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Portugal - Proel has signed an exclusive distribution deal for its Sound Systems, Stage Equipment and Tamburo product lines with Boomerang. The company has been active in the industry for many years and is based in the Oeiras district of Lisbon.

Carlos Cunha, owner of Boomerang, comments, "We were looking for an established and structured company that could offer a wide range of products to fulfill all the different market demands.

"We chose Proel because it is very active in this field with a 360° offering. Boomerang has also recently gained exclusive distribution of Turbosound for Portugal, therefore it was quite a natural choice for us to turn to Proel to complete the range of products to satisfy our customers' needs."

(Jim Evans)

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Denmark - Continuing the precedent started last year by Denmark's largest music festival, with its Green Footsteps programme, Roskilde once again sought to keep its energy consumption to a minimum with the assistance of LED fixtures from GLP's impression range.

Gracing the Orange stage this year were 74 impression 90 units, nine impression XL fixtures and 32 impression 120 RZ zoom units, giving both the house, and visiting designers, a wide array of effects and powerful bright beams at their disposal.

Danish based Comtech supplied the lighting systems for multiple stages, including the main Orange stage which plays host to the biggest bands appearing on the bill. At the helm of operations for Comtech was lighting designer Lars Nissen, and assisting visiting designers at front of house was Mikkel Bach Nielsen.

"The GLP impressions were such a hit last year, that i

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On The Move - The Brit Awards are to move to the O2 arena in south east London from Earl's Court. The annual UK music awards ceremony has been held at Earl's Court for the past 11 years. Next year's Brit awards will be held on 15 February. Brits bosses have also announced a further three-year deal with ITV to show the event live on television.

"Looking at what The Brits stands for - the 'must-see' spectacle - it was clear that moving to a state-of the art venue like the O2 was an obvious evolution," said Brit Awards chairman David Joseph.

Down The Bookies - The odds of Paul Weller winning the Mercury Prize have been slashed after a bookmaker took an "unprecedented" rush of bets from people backing him to win. William Hill dropped its odds from 20/1 to 1/10 over the weekend after what it called "extraordinary" activity. Its spokesman said m

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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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UK - Where are we with Remote Device Management? What are the benefits? How do I use it, install it, specify it? For the answers to these and many other questions about RDM, just come along to stand 2-P37 at PLASA 2010. Sponsored by the PLASA Technical Resource Office and 25 industry supporters, the RDM 'Compatibility Corner' is a must for all consultants, specifiers, users and manufacturers of lighting systems.

Peter Willis and a team of industry experts will be on hand to explain each of RDM's key features with hands-on examples of RDM interoperability and connectivity using a range of manufacturer's compatible products. They will be offering one-to-one briefings for consultants and specifiers and regular mini-presentations on specific aspects of RDM benefits. There is also a special session for RDM developers, which will take place on the stand on Monday 13th September from 5

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Europe - Faithless have been on tour since early this year, playing in clubs, theatres and on the summer festival scene across Europe. Throughout, the band's monitor engineer Ben Milton has been relying on the DiGiCo SD8.

MIlton has been using DiGiCo consoles since the company started in 2002, when friend and prolific theatre sound designer Bobby Aitken introduced him to the brand.

"I have been specifying DiGiCo consoles when I can ever since," says Milton. "When I was putting together the monitor spec for Faithless, I wanted to use the best sounding console with the smallest footprint. We were starting the tour in European theatres, some of which have very limited space onstage - the Paradiso in Amsterdam springs to mind - so it was crucial that I kept my footprint small and flexible."

Milton has seven wedge mixes on stage and eight stereo in-ears, and t

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UK - Adlib Audio's Summer festival season continued apace with the Liverpool- based company supplying three trucks of audio equipment for 8 stages plus 20 of their technicians to the new three-day Vintage Festival at 'Glorious' Goodwood.

Vintage 2010 - "Celebrating 5 decades of British Cool" was the first of what will be an annual music and fashion-led festival of 'cool', dating from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s . It features leading DJs, bands, collectors, purveyors of vintage clothing and classic vinyl, alongside contemporary bands and brands inspired by the UK's richly expressive music and fashion heritage.

The refreshing entertainment concept was set in the beautiful surroundings of the Goodwood Estate, ensconced in a secluded valley overlooking the Sussex coast, with a capacity of 20,000. James Neale crew chiefed the 20-strong team and oversaw all of the proje

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UK - Event organiser UBMi BV has extended its contract with DB Systems, the IT and AV rental company.

As part of the new agreement, DB will supply bespoke AV systems and services for eight shows between now and 2012, including CPhI 2010, CPhI 2011, CPhI 2012, as well as Food Ingredients Europe 2011.

