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UK - In a sales initiative pioneered by the White Rose shopping centre in Leeds Joe McElderry and the Rizzle Kicks performed to a crowd of 8500 people as part of the centre's Girls night in event. All the shops reopened for the event with exclusive discounts for the ticket only evening whilst audiences were entertained by the acts.

Powered by six dB Technologies DVA T4 and three DVA S10 per side this was the system's first major event for Indivisual who recently added the system to their rental inventory and also managed the event from start to finish.

Jonathan Bentham explains, "Whilst looking for a new flag-ship line array product for our rental stock we were recommended to look at the db Technologies T4 system. The recommendation came from a fellow user who sugges

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UK - RCF will augment the targeted product range it plans to present at xSolutions 2011 (19-20 October, ExCeL London) by extending the family of VSA vertical digitally-steerable array columns.

At the recent PLASA Show, the company launched its smaller VSA 850 and VSA 1250 for the first time, complementing the original VSA 2050 - and such was the impact created that they have decided to give them a second airing at the ExCel.

"This entire show is about providing creative solutions for AV specialists and M&E consultants - and this will present them with a number of alternative solutions to control sound aand work within the architecture of difficult, highly-reverberant commercial spaces," believes RCF UK director of sales, Phil Price.

The two new speakers offer a more flexible and scalable solution, says the company. The VSA 1250 incorporates 12 individual amplifiers

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Bulgaria - New television station Bulgaria On Air has commissioned a major Christie MicroTiles installation at its newly-renovated facility near Sofia Airport. This is the first use of the video wall in Bulgaria.

Owned by MSAT Cable, a subsidiary of Holding Varna, the priority of this broadcaster is to deliver top quality business and financial information to local audiences and international investors, advising them on the opportunities that exist in Bulgaria. Their development strategy is to generate leads by attracting the right audience.

Assisting them in their mission is the new MicoTiles display, which is located in a versatile new studio, for which five separate stages have been built to host the different shows.

The feature backdrop is a curved display, measuring 5.71 x 2.45m and containing 112 MicroTiles. In addition there are two displays with 30 MicroTiles each (2

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UK - In the few short months of being distributed in the UK by White Light, the comprehensive range of LED fixtures from Leader Light has attracted quite considerable attention - and has already been selected by a number of lighting practitioners, including the team at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre.

The theatre has purchased seven Leader Light Stage Wash RGBAW fixtures, a 60cm long, 12cm wide, 12.5cm deep LED batten that incorporates five LED colours - red, green, blue, amber and white - to give a higher output and more flexible colour options than the more familiar three-colour RGB fixtures. The Stage Wash is easy to control, using standard 5-pin XLR DMX connectors, and has the familiar LED virtue of using less energy - 110W maximum - than equivalent tungsten fixtures.

Barry Hope, technical manager for the Birmingham Hippodrome, describes the Stage Wash as a "great p

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USA - Jeff Newing of Ala Carte Entertainment in Schaumburg, Illinois, is the winner of an all-expenses-paid trip from Elation Professional to attend the informative Live Design's Master Classes in Los Angeles, where lighting designers learn tips and techniques from some of the best lighting professionals in the business today.

Newing was chosen at random out of 327 entries in the contest, which ran last month on Elation's Facebook page. He will receive round trip airfare to Los Angeles, three nights' hotel accommodations, meals and ground transportation in Los Angeles, plus enrollment in the Master Classes, 3-4 December 2011 at the University of Southern California's new Ronald Tutor Campus Center Grand Ballroom in Los Angeles.

As director of entertainment, media and promotions for Ala Carte Entertainment, Newing is required to stay current with modern lighting trends and equi

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Czech Republic - Anolis and Robe exhibited at the designblok11 in Prague, a dynamic high profile expo highlighting creative ideas and innovative concepts across all areas of the design world - from street furniture to fashion, interiors to theatre sets, architecture to furniture.

The six day event was staged at the Futurama Office Park in Karlin, one of the liveliest and most vibrant areas of Prague.

Jiri Baros, Anolis & Robe's marketing and communications manager says, "It was really good for us to be represented amongst the top designers from all over Europe. designblok is not just about the products, it's about the design and look of the stand as well as the future of aesthetics and visual communications. Many leading designers from all disciplines visit the show and it's absolutely bang-on in terms of a target group for Anolis."

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South Africa - Capetonians were treated to the Gospel Skouspel held at the Grand Arena at the Grand West Casino in Cape Town on 10 September 2011. Ninety-one Robe fixtures controlled by an Avo with technical support from a jacked-up team, ensured a breathtaking show. Local performers included Juanita du Plessis, Bobby van Jaarsveld, Nianell, Romanz, Retief Burger, Riana Nel and Joe Niemand amongst others.

For the fifth consecutive year, Phoenix 5 called on the technical expertise of Cape Town based rental company, C&S, for the set, stage, AV, sound, lighting and rigging. The gear was jointly supplied by The Grand Arena and C&S. The day was divided into two 200-minute shows, each playing to a full audience and recorded for the television programme Kyknet on DSTV and for a DVD.

