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Czech Republic - Technical production solutions provider Smart Production SRO from Prague, Czech Republic has invested in substantial quantities of Milos's M390L Quatro truss.

The Czech Republic headquartered Milos Group is the largest global aluminium trussing manufacturer offering the most diverse portfolio of trussing and related products worldwide.

Smart Productions' new trussing went directly into use in a large structure built for the current Tutankhamen - His Tomb and Treasures exhibition, staged at the Holesovice Exhibition Centre in Prague.

The impressive trussing structure - measuring 97m long by 32m deep in total - is 4.9m high and joined together by a series of Milos M390 multi-cube junctions. It is supported on 40 legs constructed from the same type of trussing.

The structure forms the framework for several viewing sections of the experience in the main

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UK - The congregation of Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace in Kilwee, in the suburbs of Belfast, has been presented with something of a phenomenon.

Through the unusual omega-shaped sculpture - suspended from the ultra-high vaulted ceiling and hovering over the sanctuary - four JBL CBT70J column loudspeaker arrays now appear to float, as if defying the laws of gravity.

Not the miracle they were perhaps hoping for since these are hung on near imperceptible steel wire pairs - an ingenious solution conceived by Martin Grainger, of Co. Tyrone based Grainger Communication Ltd to give extra design swagger to a modern church which was only built at the turn of the millennium.

The acoustician has been involved with the unusual conical-shaped church, with its extraordinarily high ceiling for many years and is entirely familiar with its acoustic quirks and reverberant interior.

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Norway - Amas Produksjon is the latest distributor to join the Adamson team. They announced their new partnership while at Prolight and Sound this year. The Norwegian company started as a booking agent in the early 90's but quickly grew to include equipment rental, and in 2004 they began sales and distribution of top brands in the pro audio world. Amas specializes in turn-key pro audio solutions in both the sales and rental markets. These services include everything from rental to full sound design, installation and 24hr service to their clients in installation and live touring markets.

CEO, Morten Paulsen says, "Our main focus is always to create good complete, turn-key solutions for our customers, combining different products to suit each customer's specific need." The addition of Adamson products to their 'line card' paired with Powersoft Audio amplifiers will give

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Mexico - Wireless Solution Sweden AB and RED Lighting, W-DMX distributor in Mexico, recently transformed the exclusive Grupo Vidanta resort, Santuario into a stunning light display.

Grupo Vidanta is one of the leading South American hotel chains, with several resorts including Grand Luxxe, Grand Bliss, Grand Mayan and Mayan Palace. Grupo Vidanta approached RED Lighting to manage the installations for all the chain's new hotels.

Santuario is a luxury hotel and entertainment resort, complete with a large lounge, bars, discotheques, theatre and live entertainment. For these areas, RED Lighting installed 200 of their own brand Quadro 10 and Quadro 24 fixed projectors. The fixtures chosen have an IP65 protection rating, which permits outdoor use - essential for a facility like Santuario with open air sections.

Several Classe S700 moving head projectors are used as well, each with

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India - Martin Audio has appointed Integrated Entertainment Solutions (IES) as its new exclusive distributor for India. The agreement was formalised at this month's Prolight+Sound Show in Frankfurt.

The Mumbai-based sound and lighting company had previously been operating as a dealer, and has been working with the Martin Audio brand since 2006, both in a rental and installation capacity. During that time it has fitted out many auditoriums and specified a vast range of systems, from Blackline+ and AQ series, up to the W8L Longbow, W8LC Compact and W8LM Mini line arrays.

IES set out primarily as a distributor/dealer for multinational companies, manufacturing intelligent lighting, control and sound equipment, and has been steadily growing its distribution portfolio, adding lighting brands such as Robe.

Said director Kekul Sheth, "We are delighted to be handling the Martin

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Juno Awards - Carly Rae Jepsen has won three Junos at the annual Canadian music awards, including album of the year, pop album of the year and single of the year for her hit Call Me Maybe. The 27-year-old's album Kiss beat Justin Bieber and Celine Dion. Bieber took home his fourth Juno in the fan choice category with Mumford & Sons winning best international album. k.d. Lang was inducted into the Canadian music hall of fame. Leonard Cohen, who started his music career in the 1960s, won two Junos for songwriter of the year for the album Old Ideas and artist of the year.

