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UK - Following many months of discussion, Lighting Effects Distribution has been appointed exclusive UK distributors for the wide range of lighting solutions produced by the company Colours in Italy.

The pact marks a reunion for L.E.D. managing director Ian Kirby and Ivano Burato, who was most recently with French company Ayrton (distributed in the UK by L.E.D).

Burato, in conjunction with former colleagues from Coemar spa, set up the new company in the north Italian lighting hotbed of Castelgoffredo, and this month presented its innovative range in the UK at an open day held by television specialists, Richard Martin Lighting.

Ivano Burato said: "It was always my intention to approach Lighting Effects Distribution to handle our products after meeting at last year's PLASA

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Qatar - LCI Productions provided a 'light show' for Qatar's National Day in December 2008, in Doha. LCI was contracted to provide a turnkey service for the project, from original concept through to delivery.

The brief for the show production was to "grow" the national pride of the nation, by depicting its history and heritage, to show their progress and make the audience reflect on the country's national heritage. The elements included the History of the Country, Pearl Diving, Desert Living and the Craft and Art of Qatar.

On winning the tender, LCI set about creating a storyboard and sourcing original material shot in Qatar in both stills and HD video as well as using archive material from Qatar, working in conjunction with local agencies. The majority of the show content was then developed at LCI's in-house Avid editing studio, and demonstration studio, using Wings

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UK - Yet more exhibitors, including Orbital Sound, UK Rigging, Cerwin Vega, Sylvania, CoNi, Lighting Effects Distribution, Northern Light, Schnick-Schnack Systems and Sound Technology have now signed up for PLASA Focus Leeds - 28 - 29 April at the Royal Armouries.

The event will feature a packed two-day seminar programme in a purpose built auditorium which will cover a broad array of topics, including advice for freelancers, how to produce sustainable events and the issues facing regional theatres in the economic downturn.

Seminars are to be presented by leading industry associations including ISCE, Theatres Trust, ABTT, PLASA and the Sustainable Events Group.

As many seminars are close to selling out it is important to register now to secure your seat.

With pre-registered visitor figures now at 1,400, the first PLASA Focus event looks set to be a major success for all inv

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USA - EAW has announced that its JFL210 Compact Constant Curvature Line Array and compatible sub, the JFL118 Subwoofer, are now available to purchase. The company says that its JFL210 compact line array features a range of its innovative line array technologies in a lightweight package that offers an ideal solution for a wide range of small- and medium-sized applications - and with the compatible JFL118, now offers a turnkey loudspeaker solution.

Incorporating constant curvature line array design principles, JFL210 modules form easily configured arrays with predictable output and coherence, and coverage that is both horizontally symmetric and consistent from short to long throws, say EAW. The JFL210 can be flown or stacked in a variety of ways, and the enclosure size, shape, weight and rigging are optimized for ease of transport and handling. Arrays may be easily flown or ground

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Germany - Optical specialist KaiChang Lu has joined the GLP R&D team, with effect from 1 March 2009. He will be working closely with head of department, Markus Salm, and project managers, Oliver Klee and Marc Rapp.

KaiChang Lu has a comprehensive background in optical design, and between 1996-2007 worked as director for R&D/design at British Optical (International Optics).

"I have worked in the Entertainment Lighting industry for more than 20 years and optimised the optics for different manufacturers including Martin Professional profile spots from MAC 500 up to MAC III - and before that optical work for High End Systems - so I am confident that I can contribute to securing the future growth of GLP in the professional lighting business," says KaiChang.

GLP's business director, Kasper Gissel, states: "We strive to develop and manufacture top quality luminaires

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UK - Every Sunday, the Dominion Theatre in London's Tottenham Court Road, home to We Will Rock You, becomes the setting for the London services of Hillsong Church. A vibrant church, Hillsong in London has grown in ten years to a congregation of some 10,000 people, holding three services each week.

With a relatively young congregation of mainly 20-35 year olds, the senior pastor of Hillsong London was looking to add dynamics to the services and so provide more engagement with the congregation. "We had been using a large back projection screen on the stage at the Dominion," explains the Church's technical director, Frankie du Toit, "and we needed something that would work in conjunction with that."

He saw the G-LEC Phantom 30 frames at the PLASA show last year and was impressed with the system's ease of use and light weight. He continues: "The sys

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UK - Hawthorn has taken delivery of its Liteware RGB battery LED uplighters, which were recently awarded ABTT's lighting product of the year.

The LED battery powered uplighters are completely cable free and entirely battery powered, thus allowing complete freedom of use, whatever the venue or event. They have a generous 24 hour running cycle in colour changing mode and only take six hours to recharge.

Liteware's LED uplighters offer full RGB colour mixing and wireless DMX control with a light output is similar to a Pixelpar. They have 50 preset colours (Lee and Rosco), 20 built in fades and snaps and a 16 bit dimmer curve for smooth fade effects.

Hawthorn's stainless steel LED uplighters are flight cased in groups of six and all the flight cases are pre-wired so the fittings are easily recharged by just plugging in the flight case, making it very easy to recharge the units o

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Germany - At ProLight&Sound this year, Visual Productions will be focusing on the launch of its entry-level software lighting control programme, Cuelux.