Oliver Richardson, DB's sales director, said, "I'm delighted that UBM has extended our contract for another two years. Our relationship with UBM is built on a solid foundation of trust developed over years of working together."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, is already in use on some of the biggest theatre shows in the world - but it is by no means limited to huge shows, as shown by its recent use to document Roadkill, one of the hit shows at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

This harrowing play, directed by Cora Bissett and designed by Jessica Brettle, featured 'evocative mood lighting' designed by Paul Sorley that set the uncompromising tone of the production. Given top ratings in every review, it was decided to document the show lighting precisely both to maintain it during its Edinburgh run and in case the show gained a future life beyond the festival.

Taking charge of this process was James Gardner, who has been using FocusTrack for some time in his work as a production re-lighter in Scotland. He explains his use of the system: "My experience is t

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UK - Clay Paky has lined up a number of new product promotions for PLASA 2010.

The Alpha Profile 700 features a cutting-edge framing system fitted inside the smallest 700-watt moving body on the market. This unit offers a full gamut of effects, including 15 gobos, animation effect, rotating prism, Dyna-Cue-Creator function and the Clay Paky patented 'autofocus' function. Focal distances have also been especially designed to focus effects even inside triangles and quadrangles of all shapes and sizes.

Shotlight Wash is a new kind of projector that combines a 1500W discharge lamp washlight and a 3000W Xenon lamp strobe in just one device. The two wash-strobe functions are not separated but integrated and can be operator-controlled with either simultaneous or separate switching-on and special effects. The control electronics are also unique with their perfectly integrated design.<

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UK - Currently playing in a theatre constructed over the former Eurostar platforms at Waterloo station is the York Theatre Royal production of The Railway Children, produced by Jenny King and Matthew Gale for the Touring Consortium in association with the National Railway Museum

It fell to Northampton-based Unusual Rigging to create, in that cavernous space, a 45m long theatre which straddled tracks and platforms and would house 1000 people and a genuine 66 tonne steam train.

Unusual Rigging's Simon Stone said, "We are used to dealing with the unusual but this was a real turn around - we took the theatre to the train instead of the other way around."

The primary concern was the station's glass roof which, not designed to take heavy loads, needed to support 450m of truss weighing 5 tonnes, with an additional 2.5 tonnes of lighting equipment and one tonne of s

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Georgia - The Bridge of Peace spanning the river Mtkvari is the third project in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi using Pharos controllers with the collaboration team of Italian architect Michele de Lucchi, French lighting designer Philippe Martinaud and Dutch lighting engineer Marco de Boer. A graceful and elegant sculpture, its dynamic, mesmerising illumination is created using only white light.

The 1200 fixtures in the glass canopy provide a substantial canvas for geometric and organic lighting effects, generated by a networked Pharos LPC 1 and LPC 2. An additional four LPC2s and three LPC1s control the 4100 LEDs incorporated into the glass parapets of the 150m interactive walkway. Integrated along the walkway are 256 sensors connected to the digital inputs on 32 Pharos RIO 80 remote devices networked via 16 Pharos PoE switches to the LPCs.

As pedestrians pass the sensors, s

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Finland - Sweden's LumenRadio and Sun Effects of Finland have delivered wireless RDM/DMX controls for the most wet and wild festival in Finland.

In May 2010 the seventh consecutive Pacifique dance music event was held at Serena Water Park in Espoo, Finland. The always sold out event gathers 3500 fans of electronic music annually to party the night away in very hot and wet conditions.

In the main hall there is a vast see-through glass wall with complete winter and snowy forests outside. Inside, the crowd is mostly dressed in swimwear, basically dancing barefooted and doing waterslides in bikinis. Due to the very special nature of the venue there has always been a demand for wireless technology for the event.

"In previous years we have tried different wireless DMX systems and have always experienced a number of problems or failures. When we heard about Lumen- Radio we imm

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Denmark - Silkeborg hospital has recently decided it needed to improve conditions for staff and patients, and commissioned lighting designer Rune T°nnes to help - starting out in the radiology department.

"One of the challenges," says T°nnes, "was that, being south facing, the x-ray and MRI rooms were flooded with bright daylight. Clinicians had to pull the blinds down in order to work, but were then left with poor artificial lighting. I spoke to the operators about their needs and examined the machinery, to see how I can make their jobs easier."

In the control rooms, a certain level and temperature of lighting was necessary to ensure the monitors could be seen easily while also providing a comfortable working environment for the department, which is in use 24 hours a day, seven days a week. T°nnes specified a mixture of primary red and blue for

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UK - Audinate will be seen and heard throughout PLASA 2010. Many of Audinate's OEM partners such as, Yamaha, Allen & Heath, Peavey, XTA, Lab.gruppen, EV, Link, Midas, ASL and Outboard will be showcasing products that incorporate Audinate's Dante media networking technology.

John McMahon, VP of sales and support for Audinate comments, "We are excited about the growing number of licensees showing Dante at this year's PLASA. It is a validation that Dante is quickly becoming the de-facto standard in digital media networking. This is due largely in part to our migration path to AVB and our ability to provide our partners with a high-performance TCP/IP solution today."