Opera Awards - Tenor Jonas Kaufmann has won best male singer and the readers' award at the inaugural International Opera awards. Known as the "new king of tenors", Kaufmann debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2006. The reader's award was voted for by readers of

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UK - West London based rental specialist, Entec Sound & Light supplied lighting equipment for a massive one off show by chart busting Hong Kong based band Big Four at London's O2 Arena, working for producers, Netherlands based Orient Touch.

Entec's team was production managed by Simon Tutchener and crew chiefed by Pete "Pepper" Schofield. The challenge was getting a substantial one off loaded in and set up and rocking in the same day ... although this is something that Entec has honed to a fine art! Soundcheck/rehearsals were scheduled for 1pm.

The Entec team - project managed by Noreen O'Riordan - worked to a lighting plot submitted by Big Four's lighting designer Lund and his assistant Boris.

The lighting rig comprised three straight trusses and two bespoke trussing constructions which flanked an upstage centre LED video screen that was supplied by XL Video.

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UK - The Bodyguard, the hit musical from producers Michael Harrison and David Ian, has already won Best New Musical in the 2013 Whatsonstage.com Awards. Richard Brooker, no stranger to such mammoth productions having worked on some of the industry's biggest theatrical productions, including Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound of Music, Chess and Cabaret, took on the challenge of the show's sound design. He has once again deployed a DiGiCo SD7T digital mixing console at Front of House, with an SD824 at the monitor position, to help him meet some new challenges.

Playing at the West End's Adelphi theatre and based on the 1990s Oscar nominated film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, the stage adaptation of The Bodyguard is directed by Thea Sharrock and sees Heather Headley take Houston's role alongside Lloyd Owen, who plays Costner's

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UK - POLARaudio recently invited leading systems integrators and members of the press to attend two events organised to present the Behringer Eurocom range of products. The first of the events took place at the Music Group Research and Development Centre in Manchester. Set up by Music Group as a UK Centre of Excellence for developing cutting edge digital audio technology, the facility occupies 24,000 square feet and is home to many of the group's 300 UK employees. Two days later, Mercedes-Benz World at Weybridge provided a fitting backdrop for the presentation, in a similarly high-calibre environment of merit and quality.

Anchoring the proceedings was Music Group senior VP marketing, Costa Lakoumentas, whose infectious and engaging delivery was matched by his obvious genuine conviction that here was a range of products to seriously challenge the status quo. Although now operatin

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USA - In order to meet market demand for Martin Professional's M2GO lighting controller, Christie Lites has purchased no less than 200 of the compact consoles for its rental inventory.

"We were looking for the best console for everyday rental and found that the M2GO made the most sense," says Christie Lites CEO Huntly Christie. "It was the only console in its category to offer powerful onboard processing with a small footprint."

The M2GO is equipped with a fast, dual-core processor with no external computer required. Having set Martin records earlier in the year for the largest number of pre-sale orders for a lighting controller, it continues to establish itself as the lighting control choice for rental houses.

"We are extremely pleased that Christie has added the M2GO to their inventory," states Martin product manager Paul Pelletier. "It w

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UK -Stage Electrics have recently supplied the Baglan Community Church with a Roland M-300 Digital Live Mixing Console and two S-1608 Digital Snake Stage Boxes as part of a full audio, visual and lighting installation for their recently renovated multi-purpose venue in Port Talbot.

The renovation of the venue, previously a social club, which was started in August last year and is due to be completed later this month, took the building back to 'bare bones' allowing the audio installation to be designed utilising newly fitted Cat5e points. The venue is currently used primarily to host church services for the 220+ church members, but once the renovation is complete, the intention is to hire out the building to the community to use as a conference centre or hall. The audio solution therefore needed to be digital with a flexible setup to cater for a number of uses from varying live b

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Finland - Finnish rockers Sunrise Avenue used Robe LEDWash 600s and MMX Spots on their recent Big Band Theory Tour 2013 European tour which were specified by their LD, Timo Saarinen.

The 16 x LEDWash 600s and 10 MMX Spots formed the core of the lighting rig and were used for a variety of tasks and effects including washing the stage with many colours and hues, and for creating complex multi-layered effects with the MMXs.

Timo was hugely impressed with the reliability of the fixtures - which was 100% for the whole tour!

He's looking forward to using more of Robe's latest technology on upcoming festival dates this summer and also for Sunrise Avenue's ongoing touring work which is scheduled to continue into 2014.

The fixtures were supplied to the tour by Finnish rental company RMC Light & Sound based in Vantaa, who bought them from Robe's Finnish distributor, Live Nati

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UK - For the sixth year of BBC Worldwide's CBeebies on Tour, XL Events joined in the fun once again, supplying LED, camera system, playback and custom LED set elements.

