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UK - London- based production company LarMac LIVE - headed by Jo MacKay and Ian Greenway - production managed and co-ordinated all logistics for staging the star studded Gorby 80 gala concert and awards event at London's Royal Albert Hall this week.

Everything was compiled and organised in an operation lasting just under four weeks. The high profile charity event fused entertainment and awards presentations in celebration of the 80th Birthday of former Russian statesman, Mikhail Gorbachev.

It was hosted by Kevin Spacey and Sharon Stone, featuring live appearances and a fusion of classical and popular music by artists including Dame Shirley Bassey, Bryan Ferry, The Scorpions, Katherine Jenkins, Paul Anka and Melanie C among others, some performing collaborations accompanie

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Russia - The premier showing of the new 3D Disney blockbuster Tron: Legacy took place on 17 December 2010 at the Karo Film Oktyabr cinema theatre. The film is the continuation of the original sci-fi film of the 80's about cyberspace. To create the appropriate atmosphere on the day of the premiere, of one of the most awaited and spectacular films of the year, Christie MicroTiles displays were installed in the lobby of the cinema theatre. It is the first time MicroTiles have been used for the promo action of a film in Russia.

Smart Look advertising agency, as the project manager, took care of the Oktyabr lobby design by employing digital media. Big Screen Service supplied the MicroTiles and ETC Russia created the content.

Two areas of the cinema theatre featured MicroTiles module digital displays. The main video wall installed on the first floor comprised 41 MicroTile mod

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Le Mark will launch the all new Manero® high performance modular subfloor, currently touring with FLAWLESS at PLASA Focus. Plus, the show sees the launch of Light in a Dark Place, a joint initiative with PSA's StageHand, The Industries Welfare & Benevolent Fund. On Wednesday 20 April, the first support client, LTM, will be presented with the first ever 'photoluminious' PAL Road Case Label manufactured in support of the StageHand charity.

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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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From the range of brands exclusively distributed by the company in the UK, AC-ET's stand lighting will demonstrate the new Chroma-Q Studio Force LED fixtures range. Utilising the same core technologies as the innovative Color Force range, the fixtures are equally suited to broadcast, film and TV lighting applications or any other application normally utilising daylight or tungsten fixtures. The range consists of the Studio Force D (Daylight white 6,000 CCT) and Studio Force V (Variable white 2,900K - 6,000K CCT) fixtures. Both are available in a choice of 48" and 72" battens as well as a 12" multi-purpose version. With outputs across the six models ranging from 5,000 up to 28,000 lumens, the fixtures offer at least twice the output of their RGBA colour variants.

In addition, the stand will feature the new Jands Vista v2 software now shipping as standard with the Vista

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Record Breakers - U2's current worldwide 360° tour has become the highest grossing in history, beating the record previously set by The Rolling Stones between 2005-2007. The Irish rockers passed the $558m (£341m) world record following their concert in Sao Paolo, Brazil, on 10 April. The tour kicked off in July 2009 in Barcelona and still has more than 20 gigs to go. More than seven million tickets have been sold to date for 110 shows. On average U2's 360° Tour packs out 63,000 people each show, taking $6.4 million (£3.9 million) according to Billboard Boxscore.

The final date is 30 July 2011 at the Magnetic Music Hill Musical Festival in Moncton, Canada. Arcade Fire will be the support act. Before that, they will headline the Friday night of this year's Glastonbury festival on 24 June.

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UK - The ABTT (Association of British Theatre Technicians) Theatre Show looks set for another successful year, with pre-registrations for the June event already 25% up on 2010 figures.

Attracting the leading manufacturers and suppliers in the theatre, presentation and staging sectors, the exhibition is a leading UK showcase for venue operators, engineers and those entering the business to see the latest products and technologies.

Among the exhibitors already confirmed for the 2011 Show are: ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls), Clay Paky, Martin Professional, White Light, Autograph Sales, Canford, d&b audiotechnik, Doughty Engineering, Triple E, Lee Filters, Philips Entertainment, Roscolab, Stage Electrics, Trantec Systems, Allen & Heath, Sound Technology, Unusual Rigging and Zero 88.

Show director Roger Fox, commented: "We are simply thrilled with this increase in pre-reg

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Through years of supply of rigging accessories to the entertainment sector, Rigging Services have developed strong relationships with OEM's from around the globe, whilst still particularly favouring the UK manufacturing industry wherever possible. RSNoir is the brand name of Rigging Services own label of UK manufactured "soft black" rigging products including; top of the range Safety Harnesses, Roundslings ("AKA" Spansets), Ratchet Lashings, Chain and Kit Bags, Wire Rope Slings (steels) and Safeties. All are available to view on display at PLASA Focus, they are available to purchase at any Rigging Services branch or online through RSDirect at www.riggingservices.co.uk/salesdesk

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UK - Two special evening events and 21 new and first time exhibitors have been added to the attractions already on offer during PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011, taking place at The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 April 2011.

