar to continue an ongoing theme of using light to interact 'live' with the people within specific Hard Rock spaces. This had been started at previous Hard Rock projects and has taken many different formats. However for the new-look London venue she wanted something completely different.

Reason became aware of PID, and the VersaTILE product, and contacted

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UK - Blitz provided technical staging expertise for The Gordon Ramsay Scholarship Award held recently. Blitz supplied equipment for both the Final at the Restaurant Show in Olympia and for the awards ceremony at the Claridge's Ballroom. The Scholarship was created in 2001 by Gordon Ramsay to encourage and recognise the talents of young cooks across Britain.

Blitz's equipment included 61" and 42" plasma screens, DV cameras, a PA system and lapel mics. At the Restaurant Show the DV camcorders were placed to catch all the action taking place within the Cookery Theatre. The close ups were relayed to the plasma screens and the footage was edited onsite using an Avid for the evening's Awards Ceremony at Claridges.

Paul Hutton, managing director of Blitz, explains "As there were large crowds gathered around the stand, using trailing cables for the cameras to transmit t

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China - China's third 'Love & Share' Beach Party was recently held at Haibin Beach, Zhuhai, using an Allen & Heath GL3800 multi-purpose live sound mixer and a Xone:62 DJ mixer to manage the numerous musical acts performing during the two-day event.

The party - a highlight of the National 'Golden Week' Holiday - was organized by the Zhuhai Tourism Administration, the Xiangzhou District Government, and the Zhuhai Broadcasting Station. The event attracted more than 20,000 visitors, who had come to see bands and DJs from Beijing, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Australia, and USA perform a range of musical styles from rock to hip-hop.

Allen & Heath's Chinese distributor, Eastern Acoustic Development Ltd (EAD), provided the sound equipment for the event, selecting a 32-channel GL3800 for the bands, and an industry-standard Xone:62 mixer for the DJs.

"The 'Love & Share' beac

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