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Lightfactor's main focus was on the Synthesis Spot 700 from Italian manufacturer SGM. Features include onboard wireless DMX as standard and protection against rogue power supplies up to 380V. Using a 700W HTI lamp, available in colour temperatures of 7200°K or 5600°K, other features include: automatic hot restrike, colour mixing, linear dimming and automatic electronic pan-tilt unlock.

From LDR, Lightfactor had the Xpress range of scrollers along with a new Xpress power distribution system designed to feed a single Xpress colour scroller. Also from LDR, the new Canto followspot.

LightProcessor's Paradim and Dimension dimming ranges, available as installation or touring versions, were also shown.

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Underlining the potential they see in the products, Leisuretec Distribution was focusing its presence entirely on the new BlueBeam and BlueDome systems, from GDS (Global Design Solutions), for whom Leisuretec acts as UK distibutor.

First previewed in L&SI back in December 2005, these innovative products are designed for use in technical backstage or FOH interior and exterior areas. BlueBeam offers a spot source and BlueDome a flood. Both are IP67 rated, produce little heat and are capable of dimming via an integral 0-10V dimmer, and large numbers can be daisy-chained together if required.

Also showing were accessories for the fixtures - a push-on cowl (for the Beam or Dome fixture) and an eyelid (for the Dome).

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Worldwide - PRG Europe has supplied a large package of Mac 2000 Washes and Atomic strobes with Atomic Color scrollers for British pop star Robbie Williams' 2006 Close Encounters stadium world tour. In rehearsals since early May, the tour kicked off in mid-June and runs through the end of the year.

Lighting designer is Al Gurdon (Brit Awards, MTV Europe Awards, Classical Brit Awards, Nobel Peace Prize Concert) who has been lighting top television programs and events for the past 18 years, as well as DVD shoots for some of the top performers in the industry like U2, Phil Collins, Sting, and many more. Yet this is Gurdon's first concert tour design.

"I was excited to have the opportunity to design the lighting for Robbie's tour," he says. "The brief has been evolving in a fairly organic way for over a year or so. The choice of fixtures was predicated on the

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UK - Star Events Group Ltd and Stage Hire Scotland Ltd are pleased to announce a new joint venture agreement. The new deal sees Star Events Group placing equipment permanently at Stage Hire Scotland's premises and training its locally-based crew in its use. At a stroke, this removes some of the considerable operational costs associated with supplying the growing Scottish events market from England, whilst retaining the industry leading engineering and back-up support services offered by Star Events Group.

Star Events Group director, Pete Holdich said: "The Scottish market has always been incredibly important to us and we have been looking at ways of reducing the financial premium of operating there for some time. Stage Hire Scotland is the only existing Scottish service company we have found that aspires to the same level of service and safety as we do and we are all lookin

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In the spirit of a recent sporting event that cannot have escaped even the most hard-working of our readers, the ABTT was a trade-show of two halves. The first morning saw visitors queueing down the road long before the show opened, whilst exhibitors hurriedly put the finishing touches to their stands, and the remainder of the day continued in a similar bustle.

Day 2, and specifically the afternoon, slowly wound down to a trickle of only the most ardent of non-football fans, and of course those manning the stands that were paid to be there. But that said, it's the end result that counts when the whistle blows, and it was wins all round by the looks of things (fortunately no shirt-swapping, though) . . .

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UK - The spectacular Alnwick Garden Cascade, at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, was the backdrop for a lighting event by lighting designer Simon Corder, commissioned to coincide with the recent World Summit on Arts & Culture, and funded by One NorthEast.

"The premise of Cascade," says Corder, "is that a local jazz duo had been booked to play a set following dinner . . . and find themselves playing in the midst of the spectacular Alnwick Garden Cascade."

The audience was invited to follow the bemused pair as they walked through the garden; an element of performance art was introduced as a waiter, accompanied by umbrella-bearers, clambered through the cascade to deliver a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale to the musicians.

White Light supplied the lighting services and the theatrical lighting installation, overseen by project manager Jack Thompson. The instal

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British Harlequin were exhibiting examples from their range of floorings for the performing arts, alongside accessories such as tapes, cleaning products, roll straps, etc. Floorings include: portable,roll-out floors, cushioned, heavy-duty permanent floors, plus permanent and touring spring floor systems.