Alongside 130 exhibitors across two halls, and a two day programme of free educational seminars and product demonstrations, visitors can also take advantage of two evening events taking place in Leeds in the evenings after PLASA Focus, with free transport between each event.

The inaugural 'AES in the North' meeting will be held at the University of Leeds' School of Music on Tuesday 19 April, starting at 6.30pm. This new group founded by Kerry-Anne Kubisa, along with AES Cambridge, is leading the expansion of the AES audio community outside of London. Roger Quested is guest lecturer o

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UK - Philips Entertainment Lighting has promoted Amber Tomlin to the position of key account manager for the UK, effective immediately. For the past five years Tomlin has been the company's demonstration and training manager for Philips Strand Lighting's range of Palette consoles.

"I'm delighted to have been promoted," says Tomlin. "Since working for Philips Entertainment Lighting, I've been impressed with the company's innovative and sustainable approach to lighting technology. Today Strand Lighting products are top contenders in the marketplace and it's been great to be a part of that development. I feel Philips Entertainment Lighting has an extremely well conceived, forward-looking business strategy. The diverse range of its lighting solutions ensures that it can service any lighting project, large or small. I'm very much looking forward to working alongside th

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Italy - SGM has added two vastly experienced personnel to its sales force as it seeks to increase its profile in the key export markets. Announced at the Prolight&Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, where the company unveiled seven new products, was the news that Troels V°lver has taken on the role of new export manager for North America and Asia Pacific, based in Denmark, while Steen V. Geertsen will operate in a similar area manager capacity, focusing on sales and business development of the SGM brand in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Russia and part of the Arab regions.

Troels V°lver built up a large distributor network during his time in the industry and was CEO of Martin Professional Inc before leaving in 2005 to take up an export role with another Danish company.

With 25 years' experience in large-scale event staging already under his belt, Geertsen entered the lighting

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Germany/UK - Audac has announced the launch of the ARU04, a specially designed flexible relay module, consisting of four relays. These can be used for switching between two different two different input signals, most commonly being a background music signal and a priority.

In combination with the APM paging consoles, the ARU04 offers a simple and versatile paging solution that can be applied to all types of systems. It has full priority and can be switched between 100V and standard low impedance speaker signals, as well as line level signals, says the company.

Multiple units can be connected in cascade, which offers a wide range of possibilities for all kinds of applications. The ARU04 can be mounted on a standard DIN rail, providing connection strips for the input and output signals.

Andrew Richardson, managing director of Adam Hall UK comments, "The ARU04 is a unique

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Germany - The Coemar ParLite Led is now available with new white LEDs. The quest for a natural white LED has been the subject of extensive research by the automobile and architecture industries. This work has made it possible for Coemar to offer a world premiere for the entertainment industry: VariWhite, a product which is compact, bright, high-yield, and affords significant energy savings, says the company.

The resulting brightness is comparable to a traditional 650W Fresnel, while consuming only 5% of the energy. But the real news is it is now possible to vary colour temperatures from 2700 K to 3500 K without losing brightness.

This is a standard feature of the ParLite Led VariWhite and enables compensating for light contamination in the area in need of illumination: for example, maintaining the desired light temperature on a performer's face through the difficulties of ambi

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Denmark - Martin Professional's compact MAC 101 LED moving head wash is now available in three white light versions that expand its use to applications where high quality, pure white light is needed.

The new variants incorporate cold and/or warm LEDs instead of RGB for a better white light quality and greater output. Ideal for highlighting skin tones, textiles, or set pieces, the MAC 101 white light variants are already finding use in touring applications as a front light, main light, blinder or beam effect.

The MAC 101 CT allows for easy changes in colour temperature from crisp cold looks to warm shades, and features simple intensity control. Each MAC 101 CT is colour temperature calibrated to ensure a high quality of white light and visual consistency across fixtures, a uniformity in light output that allows for seamless overlapping of beams on large stage and set areas.

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Germany - Roland Systems Group has boosted its extensive V-Mixing System lineup with the introduction of the new R-1000 48-Track Recorder/Player, a stand-alone dedicated recorder/player designed to work with the V-Mixing System in any live event or production. The R-1000 can be connected with any digital console that has MADI output capabilities by using the Roland S-MADI REAC MADI Bridge.

Used as a recorder for live events, the R-1000 will capture up to 48 channels of discrete audio all as separate broadcast wave files ready to open in a DAW of choice, says the company. As a playback device, it can be used in live events to play back selected channels, to augment a live performance or as a multi-channel playback deck in a theatre or amusement park application. Two units can be sinked together for a 96-channel recorder/player or sync to video with SMPTE (LTC) or via black burst.