Alan Muller was the lighting designer and consultant for both lighting and rigging. "The p

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Italy - dBTechnologies digital line arrays towered above the Motocross World Championship racecourse in Fermo last month. The dramatic undulations of the Italian track used for the last Grand Prix of the season could have presented quite a challenge for an audio engineer to provide complete coverage during the two-day event. Andrea Salvioli, however, was definitely up to the challenge.

Making use of the manufacturer's newest release, DVA T12, dBTechnologies product manager and audio specialist, Salvioli explains the system's design. "We used three clusters each comprising ten T12 modules, flown from a crane at a height of 16m. Beneath these were a further two stacks of the DVA S20 subwoofers, six facing one way and six the other, to get the best possible low frequency coverage for the area. One stack of subwoofers was delayed by 4.5 milliseconds to compensate for the gap be

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USA - The Bible-based, evangelical Gateway Church opened its new, main Southlake campus last fall from which it oversees the North Richland Hills (NRH) campus in the centre of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex and an extension campus in Frisco, Texas which opened last July. The church has a congregation of more than 20,000 people; the senior pastor's messages from the Southlake campus are fed live to the other campuses via fiber during Sunday worship services.

Southlake boasts a grandMA2 full-size with a grandMA2 light as a backup while NRH is outfitted with a grandMA2 light - all purchased from Barbizon Lighting.

"I used to be a touring guy whose console of choice was the original grandMA," says director of lighting/stage design Kyle Russelburg. "When I joined the church in 2008, part of overhauling the current lighting system was upgrading their current lighting

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UK - The inaugural XSolutions in London will see Sennheiser UK bringing a selected range of own brand and distributed products to this new AV technology based event.

Having announced the full availability of all Channel 38 capable wireless ranges at PLASA2011, examples of Sennheiser's G3 2000 Series and 3000/5000 Series products will be on display at XSolutions. Sennheiser now offers a comprehensive selection of Channel 38 compatible choices with evolution G3 GB systems tuning from 606 to 648 MHz, 2000 GBW Series tuning from 606 to 678 MHz and 3000/5000 Series tuning from 606 to 790 MHz.

Also on show from Sennheiser will be the ADN conference system featuring Crestron touch screen control. This new facility adds an additional level of functionality to the already popular cable based discussion system.

Sennheiser UK will also be showing a range of innovative products from its

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Poland - Jozef Pilsudski Park in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski is one of the most popular recreational areas in Poland's Kamienna river basin. One of the latest attractions of the park is a new thousand-seater amphitheater. The programme scheduled for the new venue includes both theatrical productions and live concerts. This being the case, the amphitheater's sound reinforcement system necessarily had to be capable of offering the highest possible level of intelligibility as well as enough punch to bring musical performances to life.

The planning and implementation of the sound reinforcement solution was entrusted to two Polish companies: Tommex, the Polish Dynacord distributor, and Anna-Bud which was in charge of the installation. Together both companies opted for a lavish Dynacord system based around the compact Cobra-4 line array and featuring eight Cobra PWH planar waveguide bass

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Germany - Almost half a century after their first gig in the city, The Beatles finally came home to Hamburg when the concept of a permanent interactive exhibition dedicated to the Fab Four became a reality, with a Renkus-Heinz loudspeaker system powering an immersive cinema experience.

Situated at the end of the Reeperbahn, in Hamburg's famous red-light and club district, and close to many of the venues where the band performed, Beatlemania is a 1,300 sq m celebration over five floors of the Liverpool band, from their early days in Hamburg's Indra club and Kaiser Keller to their break-up in 1970.

Technical partner for the ambitious project was Hamburg-based Amptown System Company (ASC), who designed and installed audio, lighting and video technology and integrated media systems. The client brief also called for a ticketing system using RFID technology to coordinate ticket desk

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Russia - Held from 15-18 September at the Culture Exhibition Centre Sokolniki, Music Moscow is an annual entertainment technology trade show that attracts thousands of visitors from across Russia and the CIS.

This year, Martin Professional was represented via its Russian office, which opened in Moscow in 2010, and was supported by Martin headquarter personnel including Martin area sales manager Peter Dahlin and Martin product managers Paul Pelletier and Peter Skytte, who conducted product demonstrations and master classes.

"Thanks to their efforts as well as those of our Russian team we had an opportunity to successfully present the new products, especially the MAC Aura™, which received a lot of interest," stated Russian office head Mikhail Kuznetsov.

"After its launch at PLASA on 11 September, and the PLASA award it won, we were happy to have had the opp

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UK - The National Skills Academy is coming to the Birmingham Hippodrome on Friday 4 November for the Birmingham leg of this year's Offstage Choices programme, which introduces young people to the variety of career options available 'offstage', through workshops and tours backstage in industry venues.