The huge tour, which saw Justin Fletcher MBE bring together his favourite CBeebies characters for the very first time, was a brand new Easter egg-stravaganza!

The spectacular rock and roly-poly show, which toured UK arenas across the three week Easter school holiday, playing up to three shows per day, included Robert The Robot and Little Monster from Justin's House.

The main upstage screen was made up of XL's Lighthouse R7 LED, with five additional custom-built moveable screens on the stage constructed from Pixled FX-11.

"As always, it's a pleasure getting the team together for another CBeebies run," commented XL Events' director Rich Rowley.

"This year we changed the mix slightly in

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UK - Richard Martin Lighting supplied 30 of the MilTec Batten2s to the BBC for the main Red Nose Day broadcast.

Steve Wells, RML operations manager commented,"Comic Relief is one of those National Treasures that as a company we are always so proud to be involved in and support. For a rental company or manufacturer, high profile show such as this are an ideal opportunity to showcase their most recent products and it goes without saying, that as a company, RML will always help the lighting designer achieve their desired look. With this in mind we provided Chris Kempton with the MilTec MTC-Batten2 LED Batten, the ideal choice to match his chosen specification."

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Serbia - The highly-anticipated Mrs. Carter Show World Tour began last week in Belgrade, Serbia, with Beyoncé delivering a dynamic performance. Set designer, LeRoy Bennett, was at the helm of the show's visual display, which ranged from incredible light displays to performer flying and pyro effects.

Working closely with Alex Miasnikof and Malcolm Weldon, production managers for the tour, Tait combined optimized rental assets with custom elements to deliver a complete staging solution. Following opening night, Miasnikof stated, "No matter how complicated or crazy the project, Tait will come up with a solution. They have a team of great people that will support your efforts in all aspects, from paper to show; no matter where in the world it might be."

The rolling mainstage includes a flaggapault lift, retractable dance bar, band risers, duck blinds, propa

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China / Vietnam - The Portuguese audio manufacturer brand Next -proaudio has announced the appointment of new distributors for China, Hong-Kong, Macau and Vietnam.

Real Music Acoustics & Lighting Technology has been awarded full brand representation by the Portuguese manufacturer for China, Hong-Kong and Macau and the Newstar Music and Technology Joint Stock Company for the distribution in all the market of Vietnam.

Real Music Acoustics and Newstar Music and Technology new status were confirmed during Prolight+Sound 2013 in Frankfurt by Next-proaudio CEO - Antonio Correia.

"These two distributors will be highly important for Next-proaudio and it builds on the idea of growing in the Asian professional audio market and this is a truly exciting progression that will further strengthen our support of the Next and NSound brands in these markets. it will ensures a professiona

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USA - Professional Nexus 4x4 once again makes a statement during a significant event, shining on the Outdoor Theatre stage at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, an annual music and arts festival featuring various music genres for two consecutive weekends.

Forty-eight Nexus 4x4 fixtures were placed in vertical columns equidistantly on stage and used for their pixel-mapping capabilities to accompany hip-hop group and headliner Wu-Tang Clan, and performances of Jurassic 5, Beach House band, Puscifer, Pretty Lights and Two Door Cinema Club.

"Nexus 4x4 were stacked into six columns of eight and they were built onto traveller truss so they could be slid on and off the stage," said Todd Roberts, owner of Visions Lighting, a premier lighting, staging, video and production company that provided the fixtures.

Nexus 4x4 has 16 20-watt RGB COB LEDs and is capable of del

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Indonesia - The New Wine International church in Jakarta, Indonesia, has the unusual distinction of being located on the third floor of a large shopping arcade. It is nevertheless extremely well equipped and places a big emphasis on music. Indeed, the church had planned a major Easter celebration concert which they wished to record. As a result, they turned to Innovason distributor La Mesa, who provided an Innovason Eclipse digital console equipped with the integrated M.A.R.S. 64-track digital recorder especially for the event.

"The church already has an analogue console," explained La Mesa's Didi Kartanegara, "but they felt that they would achieve better results using an Eclipse as FoH console and recorder rather than bringing in an external recorder and having to patch it to their existing console. I have to say, I agreed with them."

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Canada - Associate Designer for the Times of India Film Awards, Robert Sondergaard of Electric Aura, encouraged lighting designer Atul Sonpal to go with the 1000 W Martin MAC Viper Profile instead of an originally speced 1500 W fixture, a decision that Atul and Robert proved happy with.

