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USA - A full Martin rig which included 50 Stagebar 54s, 12 MAC 600 wash lights, 19 MAC 250 Entours, 22 MAC 2000 Profiles and Maxxyz lighting consoles together created an extraordinary backdrop for the 5th Annual Premios Fox Sports Awards.

Presented by DHL, the event took place at the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theatre in December and was telecast to over 33 million homes throughout the United States and Latin America.

Because this award show was a high profile production, the team at Paradigm Production Services relied on the most dependable lighting products most certain to create a visual presentation that would be as dynamic to the studio audience as it was on screen.

"The Stagebar 54s were very effective," said Jorge Valdez of Paradigm Production

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UK - This year's A.C. Lighting North 2008 tradeshow will once again feature a wide range of exhibitors - covering lighting, rigging, audio and video - showcasing new or recently launched products. The company has also announced details of its programme of exclusive guest speaker seminars from leading industry experts. Seminars confirmed so far include:

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A.C.'s Glyn O'Donoghue chairs a panel of industry experts to discuss the practical solutions for lighting and video hybrid systems. Featuring Mats Karlsson, Nigel Sadler and Lee House.

Moray McMillin - Live Sound Engineering - Helpful Tips From The School Of Life

Details to be confirmed.

Andy Lenthall - It's All Going Green

The drive towards low carbon, energy efficient, sustainable events continues. Whether the pressure comes from bands, legislation, your conscience or your client

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UK - Ceravision Ltd, the company behind the ultra energy-efficient Continuum 2.4 bulb system, has selected Sanmina-SCI as its worldwide manufacturing partner.

Unveiled as the lead technical paper at the LS-11 lighting industry conference in Shanghai in May 2007, the Continuum 2.4 bulb is "a revolutionary high quality, high-energy efficiency lighting system which uses microwave technology", the company says.

"Since we launched the Continuum 2.4 system in May 2007, we have been overwhelmed by the response we have had from the lighting industry. The Continuum 2.4 addresses a global need for high light quality and enhanced energy efficiency, with an almost limitless range of applications," said Tim Reynolds, CEO of Ceravision. "With a number of OEM customers evaluating our design and more keen to do so, we realised that we needed a world-class manufacturin

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

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!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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USA - Two recent Dynacord Variline and D-Lite installations by Frequency Music of Bonita Springs, Florida, reflect a mutual commitment between manufacturer and contractor to provide compact systems with no compromises in audio quality or power handling, says the company.

Jim Dalia of Frequency Music comments: "You get what you pay for. Whether for portable or fixed install applications, the value in these Dynacord systems literally speaks for itself, night after night. You can hear the difference, that these are specifically designed as high quality solutions for small-to-medium entertainment installations like this. From the streamlined enclosures to the state of the art components inside, they sound superb and they're built to last-that's where their value lies."

A combination of D-Lite Sub 115 and Variline VL262 speakers are proving Dalia's point at Yabbas, a high

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USA - Orion Software and its flagship product, Sirius Pro, have been honoured with the 2007 award for the Innovative Product - Software Category by Rental Equipment Register Magazine at the ARA Rental Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The award was presented to Orion Software for their latest addition to Sirius Pro, an optional electronic signature capture and management system. "Orion takes great pride in this achievement and it represents the culmination of over 20 years of experience providing Rental & Inventory Management software solutions to the Rental industry," says a company statement.

Andre Gilbert, president of Orion Software comments: "I am very proud to receive this prestigious award on behalf of our development team who have worked hard to create great software! Being voted as the most innovative Rental Software in the industry encourages us to stri

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Belgium - Showtex has introduced its latest innovation: the TrusSleeve, designed specifically to cover truss constructions, allowing trusses to be used "as decorative elements, instead of being a technical necessity only", says the company.

The TrusSleeve is made out of Trevira CS, an inherently flame retardant (FR) yarn. The fabric is seamless and can be perforated to attach lights and hide cables.

When a TrusSleeve is lit up from the inside, the light is equally distributed, due to the ribbed fabric structure. TrusSleeves are available in black or white to create different atmospheres. Thanks to the fabric's elasticity one sleeve can fit various truss sizes.

The ShowTex Group is provide rental, sales and installation of showbiz textiles and draperies on a top international level and aims at offering a complete fabric product range with the highest flame-retardanc

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UK - Reading-based lighting design and rental company Blinding Light is enjoying a busy year at the O2 Arena, supplying lighting for several different elements including a large seasonal ice rink, ambient and mood lighting for The Chill Zone installation plus a series of corporate events in different areas.

Blinding Light invested in a new Litec trussing system for the ice rink project, which was supplied by AC Lighting. With it they built a 32 x 32m box truss on a 7m high, eight-legged ground support system to surround the 30 x 30m ice rink. The rink is installed at the O2 for four months, taking advantage of the huge popularity of ice skating during the winter months.

