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Equipment for the major shows, including Manchester MEN Arena and three sold out Brixton Academy's, was supplied by Leeds based Zig Zag Lighting.

The iconic Manchester alt rock / ravers returned to live performance with a huge bang, and the original line up for the first time in 19 years, feeding the public's seemingly voracious appetite for band reformations from the era.

The LEDBeam 100s were joined by 13 x Robe Robin 600 Spots, 12 x LEDWash 600s and a selection of generics, so the Robe moving lights were very much the core of the rig.

The lights were rigged on two overhead trusses, on six different height vertical towers onstage and on the deck.

Two LEDBeam 100s were attached to each of the six upright tow

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HSL's move to new premises and the need to make more space for the latest technologies to go into current hire stock has provided an l opportunity for those looking for good quality well looked after kit, says the company.

Featured are a selection of Martin Professional, Vari*Lite and High End moving lights.

Control equipment will include WholeHog II lighting desks plus a number of different touring dimmers systems and mains distro racks, including Camlok, Powerlock and motor PD modules.

Other lighting fixtures on offer are Coemar SuperCyc high power floods, ColorKinetics iColor Tile LED panels and Lycian 1290XLT followspots, together with Molefey audience blinders, 6 and 6-way PAR 64 lamp bars and Wybron Coloram scrollers.

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"Robert Hoey was the set designer," explained Sean Hoey, partner at Dream Sets. "It was his vision and creation; he spent so many hours over several days at his drawing table, that the chair he was sitting on eventually broke."

Their brief by the client Vertical Limit Productions (VLP) was for Robert to design his dream set, one he had always wanted to design, without any limitations and as they put it, "something organic".

"On the morning of the pitch, Robert arrived at 9am and showed me the design before meeting with the client," remembers Hoey. Looking at it, Sean turned to his brother and said, "You're mad."

Robert Hoey knew the structure would light well and his request to lighting designer, Joshua Cutts

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Andersson takes up the position after two years as part of the sales organisation TC Group International (TCGI), the organisation responsible for sales of the TC Group brands, where he was employed as international sales manager for touring products.

"I am delighted to take up the role as the company enters a new era in its history," said Andersson. "I think the level of innovation across the brands is unrivalled."

Jon Alkhagen, managing director at Lab.gruppen and Lake, said, "We are very pleased to announce Martin's appointment. His knowledge of the company, the market, and of the touring world in general, will be a serious asset as we push forward in a competitive m

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Designed to work in conjunction with JBL VerTec, VRX, and AE series loudspeakers, the system's modular design is highly scalable and is designed to meet the needs of both small and large sound systems.

"We purchased 26 of the Crown VRACKs and replaced all Crown 5000 and 9000 amplifiers that were driving our JBL VerTec," explained Jim Straw, CEO at JPJ Audio. "It gives us a new, lightweight packaged amplifier solution as well as access to the new JBL V5 VerTec presets. It was the way other companies around the world were heading and so we decided to push the VerTec forward again and change

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Bates brings more than 25 years of experience in the music industry to JHS's Pro Audio Division, having previously managed UK sales for many major professional audio brands.

He has worked as UK sales manager for MAM Communications, Stirling Audio, and Arbiter Pro Audio, servicing a national client base from rental companies to install and AV specialists, and recently working as a freelance consultant within the educational market.

Jones said, "I'm excited to have joined a company with over 47 years' experience in the music industry with a strong stable of Pro Audio brands. I'll be looking forward to seeing and looking after many of my old custom

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Under the new arrangement, the formidable and diversified resources of The AVC Group, SpeakerCraft, Proficient and Panamax/Furman brands will align under one centralised division with a focus on customer-centric product, brand innovation and dealer support.

Mark Terry, president of AVC Group, will leave the company. "Mark and his team have done an outstanding job combining the AVC Group brands together and creating a world class infrastructure to service our customers and dealers," stated Sean Burke, group president of Nortek's technology products segment. "Mark has decided to move on to other endeavours after providing his full support to this integrat

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Avolites, Cast Lighting, ETC, Green Hippo, Hawthorn Theatrical, HSL, MA Lighting, PRG, Rosco, and Wireless Solutions are all ramping up support for this September's event, which is the only awards ceremony dedicated to professional lighting designers in the UK.

The coveted 'gold' sponsorship position offers representatives from each company the opportunity to work with KOI organizers and present a specific award at the 2012 Ceremony, held in a central London venue.

"The response to the sponsorship opportunities available this year have been incredible," comments KOI coordinator and lighting designer, Durham Marenghi. "Equally the response from nominees and nominators from the theatre, televis

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QVC, which claims to reach 15.4m UK homes, has installed Triple E track systems in all four of its new Chiswick Park studios.

In Studios 1, 3 and 4 QVC has installed twin parallel Unicyc track systems, which feature dropout sections and points. This particular system facilitates the easy swapping of Cyclorama backdrops between tracks or allows them to be easily lowered to the floor, minimising the necessity to work at height.

Studio 2 has been equipped with Triple E 2WAY track, which will be used to create a number of variable sized spaces, specifically for close up camera work.

"Triple E was first approached in 2010 when the new studio project was at early planning stages," explains managing director for Triple E, David Edelstein

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The course was specifically designed so that graduates leave with the necessary skills and knowledge to pursue careers in the live production, technology and event industries.

