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UK - Topshop has been promoting the charity Teenage Cancer Trust to help raise awareness of the charity and also donations. To do this, they recently hosted a series of picnics in parks across the UK entitled Topshop Bandstand Picnics for Teenage Cancer Trust. Family Ltd who executed the events on behalf of Topshop, contacted Stage Electrics and asked them to support this very worthwhile charity by supplying sound equipment, staging and technical support.

The events which took place over a two-week period in June, saw some of the UK music scene's hottest and developing talent take centre stage at Regents Park- London, Stanley Park-Liverpool, Castle Park- Bristol and the Vale, Birmingham.

The four events were project managed by Stage Electrics' Andrew Siddon who used EAW K

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UK - This year's Glastonbury Festival saw the lowest accident statistics and best medical records in its 40 years history.

TESS has worked with Glastonbury since 2002 and in the past eight years has promoted a health and safety culture within the UK festival. The most prominent change is that TESS has successfully engaged the Glastonbury suppliers in improving health and safety in their own specialist areas.

Tim Roberts from TESS comments, "By being realistic, positive and getting everyone on message, we have created an empathetic understanding that what we want to do is a necessary requirement and is beneficial to everyone on the event."

This year was the first time TESS was appointed head of fire safety at Glastonbury; this new area was headed up by Mike Herbert, who developed a new strategy, working closely with the Devon and Somerset Fire Brigade. TESS was invo

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USA - Atlanta Institute of Music (AIM) has installed 10 Fostex LR16 digital recording mixers to teach recording techniques and signal flow in their main studio classroom. Located in suburban Duluth, Georgia, AIM is an accredited educational institution that offers both music and recording programs. One of the challenges facing the recording program was finding a reliable hands-on method of teaching recording techniques and signal flow to students in a group situation.

"We have a very nice studio set-up, with a full live room and tracking studio," says Ryan Williams, director of the recording department at the school. "But with up to 20 students in a class, we needed an efficient way to give them experience with the real basics of recording and mixing."

To give students experience in multi-track recording without having to take turns on the main console, AIM

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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!

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USA - Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, which offers degree programmes in everything from recording arts and film to game and web design, recently installed a 72-channel Solid State Logic Duality SE console as the centrepiece of its new flagship recording studio, the Audio Temple.

This installation represents the largest Duality in an educational institution. The expansion was part of the Full Sail Gateway Studios project encompassing a live performance hall, a game production studio and the new, state-of-the-art recording studio.

Duality joins three SSL J Series, 13 SSL AWS 900+ and seven SSL Matrix consoles to offer an industry standard user interface for all levels of study.

"We were building a studio called the Audio Temple, so it had to be the best of the best for our students," says Dana Roun, director of audio programmes for Full Sail University.

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UK - PC Wing is Stage Technologies latest compact training tool, designed with versatility and simplicity in mind. The console enables students and automation technicians to learn to programme and operate automation technology off-line in a classroom environment.

Using the Wing, trainees can work first hand on the same control interface used in some of the live performance industry's most popular control desks. Connecting over USB and running on eChameleon software, PC Wing provides a dedicated Acrobat/Illusionist keyboard, three playbacks, a dead man's handle and an emergency stop button.

PC Wings have recently been supplied to Guildhall College of Music and Drama in London and Zoomvliet College in the Netherlands to provide in-lab automation training tools for their technical theatre students. The units run on eChameleon software and enable students to work first hand on a S

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Norway - Updating its F32 series of projectors to 8000 lumens, projectiondesign has now made the model available for immediate delivery.

With comprehensive changes to optics and colour processing, the updated F32 series now delivers up to 8000 lumens brightness on select models. It is available in a wide range of application specific configurations, and in both WUXGA, 1080p, and SXGA+ resolutions.

The updates to the F32 series further enhances colour accuracy and display, alongside the increased brightness levels available, for greatly enhanced image quality and extended calibration and colour-matching capabilities, says the company.

Commenting on the new series, Anders L°kke, international marketing & communications manager at projectiondesign, says, "This is the result of feedback from our customers. Our projectors are increasingly used in a variety of challenging

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Norway - Cinema is as popular a form of entertainment as it has ever been, but today's audiences are more demanding than ever. Fulfilling those expectations was the main requirement of Norway's Bergen Kino, when it commissioned the installation of an Alcons system at the country's highest profile cinema.

Built in 1918, originally as a concert hall, Konsertpaléet screen 1 (KP1) is the premier cinema auditorium in Bergen and attracts cinephiles from across Scandinavia to enjoy its quality surroundings, sound and vision facilities. Recently it underwent a major refurbishment programme to become a true reference class cinema, with owning company Bergen Kino keen to provide filmgoers with a cinema experience that was in a league of its own.

Alongside contractors providing new seating, lighting and improved interior design, Bergen Kino contracted Unique Cinema Systems to inst

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South Korea - A Kinesys automation system is on the road for the Korean national tour of Mamma Mia!, which opened in May, and will run until February 2011.

