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As has now become custom, Marenghi placed a moving light into each of the 32 capsules on the London Eye and once again turned to the CRMX Technology to provide the critical wirele

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Together, these raised nearly 2m Euros for the Ronald McDonald House Charities.

The events - staged at the Albert Schultz Ice Hall in Vienna and the Postpalast in Munich - were attended by a glittering guest list of leading business people, politicians, celebrities and sports personalities, and featured a wide variety of live performers.

Robe SRO and Swiss distributors Signal also contributed directly to both events, with the provision of 12 additional Robin LEDBeam 100 fixtures for both concerts.

Weinhardt's designs varied slightly to take into account the different venues, but the essence was to be as adaptable as possible to make sure that all the act

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ISE has been located in Amsterdam for eight of its 10 years. Its previous contract with the RAI - one of the world's most successful convention venues - ran until 2016. This has now been extended for a further three years.

"Extending our contract with the RAI provides certainty for all of our event's stakeholders: associations, exhibitors, visitors and press," explains Mike Blackman, managing director, Integrated Systems Events.

"The RAI has invested heavily in infrastructure and facilities over the past two years, and this programme will continue in the future, further enhancing the venue and making it the clear choice for ISE for the foreseeable future."

ISE is also announcing changes to its dates

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Gordon Cooper from SES commented, "We are committed to finding quality distributors in several key areas around the globe, and having Skyfox in Moscow fits perfectly with our plans. The company have a very professional approach to the market and offered SES exactly what was required in order to use and distribute our products to a growing audience in this growing marketplace. Skyfox will be exhibiting at the forthcoming Prolight + Sound NAMM show in Moscow, and will be unveiling SES to the Russian marketplace."

SES are currently in early negotiations with companies in two other key areas,

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Stocking a wide selection of Dirty Rigger's tool pouches, rigger gloves and accessories, CineTools will be a valued new addition to a trusted network of stockists around the world, says the company.

Dirty Rigger's Hannah Attfield said, "CineTools offer years of personal experience to the industry and carry this forward in their business. It gives customers great confidence and trust to know their product information and recommendations come from hands-on experience."

CineTools' Beatriz D. Muñoz said, "CineTools decided to bet heavily on the Dirty Rigger brand, a decision we very quickly became proud of. We have been working with the Le Mark Group (Dirty Rigger's parent company) for years and the export team is always aware

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Proving the adage that the old ones are the best; Valhalla, Blackpool Pleasure Beach's most iconic ride, has been voted one of the best in Europe more than a decade after it first opened. The world's biggest indoor dark ride was given the honour at the European Star Awards after a panel of International experts voted it one of the best on the Continent.

Valhalla, which takes riders on a Viking journey through fire, water, snow, thunder and lightning, has enjoyed longevity thanks to Sarner's initial creativity and diversity in combining a white knuckle flume ride with theatrical dynamics of powerful storyline sequences. Sarner conceived the masterplan d

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During 2012 the SABC invited interested parties to participate in a tender process for the supply of lighting gear. Congratulations to Blackmotion Production who were awarded the tender at the end of last year.

Hire Company, Blackmotion, regularly work at the SABC where they've used their own Robe fixtures on five television productions.

"The SABC in-house crew also saw us supply a Tiger Touch to the television series Roots," explained Kagiso Tiro Daystar Moima, owner of Blackmotion. "They were fascinated by the console and the functions it provided for the lighting direct

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The versatile FX-200s were specified by lighting and visuals designer Ed Warren from Next Level Lights.

The band has been touring for the last three years with various different arrangements of tungsten lightsources over and around the stage as an integral part of the lighting rig.

Earlier in this tour, Warren introduced LED festoon lighting, going from the stage and reaching right out into the audience ... and he wanted to take this up another level and add another dynamic and adaptable lightsource to the mix - enter the FX-200.

He had seen the product in action at various festivals over the summer and thought it ideal for the next evolution of his desig

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The PRO3, which was purchased at PALME 2011, was used on monitors while the PRO9, purchased at PALME 2012, took care of FOH. The event was attended by nearly 300,000 people and saw acts including Don Moen, Israel Houghton, Fred Hammond, Deitrick Haddon and many more deliver sharp performances.

"We purchased the PRO9 as a natural progression from the PRO3, which we'd bought the year before." explains Bamishile Dipo, sound engineer from Solution Media and Infotech Ltd. "We decided on the PRO9 because the PRO3 had so totally

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However, the favourite of the talent show has another string to its bow as Rob Myer, managing director of Light Fantastic Production Services explains, "We have been providing lighting, audio , video and staging services to a wide range of private and corporate events across the UK and Europe since 2005. Our clients demand a high level of finish and are always looking to create a new visual aesthetic for each event.

"As long time users of Clay Paky products, we've recently bought Sharpys from Ambersphere Solutions to broaden our rental stock and these have proved extremely popular. A large part of our work is in hotel ballrooms or conference centres where height, power supply and rigging opportunities can be very limited. This is where the Sha

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Glenn Roggeman, CEO of the AED group, comments, "Our mission as master distributor is to be a complete support tool to the distribution network with our experience of large demos, trainings, large stocks, experience in project sales, buying used equipment as trade in with leasing of new.

"The Distribution landscape is drastically changing and

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MES Eclairages was founded in 1981 and is now the leading provider of theatrical and event lighting in western France. It has an extensive inventory of lighting equipment for rental including moving heads, LED units and control and also installs permanent lighting rigs into venues.

In 2012, sound rental company Melpomen, a member of SSE Audio Group since 2001, decided to establish its own lighting department and recruited Jerome Malen to run it. The move came as more and more event promoters in France are looking for a comprehensive and integrated hire equipment package. In line with this, Melpomen has also just created a video de

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Hosted by Dermot O'Leary, the NTA's and its collection of star-studded award-winning celebrities shone on Le Mark's water-like-reflection studio floor.