Aidan Williams, co-founder and CTO of Audinate, will be speaking on the Manufacturers' Panel at the first ever AVNetworks 2010. The conference will explore issues surrounding networking technologies and prot

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UK - At PLASA 2010 Prolyte will bring a "wealth of products" as well as new products including the D75T truss and the snake gate barrier. The updated KYLo will also be shown and there will be a sneak preview of recent developments in the Stage DEX range.

Both Mark Hendriks, technical director at Prolyte and Prolyte Rigging course lecturer, Rinus Bakker will have an active role during the PLASA International Rigging Conference. The annual Prolyte distributor Awards will be presented during the show.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - beyerdynamic will exhibit a number of new products at this year's PLASA show including the Stegos digital wireless boundary microphone, the DT 290 and DT 790 professional series headsets with integral level limiters and the Opus 600 wireless microphone system.

Stegos is fully encrypted 2.4GHz digital wireless boundary microphone system designed for use in both video and tele-conference applications. Key features include global microphone muting via a single button press, over 14 hours of operation, short battery charging time and an easy to use software interface. Stegos allows up to 12 microphones to be used simultaneously.

The beyerdynamic DT 290 series headsets have undergone a major makeover for this year's show. The new DT 290 offers an improved pivoting gooseneck microphone and further enhanced immunity against Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). With its highly fle

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UK / The Netherlands - PLASA 2010 sees the announcement of the merger of two of the strongest names in the trussing and staging industry - Prolyte Products Group, based in the Netherlands, and UK-based Litestructures.

A statement confirming the merger declasres, "Both companies represent the cutting edge in professional truss and staging systems, each with their own strengths and specialities, their drive for high quality products and innovative design making them a natural fit. This merger will create a new organization that is stronger in every sense and is set to become a dominant force in the industry in terms of size, product range, resources and, crucially, sales force."

The statement continues, "This in turn will open up new market opportunities in and outside the fields that both companies have served up until now. Based on brand strengths and fuelled by

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UK - Two of Scotland's market-leading professional audio companies have committed to a joint venture which they say will "raise the bar" in their specialised industry.

Glasgow-based WS Steele has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dalgety Bay company Clear Audio Systems, known in the industry as Claude, to work together to develop opportunities.

WS Steele, established 70 years ago, is a leading provider of high-end audio-visual systems while Clear Audio Systems specialises in a niche audio market - the supply and installation of induction loop systems and audio enhancement products to assist the 15% of the population who have hearing difficulties. The two companies have a combined turnover of just under £2m and a joint workforce of seventeen.

WS Steele managing director Stuart McArthur and Claude's CEO Kim Rose say there is sound synergy and strategy u

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UK - Aviom will launch its AllFrame Multi-Modular I/O System at PLASA 2010. The system replaces traditional analogue I/O boxes with a modular digital solution. It is designed for permanent installations in theatres, schools and conference centres, as well as providing an effective solution for touring and portable live sound applications. The AllFrame system keeps analogue cabling to a minimum by digitising the audio input signal where it connects to the network, reducing system complexity and labour costs while delivering improved performance and flexibility.

The AllFrame requires a single Cat 5e or fibre connection eliminating the need for soldering, terminating, testing scores of analogue connections, installing conduit, and pulling separate cables for each audio signal. The unit can be powered over Cat 5e cable or from a dedicated DC power line. Each AllFrame device supports

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UK - Despite two multi-platinum selling albums, being a three time Grammy Award nominee, Ivor Novello and MOBO award winner and enjoying a public profile that most singers can only dream about, it took 2006 X Factor winner Leona Lewis until the summer of 2010 to embark on her first headline tour.

Monitor engineer Ant Carr did some promo work for Lewis earlier in the year and has previously worked for Syco, her management company, so he was ideally placed to get the best from the singer's voice in the array of arenas that the Labyrinth tour took in.

"This year Leona was to tour with a fresh band, so it was a good opportunity for me to come in," he says. "To be honest, choosing Sennheiser was a no brainer for me. It's my choice of microphone and the in-ear stuff is great."

Carr has Lewis, plus her four-piece backing band, two backing singers a

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UK - International staging company Stageco will be enjoying an action packed weekend in London. The weekend highlights three of the company's diverse services and culminates with a stand at PLASA 2010.

The weekend for Stageco will kick off on Saturday with the Muse concert at Wembley Stadium, one of the UK tour dates for the band. Stageco has engineered a spectacular skyscraper designed stage for the world tour, creating the illusion of a band playing in the basement of an imposing building.

On Sunday Stageco will be at the Help for Heroes concert, which supports Prince William and Prince Harry's charity, at Twickenham Stadium. Stageco will provide a Super Roof for the one off concert, featuring Robbie Williams, Katherine Jenkins and a host of contemporary artists.

The busy weekend finishes with Stageco sharing a double decker stand at PLASA 2010 along with fellow Ent

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