The system consists of six Kinesys Elevation 1+ variable speed motor controllers and Kinesys converted 1Tonne, 10m/min, 20m HOL Liftket chain hoists. The Elevation 1+ controllers, as well as the hoists, were all supplied in a customised white finish, and the system is controlled using Kinesys' Vector PC based motion control software.

The Kinesys motors and controllers are used in the dramatic finale of the show for which the custom white lighting trusses are flown in at variable speed for the final crescendo, featuring the whole cast onstage singing the anthemic ABBA numbers, Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia! and Waterloo.

The trusses have to fly in with precise timing and speed and then stop exactly o

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USA - The National Museum of the Pacific War George Bush Gallery located in Fredericksburg in Texaswas recently renovated to expand the gallery's footprint to 33,000sq.ft.

The museum asked the AV integrator and provider Bowen Technovation to update the gallery with the latest in AV and information technology to provide visitors with unique experience.

Bowen Technovation selected Medialon to be the main AV controller of the entire museum.

When entering the museum, visitors are immersed into media-rich presentations, meaningful testimonials and historical exhibits which offer them a better understanding of what the Pacific War was like for the US and how it impacted the world.

A wide array of exhibits are spread throughout the museum, each of them including specific video, sound and lighting effects. "We had to find a control system that would receive and deliver the in

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UK - A team from Saville Audio Visual branches across the UK, supported by a host of AV manufactures has raised £10,000 for children's charity Rainbow House.

The team took part in the BUPA Great Manchester 10k Run to raise cash for The Legacy Rainbow House which specialises in providing services for children with brain injuries, disabilities and life limiting conditions such as cerebral palsy.

The Saville effort was coordinated by group installation manager Colin Etchells and supported by manufacturers and suppliers including Anders & Kern, AMX, Audio Visual Material, CIE, POLARaudio and Sennheiser, who all took part in the run.

The Rainbow House Charity is close to the hearts of all the Saville employees. Christian Spragg gave up his job at Saville AV to look after his daughter when he tragically lost his wife hours after daughter Illaria was born. Illaria was later d

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UAE - Dubai based Gulf Crewing Company (GCC) celebrates 18 months in business with a success story which has seen the company expand rapidly and the staff increase by 300 per cent.

Gulf Crewing Company was launched in November 2008 by Jo Marshall, Nigel Beaton and Shane Manning - all of whom have considerable experience working in various aspects of the live events industry.

The concept is to provide a European style crewing operation to supply skilled, qualified efficient crew and technicians for all types of events.

Beaton had been working in the Middle East as a freelancer and realised that there was a real need for a professionally run and organised crew service on these lines. He and Marshall - a show technical director/production manager and now heading Al Laith Events Services, formed GCC along with Manning, an experienced rigger, to fill that vacuum.

"The idea

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UK - Once again MilTec (UK) worked with South West Audio Group to supply equipment for the Glastonbury Festival.

A dozen of the MT Pro Acoustics MTA-TP12 speakers were bought by SWA Group for use as monitor wedges on the BBC Introducing Stage. They were chosen by SWA Group's MD Alister Pook after a demo at their HQ near Bristol.

The multi-purpose cabinets are intended to double as both PA speakers and stage wedges, with a 45 degree slope incorporated into the design. SWA Group needed a 60 degree slope for this particular application and worked with MilTec to develop an adaptor bracket to change the angle of projection. The bracket bolts on using two of the speaker's built-in flying points. This allows the speaker to be directed upwards at 60 degrees or horizontally as FOH fills or drum monitors.

Designed by MilTec's technical director, Graham Gosden, the birch ply cabinets a

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UK / South Africa - SES Entertainment Services in Datchet received an order from Gearhouse SA for a large order for power distro for the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa.

Gearhouse SA ordered a total of 14 SES 19" 400A rack distros which were used during the rounds and also at the opening concert and the closing ceremony.

Andrew Sackstien from Gearhouse commented, " The racks we received from SES were exactly what we required and they had understood my requirements precisely. They arrived in good time and worked flat out for the duration of the WCF. They were built very well and I will certainly use SES in the future for my power requirements.

SES were "very pleased with the products and the comments, and as always, pleased to add another tick in the customer satisfaction box".

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Leeds-based Fibre Optic Systems has announced the availability of the range of LED luminaires from Canadian manufacturer, Lumenpulse. FOS has taken on the distribution for the UK and Ireland.

Brandon Siemion, Lumenpulse's executive vice-president for worldwide sales, comments, "Fibre Optic Systems is well-placed to distribute Lumenpulse as the company has experience in the LED field and knows the best use applications for Interior and exterior projects. The company works closely with many lighting designers, engineers and architects in the region.

"The timing for us to choose a partner in the UK is not only to develop new projects, but also support projects specified from North America. FOS has great experience supporting LED projects in the UK and other countries in Europe and the Middle East.""