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Germany - Martin Audio's Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) celebrated a double success in Frankfurt this month. Just six months after winning the top prize at PLASA's Awards for Innovation, voted by an independent panel of 16 expert judges during the trade show at London's Earls Court, they scooped the MIPA Musikmesse International Press Award for Best PA System during the Pro Light&+Sound expo in Frankfurt.

Held for the 12th year running, the award, voted for by more than 100 magazines worldwide, was presented to managing director, Anthony Taylor and R&D director, Jason Baird during a gala awards ceremony held at the Messe's Saal Europa.

Said Anthony Taylor: "It has been an incredible year for the MLA and its design team headed by Jason Baird. Winning the top PLASA Award was a highlight but to be recognised by the world's press - the harshest critics of all - underp

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UK - North London's iconic venue Alexandra Palace turned pink from the 6-8 April to mark the year countdown until the ITV London region will go digital on 4 April 2012, marking the end of analogue TV in the city where television began 75 years ago.

Television personality Christine Bleakley turned on the light show at Alexandra Palace which could be seen across the North London skyline marking the occasion.

Alexandra Palace is the birthplace of television, having hosted the world's first regular public high definition television service, operated by the BBC, from 1936. The television station was located within Ally Pally and its radio tower is still in use. The South-East wing of the palace still features the original studios with their producers' galleries, and is open to the public every September as part of London Open House.

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Belarus - FE Belimlight recently rigged the huge Minsk Arena (home rink of ice hockey stars HC Dinamo) with moving heads from PR Lighting to enable an audience of 12,000 people to experience the full dynamic of Swedish pop music duo Roxette.

The atmosphere produced by a combination of 38 powerful XL1500 Wash and 46 XL1500 Spot lights were further enhanced by audience blinders and haze machines. All lighting was under the control of a Wholehog III desk.

Responsible for the production and design were Swedish company, All Round Productions AB, with the experienced Calle Brattberg (LXworks) taking responsibility for the lighting design, and creating a huge number of different chases and colour combinations.

Brattberg created a generic arena design and picked up lighting locally on the tour - which included the PR Lighting fixtures in Minsk. Despite having little time to familiar

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UK - Students from The Guildford School of Acting (GSA) recently produced and staged The Light in the Piazza - from the 1960 novella written by Elizabeth Spencer. The musical, performed at Guildford's Electric Theatre, relied upon PixelRange PixelLines as the mainstay of the lighting design.

The Guildford School of Acting and PixelRange have a long association and when arranging the lighting design for performances, PixelRange is always specified because the students understand the versatility, brightness and great effects of the lights. Freelance lighting designer, Dan Last, was brought in on this production to give the students experience of working with industry professionals.

The performance was cast from the GSA's Musical theatre course, whilst the backstage team was comprised of those on the GSA's Production skills course. The students take on a variety of roles d

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Germany - Soundcraft's Si Compact range has grown with the latest release of the Si Compact 32, which can deliver 40 inputs to mix, while maintaining the full DSP functionality of its smaller siblings, the Si Compact 24 and 16 models.

The Si Compact 32 features 14 main busses (all with dynamics, delays and BSS graphic EQs), four matrix buses, four dedicated FX buses, four full-time Lexicon effects engines and a range of option cards to interface with other systems such as Aviom, CobraNet, AES/EBU and MADI.

All Si Compact models can connect via MADI to the new Compact Stagebox, adding remote connectivity to these great value digital mixers.

"We believe that this very cost-effective, powerful mixer will be a natural choice for larger install or medium tour sound and house of worship systems," said Keith Watson, marketing director for Soundcraft Studer.

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UK - Cooper Controls will be presenting the latest developments in its Zero 88 entertainment lighting control range at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011. New to the show this year is the ZerOS Android application - Zero 88's latest addition to its suite of remote applications. Continuing the commitment to mobile device integration, this new app adds to their existing suite of iPhone, iPod, iPad and Windows Mobile applications.

The ZerOS Remote Android app, the first for the entertainment technology industry, allows remote control of any ZerOS console. The app allows users to control their lighting rig from their Android for the first time. From channel levels to playback the ZerOS Remote offers full control of the Leap Frog 48, Leap Frog 96, Frog 2, ORB and ORB XF consoles.

Taking centre stage on the Cooper Controls stand is the ORB XF.

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USA - Barco is enhancing the magic of Roger Waters' The Wall tour as it continues around the world, providing a combination of video and lighting equipment including 15 FLM HD20 projectors, five FLM R22+ projectors, five Encore presentation systems, and from High End Systems, 32 Cyberlight 2.0 units and a Road Hog Full Boar console.

Show creative directors set out with the ambitious goal to authentically reproduce the concert venue and show created 30 years ago for Pink Floyd, including building an exact replica of the 1980 set. Fabricating the wall each night, brick-by-brick in sync with the video projection, is a laborious, yet essential task to maintain the integrity of the projections which display rotating scenery, dynamic backdrops and optical illusions. Barco's integrated lighting and video solutions enable the vivid, seamless projections to visualize the concepts

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