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14 March 2016

Situated on level three of the Tattersalls Club, the Doltone House venue is a prime location for a wide range of events including conferences and weddings and prides itself on grand architecture and sumptuous décor. It's this focus on providing a glamorous ambiance for its guests that prompted Mark McInnes, Show Technology's national sales and marketing manager, to supply the Clay Paky fixtures.

"We wanted to provide a subtle, yet state-of-the-art solution, to illuminate the space. As the Alpha Spot 300 is a smaller sized fixture it's ideal for use in venues which care about the aesthetics of the room," McInnes says. "This particular venue has a flamboyant interior design and feel, so the owners w

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14 March 2016

One of the recent adopters has been Seattle band Pearl Jam, products of the city's rock explosion at the beginning of the 1990's.

Their lighting designer Kille Knobel (who has also worked with fellow Seattle rock band Soundgarden) has been with the band since the early part of the millennium - and this latest tour (which visits Europe in June), is her first outing with the X-5 strobes. It is the band's most extravagant production to date - and has been conceived with stadiums and arenas in mind.

"We knew this production would play mainly in arenas, but also a fair number of stadium, festival and outdoor shows," she confirms. "We also do many shows that sell 360°, so creating a show that wasn't com

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14 March 2016

The project was co-ordinated for XL by Paul 'Macca' McCauley who worked in close collaboration with Andrew Craig from Live Nation's London office and his counterpart from their Asia Pacific operation, who liaised with the artist's production and management.

"I have done a few of these high profile UK one offs with various Asian superstars in recent years," comments Macca. "They are often very complex in set up and this one was no exception, which increases the pressure, especially for a one off. The key to getting it right is for all departments to be really rigorous in the prep and have a good plan of action once onsite as time is always tight." ... although on this o

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Lighting for the show - which is produced by Syco Music with technical production co-ordinated by Production North - was designed by Peter Barnes. Lighting director and operator on the road is Jonathan Rouse and all the lighting equipment and its necessary trussing and rigging is supplied by HSL.

Barnes and Rouse programmed the show - which features an impressive array of 34 different musical numbers - during production rehearsals at LS Live in Wakefield. Their challenge was to keep it visually exciting throughout and give each song a different

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14 March 2016

Lighting designer, Alexey Yevstifeyev, who deployed Martin fixtures based on their functionality and brightness, proposed the lighting concept of the show to feature creative lighting and midair effects, consisting of 20 MAC Viper Profiles, 12 Atomic 3000 DMX, 20 RUSH MH3 Beams, 48 MAC 101s and 20 MAC 2000 Wash XB's.

The ice show took place at the Yubileny Sport Palace's hockey rink with the main challenge being the limited time for installation. Taking this factor into consideration, Yevstifeyev used a combined truss mounting and floor mounting system. By placing the MAC 101 fixtures on the floor arou

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14 March 2016

Late News - A new Michael Jackson album, featuring eight new tracks from the late artist's archive, will be released on 13 May. Titled Xscape, the track listing was chosen by Epic Records chairman LA Reid, who trawled through four decades of Jackson's demos and off-cuts. The tracks were then updated by the likes of Timbaland, who works with Justin Timberlake,

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On the day, top runners from White Light were dispatch supervisor Steve Smith, hire co-ordinator Josh Yard, and business development director Richard Wilson.

An avid runner, Wilson along with marketing manager Fanny Saint-Pasteur set up the challenge as a team activity and recruited colleagues to join the cau

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14 March 2016

A 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music Finalist, Machover studied at The Juilliard School and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM in Paris. He is the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge USA), where he is also Director of its Opera of the Future Group. Since 2006 he has been Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Compositions by Tod Machover have been commissioned and performed by ensembles and soloists throughout the world including Opera America, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Deutsches

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Friday 21st March saw millions of viewers tune into BBC One and BBC Two to enjoy an evening of fun, comedy, entertainment and sport live from the Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford.