Visitors will be able to tryout this platform-independent piece of software lighting control on either a Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows. Cuelux is a DMX512 lighting controller for intelligent lights, LED, dimmers, lasers and various other effects; it is shipped with a USB-to-DMX adapter cable.

Key to the design of Cuelux is its graphical user-interface. It is specially designed to reduce the amount of time required to learn how to operate the software.

Alongside this new product Visual Productions continues to develop itsother products and will also be displaying the Duple: a USB to DMX-512 dual output and input hardware interface. The Duple enables both VisualDMX and Canvix lighting control softwares to send and receive DMX.

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USA - FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, will be at the USITT Stage Expo in Cincinnati this week; visitors to stand 81 will be the first to see the new FocusTrack 2.00, which adds compatibility with ETC Eos and MA grandMA consoles.

In the more than three years since its first introduction, FocusTrack has been put to use on countless shows, allowing lighting designers and their teams to precisely document the show lighting - including focus of conventional and moving lights, cue looks, rig data and more- to allow them to maintain the look over a long run, bring the show back into rep, re-focus it on tour or re-create it elsewhere in the world. FocusTrack is currently in use on shows including Billy Elliot in London, New York and Australia, Mary Poppins in New York and on tour, Frost/Nixon and The Wizard of Oz touring the US, and Miss

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USA - Davis Wade Stadium is the home of Mississippi State Bulldog football and the scene of blood-stirring clashes in the notoriously hard-hitting Southeastern Conference. The 55,000-capacity stadium in Starkville is now equipped with a high-impact AV system that delivers powerful and intelligible audio to the tiered bowl. A self-powered Meyer Sound system sits atop the venue's new scoreboard tower, while images flash across a 111x47ft HD video screen, the largest in the conference.

The entire new AV installation operates under the general supervision of Bennie Ashford, Mississippi State's coordinator of sports television. On the quality of sound, he comments, "We love it. It's a huge difference from what we had before. We are now hearing true bass, along with exceptional clarity in the mids and highs. Having that ability to hear the full range of sounds, particularly for m

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Australia - LSC Lighting Systems has announced the release of the latest addition to the Redback family of dimmer racks. The new Redback 12 dimmer provides 12 channels at 10A with 100% Duty Cycle in only 2RU of height.

The concept behind the Redback project was to produce a feature rich, high quality reliable dimmer in a small compact footprint at a very affordable price, says the company. After extensive development and product testing, LSC is confident that they have delivered these objectives. The Redback range is designed for mass manufacture resulting in a reduced overall build price and hence sale price, without compromising quality.

The Redback 12-channel dimmer is fully compliant with the new RDM (Remote Device Management) protocol, allowing remote configuration from any RDM compatible controller. This new functionality will also soon be available as a free software up

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UK - Cameron Mackintosh's new staging of Lionel Bart's Oliver! Is playing at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane before a backdrop of colour changing EvenLED panels by Martin Professional.

Stage Electrics, who supply all production lighting and media server equipment for the production, has made a significant investment in Martin Professional's EvenLED, purchasing 140 panels of the latest 16 bit version. Each colour mixing LED panel measures 1sqm and is fully DMX controlled. Also used on the set are Martin MAC TW1 tungsten washlights.

The entire production is backed by a vast 14m by 10m sky cloth. Upstage of the cloth is a BP screen and behind that are 140 EvenLED panels.

Lighting Designer for the show is Paule Constable assisted by associate Beky Stoddart. Constable, who recently won the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for The Chalk Garden (

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The Netherlands - Lightco has supplied an ETC Eos control system for an eight month tour by Dutch percussion band Slagerij van Kampen.

Says chief lighting technician and board operator Mike Evers, "Although I'd never used an Eos before, I like to challenge myself with something new each time I go on tour. ETC is not well known in The Netherlands for its control desks - people only know the lighting - so I was eager to see what the Eos could do. I only had a couple of weeks' programming time, so didn't get to explore the desk fully, but I used some of the functions of the effects engine and found it extremely powerful. I hope to be able to explore all its capabilities some other time."

Lightco sales manager Bas van Schelven says, "When we heard that the team was ready to try something new and fresh, it seemed like a great opportunity to offer an extended demonstr

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USA - BankAtlantic Center of Sunrise, Florida, is a multipurpose arena venue serving the diverse sports and entertainment needs of the Fort Lauderdale area. Aside from housing the Florida Panthers NHL franchise, the arena hosts minor league and college basketball, arena football, mixed-martial arts and professional wrestling, as well as such high-profile events as concerts by Iron Maiden and AC/DC, among others. In addition, in 2008 the venue hosted multiple presidential campaign events from then-Senator Barack Obama.

The BankAtlantic Center recently upgraded its sound system with a spread of products from EAW including KF730 Compact Line Array Modules, AX364 Arrayable Install Loudspeakers, AX366 Arrayable Install Loudspeakers, AX396 Arrayable Install Loudspeakers, SB1000z Large Format Subwoofers and UX8800 Digital Signal Processors.