Course leader, Simon Lewis and media technology lecturer, Kit Lane chose the Chroma-Q products from a wide selection of potential options.

The department already owned a quantity of Chroma-Q Color Block DB4 fixtures that they were very impressed with, so when it came to upgrading their lighting system, they were naturally keen to take another look at Chroma-Q.

Students on the course produce events in various venues around the city and the region; from small club gigs to gradua

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The system provided by ART-R consists of a left/right configuration of nine V-DOSC WST line source loudspeakers per side. There is also a centre channel of 12 d-VDOSC loudspeakers, with two further d-VDOSCs on stage providing side and front-fill. Eight SB28 subwoofers supplement the full-range audio from the arrays, and the system is powered by LA8 amplified controllers,

ART-R was able to provide a complete turnkey solution for the Ukrainian Palace of Arts, carrying out both installation and system tuning, the latter in conjunction with L-Acoustics application support engineer Andrew Nagel.

"The sound system provides the Ukraina National Palace of Arts with unpara

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Timed to coincide with the annual Earth Day, the event took place in Heap's Essex garden in front of 80 specially invited guests, plus an audience of half a million who enjoyed a live relay via Facebook and the artist's web site.

The central part of the show was a 'silent gig', which featured the assembled guests wearing Sennheiser UK RS 120 headsets to hear the performance.

Following the company's involvement with the December Sessions at London's O2, which included a 'silent gig' by The Feeling, the latter's front of house engineer Jon Sword recommended Sennheiser to Kumar

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The successful Newcastle Theatre Royal restoration project was honoured with both 'Project of the Year' and 'Building Conservation' Award.

The award showcases outstanding work in the conservation of a single building or a group of buildings or structures and covers renovation or conservation to a new or original use.

Newcastle's Theatre Royal reopened its doors to the public on Monday 12September 2011 following an extensive £5m restoration project that had drawn on the theatrical expertise of UK theatre consultants, Charcoalblue.

Managing Director of the company Andy Hayles explains, "The scope of the restoration for this Grade I listed theatre was particularly ambitious, and included complete internal redecora

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The stadium has a large capacity of seats and 120 executive boxes and it is the centre of a totally renewed area that also includes a large 34,000 m2 commercial mall, the first Juventus Museum, a parking area and many other facilities.

Thanks to the new stadium the fans have the possibility to enjoy a great new experience, hearing the players talking to each others, sitting comfortably on the new fancy seats offering a great view of the football pitch. The new Juventus Stadium is a major upgrade from the previous "Stadio Olimpico".

The Juventus Stadium complex is equipped with the latest technology. It is a very modern facility and all the a

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The annual festival, which drew some 100,000 attendees in 2011, has grown and evolved considerably from its inception as the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000. This year, three of five stages will feature a Meyer Sound system.

"Our company was unaware of Meyer in a practical sense until we teamed up with Thunder Audio on the Movement Festival a few years ago," recalls Sam Fotias, operations manager of the Movement Electronic Music Festival and Detroit-based Paxahau Event Productions and Management. "We had tried other loudspeaker products, but nothing really gave us the raw power and, more importantly, clarity at high SPL that we were looking for until we wer

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"Given the intimate nature of this tour, we decided not to bring all of our PA equipment with us, but to use either whatever the venue had to offer or to work with local rental companies," confirmed Nata

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James Gosney, business development manager for audio commented, "We listened to a whole range of speakers and we were continually drawn back to the EM Acoustics products. The energy and philosophy of this small British manufacturer sits very well with our aims. We strive to deliver well designed and high quality audio and the EM range just sounds superb."

Director of sales Anna Western said, "We have had a really positive reaction from all the customers we have shown the EM Acoustics products to. The range of speakers is versatile and well thought out; we will be demonstrating a selection of the range a

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Off Grid Energy provides remote energy solutions for people in places where grid power is unavailable, unreliable or too expensive to connect. Traditionally, if mains power is not available, then a generator has been the only way of generating electricity.

Managing director of Off Grid Energy, Danny Jones, says, "We've produced a viable solution to generate clean, silent and cost effective energy and significantly reduce CO2 emissions. Our off the shelf hybrid power system - E-Cube mini - is self-contained and particularly useful for commercial applications. Used on its own or coupled to a generating set the system can be easily deployed and transported to wherever it is needed."

With diesel costs so high, many in the building

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Commissioned by Arjun Bahl of Most Technical India who co-ordinated production for the event, sound design was by Out Board's Dave Haydon and involved multiple surround zones running parallel 3D surround and dynamic delay-panning effects simultaneously for the dance-floor, dining room and lounge areas plus, in a global first for the TiMax system, animated surround sound installed in the luxurious men's and women's washrooms.

A separate surround system ran a continuously looping atmospheric soundscape of heartbeats, industrial sound effects and

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The Oscar-nominated star, reportedly the highest paid British actress in Hollywood, confirmed her patronage this week.

Knightley is the latest in a long line of notable people from the world of theatre and film who are lending their support for the First Night Riders - an annual motorbike race touring parts of England to raise much-needed funds for industry charity The Theatrical Guild (TTG), the only charity dedicated to looking after the interests of backstage and Front of House personnel.

Renowned theatre design consultant Iain Mackintosh is joining part of this year's ride, travelling in a Morgan car alongside anoth