Harlequin's new publication, Specifying Dance Floors - a Guide for Architects,was launched for the Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference (see July-August issue of L&SI). The guide covers the sprung floors in Harlequin's range; giving test results, specifications, and case studies.

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White Light was proudly showing the new Robert Juliat Lucy followspot, that had only touched down in the country two days before. Lucy is a short-throw version of the Korrigan, whose new successor the Super Korrigan, was also on show. The Super Korrigan 1200W HMI followspot offers a 25-30% increase in light output over the original Korrigan, say White Light.

White Light is also UK distributor for Wireless Solutions' DMX system, which was on display, as was LDDE's SpectraConnecT5 four-colour fluorescent flood units. ELC's range of DMX signal distribution tools was also on stand.

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The latest products on display at the Martin Professional stand included the brand-new Mac 700 Wash, the new Maxxyz PC, the complete Mac 250 range and Maxedia Media Server. The Mac TW1 tungsten washlight, was launched at the show at a private showing. (See July-August L&SI.)

The TW1 has a twin lens zoom that offers a variable range of between 19°- 40°. The fixture can be used with external or internal dimming systems and a mechanical shutter allows for dimming without variation in colour temperature, and a strobing effect. Provision for turning off the cooling fans is made via DMX control. Lamp replacement is simple with a single-ended quarter-twist lamp, and its modular design has maintenance in mind. An auto-sensing switch-mode power supply ensures global compatibility. A range of accessories is also available, such as barndoors, gel frames, or top hats.

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Beadlight were experiencing a busy show. Managing director Pat Wisby explained that they had expected their ice*lighting product to appeal to the rental market, but they were pleased to be seeing more and more demand for the install market.

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Tomcat claimed Widget of the Year Award for its Chain Runner, designed by Mylan Lester of Creation Logics with the entertainment industry in mind. Some chain runners require the removal and reattachment of the hook to fit. Other 'split' style runners can spin and be noisy. Tomcat's on the other hand can be added and removed very quickly. These strong runners are quiet, and won't spin or fall off - even if the two sides haven't been attached together. Tomcat's runners are suitable for CM Lodestars.

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Established in 1987, the Arts and Entertainment Technical Training Initiative (aetti) was promoting its range of courses. Current courses that lead to BTEC Intermediate Awards are available in Technical Skills in Live Entertainment and Stage Lighting, Rigging and Operation. These courses are delievered in partnership with Loughborough College, in venues throughout the country.

Courses in development include an Intermediate BTEC Award in Sound, and a Level 3 qualification in Lighting, to be partly delivered and assesed online. To demonstrate the prospective course, a fun quiz was taking place. Fortunately, no shame was brought upon the L&SI name, but there were brighter sparks at the show who claimed the aetti t-shirt.

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Zero 88's Betapack was celebrating it's 16th birthday with cake at the show, and an updated version was launched. New features include: MCB protection as standard; isolated DMX input; 12 programmable backup memories; three programmable 99-step sequences with adjustable times; auto DMX termination when loop-through plug is removed; temperature monitoring.

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Spain - Over 50,000 people showed up for Spain's most important electronic festival, which is held each year in the Monegros Desert. The 11th edition of the outdoor event was held in Fraga, Huesca in one of the most arid regions of northern Spain.

D.A.S. Audio was present at the event once again, via Lerida-based Montajes y Sonido Güell, which was responsible for providing sound for the main stage, called the 'Open Air'. The company installed more than 80,000W of sound consisting of 32 Reference series R-215 and 28 ST-218s for FOH.

The 'Open Air' is the star of the event, with a large outdoor stage and a dancefloor larger than a football field, surrounded by two high-capacity bars. The music program gets its inspiration from the famous club Florida 135, alma mater of the festival.

The festival was again huge success with acts such as Redman & Method Man, one of Spain's most

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Belgian gobo specialist Goboland, months after setting up its London branch, was enjoying a successful show, and receiving a good response to its recently reorganised, easy to follow, 'logical' gobo numbering system - which sees a straightforward glass/steel, series, design number and size coding in the order number. The gobos are also now individually packed with their own barcodes for easy stocktaking. The company's growing catalogue of designs includes over 500 steel patterns and over 200 glass patterns, with custom designs are also available. Goboland gobos are now being stocked by White Light, the company reports.

