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UK - The first products in Elation Professional's new DTW Series of variable white LED lights are now available. DTW Series fixtures are colour temperature adjustable and can emulate the 'Dim to Warm' look of conventional tungsten / halogen fixtures.

Optimized to give the finest in variable white light, available now are the DTW Par 300, DTW Par Z19 IP and DTW Bar 1000. All three fixtures feature full colour temperature range control from 2,700K - 6,500K plus independent Dim-to-Warm channel control from 1,800K -to 3,200K for accurate rendition of traditional tungsten halogen lamps. All DTW Series fixtures include extremely smooth dimming with variable dimming curve modes, strobe and chase effects included.

The DTW PAR 300 houses (16) 10W multi-chip CW / WW / Amber LEDs for a soft light that is easily adjustable from warm white tungsten to cool white. Beam angle is 23°

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UK - Utopium lit up Grillstock Festival as it returned to Bristol Harbourside for a weekend of meat, music and mayhem, 2-3 July 2016.

This year's Grillstock Festival boasted performances from The Fratellis, The Stranglers and the Cuban Brothers as it welcomed over 14,000 BBQ-lovers to the two-day event. Complete with a King of the Grill barbeque showdown, two music stages and endless food vendors, Utopium was tasked with creating appropriate stage sets and lighting for the festival areas.

For the bar lighting, site lighting and stage lighting, Utopium supplied 20 Chauvet Q-Wash 419Z LEDs, 12 Martin MAC Quantum Profiles, 11 Chauvet Rogue RH1 Hybrids, 18 Chauvet Nexus 4 x 4 panels, nine 4 lite Molefays, six Selecon Arena 2Ks and 12 of Utopium's new SGM Q-7s. All lighting was controlled by an Avolites Arena controller. Utopium also supplied Antari HZ-500s to add extra ambienc

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USA - New technologies that excel under controlled test conditions in a laboratory don't always meet expectations in real life. Every engineer knows that; so too do lighting designers. This thought passed briefly through the mind of Jonathan Lipsy recently when he completed a video production studio project at New York's D&C Digital, formerly the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

Lipsy, the manager of broadcast & lighting at Integrated Solutions Group, had specified the new Ovation E-910FC RGBA-Lime colour-mixing fixture from Chauvet Professional for the studio's lighting system. Having tested the fixture extensively, he was impressed with how its lime LEDs enhanced its colour-rendering capabilities. Still, since the technology was new, he had no experience using it in the field.

"All the pre-testing I did with the Ovation E-910FC showed me that it was going to work on this

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Canada - Les Feluettes (Lilies) made its world premiere at the Opera de Montreal recently playing to full houses during its four-night run. Lighting designer Martin Labrecque utilized seven Clay Paky Scenius Spots for the new production.

Les Feluettes, with a book by Michel Marc Bouchard and music by Kevin March, is a play within a play. It begins as a prison confessional and unfolds as a love story spanning 1912-1957, a time when same-gender relationships were conducted largely in secret.

The opera marked Labrecque's first use of Scenius Spots. He frequently deploys other Clay Paky fixtures using them on Cirque du Soleil productions and the Pan American Games' opening ceremonies last summer.

For Les Feluettes, Labrecque lit eight tableaux showing different locations and time periods in monochromatic palettes of amber or blue. The orchestra

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USA - Twenty-four Robe BMFL WashBeams are highlighting the fans for US country star Kenny Chesney's current Spread the Love stadium tour, chosen by lighting designer Mike Swinford specifically to illuminate the audience.

Mike, who has been a lighting professional for over 30 years, has lit the successful chart topping singer-songwriter's shows since his first headline tour in 2001. In that time he's seen the whole visual concept for the live show evolve and change, with the main objective now being to create big impressive yet simple and straightforward looks, "It's more about the music than a load of lighting fluff or gags," he states.

The BMFL WashBeams were purchased by Morris Light & Sound of Nashville, which coordinates technical production for Chesney's annual tours.

They are positioned on empty seats around the side of the stadiums (not sold as they are at 90 de

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Australia - The APIA Good Times Tour, starring legends Daryl Braithwaite, Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens and John Paul Young, has recently completed its 16 date tour of duty, including a stop in the Perth Concert Hall. With Perth being one of the three 'orphaned' shows without toured production, tour lighting designer Rohan Thornton called local rental house Concert and Corporate Productions (CCP) to source a rig to supplement the house system.

