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UK - The promotional video for the track Pretty Girls Rule The World, the band 10 Reasons To Live were filmed by Lightening Productions at Pinewood Studio's Stage F and the set featured a large Lighthouse R16 screen, supplied by PSL Events.

The Lighthouse screen was used as a backdrop of the catwalk that featured girls who had replied to an appeal on the band's MySpace web page.

Video director Charlie Lightening says: "Having seen other music videos using LED video walls I knew that, as a video director, I could do something amazing with it.

"I wanted a strong, clean image when the cameras were zoomed back, but also to have a pixellated style of image when the cameras zoomed in close. I approached R16 from an artistic point of view, it was the right screen to achieve the effect that I want."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - A technical problem put a damper on Lee Mead's dream debut in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium last night, reports the Press Association.

The show was halted after just six scenes on its opening night for about 10 minutes due to "technical difficulties", the audience was told. Fans were left waiting while the problem was sorted - thought to be an issue with the rotating floor.

It was not the first occasion in recent times that a technical issue has hit a high profile West End production - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang also had difficulties in its early shows. And a West End preview performance of the Lord of The Rings musical had to be cancelled earlier this year when actor Adam Salter broke his leg after getting it trapped in set machinery.

Despite the first half hiccup, it was a standing ovation for t

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World - The Live Earth concerts raised the awareness of the effects of global warming - including the designing of energy efficient lighting rigs which showcased 100s of PixelRange LED luminaires all over the globe.

Patrick Woodroffe was the global designer for the project, creating a formal plot that would be developed into the flagship London rig. As it was impossible for him to be present at all the events, he appointed a team of lighting designers - one in each hosting country - to re-create individual designs based on the availability of fixtures in the various locations.

In New York, Performance Environment Design produced the show and lighting designer Patrick Dierson explains, "We were approached not only out of trust, but also due to our past efforts in promoting environmental sustainability within live entertainment production. The crux of Woodroffe's vision for

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UK - Harman Pro UK has recently supplied two Soundcraft Vi6 digital mixing consoles to Camden-based electrical contractors RAG Support for installation at Koko, the North London live music venue.

One of the Vi6 desks is used as the mixer for the on-stage monitoring, the other as the main front-of-house desk. The installation completes RAG Support's refit of Koko's new sound system, which was designed by Harman Pro UK's engineers and which RAG Support has been putting together at the venue over the last few months.

Tim Hamper, FOH engineer at Koko, comments, "It's great to finally have our two Vi6 desks permanently installed here. Harman Pro UK have been closely involved with the design of the refit at Koko from the outset, and so we were offered a Vi6 when it was still in development. We've had a test desk in as the FOH console here for months and it's been easy to learn

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UK - Three out of the 14 inaugural RIBA National awards, presented at a ceremony in London, went to projects from the portfolio of young theatre consultancy Charcoalblue. They comprise The Roundhouse, Camden; The RSC Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon and The Young Vic, London.

Charcoalblue's specialist consultants worked in close association with architects Haworth Tompkins on the award winning Young Vic; John McAslan and Partners on the critically acclaimed Roundhouse and Ian Ritchie Architects on the RSC's groundbreaking temporary new home - the Courtyard Theatre.

Andy Hayles, managing director of Charcoalblue comments: "It was a great night. We're extremely proud to have been so closely involved with all three winning projects. It's great to see our contribution recognised from time to time."

(Jim Evans)

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South Korea - A new musical, Dancing Shadows, made its world première on 8 July in South Korea, featuring a British and Korean creative team and including a 97-input Cadac J-Type live production console amongst the top quality sound system, supplied by Seoul Sound.

Staged by Seensee Musical Company at the Seoul Arts Centre Opera House, Dancing Shadows is an adaptation of the play Forest Fire, written by the celebrated Chilean Ariel Dorfmann. Music and lyrics are by Eric Woolfson of the 1970s rock band, Alan Parsons Project, with direction by Paul Garrington, lighting design by Simon Corder and sound design by Richard Brooker.

With plans to bring the show into both the US and Europe over the next couple of years, this initial production was designed to match up to international standards in all respects. Richard Brooker assembled a talented local sound tea

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Italy - Martin Professional Italy has announced the hiring of Michael Hill as the company's new general manager. British-born Hill, who has lived in Italy for many years, comes to Martin Professional's Italian subsidiary from Erco Illuminazione, where he served as managing director from1988. Prior to that, he was employed by iGuzzini as sales director.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Contemporary Spanish restaurant La Parrilla is at the epicentre of Swansea's proto-industrial chic development, dubbed "SA1". This involves the transformation of miles of derelict, neglected old docklands - complete with original buildings and architecture - into a trendy waterside development. PAI was called in to come up with an integrated sound and AV solution plus lighting control for the eaterie.