Gordon Addison, FOS technical director, adds, "We

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USA - Video is breathing new life into the fortunes of a 30-year-old Washington State lighting/staging company. Earlier this year, lighting industry veteran Mark Steneide (Steneide Illumination) added the capability to install video walls at music concerts and shows, using EVLED 1024SMD panels from Elation Professional.

The demand for this service has proven so hot that Steneide has since spun it into a separate company, NW Video Wall, which was chosen to provide the video screen for the California leg of Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers' solo tour.

It all began as a measure to cope with the economic downturn, said Steneide. "I was trying to figure out how to pump up business during this recession, and for a while now I'd been seeing how lighting and video are merging. You look at everything from TV awards shows to concert tours, and all you see are LED video walls. So I

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USA - Featuring the first customised radius corners in the NBA, and a standard-setting design by Anthony James Partners, Lighthouse and TS Sports continue to feature prominently in American sports.

The Bradley Centre, home of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, will soon set the standard for LED center-hung integrated displays. Featuring over 1,000sq.ft of 6mm pitch LED video distributed across four main screens, over 91m of 10mm entertainment strips and scoring matrix, and a customised underside display, the Bradley Centre's centre-hung display will blaze with over 232sq.m and nearly 2m pixels of LED video.

"We are very excited about partnering with the Bradley Centre for their LED renovations," said Matt Ritter, TS Sports VP of sales. "The new centre hung will consist of customized radius corners making it one of the most dynamic LED systems in professional sports.&quo

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Germany - The first 'Business Brunch', arranged by Gerriets, took place in the Semperoper in Dresden, starting a new scheduled series of presentations about basics, projects and products from the Gerriets World. Further such events are scheduled to take place in regular intervals in different cities and with different topics.

The main presentation concerned the requirements for dance floors and their different fields of application. The lectures were closed by a 'journey' with Gerriets through 60 years of theatre history presenting the fascinating history of art curtains.

Gerriets reports the brunch was a great success and was met with an excellent response from the 120 participants.The programme concluded with a guided tour through the Semperoper.

"We would like to express our gratitude to the team of the Semperoper Dresden and especially to their technical director, M

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USA - Australian band Jet has hit the road in America to support the group's latest album, Shaka Rock. Manning the controls at front of house is veteran mixer Kyle Chirnside, with Will Burston on the monitor desk. The group is carrying its own front of house console, a Midas PRO6 live audio system supplied by Big Mo Pro in Parsippany, New Jersey.

"I've been using the PRO6 for two years now," says Chirnside. "In fact, we did the first few shows on this tour without it, and I can tell you, it makes a huge difference. With the digital snake system and on-board processing, the PRO6 really makes everything easier, and helps us get the most out the house rigs we encounter."

All shows on the tour are being recorded. For that task, Chirnside opted for the Klark Teknik DN9696 high resolution audio recorder. Designed to integrate seamlessly with Midas digital

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UK - With Friday Night With Jonathon Ross's tenure at the BBC drawing to a close, the microphones used by his resident band 4 Poofs & A Piano are being put up for auction in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Supplied by Terry Tew Sound & Light to the show's broadcast sound supervisor Andy Tapley, the four Shure SM63 mics in pink have been in use since 2001.

"Andy and I discussed what would be the best mic for the 4 Poofs," says Terry Tew, "and I advised him that the SM63s would be the right product to cope with their microphone technique. The fact that they've used the same ones for the last nine years is testament to the fact that we got it right."

Now the four mics are to find four new homes via four separate e-bay auctions, which will start at 9am on Wednesday 14 July following the recording of Ross's last show, which will air on F

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For 2010, Projecta is introducing Da-Plex, a rigid rear projection acrylic screen offering high resolution diffusive reflection for permanent installations.

Da-Plex features a microscopic thin diffusion coating which is permanently bonded to the acrylic substrate and cannot peel off like laminated film or vinyl based diffusion screens. Diffusion coatings ensure uniformity and a wide viewing angle, suitable for today's high output digital projectors. Da-Plex is available in standard sizes up to 251cm high and 427cm wide and has a gain of 1.0 with a full viewing angle of 70 degrees. Larger sizes and custom formats are available upon request.

Projecta offers two frame types that not only protect the screen but also ensure a speedy installation and professional finish, says the company. The Standard factory installed frame is a functional design and streamlines installation. The Self Tri

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UK - Events, production and communication specialists, R&B Group has added new staff at both head office in Newcastle and their Yorkshire branch in Harrogate.

John Robinson, aged 18 from Felling in Gateshead, joins the Graphics department as the company's first real apprentice. He will work closely with Zak Hussain, graphics manager in the areas of set design, 3D animation and managing web-site content.

Ben Middleton was welcomed back to R&B Group Yorkshire recently, having previously worked with the company on freelance and short-term contracts. Middleton was selected to join the team in order to support the continued growth of R&B Group in the Yorkshire region. His role will involve the preparation, load and installation of equipment, along with the operation of equipment during live events for clients such as RICS, The Royal College of Nursing and York Racecourse.

(Jim Ev

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