"Over the many years in which we were in Earl's Court, we had pretty much the same technical team putting the show together and we'd honed set up time to a minimum, thereby maximising what we were doing and giving real value for money," says Zieba.
This year, the Awards moved to The O2, acquired a new designer and many new team members. Also, because The O2 has such a busy show schedule, Derrick and his crew f
Sarah Rushton-Read, co-founder of WiSE (Women in Stage Entertainment) says: "This was our first WiSE Monthly. WiSE members are hugely grateful for the support we received from technical manager for the Southbank Complex, Roger Hennigan, GrandMA's Philip Norfolk and Chris West and Martin Professional's Matthew Pittman, who provided a number of fixtures, a load of Pret Sandwiches and some delicious Pizza. We would also like to thank Coral Cooper for furnishing us with a flask of gin and a huge box of chocolates.
"We have wanted to get a regular networking and education group for WiSE members going for some time. The event is open to any member of WiSE (we now have over 350) intereste
As the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for GLP products, AC-ET supplied 26 GLP Impression Zooms to the west London based Colour Sound. The fixtures have joined the 14 GLP Impression 90s already in their hire stock and are ready for a busy upcoming 2011 festival and touring season.
Colour Sound's MD and founder, Haydn Cruickshank explains that their original Impression 90s purchased 18 months ago were proving so incredibly popular and increasingly appearing on LD's spec sheets, that they needed more to keep pace with demand! This time they decided to invest in the 120 Zoom fixture, which is every bit as successful as the Impression 90s for them
The plugfest - an invitation-only gathering of hardware manufacturers with near-market ready products - featured Harman and five other manufacturers testing interoperability and performance of AVB prototype technologies. During the plugfest, engineers from the different companies had a rare hands-on opportunity to test connectivity, interoperability and interfaces.
"The promise of AVB is universal connectivity with no performance compromises," said Rob Urry, Harman Professional CTO, vice president. "But to achieve this, all
When the time came to replace the mixing console in the Hotel de Ville's grandest reception room, the aptly named Salle des Fetes, technical director Dominique Dunesme selected an Eclipse digital console from Innovason.
"We host between 400 - 600 events per year," he says. "That's an average of about three or four per week, and it can be anything from fashion shows to conferences and
Bose Pro Partner, AB Audio Visual, was invited in to discuss the issues, and after listening carefully to the needs of the church, presented some options and even demonstrated the system that they believed would give the best results. Once agreed, the installation team began work, fitting in well with church routines and all was completed in less than a week.
Four Bose Panaray MA12 line array speakers
The Agora Stage is actually made up of two stages (A & B) which are run adjacent to each other, so to maintain sufficient coverage, three hangs of Peavey's Versarray line array system will be deployed: one hang dedicated to each stage, and a central hang serving both. Each hang will comprise eight Versarray 212 three-way tri-amped mid/high enclosures; and 24x Versarray 218 subwoofers will be arrayed beneath the stage to provide low frequency reinforcement.
Twenty-four Crest Pro 9200 amplifiers will be dedicated to the subs (one per sub); and the Versarray 2
El Hormiguero is a wacky TV chat show peppered with gags, interviews and goofy scientific experiments, presented by Pablo Motos assisted by puppets Trancas and Barrancas. Broadcast Monday to Friday, this primetime show has won many awards, including an Onda for the Best Entertainment Show. With around 260,000 followers, it is also the most popular TV programme on Tuenti, Spain's number one social network.
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d&b audiotechnik, Roland Systems Group, Shure, TTA, RTS Telex and Figure 53 (known for QLab) are jointly hosting the event, which will be a rich mix of presentations, Q&As and discussions, as well as some new-to-the-UK products to play around with.
Any theatre professional or student of technical theatre is invited to attend the OpenStage forum at RADA's Jerwood-Vanbrugh Theatre, and the event's hosts are keen to stress it is not a tradeshow. Rather it is an opportunity f
With an emphasis on live performance and winners including Muse, Arcade Fire, My Chemical Romance and Biffy Clyro it was a lively night.
"The Awards was an exciting opportunity for us to be involved in another sector of the entertainment lighting Industry; one that we look forward to working in more in the future," says Colin Brooker, business development manager.
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DBN was working for creative communications agency WRG and the event was the National Field Sales conference for a leading international pharmaceutical company.
The lighting rig was designed and the event project managed for DBN by Andy Kennett. The main challenge was to devise a rigging system to suspend a 2.5m dot pitch grid consisting of over 200 Pulsar ChromaSpheres above the audience in addition to a large number of moving and generic lights, which brought the total roof loading to 15 tonnes.
The loading constraints were 350Kgs per point, and the timescale for the get in and technical build was very short.
Working alongside the venue's structural engineer and WRG te
"Our lighting rig is working roughly 40 hours per week, 160 hours per month, or 1920 hours per year," says Abbott. "Generally we do a full swap of bulbs on automated fixtures every 600 hours, or approximately three or four times per year if the bulbs are all functioning perfectly, but if not, we replace them once or twice a month. A
Prince played two shows at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey then moved to Madison Square Garden for three performances before and after Christmas. The in-the-round stage was shaped like his unpronounceable name symbol - essentially three catwalks joined by a circle. His band played in the centre of the loop.
The entire stage was outlined by Nocturne V-9 LED screens, driven through a Control Freak Systems media server with audio and MIDI control, which were treated as lighting elements. Fyssicopulos used the grandMA to control the CFS VU meter function that feed the video cells outlining the stage so they could modulate to the music.