"Given my previous experience with the Vipers on the 2012 Grey Cup, I encouraged him to try out the Vipers instead," Robert Sondergaard stated. "I was very impressed with their speed and output and I knew he would be as well."

The Vipers were hung on three set arches as well as the furthest upstage truss where they worked as top color and gobo wash onto the stage.

The MAC Viper Profile is an award-winning fixture whose 26,0000 lumens of power outperforms that of market-leading profiles in the 1200-watt range and is even finding service as an alternative to 1500-watt

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South Africa - Cape Town University's The Baxter Theatre has invested in 10 Philips Strand Lighting Wallrack Dimmer units as part of a major upgrade to its lighting facilities.

The theatre, which is the second largest performing arts complex in Cape Town (after the Artscape Theatre Centre), purchased four Philips Strand Wallrack Dimmer 24 x 2.5kW, two Philips Strand Wallrack Dimmer 6 x 5kW - 25 Amp, and four Philips Strand Wallrack Dimmer 6 x 2.5kW units from Philips Strand Lighting's South African dealer DWR Distribution.

"We chose Strand because it is a trusted name in theatre lighting," commented Patrick Curtis from The Baxter. "The linkage to Philips is a positive development, and added to that with Strand Lighting products we are assured of 100% backup from DWR."

The Philips Strand Lighting Wallrack is designed for small to medium entertainment and a

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Argentina - Allen & Heath has appointed ARS as its exclusive distributor in Argentina. Established for 12 years, the company already distributes leading brands, such as Turbosound, Sennheiser and TC Electronic.

"ARS is a profitable and healthy business operating in a tough financial climate. The company has great sales and support networks in place, and are technically very proficient. ARS complements the A&H brand well and we are looking forward to working with the team," explains A&H sales and marketing manager, Debbie Maxted.

To mark their appointment, ARS are planning to host various workshops, seminars and training events in all of the major cities in Argentina throughout the year.

"We are very pleased to represent Allen & Heath, one of the most prestigious British sound console manufacturers. It is a great honour to have been selected because Allen & Hea

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USA - Rihanna's much anticipated Diamonds world tour kicked off in early March for 27 dates peppered across the U.S. and Canada through May - with more dates on the global horizon stretching into the fall. With Eighth Day Sound at the production helm, the audio kit included a pair of SD7s and a d&b audiotechnik PA provided by Eighth Day Sound, with Kyle Hamilton at FOH and Ed Ehrbar on monitors.

Last October, the group undertook an intense promotional tour (7-7-7) hitting seven countries in seven days for seven shows. Eighth Day supplied four complete control systems-two in Europe; one in the U.S. and another in Mexico City-so the engineers were able to simply walk in and mix. Although Ehrbar was working on an SD7 for the whirlwind week, Hamilton had to make do with another digital desk and was happy to be back on the SD7.

"Getting back on the SD7 for the Diamonds

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Brazil - Integrated Entertainment Technology Expo (IET-Brazil 2014) will take place on 5-6 of February 2014, at Rio Centro, adjacent to the site of the 2016 Olympic Village. IET-Brazil is the business-to-business exhibition and conference event in Latin America dedicated to the world of integrated visual, sensory and auditory experience. Showcasing the technologies, equipment and services for live events and entertainment, exhibits will include leading edge screen technologies, audio solutions, lighting equipment and integrated systems, for both permanent and temporary installations.

Brazil is a substantially developing market, now officially the world's sixth largest economy, and is set to increase its role on the world stage over the coming years with dance, performing arts, carnival and live events all central to its culture. As the host city for the two largest sporting even

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UK - With just a week left until the doors of the Royal Armouries Museum open for the fifth annual PLASA Focus: Leeds trade show, taking place on Tuesday 30 April and Wednesday 1 May, PLASA Events can confirm that visitor pre-registration figures have reached 3000: an all-time high for this event. Now firmly established as the leading industry event for the North, visitors will have access to stands from 133 different companies that represent each and every sector of the live entertainment and installation market.

Sponsoring the event are leading lighting innovators Chauvet Professional, Robe, and one of the UK's largest suppliers of technical production services, Hawthorn. The sold-out exhibition floor features new products from a number of exhibitors including Martin Audio, d&b audiotechnik, Philips Entertainment, Martin Professional, Artistic Licence, Robe, Midas, Ampetronic,

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