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UK - XL Events helped celebrate some of the very best and most creative hairdressing talent in the UK, supplying LED screens and scenic video, an HD PPU, Catalyst playback and 4 HD cameras for the high profile 2012 L'Oréal Professional Colour Trophy Grand Final.

The event was staged in the Great Room at London's Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane. Over 1000 dinner guests enjoyed two high energy catwalk shows - funky 'Rebel London' by Peter Gray and the RUSH Artistic Team's amazingly colourful, animated 'Tryptych', and the presentation of the Finalists Awards.

XL Events' project manager Paul Wood was working for Kate Wright and Lisa Shenton from technical production company Papilo, alongside show designer Bruce French.

XL Events has worked on the L'Oréal Colour Tr

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UK - Green Hippo made an appearance at PSco's open day, hosted in Birmingham on 21 May, showcasing how the Hippotizers could benefit customers working within new markets.

Green Hippo was joined by manufacturers such as Panasonic, with their 152" plasma screen and Orion with their Infinite video wall tiles. PSco is looking to expand their market presents in the north of the UK and it was an opportunity for Green Hippo to target the installation market. Those who got to see the Hippotizer's in action were impressed at the possibilities available when using the product, saying that the Hippotizer has about half a lorry loads worth of equipment, crammed into one small rack mount box.

Psco continued their tour, taking them to Manchester, where Green Hippo's Nick Charalampidis continued to excite people with the mass array of features available on the Hippotizer systems.

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USA - FocusTrack, the show lighting documentation system, congratulates lighting designers Jeff Croiter and Natasha Katz, winners of the lighting categories at this year's Tony Awards presented this Sunday, June 10th, in New York. Congratulations, too, to the other winners and nominees.

Jeff Croiter took the Best Lighting Design of a Play Tony for Peter and the Starcatcher, which also won Tonys for its set designer, Donyale Werle, its costume designer, Paloma Young, and its sound designer, Darron L. West. Croiter's co-nominees in the category were Peter Kaczorowski for The Road To Mecca, Brian MacDevitt for Death of a Salesman and Kenneth Posner for Other Desert Cities.

Natasha Katz collected the Best Lighting Design of a Musical Tony for Once, one of the eight wins from 11 nominations the show received. Set designer Bob Crowley, sound design

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Canada - Home to Canadian Football League team BC Lions and Major League Soccer team Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Vancouver's BC Place stadium is a premier venue. It has hosted appearances from such iconic figures as Pope John Paul II, Madonna, Michael Jackson and, of course, Winter Olympic athletes.

Following a major upgrade, BC Place has become a new landmark of Vancouver's skyline and a place of pride for all British Columbians, due in no small part to the new lighting effects system, which not only adds to the stadium architecturally but also allows BC Place to 'come alive' both inside and out.

Controlling this new and sophisticated integrated lighting system, which utilises energy-efficient LED fixtures from Lumenpulse, is a Pharos LPC 60 programmed with the Pharos Designer software, enabling displays of a vast array of static or moving colour designs on the exterior and inter

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UK - At this week's ABTT Theatre Show, newly relocated to the Old Truman Brewery at Brick Lane in London's East End, entertainment lighting specialist White Light will be showing some of the very latest advances in lighting technology - some brand new, some already put to use on recent high-profile events.

The highest profile of these was the Diamond Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace, which featured the new i-Line battens from i-Pix. Building on the success of the renowned BB range, the i-Line 600 and i-Line 1200 RGBW battens are incredibly bright with beautifully smooth output, a true 'next generation' LED fixture.

The next generation of profile spotlights from Robert Juliat will also be on show following their debut at PLASA Focus in Leeds a few weeks ago. Tibo is a compact, lightweight dual zoom range profile with light source options including tungsten, warm white LED,

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Australia - The latest step in projectiondesign's global growth strategy is the appointment of Hills Sound, Vision & Lighting Group as a new distribution partner for Australia and New Zealand.