When offered eight High End Systems SolaSpot Pro 1500s, he accepted, but when offered eight High End Systems Shapeshifter C1s, he wasn't so sure. "I'd heard of the Shapeshifters, but my first reaction was I thought they were a bit of a gimmick,' explains Rohan. "But Sean McKernan at CCP convinced me to give them a go. Well, I'm glad he did, because they're an awesome light and they've just gone to the top of my 'must hire' list."

"The a

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South Africa - Johannesburg-based DWR Distribution has welcomed lighting designer Michael Broderick to its team, to be based at the company's branch office in Durban, his hometown.

"I love Durban. Quite surprisingly, Durban is a melting pot of creativity," says Michael. "It is home to a host of talented people and so many creative ideas are born here. Even though the city of Durban can't support the magic being created by its inhabitants, the magic continues to flow. We don't have the money or the resources that our sister cities like Johannesburg and Cape Town have so we have to make the magic less with technology and more with cunning and guile. On another level, I have lived here my entire life, it's the place I know, so it's also a part of who I am."

For a number of years, Nick Barnes has manned the DWR Durban branch alone, but now he is thrilled to have a colleague. F

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USA - Anyone wanting to take a look inside Al's Beach Club, doesn't have to try too hard. That's because for all practical purposes, this new live music venue has no 'inside'. The only club in Fort Walden Beach, Florida, located directly on the city's famed Emerald Coast beach, Al's is almost all open air, with no walls or barriers separating it from its surroundings.

This breezy configuration makes for good times, but it also creates a challenging environment for a lighting system. Aside from contending with wind and sand, any fixtures installed at this club have to stand up to the rain. (Averaging 69 inches of precipitation a year, Fort Walden is the rainiest city in Florida.).

Sohail e. Najafi and his team at Najafi Design Group (Los Angeles, Las Vegas) were well aware of this challenge, which is why they designed the lighting rig at Al's around a collection of IP-rated

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Germany - Self-styled 'panic rocker' Udo Lindenberg is showing no sign of letting up. During his Keine Panik (No Panic) tour, the rocker celebrated his 70th birthday, but there was no sign of him quietening down; and that was a good thing for all his fans.

His stage incorporated Lara Croft Dancers, Go-Go girls, Jugglers, Acrobats, a UFO, a giant pink piano, a Russian empress, a houseboy, a children's choir, biopic clips , various movies and so on - plus a jam-packed set list with over 30 songs. The repertoire spans a wide range of classics such as Sonderzug nach Pankow, Mein Ding and Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria to more recent songs like Ich schw

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USA - Raiding the Rock Vault and Raiding the Country Vault shows' production was developed by lighting designer Paul Dexter. Both productions present the biggest selling classic songs from an unrepeatable era (mainly 1965-1990) and include Elation Professional Platinum Series moving head fixtures and Cuepix Panel LED matrix blinders as visual support.

Raiding the Rock Vault opened at the Las Vegas Hilton in 2013 before moving to the Tropicana Theatre in December 2014, where it is currently in residence. The newest production, Raiding the Country Vault, premiered in May 2016 in the Mansion Theatre in Branson, Missouri. Production designer and show director Paul Dexter created the stage set and lighting for both shows, including all video content creation and direction. He also came up with the storyline concept and wrote the script.

Raiding the Rock Vault takes audiences on

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South Africa - Thankfully no one was injured in a massive fire, which burnt down Durban Christian Centre in Mayville, KwaZulu Natal on the evening of 8 June. Three days later, the sky was lit up by 12 Clay Paky Mythos, all pointed towards a star, as the congregation met together for a service held in their parking lot.

One of the largest churches in Durban, the 5,500 seat auditorium known as the Jesus Dome, was a house of prayer for all nations and a place where miracles happened.

Having regularly lit events in this venue, lighting designer Michael Broderick along with his friend in the industry, Brandon Bunyan of Black Coffee, came up with an idea to use the Mythos fixtures in an act of compassion for the church's loss.

"When we told DWR's Duncan Riley about our idea, he insisted that the globes in the Mythos be 100% new and that the lights be freshly serviced," said

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Sweden - The summer is here and the festival season is in full swing. In Sweden, this means Summerburst has arrived. Now in its sixth year, the festival has, to date, taken place at two distinct cities, Gothenburg and Stockholm. With audiences of over 100,000 at each venue, Summerburst presents the best in electronic music for two days at each site.