Performances from dancing star Darcey Bussell relied on StudioTak's excellent durability.

Soon after, the high-gloss floor offered a glistening reflection for Kimberly Walsh & X Factor rising star Ella Henderson. The set was built and installed by Blackfriars Scenery Ltd.

Blackfriars project manager Perry Judge commented, "StudioTak is fantastic, we never use anything else."

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"With Mackie's continued focus on creating innovative hardware solutions, the choice to transition Tracktion to TSC was clear," said Matt Redmon, Mackie product manager. "TSC is fully dedicated to the development, support and marketing of Tracktion. Their experience with the DAW market and intimate knowledge of Tracktion made them the perfect group to take Tracktion into the future."

"We are proud to announce not only the acquisition of Tracktion Music Production Software, but that Tracktion 4 is available immediately," remarked James Woodburn of Trackti

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BSR E1.44 - 201x, Common Show File Exchange Format For Entertainment Industry Automation Control Systems - Stage Machinery, defines a common show file format for the exchange of automation control data between control systems by different manufacturers of stage machinery.

BSR E1.45 - 201x, Unidirectional Transport of IEEE 802 data frames over ANSI E1.11 (DMX512-A), defines a minimal method to transport IEEE 802 data frames unidirectionally over ANSI E1.11 physical links using an Alternate START Code. The primary motivation is to allow communication of 802 data to luminaires over an ANSI E1.11 DMX512-A datalink for data transmission from those luminaires using Visible Light Communication,

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The Live Action Arena stages live racing demonstrations and stunt shows every day for the duration of the popular racing-themed show, which is named after the UK's most popular weekly auto racing magazine.

To ensure the crowd could enjoy all the action wherever they sat, XL Events, working closely with event production company, Network Productions, as well as production director Malcolm Forbes, supplied a 90m wide by 9m high front projection using six stacks of Barco projectors.

Each stack included one of XL's new Barco HDF-W26 26k projectors on top of a Barco FLM HD20, which gave a total output of 276,000 lumens

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In LH2's huge production rehearsal studio, which regularly hosts the biggest artists in the world from the Rolling Stones to Robbie Williams, Nexo and its first UK rental customer Capital Sound Hire set up the STM modular line array in a nine-sets a-side configuration.

Over the course of four days, the STM Sessions, which were hosted by Nexo's concert sound manager Stuart Kerrison, also included workshops on Nexo's proprietary design software NS-1, and innov

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Owned by Shed Media, Renegade produces popular television shows such as Don't tell the Bride and Popstar as well as award-winning films My kidnapper and Me and The boys from Baghdad High.

Renegade, based in London, were looking to upgrade their lighting to showcase the classic cars being restored as part of Car SOS, but wanted a more energy efficient lighting solution.

In order to meet their requirements two of Gemma's energy efficient LED lighting products were selected for the project - the Sovereign 96 LED High Bay and Spitfire 48 LED Floodlight.

Both lights give clarity and coverage with high lumen outputs and instant strike up times, whilst the long life span o

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Following its successful Eton debut the previous year, TiMax2 Soundhub is now a staple element of the School Play - this year a challenging modern-classical "suits & swords" interpretation of Shakespeare's infamous tragedy. Sound designer Rick Sarson envisioned and produced the immersive sound environment and programmed the TiMax2 SoundHub show in rehearsals for the student technical team to operate during the performances.

Act One's

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Lighting consultant Denis Hutchinson did research on similar projects, and, using his experience as one of South Africa's top lighting designers, specified the tender. The tender was awarded to DWR Distribution who supplied a list of brands including Philips Strand, Philips Selecon and Robe as well as lighting bars, associated items and the installation which was carried out in December 2012.

"One of the difficulties in specifying equipment for schools is that all too often the gear is used for three weeks of the year and gathers dust

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The beautiful landscaped gardens at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire were given a nocturnal facelift with a dramatic lighting design created by the team at Pearce Hire for the Winter Lights event.

"We'd like to think we created a little bit of outdoor theatre for the visitors to the gardens in the run up to Christmas," comments Pearce Hire's John Huson, project manager and key lighting designer of this project.

The Visitor Experience team at Anglesey Abbey were first put in contact with Pearce Hire by John Wootten of Eastern Events who has long-standing relationships with both Pearce Hire and Anglesey Abbey but, until now, had never put them together as a project team. As a result of this introduc

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No sooner had the first batch of units arrived, LDs Dave Evans and Stuart Gain nabbed them for The One Show - the BBC's flagship studio based, live magazine programme.

"Producers here at The One Show are very environmentally aware, they're continually looking to do things more efficiently," explains lighting director Stuart Gain. "We've always had an LED based set using ELPs wide range of Pixel Pars, Chromafloods and Chroma Battens to decorate the studio. So we were pretty 'green' before. Now we've decided to swap out all our 250 MSR fresnels for ELPs latest ARRI L7-C fixtures, we must be one of the most environmentally friendly mid-sized studios. Other than some news room studios, I can't think of any that would pull

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The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus travels around the U.S. throughout the year. Outfitted with traditional musical instruments as well as high-tech professional audio and video gear, the Bus has provided free hands-on programmes since 1998 for hundreds of high schools, colleges, boys and girls clubs, music festivals, concerts, conferences and community organizations.

Jeff Sobel, John Lennon Educational Tour Bus chief engineer, stated, "The Lennon Bus demands a lot from its

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Helping to create the environment that would bring together the tens of thousands of college students was the lighting/production design created by Black & White Live Ltd.(London), under the direction of Ian Cattle. The conference's production design was most dramatically expressed by a commanding circular stage at the center of the Georgia Dome. The massive stage was o