La Parrilla is owned by Daniel Tercero, who commissioned Swansea-based interior design practice Thomas Parry to create the interiors, who in turn asked PAI to come up with the relevant technical infrastructure. The PAI team has worked with Thomas Parry on many previous projects, and on this one they collaborated closely with main designer, Matt Bailey.

High production values were at the core of the technical installation, for which a C-Burn computer music system wa

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Poland - With a huge multimedia show the Polish town Plock recently celebrated the Verva Festival 2007 on the banks of the river Vistula.

"For the complex setup that was spread over a long distance, the grandMA control system proved to be an invaluable tool. Its huge pre-programming abilities saved a lot of time during the design as well as during the programming part of the project development," says lighting designer Pawel Pajak.

One grandMA full-size and one grandMA light were used for the stage lighting and video server control. Additionally, another grandMA light controlled the searchlights using two wireless DMX lines. Two MA NSPs and grandMA 3D were also included in the event.

"Since the setup consisted of intelligent lights and video on stage with the searchlights being set on the other side of the river, we found working with the MA Net etherne

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Mexico - The Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy world tour got off to a blistering start with two sold-out concerts in Monterrey and Guadalajara.

At the Monterrey Arena, Adamson long-time Yaxis partner Audio Systems del Norte provided 24 Adamson Y18 cabinets with 8 Y10 under hang for the main PA, and 12 T21 subs ground stacked, plus16 Y10 subs flown beside the main arrays. Additional side-fills featured eight Y10s per side.

The official Guns n' Roses website described the Monterray arena show: "From the opening notes of Welcome To The Jungle to the final encore Paradise City, Guns N' Roses had the rabid crowd going wild all night long.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - John Wiseman of XLTV Los Angeles and Chris Mounsor of XL Video UK have joined efforts as video contractors for Roger Waters 2007 World Tour. The massive LED backdrop consists of a 60ft x 30ft Lighthouse R16 LED screen (216 panels) and is supported by a Barco Encore System, two Grass Valley turbo video drivers, and a four-camera digital PPU with Barco R12+s for Imag.

Production design was conceived by Roger Waters and LD Marc Brickman and manned by video director Alastair MacDiarmid and his crew, LED techs Clark Anderson, Icarus Wilson-Wright, Rob Maloney and John Scruggs.

John Wiseman, president of XL Video, notes: "This is a perfect execution between our UK and US offices. It was a great effort by myself and Chris Mounsor, but truth be told, we were just the pretty faces, all the hard work was done by Phil Mercer."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Bandit Lites has invested in Jands Vista consoles for major international concert tours as part of a long-term upgrade of its rental stock inventory. The purchase came about after Jands' exclusive North American distributor, A.C. Lighting, was invited to a shootout at Bandit's US headquarters in Knoxville.

Bandit Lites founder and CEO Michael Strickland comments: "We were trying to find a console we thought could be our go to standard and the Vista received unanimous approval from the LDs at the demo. We did the demo in March and now have Vistas out on three major tours, with other large tours in the pipeline as well."

Chief operating officer Pete Heffernan adds: "We'd been very interested in the Vista since our UK office purchased one and we then got a demo at LDI, but it wasn't until we started seeing lots of interest from LDs that we realised it was tim

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USA - Over 1000 bassists from around the world -including low-end luminaries Stanley Clarke and Avishai Cohen - flocked to Oklahoma City University for the recent International Society of Bassists Convention, a week-long programme of clinics and concerts celebrating the four-stringed thunderstick.

Cory's Audio Visual Services (OKC), supplied a combination of Dynacord Cobra-2 line array TOP boxes and PWH subs, EV monitors and mics, a Midas Verona console and Klark Teknik outboard gear for the show, ensuring every step of the signal chain was impressive for the ISB's numerous live events and breakout rooms.

"We are really happy with how the Dynacord, EV, Midas and KT equipment all works and sounds together in this system," says Preston Williams of Cory's, himself a bass playing OCU alumni, who mixed FOH for the ISB concerts. "We can utilise this rig in a variety o

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Germany - The first four instalments of Nissan's pan-European Qashqai Urban Challenge took place throughout May, with the final held in Paris at the end of June, with the city centres of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Milan, Madrid, Cologne and Paris witnessing some of the world's best mountain bike free-riders being tested to the limit on outdoor, custom-made courses in front of enthusiastic crowds.