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USA - Clay Paky's Alpha Wash Halo has been extensively used on the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White. The Halo, a 1,000W (3,200°K) halogen washlight fixture, was specifically designed for use in theatre and television, and The Woman in White marks its Broadway début. The original London production of was lit by UK-based lighting designer, Paul Pyant, and Pyant's associate LD, David Howe, was tasked with recreating Pyant's design in The Marquis Theatre, New York.

"We needed a bright, colour mixing, tungsten-source washlight with a great range of subtle pastel and tonal colours that was consistent across all units," explains Howe. "As the show's scenery is entirely projected, a fixture with a wide focus range was essential to prevent any unwanted light spill. For this reason, the automatic top hat on the Alpha W

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USA - Color Kinetics Inc has announced the appointment of John Daly as vice-president of OEM Sales. Daly will oversee the company's worldwide OEM sales and support activities, including the identification and closure of new partnerships intended to increase the use of Color Kinetics' technology across diverse markets.

Daly brings more than 17 years of lighting industry sales and management experience to Color Kinetics, including specific expertise in OEM sales. He most recently served as president and general manager of the 68-year-old Rig-A-Lite division of AZZ Inc, an electrical equipment manufacturer. He previously held sales and OEM management positions at Venture Lighting, GE Lighting and Philips Lighting.

"We are confident in the technologies, expertise and IP that differentiate our OEM value proposition, which many partners have already embraced to bring unique pro

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As ETC unveiled its London HQ to the industry, Lee Baldock spoke to the company's CEO Fred Foster about his latest unique creation . . .

UK - Back in June 2004, ETC unveiled its new $21m corporate headquarters in Middleton, Wisconsin, complete with an elaborately-themed common area for staff. Designed by the company's engaging CEO, Fred Foster, along with a talented team of architects and artists, this themed set-piece was described as being "like an old-time movie set waiting for its gangster extras, or a Broadway musical stage before the dancers appear".

Foster saw the theatrical concept as an homage to the business his company operates in. Based on the paintings of Edward Hopper, the 'Town Square' concept was designed to provide ETC's 450 employees with a more rewarding, communal space in which to work. When the company's European HQ in London moved recently from

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UK - Last year, director Peter Sellars presented his Tristan und Isolde at the Opera Bastille in Paris, with specially commissioned contemporary visual art by Bill Viola as the backdrop to Wagner's opera.

This summer the work has been adapted into a museum-scale exhibition showing across two venues - Haunch of Venison Yard and St. Olave's College - and presenting over 10 new works under the title Love/Death: The Tristan Project.

At St. Olave's College these are being shown over four feature areas in two separate halls - ranging from room-sized video projections of image and sound (in the main assembly hall and gallery) to three smaller projection screens an a plasma display.

The highlight is the back-to-back presentation of Fire Woman and Tristan's Ascension in the main hall. Here, the artist displays high-definition projection onto a 19ft x 10.7ft screen using

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Europe / USA - Bandit Lites supplied lighting, rigging and crew for the UK, European and US legs of Mark Knopfler's and Emmylou Harris' All the Roadrunning tour.

The tour promotes the collaborative album of the same name from the Dire Straits front-man and 11-time Grammy award-winner, Emmylou Harris. The pair have been compiling duets for seven years.

Lighting designer Simon Tutchener was asked to produce a simple look for the stage - with no video production onboard - the visual scenography was all down to lighting - and he in turn again asked Lester Cobrin at Bandit to help realise his design.

The design was based on using two very elegant eight metre diameter A-type interlocking circular trusses - which Bandit had custom fabricated. Tutchener wanted an architectural feel to the stage that defined the space. The circles symbolised the fusion of two of the greatest l

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UK - Zero 88's Frog 2 took control as Lotus Cars unveiled their latest models at the British Motor Show last week.

The lighting rig was designed by Mark Powell of Bandit Lites, and consisted of 40 Martin moving heads, including Mac 600s, Mac 2000 Profiles, and Mac 2000 Washes, providing ambient lighting, logo projection and car specials.

The fixtures were all controlled from the Frog 2 using real-time triggers for cues. This allowed for turning on of the rig each morning, running the show throughout the day and dowsing the lamps at the end of the day. The timecode triggers enabled stand staff to simply power up the stand each morning with the Frog 2 then taking control.

Lotus launched two new models at the show, the Europa S and the Elise S. The Frog 2 was programmed using multiple cue stacks. Different stacks were used to control different areas of the stand. One sta

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