The appointment means that projectiondesign products and technical support will be available in every major Australian and New Zealand city which will greatly benefit integration customers and partners, says the company.

"Hills SVL Group already distributes a high-calibre range of products which is backed up with highly specialised technical know-how and educational support," says Stuart Craig, group general manager at Hills SVL Group. "The addition of projectiondesign to our product portfolio will enable us to gain increased traction in the advanced imaging markets which projectiondesign has an already strong presence. The addition of projectiondesign is the perfect match

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Azerbaijan - To broadcast the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan German Broadcast production company Brainpool TV on behalf of Ictimai TV, used an extensive installation from Riedel Communications. Riedel, one of the leading manufacturers and providers of real-time networks for video, audio, communications and data, installed a comprehensive network infrastructure consisting of MediorNet, Artist, RockNet, professional radios and wireless video links.

At the heart of the installation was Riedel MediorNet. The fibre-based real-time network transported the majority of the event's signals. Forty HD and SD video signals were distributed within the arena - amongst them the broadcast feed and the signals for the on-site video walls and monitors. Since MediorNet allows the transport of different signal types over a single infrastructure, it significantly reduced the amount

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Finland - Genelec Oy has announced the appointment of Lars-Olof Janflod to the position of marketing and public relations director. In addition to this new leadership role the company has also announced an expansion of its marketing team to enhance the delivery of product, training and customer services across the globe.

Siamak Naghian, managing director of Genelec Oy comments, "Lars-Olof has two decades of audio industry experience and is known industry-wide for his distinguished contribution to professional monitoring. This experience and his depth of knowledge of all aspects of the audio industry will be invaluable as he assumes leadership of our newly expanded marketing department."

"On a personal level, I'm really looking forward to this new role as I enjoy being involved in all aspects of the marketing mix," commentsJanflod. "During my time at th

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Germany - Dynacord's PowerMate 600-3 is suitable for all professional applications in which few channels yet very high amplifier output are required. The concept of the new PowerMate 600-3 is based on high power, a wealth of features and first class audio characteristics - in a lightweight format, says the company. The youngest in the PowerMate family weighs in at a mere nine kilos, but boasts a total output of over 2.000 watts.

The feature set of the PowerMate 600-3 includes extremely low-noise and low-hum, electronically balanced XLR microphone inputs (low THD, typically <0.002%), stereo line channels, digital audio interface (USB port), PC-MIDI interface and a master section tailored to the needs of day-to-day practice that features a 9-band master stereo equalizer. The Class-D stereo power amplifier delivers a nominal output of 2 x 1.000 watts RMS (into 4 ohms) and has DYNAC

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UK - Doughty Engineering is launching two new products at ABTT, as well as previewing others before their official launch later in the year.

Debuting at ABTT (stand 35) is Doughty's 35mm Atom clamp, a "perfect fit for 35mm speaker stands". The smallest of Doughty's clamp range, Atom clamps are slotted to hold captive a nut or bolt head, have a SWL of 100kg and are suitable for lightweight truss as well as the majority of stands.

New additions to the Doughty catalogue are Reutlinger Cable Holders. Available in two different sizes to suspend loads of up to 130kg and up to 330kg on steel cables (wire rope), these cable holders have been specifically designed for applications which demand compliance with BGV C1 accident prevention rules.

Also being seen at ABTT for the first time is Doughty's all steel Beam Clamp which, with a wide adjustment range of up to 200mm, make

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UK - Triple E will launch its redesigned and refined TRA06 theatre curtain runner at the ABTT 2012 Show this week.

Triple E - respected for the kind of engineering expertise that enables inspired and dynamic scenic design - has released its upgraded TRA06, which works seamlessly with older versions of the product and with the company's industry standard Unibeam and Unitrack systems. It comes in two or four-wheeled (for curved tracks) versions and is built to carry a curtain or scenic cloth to a safe working load of 25Kg.

