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The Netherlands - Lawo announced at this week's IBC in Amsterdam the appointment of L P Systems as its distributor for Poland.

"The selection and appointment of an appropriate partner for Lawo's rapidly expanding IP portfolio is a strategically critical process," comments Charles Rowden, Lawo's European sales director. "After thorough research and careful consideration, I'm delighted to confirm our partnership with L P Systems for Poland's increasingly sophisticated IP technology markets."

"We are confident that IP-based products will define the future landscape of broadcast technology investment," observes L P Systems director Jaroslaw Kierkowski. "And with Lawo's leading position in the industry, we relish this opportunity to work closely alongside one of the world leading brands."

(Jim Evans)

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Poland - UK theatre, event and installed audio specialists Out Board has appointed Polsound as its new Polish distributor for the TiMax SoundHub audio showcontrol matrix and TiMax Tracker performer tracking systems.

The team at Polsound is headed up by sales & marketing director Pawe? Danikiewicz with dedicated support from TiMax application specialist, Krzysztof Polesi?ski, an experienced sound designer and systems engineer in his own right.

Polesi?ski stated, "TiMax is a totally unique sound automation system and it cannot be compared to anything else. At Polsound we understand TiMax SoundHub and TiMax Tracker, and how it will bring the best sound arrangements for our customers across Poland. I see a very promising future for the range with Polsound."

Out Board director Dave Haydon commented, "We are excited to welcome Polsound's support for TiMax in Poland, they hav

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Fighting Talk - Culture minister Matt Hancock has pledged to improve access to the creative industries and build a stronger relationship between technology and culture, as he sets out his main priorities for the role. Hancock, who succeeded Ed Vaizey in the position in July, also said he would fight to ensure government support for arts and culture in his first keynote speech as minister.

Delivered in front of an audience of creative industry professionals, Hancock used his first speech to set out his three main priorities, which he described as "backing success, access and synthesis". After praising the creative industries as "absolutely central to our post-Brexit future", Hancock said he would "fight to ensure that the creative and digital industries are at the heart of this government's industrial strategy." The minister went on to pledge that creative sector tax reliefs wo

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Germany - This year, Germany's biggest electronic music festival was inspired to attract massive crowds, with more than 65,000 visitors attending Nature One.

For four days, top acts like Robin Schulz, Paul van Dyk, Sven V

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Belgium - Lokerse Feesten is a 10-day city festival that takes place during August in Lokeren, East Flanders. What began as a small festival in 1975 has grown into one of the largest festivals in Europe, with hundreds of thousands of visitors descending upon the small town each year to see an eclectic range of artists, ranging from Snoop Dogg to Simple Minds.

This year, the famed festival's Red Bull Elektropedia Room delivered a high-energy club-like feel with a Ignace D'haese, Jonas Weyn and Tijs Coene (Arf & Yes) designed light show that featured 100 Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures supplied by Phlippo.

D'haese and Weyn of Arf & Yes drew on 500 individually controlled moving heads in the collection of Rogues to create a mesmerizing multi-dimensional look on the festival stage. He fixed the fixtures around all four sides of the large industrial-style indoor spa

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USA - The Lost DayClub at Tiki Island, NY, is a large, outdoor dance club with a pool-party ambience. The club hosts private parties as well as nightly entertainment and features a swimming pool, a Tiki bar and a central area used for special events and dancing. A major club renovation in 2016 included a new distributed audio system featuring Community R Series and I Series loudspeakers.

JD Systems, Inc. of Staten Island, NY designed and installed the Lost DayClub's new audio system. JD Systems' owner Jak Daragiati says the club's previous audio system had uneven coverage and they had received noise complaints from neighbours. "The loudspeakers were just thrown all over the place and nothing was delayed," he said. "It was a real mess." As far as audio quality, Daragiati says, "Tiki wanted to host events with well-known DJs. But the DJs refused to come because of the sound."

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UK - As part of the company's ongoing investment in a host of new equipment, Pinewood MBS Lighting has brought in a substantial number of Digital Sputnik fixtures to augment what has become one of the industry's most expansive product ranges.

Having amassed 60 DS6 fixtures and over 240 single heads including a quantity of the latest wirelessly controlled DS1 battery version, Pinewood MBS is home to the largest Digital Sputnik rental stock in the world!