The venue contracted Delray Beach-based Eve

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Trinidad - PR Lighting fixtures have provided the atmosphere at two major festivals in Trinidad & Tobago, where the company's distributors, All Events Lighting Systems were out in force for The Festival - Night of the Stars and Arabian Nights.

All Events Lighting Systems has been working with the promoters of The Festival for the past three years but this year the concept (and the name) changed - and thus they found themselves working with the new format for the first time.

"The promoters wanted a new look to coincide with the change of concept and knew that lighting would was the answer," says the company's owner, Shival Maharaj (who is also the principle LD). "They asked us to prepare a lighting design and offered us the job on the strength of this; we are now the official lighting provider for this event."

For the show, Shival used

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Malaysia - The Soundcraft Si3 digital mixing console made its Malaysian debut at the Harman Pro Road Show in Kuala Lumpur resulting in its deployment for the high-profile Monsoon Cup concert in Pulau Duyong and Terengganu a few weeks later.

KL-based Systems Electronics and Engineering (SENE) supplied the Si3 to Show Gear Production who used the console for the event.

The Monsoon Cup Concert is the fifth event on which Show Gear operated on the Soundcraft Si3 having previously mixed high-profile events such as 2009 New Year's Eve Countdown for Kota Bharu and Ministry of Science and Technology and Innovation Malaysia (MOSTI) official logo launch 2009.

(Jim Evans)

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France - Waste disposal plants are generally prosaic and functional buildings, but there is always room for being innovative. That's exactly how the lateral thinking members at the Dunkerque City Council in France were thinking when they decided that their local Dunkerque Littoral Pole de Valorisation des Dechets could benefit from some beautification in the form of an architectural lighting scheme.

Locally based electrical contractors SET Space Tertiaire were approached to come up with a plan and a specification. They suggested Anolis LED products would provide the solution.

These were supplied by Anolis's French distributor Ambiance Lumière. SET has used Anolis on a number of other projects.

17 Anolis ArcLine Outdoor Optic 36 strips are utilised, fitted to one side of the building that faces the busy A16 Dunkerque to Paris highway. An additional issue was that the install

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USA - The 81st Academy Awards kicked off on a comedic note, with host Hugh Jackman joking that a recessionary budget had forced the cancellation of an elaborate opening number. Left to create his own instead, the singing and dancing relied on cardboard set pieces, lawn chairs, and other yard sale props, put together with good effect to parody the films garnering the night's award nominations.

"It was an original bit featuring a cameo by Anne Hathaway," noted wireless guru Dave Bellamy of Burbank-based Soundtronics, "With only two people onstage, we used eight wireless mics. That pretty much set the tone for the rest of the evening, which was extraordinarily RF dependent from start to finish."

Given the task of developing the wireless blueprint for the stellar event, Bellamy used Soundtronics' Phoenix III antenna system to help tame the confines of the caver

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UK - One of the 'next generation' of luxury airport hotels, boasting significant meetings and events facilities, opened last summer at Heathrow Terminal 5.

As a vibrant centre for the international business community, offering fast access to T5, the hotel's 14 conference and meeting rooms warranted having superior media and communication facilities; all rooms have been specified and equipped with the latest technology, including Christie HD-compatible digital projection proAV, which has also equipped a 117-seat tiered theatre.

Three executive boardrooms - the 16-seat Imperial Boardroom, 22-seat Opera Boardroom and 16-capacity Zen Boardroom - are versatile and digitally equipped. The most advanced room, The Imperial, incorporates a Christie DS+305 SXGA+ 3300 lumen DLP digital projector, as part of an infrastructure that includes videoconferencing, while the remaining two rooms

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UK - Stage Electrics is holding its Great Easter Switch On event on 7 April at the pavilion at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway, Bristol. The launch event, tailored to be of special interest for those responsible for live events, will be a free to attend informal day of product demonstrations and presentations from industry specialists.

At the heart of the programme is the product launch of Stage Electrics' new modular LED screens, designed using the latest advances in electronic engineering and featuring a 145° viewing angle. An AV specialist will be on hand to explain the features and benefits of these screens and provide a full demonstration of the product's capabilities.

The event will also feature a temporary ice rink and presentation from leading ice rink specialists Ice World, a real-time demonstration of SPLNet - a new noise level monitoring unit, and a presentatio

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UK - TOA, a company which boasts 50 years' experience in the development of emergency broadcast systems in Japan, has now introduced a system that fully integrates emergency and general-purpose broadcast functions.

TOA's VM-3000 Series is a highly cost-effective combined emergency voice alarm system and public address system. The VM-3000 Series is ideal for small and medium-sized applications, such as shopping centres, retail stores, nursing homes, schools and fitness clubs. It incorporates such emergency voice alarm functions as continuous speaker line monitoring and a built-in voice alarm.

This easy to install and set-up, all-in-one system also offers PA broadcasting, paging and BGM functions that operate with uncompromisingly high audio quality to ensure consistently high intelligibility, say TOA Corporation UK.

The VM-3000 Series is digitally audio processed and controll

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