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The multi-purpose stadium in Al-Rayyan, Qatar, home to the Al-Rayyan and Al-Kharitiyath sports clubs, and the near-identical Al-Gharafa stadium, seat around 25,000 apiece. Both are largely open-air apart from VIP grandstands, and in a country where summertime temperatures can hit 40°C/104°F, the term "bleacher" means exactly what it says.

They are the latest in a series of high profile Renkus-Heinz beam steering installations in the Middle East, two other recent prestigious projects being the Qatar Royal Mosque and the Dubai Swim Stadium.

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Supplied by CAP France BAT with the support of Allen & Heath distributor PAXT Pro Audio Engineering, the audio installation encompasses the University's Convention Centre including a 2800 capacity theatre, a smaller 1400 capacity theatre, a rehearsal/multi-purpose theatre, and ten seminar rooms.

The University was officially opened by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah less than three years after laying the first foundation stone. The major building project covers 8m square metres, and includes administration buildings, 13 faculties, a 700-bed student hospital, laboratories, research centres and a residential area including accommodation for students and staff. The capacity of the university is around 26,000 students.

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Moray worked with many of rock's greatest acts over the past three decades, including Black Sabbath, Saxon, Ozzy Osbourne's solo outings, Motorhead, Dio, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Whitesnake - culminating in a 10-year spell as Deep Purple's front-of-house engineer.

An advocate of line array technology, Moray became one of the first certified V-DOSC engineers in the UK, and later, through the company's links with Deep Purple, he assisted German manufacturer HK Audio in the development of its COHEDRA system. Moray took the decision to leave his life on the road in 2004 and took a sales role with the HK

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Organised by The Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) and Clay Paky, the Knight of Illumination Awards provide public recognition for outstanding achievements in touring, television and theatre lighting design, and forge closer ties between designers and the industry as a whole.

This year's winners included Simon Butcher, for the television drama Casualty, Roger Williams for the variety series Tonight's the Night, Matt Carter for the morning talk show ITV Daybreak, Al Gurdon for the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Michael Straun for the Glasvegas tour, Nick Whitehouse for the last Kylie tour, Jamie Thompson for The Script'

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Other speakers will include Free Trade Agency boss Paul Boswell, HMV/MAMA Group's Daryl Robinson and Academy Music Group's Carl Bathgate.

One particularly lively part of the conference programme will undoubtedly be the ticketing session, Selling The Show, following eBay-owned US resale giant StubHub's announcement that it's about to enter the UK, and the surprise takeover of See Tickets by French media conglomerate Vivendi.

"StubHub's arrival will significantly increase activity in the resale sector, especially in the battle for hearts and minds, and general endorsement of the concept," says Summit producer and Audience managing

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Digicustics S.R.L., created five years ago by Sebastian Wenger and Martin Gutierrez, offers consulting, design, systems integration and engineering services for the install and live sound markets. Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the company is oriented to all segments of these markets with coverage throughout South America.

"By establishing this new relationship with Audinate, we are confident that we will be able to provide our customers a whole new era of solutions for audio and media transport," com

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Launched at PLASA 2010, the units started rolling off the production line in the Czech Republic in December of that year, hitting the 5000 target just 10 months later.

Right from the off, Robe's distributors have clamoured to get enough stock of the LEDWash 600, with Germany, France, the UK, Australia, Brazil and Italy all leading head-to-head in the race to get orders placed, processed and delivered to their clients in what has been a truly incredible sales trajectory, says the company.

Says Robe's sales director Harry von den Stemmen, "Axente has been a front runner right from the beginning in the race to get LEDWash 600 permeating throughout all market sectors. From TV studios, theatres and multi-purpose installations to leadin

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"Our team acted as consultants to the project and then sourced and installed the required equipment," sayss Black Light's head of company development, Phil Haldane. "We worked to a very strict deadline as the equipment re-vamp was needed for a televised Scottish Parliamentary election count."

Black Light's team had to be particularly careful in how they installed equipment so as not to damage or compromise the hall's historic interior.

"We received excellent project delivery and very

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"Mixart has always been a strong partner, working in a challenging market. Last year, they more than doubled their business, and remarkably, they are on course to double their sales again this year. For that excellent performance we wanted to show our appreciation," comments A&H European sales manager, Norbert Perstinger.

(Jim Evans)

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Manufactured by Prolyte Group, this variation of a CLT Roof System is constructed from S52V grid truss supported by seven S40T truss towers from the Prolyte Structures range. A Layher Allround Scaffolding system base structure supports EV100 Event Decks that form the 16m x 14m stage platform.

IPS MD James Mason is very happy with the new structure, saying, "The CLT takes our range of stages to the next level".

The Grand Scottish Prom at Glamis Castle took place on Saturday 30 July, and was a huge success. Alan Hillary Event Manag

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Conceived by Chris Lawson, manager of the Saville production team in Edinburgh, the conference was designed as an educational forum for the Scottish events market and the agenda was devised by polling the market, using social media to determine the most pressing issues of the day.

The topics chosen by the virtual community were Social Media, Event Content and Hybrid Events and the initiative attracted delegates from many different sectors of the industry. These included event managers, conference planners, corporate event teams and destination management companies, with many joining the event on-line or via Twitter.

The day was chaired by events journalist and consultant Richard John who f

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Delegates were treated to a humorous but well-informed and interactive three hours by Artistic Licence Engineering's R&D manager, Tim Baarsch. During this time, they were taken step-by-step through the protocol communications, providing them with a solid basis from which to use DMX and RDM with confidence.