Used extensively by cinematographer Greig Fraser ACS/ASC during filming of the Pinewood MBS supported Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the fixtures have been well received by filmmakers and have become a key part of lighting lists on a variety of film and television productions. Supplied by Pinewood MBS in exclusively cased kits, the modular systems are exceeding the expectations of filmmakers of all genres.

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UK - Birmingham -based production company DMX Productions is increasingly turning to Elation Professional products to add a dynamic flare to a variety of shows and events. One example is an early summer UK tour by Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh that saw the Indian artist play a handful of dates in England including a show at London's Wembley Arena.

Dosanjh is the world's biggest Punjabi superstar, with anthems heard on dancefloors across the globe and a fan base to rival that of Justin Bieber. DMX Productions continued their relationship with Dosanjh and promoter Moxiebox by handling the complete production supply on their second tour with Dosanjh. The show was designed by SJ Grevett, owner of DMX Productions, who created a large 8m x 8m LED video screen as the centrepiece of the design with a surrounding lighting rig that included a large number of Elation moving heads and eff

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UK - As a leading supplier of technical solutions to the entertainment industry for more than 40 years, White Light is often called upon to service various venues across the country. Whether it's annual maintenance, electrical testing or the repairing of lights and desks, WL has a team of experienced experts to fulfil any servicing requirements. One of its long-term contracts is with Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) which now owns 45 theatres worldwide - including 11 in London's West End.

When it launched in 1992, the ATG had a mere two theatres - the Duke of York's in the West End and the New Victoria Theatre in Woking. Twenty-four years later, the company now oversees an additional 43 venues, from the 250-seat Donmar Warehouse to the 2000-seat Sunderland Empire. With such a huge range of theatres, not to mention more than 11,000 performances each year, ATG needs to ensure that

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UK - Weighing in at only 20.5kg, the Roxie LED 300W Followspot from Robert Juliat is an ultra-compact little weapon that packs a punch far above its weight. Available from the exclusive UK distributors, Ambersphere Solutions, the Roxie has been chosen by Phil Joyce of Onyx Lighting when making a fresh investment in followspots this year.

"I have never purchased Robert Juliat followspots before but, like most lighting professionals, I've used them on locations for many years and always been impressed with the quality of their build and ease of operation. This year we had more than 30 awards shows lined up not to mention a long list of dry hires to service so it was a case of making a purchase or continuing to rent in.

'Thor from Ambersphere came over to our office and did a demo with them. I was so impressed with the light output and the optics, we placed the order straight

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World - For more than a quarter century, Celine Dion has captivated millions worldwide with music that reaches straight for the heart. On her recent arena-scale tour of French-speaking lands on both sides of the Atlantic, Dion relied on a Meyer Sound Leo Family reinforcement system to provide an intimate connection with audiences despite the vast scale of tour's four arenas.

Once again, the system was provided by Dion's long-time audio reinforcement supplier, Solotech of Montreal. At every one of the sold-out shows, her loyal fans were enthralled by the direct connection they felt with Dion and her music. Tour FOH engineer Denis Savage and system designer/engineer Francois 'Frankie' Desjardin made certain the Leo Family system made every single person feel like Dion was talking directly to him or her.

"When you looked at the IMAG screens and listened to the system, everyth

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South Africa - Successful South African rock band Prime Circle have invested in a dot2 core plus dot2 F-wing which will allow their lighting designer Vincent van Niekerk to be fully in control wherever they are playing, including international shows and tours.

The move was instigated by the band's bass player Marco Gomes who is involved in all aspects of their production, and was supplied by MA's South African distributor DWR, with whom Prime Circle has a long working relationship.

Founded in 2001, with six studio albums to date, several chart-topping singles and numerous awards, Prime Circle have toured increasingly in Europe in recent years. Their mid-2016 single 'Ghosts' reached the top 150 in Germany's weekly airplay charts and their European popularity was boosted further by several performances at high profile German events like Rock im Revier, Rockavaria, Rock auf d

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UK - For the 12th consecutive year, Blackout was entrusted to supply the Summer Series with American Express, 10 evenings of concerts from pop headliners and emerging artists, before transforming Somerset House for its Film4 Summer Screen fortnight of cult, classic and contemporary outdoor movie showings, August 2016.