The latest version of the TRA06 features flanged ball-raced wheels, with Polyurethane tyres, fastened to a moulded 'U' shaped body. The body is manufactured from a tough, metal replacement, Polymer. A welcome design modification is that the curtain attachment now features a rotating swivel, which ensures that the curtain stacks more evenly..

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Singapore - American progressive metal band Dream Theater has used Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1500s and Clay Paky Sharpys, supplied by Singapore's Showtec Communication Pte, to deliver a dramatic light show at the iconic 1700-seater Kallang Theatre in Singapore.

The venue, which has recently been refurbished to become an Asian Arts and Culture Hub, is an important stop in the band's demanding 2012 world tour. Dream Theater is extremely popular in the region and even more so since its album, A Dramatic Turn of Events became one of the group's most successful yet, reaching number 8 on the US Billboard 200 and number one in ten different countries.

"Dream Theater's live shows have become bigger and more diverse since they formed back in 1985," reports band lighting designer Steve Baird. "They demand a sense of drama and high impact lighting has always been a c

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Serbia - Members of the Synco Europe Network work in almost every conceivable location but the top of Serbia's most beautiful ski resort mountain, Kopaonik, must be among the most spectacular. This spring the Audiokonstruktor team, which flies the Synco flag in Serbia from its base in Novi Sad on the Danube, had the opportunity to enjoy the unique vibe and star-studded programme of the Big Snow Festival, providing full audio production.

The festival's line up, staged at Europe's highest music site, was led by Basement Jaxx, Junior Jack, DJ Fresh and Freestylers. The audience could also dance with Ms Dynamite, Skism, Eddy Tample Morris, Micky Slim, and a host of domestic bands.

Created and organised by producers of the award-winning EXIT festival and its president Dusan Kova?evi?, the Big Snow Festival was staged at MK Mountain Resort. This all-year resort is in the heart of th

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Ireland - An RCF TTL33-A active line array was deployed in the unlikely location of the Thurles Greyhound Stadium in Co. Tipperary, for a concert by all-girl group, The Saturdays during the June Bank Holiday weekend. It was the largest RCF system ever rigged in Ireland.

Presented by Kennedy's Live Promotions under the banner, Tipp Goes Pop, the special one-off gig by the Anglo-Irish group was designed as a homecoming for the band's Una Healey, who hails from Thurles, and is soon to marry English rugby star Ben Foden. More than 6,000 people turned out to help her celebrate - and listen to a roster of some of Ireland's leading support acts.

Although the site was the scene of several festivals many years ago, these days it is used exclusively for greyhound racing. And with a hospital overlooking one side of the stadium, Declan O'Sullivan, of audio production company Star S

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Denmark - There's a price to pay in always being first, as head of sound at Aarhus Musikhuset Per Adel explained. "Sometimes you have to wait a long time to be first." Adel has a reputation for the enigmatic but for once he was not being ironic. "For the Musikhuset the V-Series is exactly what we wanted to have; size, weight, performance; dispersion, character and quality."

The Musikhuset is the premier concert venue in Denmark's second city, Aarhus; what Adel had idealised in his mind's ear for the venue was, for want of any other description, the V-Series line array from d&b audiotechnik, a system only recently launched at prolight+sound in Frankfurt 2012. "We have been using d&b systems in this venue for more than 25 years. We were one of the first houses to purchase an F2/B1 system and have the legendaryF1220 loudspeakers which we used for near-fill.

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UK - Swedish Dance Sensation Avicci got the Bank Holiday party started last weekend playing two major shows as part of his tour in London and Dublin's 02 Arena's.

Richard Martin Lighting (RML) supported Just Lite Dublin for the Ireland show by supplying Martin LC2140 panels and Atomic Strobes.

