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14 December 2016

Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the first leg of the Grammy, Tony and Emmy-award winning performer's summer tour, which kicked off in Nashville at the Ryman Auditorium.

In addition to performing songs from her new album, Lauper also treats fans to her classic hits, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and True Colors while telling anecdotes of her adventures. "I have an idea of how I am going to put a little country in all of some of the songs I will be singing,' Lauper said. "You know, why not? What the heck. You live once."

Her show features a five piece band and artful set comprising of a video wall that showcases Western flicks and footage of Cyndi in the

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Headlining this year's festival on Sunday night, was 7th Heaven. Lighting designer Zach Scott added punch to the band's MayFest appearance with a ground package that was anchored by Rogue R2 Beams by Chauvet Professional.

"There's a large and loyal following for 7th Heaven in Chicago and the Midwest. One of the things that draws fans to this band is its incredibly high energy level." said Scott. "My goal is to reflect this energy level by producing a high impact lighting design - and the R2 Beams allow me to do that. I love the look of the beams, especially when I'm on the festival circuit."

Scott has plenty of opportunities to use the Rogue R2 Beams along with the lasers, LED

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This year lighting designer Linus MacDonald stepped up the show's look with Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights.

The Kinsmen Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization that assists Saskatchewan people to acquire special needs equipment and access to medical treatment. The telethon was staged at Conexus Arts Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan; the production alternates between Regina and Saskatoon annually.

Linus MacDonald marked his fifth consecutive turn as lighting designer for Telemiracle, which continues to increase its production values year to year. "This time we had new Sony cameras and the fabulous Scenius fixtures," he notes. "The show has

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The eleven 20th anniversary concerts staged by Scala & Kolacny Brothers at the Stadsfeesthall in Aarschot was a great opportunity for him to utilize nearly 150 Robe fixtures to deliver these memorable and visually compelling sold-out performances, playing to 750 people a time.

Their material is an eclectic mix of special arrangements from well-known artists like Coldplay, Metallica, Radiohead, U2, Nirvana and many others, interspersed with their own material. As you might expect, it veers from classical to rock to full-on techno; from raw and intense

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This year's tour will take to the road between the 7th and 11th of July somewhere within 100 miles of central London.

The Theatrical Guild, celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, has long helped those working in backstage and front of house roles during their times of need. The organisation offers advice, re-training opportunities or one-off grants to those who, due to a range of circumstances, may require support.

The ride has a new format this year. For the first time ever the route and venues that will be visited along the way are top secret. The details will be revealed at the Thursday night briefing on the 7th of July. More informati

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AC-ET will be showcasing a selection of the very latest lighting, audio, rigging, video, and film & TV solutions available from their vast portfolio of over 200 leading brands and five specialist sales divisions.

The stand will feature the very latest premium LED solutions from Chroma-Q. Designed and built to exacting standards in North America, the range has been adopted by many leading designers and specifiers for some of today's most demanding and prestigious lighting applications. Highlights include the innovative new Space Force LED space light; the Color One 100 RGBA, homogenous output LED PAR; award-winning Inspire family of colour-changing LED house lights; the hugely

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"Mosaic Show Controller X was created for larger lighting and LED installations that demand synchronised control and extensive capabilities," explains ETC architectural product manager Lowell Olcott, "which is why the MSCX offers an extensive range of external triggering interfaces, including Ethernet, RS232 Serial, and more.

It also provides astronomical, real-time and lunar-time time-based control as well as video output for multiple pixel matrices simultaneously.

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"Before we even started Cour Design, we were working with St. Lucia and it was actually their openness to implement our system for automatic playback of visuals that got our business going," began Gordon Droitcour, Cour Design. "The band has an evolving and different stage design aesthetic than most other artists, so we wanted to push the creative envelope on a design that also works well logistically. Using the Matter album cover as inspiration we knew wanted to i

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14 December 2016

Additional performances throughout the day included Billy Ray Cyrus, Cheap Trick and Thomas Rhett, meaning lighting designer Tom Kenny had to create a design that would balance daytime and evening looks, wow the live audience and translate well to the millions of viewers watching at home.

Bandit provided VL 3500 washes for fill, VL 3500 Spots as key light for band members, while VL 3000 Spots created patterns and chunky beams in the air. A combination of Robe Pointes, Solares Flares and Clay Paky Sharpys

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14 December 2016

I Capitani Coraggiosi (the Courageous Captains), as they are known, will do a new series of three-hour concerts, consisting of 50 memorable Italian songs from the last 50 years. A super group of 21 multi-instrumentalists will perform on an innovative high-tech stage hosted in the sports halls of various Italian cities.

The challenge the new production team faced was to resume from the show's Rome format. Lighting designer Carlo Pastore had the task of explaining the choices the two artists helped make.

"Every sports hall has its own characteristics. We need

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Ronnie is a regular LD for Dutch hardstyle dance producer / promoter Art of Dance, with whom I-Motion co-promoted the most recent Syndicate event at the same venue.

On the strength of his work for that event, he was invited to produce the production lighting design for this leading house / trance phenomena.

The Robe count was impressive - 202 x Pointes, 121 x LEDWash 800s and 28 x CycFX 8s - all supplied by leading Netherlands based rental company, The Purple Group.

Ronnie created the visual design - lighting and video - working with Chris Das who coordinated the technical preparations for

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14 December 2016

Halpin and his co-designer Chris Nyfyeld, both of Los Angeles-based Silent House Productions, are creating a visual mood that manages to be both intimate and impactful on the 60-city tour with a lightshow that's anchored by 62 Strike 4 multi-formated war

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14 December 2016

The project was created by Ample Projects, with interactive lighting, sound effects and moving parts. The sculptures were presented with a great technologically advanced setup - the tender was won by Mandylights who created a colourful and atmospheric setting for the sculptures.