The drapes and rigging expert, led by project director Kevin Monks, worked with the London venue to supply all the stage rigging and a series of auxiliary structures for 11 pop concerts, including performances from Laura Mvula, Everything Everything and James Morisson. Two wings flanked either side of the stage, from which event branding was attached, designed to have minimal visual impact on the iconic building, drawing in crowds of over 3,000 to the open-air grounds.

The team worked successfully within tight time restraints to transform the historic venue f

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World - Load monitoring company Eilon Engineering has been in the business of keeping people safe for 40 years and is celebrating the anniversary with a generous programme of luxury incentives for its customers and distributors.

"In retrospect, looking back at the last four decades, I feel both humbled and gratified at how far we have come," stated president and founder of Elion Engineering, Eitan Eilon, about the special anniversary. "I feel that our greatest achievement is that our customers trust our products, and best of all that we are contributing to keeping people safe. Our products span the globe and we have created a legacy of uncompromising safety and quality."

Eilon Engineering has grown to become a world leader in the development and manufacture of load monitoring systems. Its popular product line includes Ron Crane Scales, dynamometers and load cells for force

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USA - Toby Keith knows what his fans want: more Toby Keith, and the multiplatinum country singer with more than 20 #1 hits is happy to oblige them as he continues his Interstates & Tailgates Tour with a new design and lighting package provided by Bandit Lites.

Lighting designer Seth Jackson reunited with the Toby team last winter to transform the look of the design, centring less on a specific tour theme and instead focusing on the operation.

"Toby wanted to shake his schedule up and play more of the festivals and fairs this year, rather than the standard amphitheatre run that had become the norm for him," explained Jackson. "In order to accomplish this, we had to design the show in such a way that it could always fit and look like the show we created, rather than have to make drastic compromises from day to day."

To achieve that goal, Jackson used several Bandit Pods

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UK - AV distributor CIE are at it again, as its HDBaseTEAM charity cycle team embark on another truly 'Massif' marathon cycle challenge. This September, the CIE team will cycle 500 miles through France in just three days. Much of the route will be following the 2016 Tour de France stages 3, 4 and 5, beginning at the Channel port of Saint-Malo, through Normandy to the Loire Valley, before rising towards the Massif Central and finishing at Clermont-Ferrand.

The team, which is made up of CIE directors and members of the AV sales and technical support team, will take on their ninth annual challenge this year in an endeavour to hit their 2016 fundraising target of £7000. The money raised will support Cancer Research, the British Heart Foundation and local charity the Saving Lives Helipad Appeal, based in CIE's HQ town of Nottingham. To date, the CIE HDBaseTEAM has raised in e

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Poland - Krakow-based PA company, FS Audio, invested in an Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing system to manage its busy summer events schedule. Comprising a S5000 Control Surface with DM64 MixRack, the new system was first employed to manage monitors at Krakow's renowned Wianki festival.

Staged in Krakow's main square, the Wianki festival traditionally celebrates the Summer Solstice, attracting approximately 160,000 people to watch performances by dozens of popular national artists.

FS Audio's monitor engineer for the event, Erwin Legutko, commented,"dLive is a great desk for every monitor engineer. It has a really well designed, clear patching system, which makes it easy to react quickly under difficult conditions. As a previous iLive user, I have to admit that dLive has made huge progress. I highly recommend it."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Prestigious lighting and video content design awards ceremony the Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) has launched a new interactive event app for the 2016 edition.

The app serves as a one-stop hub for KOI Awards' shortlisted designers, guests, sponsors and interested parties to engage with the event and its celebration of lighting and video content design across theatre, television and concert touring and events.

With a clean, intuitive interface and branding for the Awards' valued Headline, Spotlight and Table sponsors, the free-to-download app offers users all the information about the event they could need in the palm of their hand, from shortlists to social media links.

Content creation, communications and events agency The Fifth Estate, that produces the event, worked alongside developer eStage Digital to introduce the new digital tool. The app is available

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Germany - A Summer's Tale proved worthy of its name. For the event, which is nestled in an idyllic forest and moor landscape presented much more than "just" a top-class music programme from 10-13 August. The cultural summer fairy tale south of Hamburg also included yoga, cooking, dancing, acting, canoeing, slackline balancing and many more activities. "Try out things in beautiful nature" is part of creative happenings organisers' festival philosophy.