Nick Malbon designed and operated the show and he said of the units, "The screen was a joy to use, it has the punch needed for a dance event like this and the package sent by Richard Martin is as near plug and play as these things get."

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UK - London's Royal Opera House has expanded its extensive HMI lighting stock by investing in Robert Juliat Cin'k 326 LFV 2.5K HMI Fresnels.

Robert Juliat Cin'k Fresnels are available with interchangeable lamp bases offering a choice of 1200W or 2500W HMI and 2500W or 5000W tungsten light sources, but Royal Opera House senior lighting manager, Nick Ware, particularly specified the HMI model.

"The HMI Cin'k Fresnel is ideal because the Royal Opera House already has in its possession a large number of Robert Juliat D'Artagnan 2500W HMI profiles," explains Ware. "The Cin'ks replace our old HMI Fresnels which were becoming worn out and obsolete, so finding spare parts for them was becoming increasingly difficult. But the Cin'ks use the same ballasts, header cables and many spare parts as our D'Artagnans which streamlines stock control and makes maintenance easy.&quo

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South Africa - LumenRadio's CRMX lighting control products were recently used in the spectacular 18th South African Music Awards (SAMAs) held at the Sun City Superbowl Arena in front of a large enthusiastic crowd and broadcast live on national television.

Robert Hoey of Dream Sets got an assignment from the client, Vertical Limit Productions, that most set designers only can dream about and he (despite the name of the company) never got before; design your dream set without limitations.

Hoey came up with a design incorporating inflatables, described as Dr. Seuss meets Sci-Fi style, that reached beyond the stage and over the audience. The production design also included a massive compliment of AV and lighting equipment from brands like Robe, Clay Paky, Avolites, MA Lighting, Robert Juliat, LSC, and Selecon with support from local companies MGG Productions, AV Unlimited and Audi

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Azerbaijan - MA Lighting once again took control for the Eurovision Song Contest, which recently completed its 56th consecutive year, held at the Baku Crystal Hall in Azerbaijan.

Lighting designer Jerry Appelt, who was also the lighting designer of last year's Eurovision Song Contest in Germany, specified an impressive lighting rig to compliment the new arena. More than 1,400 moving lights (2,891 lighting fixtures total) with 39,860 parameters allowed 42 countries plus an elaborate interval act and opening performance to have a completely unique look during the overall 7-hour broadcasts.

MA Lighting took total control of the show. Eight grandMA2 full-size consoles, as well as five grandMA2 fader wing ran all lighting, triggered via Timecode. Fifteen MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) devices and 21 x MA NSP (Network Signal Processor) handled all traffic in one session on the MA-

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UK - Moving Light Assistant has joined the City Theatrical family of professional lighting software which includes Vectorworks and Lightwright 5. Moving Light Assistant simplifies the complex task of organizing and documenting moving light rigs.

Visitors to City Theatrical's stand #50 at ABTT 2012 at the Old Truman Brewery can see a demonstration of the programme from its author, professional designer/programmer Andrew Voller.

Moving Light Assistant can be used from the pre-production phase for planning and designing the moving light rig right through to producing the final documentation of the programming, and is designed to fill the needs of deisgners, programmers, production electricians, and show crews. Moving Light Assistant's licensing program is simple and straightforward and the product is free for those who only need a reader/demo version.

City Theatrical will also

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UK - The award-winning wysiwyg previsualization suite from CAST Software of Toronto, Canada was part of the royal fanfare at the recent Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert, held at Buckingham Palace, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.

The concert called for extravagant lighting, video projections on the Palace and of course, plenty of pyro. The star-studded line up included Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Stevie Wonder, Sir Tom Jones and Madness, among others.

Lighting designer Durham Marenghi sat at the creative helm with a tall order to fill, as the concert was attended by the Royal Family and broadcast worldwide. Not only did he have to provide stellar lighting for some of the world's biggest pop stars but he also had to deliver something that would prove equally gripping for the live and TV audience at home. To a

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