Blinding Light's Patrick Stacey designed the rig for the ice. It had to be dynamic and flexible, and account for the fact that the rink is effectively operating in a daylight zone of the O2 for the majority of

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Germany - Meyer Sound has announced that its German operations have moved from its location in Polch to much larger offices in Montabaur. The move comes as a direct result of the business growth that the office has experienced over the course of the past two years, says the company.

"We have experienced a strong and consistent level of business growth due to the high demand for Meyer Sound products and services - our business has more than doubled in size over the last two years and we've increased our staff accordingly," says Jim Sides, managing director of Meyer Sound Germany. "We are elated to have the opportunity to move into a facility that is ideally suited, both in its location and amenities, to help us better serve our expanded base of customers and support our continuing growth and success in the German and Scandinavian markets."

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UK - The first tour for Adlib's new dV-DOSC system was with Gabrielle, who has just had a run of UK theatres and concert halls. The system was specified by FOH engineer Jamie Butterworth, who comments: "It is an ideal high-definition system for the type of venues on the itinerary," adding that Adlib came up with a good deal and also assigned two of their top crew - Steve Pattison and James Neale - to the project.

The standard system configuration was 12 boxes a side for left and right arrays, combined with four dV Subs on the floor along with eight of the new high output SB28 double 18" subs. The system was driven with the new LA8 DSP-laden amplifiers which are also part of Adlib's recent L-Acoustics investment.

Butterworth - also the tour's production manager - specified the Digidesign D-Show Venue FOH console, on which he utilised all the onboard effects, plus

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USA - Veteran engineer Lee Moro has joined Meyer Sound as Nashville operations and touring support. In his new position, Moro will work directly with tour liaison manager Buford Jones at the company's office in Nashville's Soundcheck, the country's largest full-production rehearsal facility.

A native of Windsor, Ontario, Moro has spent most of the past five years as FOH engineer and production manager for Norah Jones, during which time he was the first engineer to work with Meyer's MILO line array loudspeaker system. He has also worked with Alannah Myles, Michael Buble, Blue Man Group, The Tragically Hip, and Madeleine Peyroux, among others.

"Lee is one of the most innovative and respected engineers I know," remarks Jones. "In addition to his wealth of experience working with a wide range of artists and musical styles, Lee also has a real-world perspective and i

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Australia - Australian stage lighting pioneer Denis Irving died on 16 February, aged 74. Irving was born in 1933 to Phil and Veranne Irving, the latter a director of many theatre productions in the UK and Australia. Irving began his career as an office boy at Strand Electric Australia, eventually rising to the post of chief executive.

During his time there, he worked on such projects as the Festival Theatre in Adelaide, Seymore Centre in Sydney, and the Victorian Arts Center. He also opened Strand first branch office, in South Yarra, Victoria. In 1979, he founded Entertech, a theatre consultancy, working on many buildings, including theatres, casinos, and performing arts centres.

Among his projects were The Araluen Center in Alice Springs, and regional theatres in Renmark, Port Pirie, Mount Gambier, and Whyalla. He was also passionately interested in theatre restoration; the T

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Germany - Coemar will feature the CycLite Led from its LED technology range at ProLight & Sound 2008. It's a digital cyclorama expressly devised for theatres, live events and TV shows.

Three unbound rotating bars (motorized in the two-cell version) allow symmetric and/or asymmetric light output, with linear adjustment of incidence angle. It is equipped with 96 (48 in the compact, single-cell version CycLite Led SC), high-output LEDs 1,2W each.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Litestructures Studios has kicked off 2008 with a series of concert production rehearsals from Editors, Westlife and X Factor Live.

While X Factor rehearsed in the Studio, the Litestructures stage and set department were busy putting the finishing touches on a custom stage set for Westlife. Litestructures has built Westlife's stage sets for the past five years, but this year's was the biggest yet with a 72ft wide, 40ft deep and 12ft high stage. It also featured Litestructures' 3.5m high modular climbing leg lift made of LitePro 4 Heavy Duty truss which was specially designed for the show.

Fresh from their US tour, Editors dropped into Litestructures Studios for two days in February to prepare for their European tour which started on 26 February in Glasgow.

(Jim Evans)

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The closure of the latest incarnation of London's Marquee Club is a sad occasion that marks the end of another chapter in the venue's colourful 50-year history. Readers may care to reflect that in the month it first opened its doors, April 1958, stereo long playing records (LPs) went on sale for the first time and after two years on Broadway, My Fair Lady opened successfully at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, and VERA, the UK's first video recorder was used by the BBC during a transmission of the current affairs programme Panorama.

Meyer Sound's expansion plans for its operations in Germany is another welcome indicator that the German economy is easing intro better shape after a long time in the doldrums. It has not been without its problems - social and economic - since the heady days of re-unification but it's looking healthy now. And Meyer can expect stiff competition

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UK - Sound designer Derrick Zieba has used the same successful formula for the BRIT Awards for the last three years, casting virtually the same crew of engineers, staying with the PA systems supplier Britannia Row Productions, and flying substantial amounts of Electro-Voice X-Line array systems for the benefit of the British music industry as it celebrates the year's achievements in London's Earls Court.