This philosophy also extends to the top-class music programme. On several stages, around 12,000 visitors enjoyed shows from international stars spanning several different music genres. The festival's highlights included shows by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Garbage, Amy McDonald, Nada Surf, Sigur R

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UK - Colour Sound Experiment provided lighting and LED screens to the dance tents at two major UK festivals for the first time this summer - T in the Park at Strathallan Castle in Perthshire, Scotland and the double sited V Festival, for which they serviced both Weston Park in Staffordshire and the Hylands Park site in Chelmsford, Essex.

Says Haydn Cruickshank, "We were very excited to be offered the chance to contribute to both of these amazing and popular events that are mainstays on the festival calendar."

For the Slam Tent at T In The Park, the Colour Sound team worked with regular Slam Tent LD Scott McDonald to provide the kit to his specification, while for V, two very different and dynamic designs were developed by Colour Sound's Fletch.

The V North stage was crew chiefed for Colour Sound by Alex McCoy and V South by Frankie McDade, while Sam Campbell led the te

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UK - With one of the largest single-level auditoria in London, and the oldest permanent outdoor theatre in the UK, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre (OAT) has played host to Martin Audio's W8LM Mini Line Array over the last five years.

Autograph Sound designer Nick Lidster has specified it there as the OAT amplify all their shows, and the summer season finale is always a full scale musical. When it came to the recent six-week run of the new production of Jesus Christ Superstar, under the direction of Timothy Sheader, he knew that with sell-out audiences of 1250 expected every night in the fan-shaped auditorium, he needed something that would emulate the classic rock sound that had characterised the original album, featuring Deep Purple's Ian Gillan in the lead role, 46 years ago.

"I was concerned that while the traditional musicals we do at Regent's Park sound great us

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UK - Over the August 2016 Bank Holiday weekend over 70,000 music fans descended upon Daresbury, Cheshire for one of the world's biggest electronic music festivals, Creamfields.

The festival has grown in size each year, with the Cream organisation constantly raising the bar in terms of line-up and production values. Technical event producer LarMac Live was once again called in by promoters Cream and Live Nation to liaise with the artists and deliver the premium technical production and high quality visitor experience that Creamfields audiences have come to expect.

To help LarMac Live deliver the largest Creamfields to date, PRG XL Video were brought in to supply video, lighting and rigging across the two main stages - Arc, and Horizon, together with video across six more stages around the 900-acre site.

PRG XL Video's head of rigging services, Q Willis, oversaw a team s

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USA - One could say that Tuacahn Centre for the Arts, the 42,000sq.ft arts centre, located in the mouth of Utah's Padre Canyon, is steady as a rock. Not surprising since it's located adjacent to the Snow Canyon State Park and features a canyon carved from the red and white Navajo sandstone in the state's Red Mountains.

Tuacahn offers theatregoers a unique experience: the facility, completed in 1995, includes a 1,920-seat outdoor amphitheatre, 328-seat indoor theatre, black box theatre, dance studio and more. But what its lengthy show season, which includes two or three productions on the amphitheatre stage, also offers is great sound.

For the last 10 years, that was assured by an L-Acoustics dV-DOSC sound system. Beginning this year, Tuacahn entered its next decade with sound from a newly installed L-Acoustics Kara line array system. Installed in April by Poll Sound, which

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Belgium - For the third year in a row, Turbosound's Flex Array has been the weapon of choice for Rock Werchter's Jupiler House of The Bull Stage. Held annually, 150,000 festival goers from all corners of the world descend in the quiet village of Werchter, Belgium for four days to see and hear some of music's greatest acts.

Celebrating its 40th year this year, Rock Werchter hosted a party like no other with rock, pop and dance acts spread across three stages; the Main Stage, the Barn Stage and Klub C, with the unofficial fourth stage and Turbosound's favourite, the Jupiler House of The Bull Stage.

Responsible for blasting out club music at the Jupiler Stage was the largest Turbosound rental company in the Benelux, Splendit who have been taking care of music festivals all summer long with Werchter an annual date in the diary.

"For nine years we have taken care of the Jup

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