"The zoo is basically pitch black at night and in many areas we really had to start from scratch," commented Richard Neville of Mandylights. "There were some areas where we had complete free reign and others where we were complementing the lanterns."

Crucial to the lighting design were 130 x ShowPro Hex 18 LED PARs and 24 x ShowPro EX36 LED Floods, both of which have an I

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A live version of the trio's second orchestral album, Drinking from the Sun, Walking under Stars Restrung, the ambitiously grandiose tour took place in April and quickly sold out. It stopped at all five major Australian cities and featured the symphony orchestras of Sydney, Queensland (Brisbane), Adelaide, Melbourne and West Australian (Perth).

Owen made good use of Avolites' high-performance Sapphire Touch lighting console running Titan v9, which he used to create a stunning array of spectacular visual effects for the tour's larger shows.

"I really loved using the

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The striking neoclassical circular landmark, now Grade I listed, was designed by James Gibbs and constructed between 1737 and 1748 to house the Radcliffe Library (as it was known until 1860). It was funded from the estate of Dr John Radcliffe (1650-1714), arguably the most successful English physician of his day, who left his trustees a large sum of money with which to purchase both the land for the new building and an endowment to pay a librarian and purchase books. It was officially opened on April 1749.

Much more recently, Richard Francis of Oxford based electrical contractors Monard Electrical was asked to work on the in

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Besides enjoying the performances by the artists themselves, the audience were impressed by the lights. The swirls and beams from the lighting fixtures formed a show within the show. The crowd saw a total of at least 190 lights, installed throughout the stadium, perform in unison.

The lighting designer skilfully coordinated the lights to merge harmoniously with each other. The most prominent and notable fixtures were the lights from the Clay Paky range. Acoustic & Lighting were able to spot 70 Sharpys installed around the stage and stands. Furthermore, a total of 20 Clay Paky B-EYE K20s, 22 Alpha Wash 1500s and 10 Alpha Spot HPE 1500s were used throughout the event, a

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The concert touring division in Hawthorn is drawing upon its wide range of hire equipment, supplying lighting to specification, including Martin MAC Viper Profile, Clay Paky Sharpy and ETC Source 4 Profile fixtures.

Lighting is controlled using an Avolites Arena console. Glux 10mm LED panels and a 30-inch mirror ball will also feature in the package, along with two Hawthorn technicians who will accompany the tour.

The kit provided by Hawthorn supplements the existing equipment provided by the festivals.

Mick Freer, head of concert touring at Hawthorn,

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The new order was delivered via Robe's Benelux distributor, Controllux and the lights have been busy ever since on a wide variety of projects - from TV shows to major live events.

AFR's lighting operations manager Marco de Koff explained how Robe has been on their radar for some time, but it was 2010 when they started looking more closely at the brand with the launch of the Robin range, including the MMX Spot and the LEDWash series.

'It was clear that Robe was taking a very innovative route in its product development, a trend that's continued and impressed a lot of people," says Marco.

As AFR has started receiving more artist rider and event design requests for Robe they have

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14 December 2016

Penn Elcom chairman and founder Roger Willems stated: "The Irish pro entertainment industry market shows definitive signs of recovering from the economic dip, there are many installations and other projects happening and flourishing! It's been our intention to open a base there for some time, but then circumstances converged to make this a really opportune time."

These circumstances include Rory becoming available to run Penn Elcom Ireland and also the 7000sq.ft warehouse facility in south County Dublin coming on-stream, so with these two plusses, Roger activated the plan. Stock of Penn's extensive standard flightca

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14 December 2016

Designed to control dimmers, LED fixtures and moving lights, the Philips Strand 500ML's user interface is quick and easy to navigate and provides designers and programmers with 24 faders, each of which may be used as a master, submaster or playback.

Lighting designer Mark Wynn-Edwards, whose portfolio includes Lamb and Jamiroquai, comments that he is highly impressed with the Philips Strand 500ML:

"I have been using the Philips Strand 500ML for a while now on a broad range of projects," he expla

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14 December 2016

Designed for large-scale applications, the al-12 is designed for higher efficiency, increased power handling and reduced power compression. VUE incorporates proprietary transducer designs in each al-Class acoustic line array element. Every individual component development project carefully weighs the design trade-offs to optimize parameters for maximum output capability and heat dissipation, frequency response linearity, duty-cycle reliability, and minimum size and weight.

One of the distinguishing features of the al-12 is its ability to integrate with other al-Class elements thanks to VUE's Acoustic Linearity principles. CST (Continuous Source Topology) enables VUE al-Class line-array elements to function seamless

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14 December 2016

Bandit Lites once again worked with Lambda Productions to provide a lighting package for the weekend that featured a line-up including Pearl Jam, Dead & Company, LCD Soundsystem, J. Cole, CHVRCHES, Jason Isbell, M83, Halsey and Chris Stapleton.

Bandit's production manager Dizzy Gosnell designed the mainstage festival system to accommodate the three daily closing headliners systems, as each brought along a large portion of their own touring system which occupied a 40'w by 30'd footprint above the performing area.

Working in conjunction with their lighting design

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WI has previously worked with Dragone on several projects, explains project manager Koen Peeters, and for this one the show creators turned to them to provide solutions for several staging conundrums, all of which had to be delivered in an extremely short timeframe.

With the tour starting in Russia, crew visas, paperwork and transportation needed special attention, in addition to all the engineering and physical creative work!

The first WI element of the project was to create 14 aluminium flying wings and a kinetic system to make them move. All of these flying elements have an i