Join them from 5.30pm in the StageSide bar for an evening of informal networking and the opportunity to discuss topics including:

- How the Skills Academy can benefit you

- How the NSA can support Birmingham's creative and cultural industry

- What opportunities are available with existing Skills Academy Members in the West Midlands

- The backstage training centre

- Future projects and potential opportunities

CCS Skills are particularly interested in talking to freelancers about the new freelance membership of the Skills Academy which will be rolled out in the next few mo

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Denmark - Martin Professional recently held an installation products training seminar for lighting designers at its headquarters in Aarhus, the first of several planned over the coming year.

Martin product manager for fixed installations, Jonathan Meineke, headed the training with participation from members of Martin's R&D and design & application departments.

The training included an up-close look at a live lighting installation on the exterior of Martin's headquarter building, along with hands-on training in the Martin demo room. Discussions covered general lighting topics such as the appropriate use of LED, fluorescent and discharge light sources in different applications, and in-depth case stories like the award-winning Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

The training gave lighting designers the opportunity to get hands on with several Martin installation products, including the

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UK - NL Productions - the events arm of Northern Light - provided a range of equipment and services to this year's MOBO Awards, which took place in Glasgow on Wednesday 5 October.

The company was called upon to provide a variety of audio visual systems including repeater screens to the left and right of the main stage, projectors, plasmas and lighting effects.

Phil O'Halloran, head of NL Productions, commented: "It goes without saying that being asked to work on an event as prestigious as the MOBO Awards was a fantastic coup for NL Productions. We've recently rebranded to make our service offering more creative; and an event like this really enabled us to shine. We hope to continue our working relationship with the MOBO Organisation for many years to come."

NL Productions utilised Panasonic 10k projectors and two repeater screens on either side of the stage and pro

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UK - London based AV and technical production services company Presentation Rentals (PR) has become the first UK company to offer an all-White d&b Audiotechnik sound system in its rental stock, which is being used to service its busy ongoing work schedule.

The initial PR White Series speakers comprise d&b T10s and B4s, which make an suitable system for high profile small to medium events, and join PR's extensive d&b audio rental stock.

PR has made the move after recent work in many venues in and around London - including art gallery and exhibition spaces - which are clean, white and airy, lending themselves ideally to the aesthetics of a white audio system. The same is true of marquees and other tensile structures, which are also usually white-based, however the new system looks equally appealing and sounds excellent anywhere with a good design and atmosphere.

Explains PR's

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UK - Members of Cooper Control's entertainment lighting control team spent the month of August onsite in Edinburgh, supporting one of the world's largest and most diverse performance festivals - the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Over 150 venues selected Zero 88 control desks and dimming for their fringe appearance this year, with products being supplied from a large variety of Zero 88 dealers including Northern Light, Black Light, Hawthorn, HSL, Stage Electrics and Stage Lighting Services. On-site backup was provided by members of the Zero 88 team throughout the month long festival, including a number of training and support consoles supplied directly to give venue staff members an opportunity to try out equipment even whilst theirs was in use.

Continuing its partnership with the festival, which began in 2003, the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe proved to be one of the busiest years for Ze

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UK - Audio Light Systems has recently completed work at the Theatre Royal Newcastle on the restoration project.

The ambitious development required the technical infrastructure to be replaced in the main auditorium and surrounding spaces. Audio Light Systems working to a Charcoal Blue specification completed the five-month build with the usual high standards required for this level of work.

Over 20 miles of cable, over 100 new panels were used and more than 3,500 man hours were taken during the short build period. The Audio Light Systems project engineer Dennis Martin used his extensive experience to make sure the project programme ran as smoothly as possible.

"The auditorium has been fully refurbished and it was a priority that newly installed facilities be discrete, if not invisible. This was a challenge, but the end result was outstanding. Doughty panels and IWB's wer

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France - Nexo Geo S12 line array cabinets have been chosen by the Theatre Mac-Nab, the municipal arthouse of the French town of Vierzon, near Orleans. Installed by rental and installation specialist XB Diffusion, the system is a pgood example of Nexo's sound reinforcement solution for a 500-capacity auditorium.

The theatre is named after the celebrated 19th century singer Maurice Mac-Nab, a native of Vierzon. Now in its 12th season, this dynamic venue punches well above its weight, booking well-known artists and hosting an eclectic programme of classical music, variety, drama and musical theatre productions, contemporary dance and comedy. Technical director Jean Marc Bondeux recently commissioned a new sound system, capable of handling such a diverse artistic menu.

XB Diffusion has given Theatre Mac-Nab a very versatile answer, a Nexo Geo S12 line array system that lives insid

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New Zealand - St. Peter's School in Cambridge, New Zealand, recently installed an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system in its 600-capacity auditorium. Comprising an iDR-32 MixRack with iLive-T112 Control Surface, the system is an upgrade to the incumbent analogue mixer.

One of New Zealand's leading independent secondary schools, St. Peter's is set in 100 acres of land and includes facilities such as an equestrian park and golf academy. The auditorium hosts various dance, drama and music events throughout the academic year, culminating in an intensive performing arts fortnight, which includes two variety concerts, a rock concert, dance showcase and house music competitions.

"We have had a variety of A&H desks over the years and we loved our GL2800 but the complexities of the concerts we stage and the scale of our annual major production means an upgrade to digital was

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