Nick Edwards, Managing Director commented: "This was a large undertaking for our company which started back in January with initial site visits. The main focus was to transform the Copper Box Arena from a Sporting venue into a large scale TV broadcast studio. Effectively along with our production partners we were challenged to transform the Copper Box into 'TC1' (the BBC's now defunct flagship studio and former host of Sport Relief)."

The night was hosted by David Walliams, Gary Lineker and Da

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The company's internal reorganization last year prompted a review of distributed brands to ensure consistent focus and a cohesive product offering. Both SDUK and myMix recognised that the niche myMix product portfolio, which is a near complete solution to many audio applications, was now a difficult fit and would be better served by a new distributor. Effective 1 May, SDUK will be passing all responsibility for myMix sales and support to UK-based distributors Synthax Audio UK.

"As we moved to a selective distribution strategy and restructured our organisation to support s

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14 March 2016

Founded in 1981 and signed by technical manager Sarah Cox, Luziero works in the theatre, dance and TV markets. Lighting has been the core part of Luzeiro's business with partners in sound, video and cinema, housing the ability to do turnkey projects.

Over the years Luzeiro have aimed to be one step ahead of their client's needs, working with prestigious brands. "Our aim is always been our clients full satisfaction, so we are very focussed in post-sales assistance, and that is why we have a trained team that are able to create projects, sell, repair, maintain and upgrade the equipment we sell," says Maria Alexandra

"For all our business serves it is easy to understand why we are so happy to become a Green Hippo Hippotizer distribut

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The ambitious production, set in the round, attracted rave reviews, with the Guardian praising its 'genuine theatrical spectacle', and the Express saying it was 'magnificently staged'.

Lighting designer for the production, which ran from late February into March 2014, was Andrew Bridge, three-time recipient of the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and long time collaborator and friend of PRG.

"The Gubbay/RAH producing operation has been going for 20 years and I have lit them all," says Bridge. "It presents a challenging schedule with load in on Sunday and first open

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As a lighting designer working in the 1970's Flores specialised in using the latest, innovative equipment in the development of sound and lighting for the club industry. Today his designs reflect his on-going dedication to taking club installations into a new dimension with the use of innovative, interactive equipment.

Recently Led4Skys finished their first installation using the Visual Productions lighting control products. The project was for the Night club, Dady'O. Located in the centre of Cancun, Mexico, Dady'O is one of the most popular dance clubs in the world.

Flores created a new design and build for the sound booth and also the

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Opened by the fast growing company's Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling in April 2010, Maggie's in Chelsea is a 1980s-inspired boutique club named after the former British Prime Minister.

It had been trading largely without dynamic lighting until the operators contacted David Graham's London-based installation company, based on their sensitive lighting implementation at another heavily themed Inception venue, DISCO in Soho.

While the focal point at Maggie's is again the dance floor - now brought to life by a laser, strobe, scatter beams and four hemispheres - the more subtle work has been applied to bringing 80s icons such as Wham, Mr T, Super Mario, Sonic The Hedgehog etc to life with a series of cleverly detailed fixtures and driv

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"Sagebrush had been using a large amount of video elements in the previous worship centre but when they started the second phase project in building a new worship centre, they wanted to improve upon that and chose the Elation EPV762 video panels," stated Stephen MacAurther, lighting systems designer and engineer at VAST Technologies Inc., the Albuquerque-based systems design and installation company that completed the install.

VAST Technologies got involved with the new 2000-seat worship centre based on their previous work at the ministry's various campuses, which included the Albuquerque location's original main worshi

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A flagship of the Hyatt International Hotel Group in Asia, the luxurious Grand Hyatt Hong Kong occupies a convenient location near the territory's waterfront, directly behind the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. As a result, the Grand Ballroom, 680sq.m in size, is often used for convention centre events during trade fairs and exhibitions.

"The entire audio system is managed and configured via a PC in the control room loaded with the Q-Sys Designer software," explains Tommy Ho, senior sales manager at Audio System Consultants (Asia) Ltd (ASCL), the QSC distributor in Hong Kong. "In addition to providing delay and dynamics processing, and controlling meters, crossovers, filters

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It's where they learned the value of having the right technology products for the markets they were working in, from renting out classic Fender Twin amps that clients of their rehearsal studio business in the 1980s knew to come to them for, to more recently having the in-demand products and systems that their live event and touring customers require. Boulevard Pro's latest addition to that latter category has been the recent addition of a full L-Acoustics Kara package.