As in 2007, the full width of the Earls Court arena was filled by a double stage, which allowed producers to flip-flop between live performances on the 'Glam' stage and the 'Punk' stage, with the presenters Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne in the centre. According to Zieba, the show turned out to be "my best BRITs ever; we delivered an event for everyone, and still managed to develop a real stage show for each artist from Mika who opened the evening, to Sir Paul McCartney who close

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USA - Arup is providing theatre consulting and acoustic design services to Sn°hetta, interior architect for the Ashland Center at the Brooklyn Arts Tower, in the BAM Cultural District of New York.

The new centre is part of a commercial development designed by Behnisch Architects and Studio MDA, providing street-level retail space with a high-rise residential tower. The plinth houses the performance, studio spaces, administration and technical support program for the cultural component of the development.

Arup is leading the programming and planning process for the fit-out of the new centre with architect Sn°hetta. A main flexible performance space with facilities for dance and movement, and an inventory of large studios for rehearsal, workshops and production creation is being planned by all the stakeholders of the organisation, including the client, the Downtown Brook

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Spain - The long-established Bikini Club in central Barcelona is one of the city's renowned live venues for indie and alternative rock acts, and has been a devoted user of Nexo sound systems for the last 12 years. Recently the club has installed Nexo's new Geo D line array and changed over to an entirely digital infrastructure throughout, with the help of its regular equipment supplier Doscientos Veinte Sonido.

Bikini's artists now perform completely in the digital domain, using a new EtherSound-based network that carries the audio signal from microphone to loudspeaker without any loss of quality. According to the club's resident sound engineer Robert Perez, the results are astonishing. "When you hear the system, it sounds so much better than anything you could compare it to, including our old set-up. We have a lot of visiting engineers coming through here with the touring

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Germany - ProLight & Sound 2008 will see a raft of offerings from Meyer Sound, including product presentations, a chance for visitors to win a trip to the Montreux Jazz Festival, a champagne reception at the stand, and two panel discussions featuring leading front-of-house engineers and sound designers.

On 13 March, Meyer Sound will lead a discussion amongst sound engineers including Big Mick Hughes (FOH for Metallica), Chris Pyne (FOH for Kylie Minogue), Dave "Shirt" Nicholls (FOH for Slipknot), Derek Featherstone (system design engineer for Dave Matthews Band), and Paul Owen (monitor engineer for Metallica). Moderators for this panel are veteran engineers John Pellowe and Buford Jones.

On 14 March, Meyer Sound will host some of the industry's most sought-after sound designers, including Bodo Bergmann, Jonathan Deans, Brian Hsieh and more on a panel discussion. Both

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UK - US blues icon, Joe Bonamassa is currently on the European leg of a world tour with a touring PA rig based around Allen & Heath's iLive digital mixing system and a WZ312M compact dedicated monitor mixer.

Bonamassa's FOH engineer, Jay Phebus, recently started using an iLive system, comprising an iDR10 mix rack and iLive-112 control surface, completing an intensive four-month tour of America, as well as dates in Holland and Russia, last autumn with the system. Impressed with the flexibility, easy load in and set up, and sound quality, Phebus is using the same system for the current European tour.

In addition to the standard RAB, DSP, and CPU modules, the iDR10 rack is loaded with nine individually selected module cards - four input modules providing 32 inputs, three output modules providing 24 outputs, and two multi-digital output modules providing 32 channels of ADAT, enabl

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UK - Founded in 1916, the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is the only Higher Education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.

With the largest concentration in Europe of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East, SOAS has a roll of more than 4,300 students, 40% of whom are on postgraduate or research programmes.

This places huge demand on the facility's Brunei Lecture Theatre, situated on their Bloomsbury campus, by the 300 staff members. And since the 290-seat facility is also hired out to third parties, the wear and tear on the technical infrastructure, seven days a week, is extreme.

Located within the Brunei Gallery, the Lecture Theatre was built in the early 1990's, and according to AV-IT analysts, Gary Hammond and Denson Abrahams, by last year the technology

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UK - Exactly 500 hours after the stroke of midnight that saw in the New Year, car manufacturer Fiat introduced its new 500 model at the London Eye. The event, which was produced by innovision, who were brought on board by project co-ordinator Arc Worldwide, saw PRG Europe supplying lighting and services throughout the site, which included the Eye itself and main stage, plus two VIP areas and the roadway leading to the site.

One of the new Fiats was driven into one of the pods and lit by lighting designer Paul Cook using PixelLine and Palco LED lighting, while in every second pod, MAC 2000 wash luminaires provided sparkle for thousands of onlookers and invited guests. On the stage in adjoining Jubilee Gardens, Cook lit performances by Mika and The Feeling, and, along the roadway up through the gardens to the site, he replaced the permanent blue floodlighting with Fiat's corporate

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