MIDI was also used as a triggering
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The park was designed by Benoy Architects and is owned by Aldar Properties. It occupies a total area of 200,000 m2, with an indoor area of 100,000 m2. The main tower is 60m high and the whole building has an outer circumference of 2,200m. Facilities include a real race track, a theatre, various driving activities, several rides and attractions, multi-sensory video games and three thrilling races.
For the official opening, Filmaster Dubai was entrusted with the production of one of the most extraordinary shows ever seen in the Gulf region. The event was not only adorned with Clay Paky lights but there was also a spectacular firework display and a video
Egor Popowski, Clay Paky Middle East's representative said, "We have a lot of clients who have bought our 1200 Watt Alpha Spots, but Eclipse in Dubai is the first UAE company to have invested heavily in Alpha Spot 1500 HPE fixtures."
"Clay Paky 1500 Watt fixtures were chosen as they represent good value for money," said Darren Hodges, GM, Eclipse, which is based in Dubai's Al Quoz area. "Clay Paky have proven themselves in the region already with the 1200 Watt fixtures and Eclipse is finding that the industry is now demanding the 1500 Watt fixtures, which we believe to be the next generation of mov
"I wish I'd tried the PRO6 sooner," says FOH engineer Greg Bess, a long term Midas user with over 30 years' experience, encompassing rockers Slayer to soul stars Simply Red and many in between. "I've tried just about every digital desk out there and always ended up going back to my trusty Midas XL4. But the PRO6 is different. It absolutely clears the bar in meeting the Midas standard of audio quality and accuracy."
Having first used a PRO6 with The Offspring, a band he has mixed for 14 years, Bess had no hesitation in specifying the console for Derulo's critical first headlining tour. "Midas started out with audio as the cornerstone and followed through with ergonomics and solid construction," he s
The band's Sennheiser gear includes wired e 945 microphones on Simon Neil's lead vocals and James Johnston's backing vocals, e 901 on kick drum, e 904s on toms and woodblock, e 905s on snare top/bottom and e906s on guitars. All three band members are on in-ear monitors, Sennheiser ew 300s being the systems of choice.
"The band has owned and used Sennheiser equipment for several years," says Front of House engineer Jonny Lucas. "Personally, I've been using Sennheiser right from the first recording projects at I did at college."
"I've been u
Says DWR's Duncan Riley, "We expected a keen take up, but the actual turn out and the intensity of interest still took us by surprise. People stayed a long time at the demos, chatted to everyone on our team and also amongst themselves, while others who had to leave returned for more. "
Robe's MD Josef Valchar and sales director Harry von den Stemmen joined the DWR team of Duncan Riley, Nic Britz, Dave Whitehouse, Dan Riley and Nicolet Britz. Says Valchar, "South
Installed by Schalldruck of Berlin, the sound system for the relatively intimate (13m x 4.4m) Panorama Bar features a pair of JM-1P loudspeakers in each corner of the dance floor. Visceral bass saturates the space from two hidden stacks of three-each 600-HP subwoofers, while an L-C-R system with three UPA-2P loudspeakers and a 500-HP subwooferprovides DJ monitoring. Both systems are optimized and driven by a Galileo loudspeaker management system with a Galileo 616 processor.
"We had been asked to update the Panorama Bar's sound system as part of a partial redesign and technical upgrade of the room," sayss Werner Eicker, managing director of Schalldruck. "We immediately suggested a Meyer Sound system based on JM-1Ps, and their performan
Presented annually by the Society of London Theatre, the Laurence Olivier Awards are presented to shows opening in the West End between 1 January and 31 December each year. This year, the awards are establishing a higher profile with a new website, a return to television - and a change of venue from a hotel ballroom to London's largest stage, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
The team behind the new staging include producer Julian Stoneman, production manager Lee Batty, designer Morgan Large and lighting designer Ben Cracknell. White Light is supplying Cracknell with a rig centred around 18 of Martin's dramatic MAC III spotlights, with their high light output, low running noise, spectacular z
"Tomcat is honoured to support the Kennedy Centre American College Theatre festival as this organisation fosters the educational and creative process of university and college theatre," stated Stefano Rossellini, general manager of Tomcat. "Our company has been supplying the entertainment production market for 23 years, serving customers all over the world and we understand the value of fostering and encouraging the talent, creativity
In December 2005 they celebrated their 30th birthday and at the same time they made a farewell tour with gigs in Croatia and Slovenia. Their last performance in 2005 was at New Year's Eve in Ban Jela?i? Square in Zagreb.
They recently played reunion concerts at the Belgrade Arena where the sound was the large RCF TT+ High Definition Touring and Theatre supplied by three different rental companies - Promologistika from Croatia, BBA Agregati from Montenegro and Track-Copy from Hungary, and they all brought their TTL55A + TTS56A.
A total of 40 RCF TTL55
Medal Plaza, for instance, in Michael Ende Park, was the scene each evening not only for the presentation ceremonies but also for shows featuring top German and Austrian acts like Ich + Ich, Culcha Candela, Christina Stürmer and DJ Ötzi, each drawing audiences of up to 4,000 fans at a time.
As was the case at last year's finals of the skiing World Cup, not only the races but also the organisation and logistics of the event were subjected to the closest possible scrutiny, the reason being that Garmisch-Partenkirchen is
"Well maybe not the longest truss ever, I think Lord Norman Foster might have something to say about that, but certainly the longest truss from standard production industry equipment," says Chris Cronin, the head of Total Solutions Group (TSG) who supplied the truss.
"We have a well established relationship with Staras, Turkey's leading sound and lighting company," continues Cronin. "And we've worked on many a project together since they purchased the