According to Anthony Cioffi, 80 percent of what goes out their door for rentals are sound system components from L-Acoustics, whose products have litera

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The Tate Modern - formally Bankside Power Station - is among Gray's favourite spaces to light in the city. He has also worked on several events and projects for Mission and is familiar with the scope and style of their work which give him plenty of ideas about the right ambience to create in.

"I love highlighting the room's imposing industrial architecture - 152m long and 35m high - and bringing it into a new dimension and context using the full height and scale. Most visitors don't immediately notice a lot of the detail, so lighting the space is a big chance

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The show's designer, Chris Lisle had been alerted to the new light last year, "I had seen a couple of YouTube links of the B-EYE prior to going to LDI last year." He said. "I knew right away that it would be a great fixture to use on One Republic. After seeing it in person, that feeling was confirmed. I had started to get the ball rolling with Dave Ridgway of Neg Earth as soon as I had seen the videos. He asked that I speak to Philip Norfolk from Ambersphere who represents Clay Paky in the UK market: Philip would be at LDI."

"Chris really wanted to try them out," explained Norfolk, "and when he told me One Republic woul

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Back by popular demand, Perrier Award-winning comedian, writer and original star of Grumpy Old Women, Jenny Eclair is joined by fellow recruits Susie Blake and Kate Robbins in a new theatrical production based on the hit BBC British TV show.

Matt has been providing the raucous live show's lighting since 2007.

"The lighting had to recreate a number of contrasting scenic environments - from the initial sunny garden, to a torture chamber, a Saturday night TV Strictly Come Dancing-like show studio, a wine bar, and a tea shop, amongst others," explains Matt. "With only one full set, all these environments had to be created with lighting and th

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The band embarked on a seven-week headline tour of Europe in mid-March with lighting designer Trevor Fairclough turning to Elation's Platinum Beam 5R Extreme for the punchy output and speed needed to keep up with the hard driving band.

"Having a speedy pan and tilt really helps with the tempo of the band. Being able to run a tilt effect at 200bpm with no compromises in size really gets the crowd pumping," commented LD Trevor Fairclough, who also handles programming and lighting operation for the band.

The Platinum Beam 5R Extreme houses speedy three-phase motors for quick effect ch

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With a stadium audience of over 40,000, plus tens of millions of viewers tuning in worldwide, the Winter Olympics has been a much-anticipated event. Marenghi used a lighting rig originally specified by lighting designer Al Gurdon for the Winter Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies, to create a spectacular new design for the Paralympics Ceremonies.

"I was tasked with enhancing the artistic elements of the ceremonies of the Winter Paralympic Games with a lighting design that would thrill both the live audience in the massive Fisht Stadium and at the same time satisfy the TV companies broadcasting t

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14 March 2016

Bardy Hayes, president of Global Market Management, Inc., regional sales managing company for Allen & Heath in Asia Pacific, said, "E&E is a company with a rich history and a promising future. It is an honour to do business with a company with this level of professionalism and deep technical expertise. We look forward to a long and mutually successful relationship."

Gary Goh, Deputy managing director, Electronics & Engineering Pte Ltd, commented, "We are honoured to be representing the Allen & Heath brand for the Singapore and Malaysia markets. It is indeed a joy to be working with such a reputable company that shares the same level of passion for audio excellence."

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Commenting on the appointment, Miguel Mezquita, managing director, Earpro, stated, "The new cooperation between Martin Professional and Earpro further reinforces the close relationship and commitment that Earpro has had with Harman for more than 25 years. This agreement will undoubtedly benefit the interests of customers and users throughout the Spanish market. With this new setup, they will have access to the most comprehensive offering of AV solutions across the professional sector."

"Within the past three years, our people have done an amazing job reaffirming Martin Professional'