The concept and tour was organised by STREAM with the Cologne event production masterminded by Dietmar Koch of German agency Braintrust Event Marketing. He chose long-time Turbosound users, Westphalia-based BLL/CE Veranstaltungstechnik-Krefeld to provide sound, lighting and electrical installations for the Cologne event, which gave the opportunity for a range of Turbosound's new NuQ loudspeakers to be put through their paces in a challenging environment.

With a large site and crowd to cover

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Germany - Brother, Brother & Sons has developed the EvenLED as a modular panel of 16 high power 6 watt RGB LEDs spaced evenly behind a standard backprojekction screen, which creates an even light field over the entire surface. Driven by the built in controller, EvenControl, a 16-bit resolution for each colour is possible. Not only saturated colours but also fine tinted colours can be achieved. Its also possible to control every single pixel/LED separately, says the company.

The EvenLED (100 x100cm) can be built to different specifications. The maximum number of modules is vertically limited by 12, but horizontally unlimited. Depending on the back projection screen, the average distance is 300mm. Additional features of the EvenLED are the low power consumption (150W), the very low maintenance, the low weight and heat and the long lifetime. Special flightcases for eight modules in

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USA - Wybron reports that the Dubai Mall Aquarium, a permanent installation in the world's largest shopping mall, located in downtown Dubai, has purchased 226 Large Format Aquarams and InfoTrace Control and Management System. The aquarium expects to install Wybron's fixtures and the InfoTrace system in September.

Wybron's Aquarams will illuminate the 164ft aquarium to allow visitors to see sharks, stingrays and other species of fish in their natural habitat. Each Aquaram contains up to 32 gel colours and is water resistant. The InfoTrace system will control and manage all of the fixtures via the RDM platform.

"We are very pleased with the spike in sales of our architectural fixtures," said Larry Turner, Wybron CEO. "Wybron continues to introduce new outdoor lighting technology as we expect the demand for lighting designs to grow in the overall architectural and

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USA - American Audio has released two versatile new 14" club mixers: the MX-1400, and the MX-1400 DSP with built-in digital effects. These 4-channel boards are designed for mobile DJs, club DJs and remixers to use with all styles of music.

The MX-1400 and MX-1400 DSP offer extreme ease of connectivity. Each includes two phono, four line and four aux inputs on the recessed back panel, enough to accommodate any DJ's complete setup of playback units - including turntables, CD players and even tape decks. In addition, three Mic inputs give the operator the ability to mix karaoke performances, rapping, emceeing and announcements. A front-panel RCA auxiliary input jack is designed to accept portable MP3 players and satellite radio receivers, so you can mix using virtually any audio source.

The MX-1400 DSP offers the added power of onboard digital signal processing. It includes

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Europe - Responding to the needs of educators and public/private sector professionals, Anchor Audio has announced the launch of its Anchor Audio Europe website (www.anchoraudio-europe.com). For the first time, the website gives Europeans direct access to Anchor Audio's complete range of portable PA system and portable sound system products for purchase in Euros, complete with product brochures and specifications.

From portable public address systems such as the compact Minivox PA system for indoor/outdoor crowds of 150+ to the Beacon portable sound system for crowds of 5,000+, Anchor Audio offers audio solutions that are ROHS compliant, with a full range of wired and wireless options, true AC/DC capability, and six-year warranties.

The company says that one of its most popular portable public address systems is the MegaVox portable PA system for emergency communication. Among

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Europe - Alongside long time partner Doug Adams, owner and president of Pyrotek Special Effects, Metallica's tour Sick of the Studio '07 tour stopped at 11 European venues through June and July. An additional four song performance took place in London for the Live Earth Concert in recognition of global awareness.

Collaborating with lighting designer Butch Allen and working with James Lars, Kirk and Rob Adams' effects list consists of 18 Red mines, 40 Fireballs, 21 Stadium reports (for a loud bang effect), 16 Red flashes, 24 Ack Ack bursts, 24 silver comets with tails, 24 Red comets, and 24 White flashes with bang.

(Jim Evans)

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Spain - Last month, Barcelona's MACBA (Museau díArt Contemporani de Barcelona) was taken over by the Sonar del Dia electronic music and multimedia arts festival. Over the three-day event more than 200 performers from 29 countries performed on its stages. The offerings varied from funk to intense trip hop and hip hop to the truly bizarre. Sound company Croma 440 provided 15 sound engineers and system techs for the event. Over 80,000 people from all over the world attended the festival. The sister festival Sonar de Noche, held on the outskirts of Barcelona brought out the better known bands such as the Beastie Boys and DJ Miss Kittin, among many others.

2007 marked the seventh year of Croma 440 taking the Sonar del Dia contract. The largest of the four stages was the open air Village, where trip hop and funk ruled with 12 Adamson Y18s and six Adamson T21s, wi

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