Attended by a broad spectrum of designers, technicians and architects, the session covered the history and workings of DMX and RDM, with liberal input from delegates who were free to ask questions throughout. The knowledgeable interjections from fellow delegates and DMX guru Adam Bennette added value to the wealth of information delivered by Baarsch.

The talks were intersp

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Pete first started using Sennheiser mics back in the late 1970s and switched to using them full-time in 2005 with Bloc Party.

"I bought two 421s way back in 1978 and I've always loved the 441," he says. "I used another manufacturer's mics for years, without thinking there was a serious alternative, until the point came with Bloc Party when I wanted something tighter and more in keeping with their first record. The Sennheisers worked so well that I got hooked and the sound of the microphones has translated really well to Two Door

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Staged on the eve of London Fashion Week, it celebrated 10 years of collaboration between supermodel Kate Moss and Rimmel, together with the launch of Rimmel's new 'London Lipstick Collection by Kate'.

Electric Fly was working for production company Iris Experience, for whom they regularly provide visual design and technical production services. All the lighting equipment was supplied by Blackburn based HSL.

The lighting scheme encompassed both internal and external elements. Explains Jevons: "As one of London's greatest and most famous historical landmarks, it was a real honour to be asked to light Battersea Power Sta

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A Bluman Associates Storm Trooper displayed his projection know-how by beaming a large, modified image of Darth Vader onto London's Battersea Power Station as part of the event.

(Claire Beeson)

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The show - one of a series of events celebrating Mulberry's 40th birthday - was staged on the rooftop of the Skylight West building in New York's Midtown district.

The recently renovated venue offers the largest private event rooftop space in the city and superlative panoramic views scanning the downtown area. Both Mulberry and Kasabian are regular clients of Gray and his creative live visual design company, Renegade.

Used to working in unusual environments, Gray utilised the steel superstructure of a 60ft wide billboard that resides atop the building. After structural tests, this was used to hang a substantia

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As well as housing the city's biggest theatre, the RaM Colosseum also features three gyms, clubs, a library and restaurant, all connected by a central atrium. A major feature is that the theatre has a unique, hydraulically-operated adjustable floor which allows it to be adapted for a variety of events. The audio system is based around a Yamaha M7CL-48ES and SB168-ES stage boxes.

The system designer was Krisztian Varga, pro-audio consultant at Budapest sound specialists Audmax Kft. Working closely with the RaM Colosseum's chief sound engineer Bertalan Kupcsik, he chose the Yamaha so

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Comprised of industry veterans Artistic Licence Engineering, Artistic Licence Integration and Ptarmigan Integration, along with the newly formed technical sales company Ten Thousand Things, Alderamin Group achieves a synergy that was very much in evidence at the show.

Alderamin Group co-owners, Wayne Howell and Simon Fraser, explain: "Artistic Licence Engineering is our technical powerhouse, developing profitable standalone products, but also serving the project needs of the Group's Integration companies," says Howell.

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"Orders have been coming in since the show opened" said David Faulkes, sales director. "We have been particularly busy with sales of LED lighting, both static and automated, from orders received during and after the show."

"We've had orders for the new 8 Watt quadcolour battens and pars and also for the 324W wash, 90P profile and EPW multi-function moving heads. On the audio front, we also have orders for the DNP26 processor and MZ31 mixer."

"We also have several demos to organise for the LED videotape and the new HLP speaker system. This was the best PLASA show we've ever known"

(Claire Beeson)

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This is BBC Northern Ireland's largest OB event of the year and was one of four planned regional concerts that are linked live in to their coverage of the world famous spectacle of the Last Night of the Proms at London's Royal Albert Hall.

It was the second consecutive year that PSI had been involved in the BBC NI event as a major equipment supplier. The show was staged in at Castle Park, Bangor, and featured the Ulster Orchestra plus special guests, presented by Noel Thompson and Claire McCollum.

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The stage was supplied by Star Events. It measured 19m wide by 14m deep with 8m of headroom, from which PSI sub hung a 15m x 12m box truss for all the lighting positions. They also flew a 4m

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The dance floor, found in the middle of the bustling restaurant, features a square truss that mirrors its dimensions below. Placed in the centre of the truss are four Vue 6.1, six Derby X and two Hemisphere 5 effect lights - working overtime to the beat of the five resident DJs, who play nightly.

Surrounding the truss square are 10 LED Shadow blacklights, six hanging along the perimeter while the other four fan out in a half moon, mimicking the stairs to the dance floor below. On the crescent's outskirts are four Q-Spot 160-LED moving heads, which run down the centre of the club. Two Swarm 4 effect lights hang from the ceiling at the front of the restaurant and shine through the windows,

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The 2011 summer European festival tour hit 20 major music festivals and one-offs beginning in Rome and ending in Hungary, drawing legions of fans to their monumental catalogue of releases and dynamic, marathon live shows.

Steve Baird, longtime wysiwyg User and lighting designer for the band comments, "Festival tours are always lots of fun. Knowing that I had the challenge of never getting the same lighting system twice, I needed to decide whether to busk, or run my show cue to cue style.

"For Dream Theater, I built a show cue to cue, using spot, wash and LED type moving fixtures with wysiwyg R27. After I programmed the initial

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The course - which is a new initiative by the manufacturer - was conducted by CM's training manager, David Carmack, at their UK headquarters in Merseyside. All four AC-ET engineers who attended passed the full set of practical modules and a detailed written examination with flying colours.

The AC-ET staff - Martin Price, Julian Tether, Keith Hartley and Graham Lovell - are based across the company's High Wycombe and Leeds offices and work as part of the highly experienced A.C. Rigging team.

(Jim Evans)