This year Summerburst Baltic has been added; the Vingis Park, Vilnius in Lithuania will host the festival that boasts a multitude of artists from the EDM genre including headliner Steve Angello.

For the past three years, lighting design duties for Steve Angello have fallen to Jon Trincas. "After a valuable period of working as a technician on a wide variety of shows, from theatre and opera to concert touring, I began operating about four years ago. I got involved with Steve Angello's team and began creating live show designs. C

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Belgium - Lighting rental company Splendit supplied lighting equipment including Robe Pointes, CycFX 8s and LEDBeam 100s to a 25th anniversary event for legendary Belgian club phenomenon Cherry Moon at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp.

Lighting designer Steven Couliez was asked by the organisers to produce a design which encompassed lighting, video and structural set elements for an evening of pumping techno, trance, house and retro sounds from a landmark quarter century of Cherry Moon, with video content produced by Nachtcollective.

Steven took the spherical shape of the Cherry Moon logo as his starting point. A circular 10m diameter video screen centre stage was flanked by three curved vertical trusses either side and more circular trusses above - so there were circles in multiple directions all around the stage.

The 46 x Pointes were dotted all over the trusses and used f

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UK - Currently running at the St James Theatre Studio, The Stripper is a revival of the 1985 musical which features lyrics by Richard O'Brien - the author of international smash-hit The Rocky Horror Show. In what has already been an extremely busy summer for the company, White Light has been approached to provide the lighting for this highly-anticipated production.

The Stripper is set in 1961 California and follows hard-boiled detective Al Wheeler who is taken into the sleazy underworld of strip-joints and lonely hearts clubs as he tries to solve a mysterious death. When he ventures into Club Extravaganza, he soon realises that the truth isn't the only thing he's about to uncover...

The show, which is embarking on its first UK run in seven years, is produced by Scala Theatre. Producer Chris Wheeler comments, "The Stripper is such a crazy show that it w

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Europe - French wholesaler LA BS, which has been supplying professionals and end-users for 25 years, has signed an exclusive distribution partnership with GLP for its lighting fixture solutions in France.

"It was important for us to find a strategic partner in France whom we can trust, to expand our presence in France", commented GLP's managing director Udo K

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Asia - SGM has announced a new partnership with Sanecore, part of the IAG Group, as the new exclusive SGM distributor for mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, effective as of 15 July 2016.

As part of the IAG Group Ltd., Sanecore is a leading manufacturer of loudspeakers and audio electronics based in Shenzhen, China. Henceforth, Sanecore will be the exclusive distributor of SGM products in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.

IAG Group has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Asia and with offices (including R&D) in the UK, IAG is has a truly global reach. Peter Johansen, CEO of SGM, and Michael Chang, President of IAG, have an extensive track record of working together that dates all the way back to 1991, where Sanecore became the distributor for Peter Johansen's previous lighting company.

Johansen said, "Based on my past experience with Michael Cha

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USA - For rising young country music star Brett Eldredge, appearing on tour with Grammy and CMA-winning performer Keith Urban represents another milestone in a career that has taken off like a rocket. Like every support act, though, Eldredge's team is expected to get its lighting floor package on and off the stage quickly. This dictum could have created a special challenge, since Eldredge's big sound requires an equally impressive lightshow, but lighting designer Trevor Ahlstrand of Ahlstrand Productions and lighting director Wesley Palmer overcame this obstacle with help from Chauvet Professional's new Rogue R1 FX-B fixture.

The Ahlstrand Productions team is using 24 of the new Rogue blade-style movers supplied by Primer Global in the Eldredge floor package for Urban's RipCord Tour. The Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures are arranged in a line that runs across the upstage deck roughly 3'

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South Africa - MGG were called upon to supply the full technical for the SAPOA annual convention, which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at the Sandton Convention Centre's Pavilion Venue in Johannesburg. For this occasion, MGG asked lighting designer Francois van der Merwe from Wizardry Group to design both the conference and banquet styled show.

The South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) is the representative body and official voice of the commercial and industrial property industry in South Africa. As they wanted something extraordinary for their golden celebration, MGG incorporated the largest VuePix configuration they had ever built comprising of some 200 x Q3 3.91mm panels. The show also included eight Robe BML Blades, a range of Robins, Clay Paky Sharpys and Mythos and control on a grandMA2 full size.

The event kicked off in the conference room where a

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UK - As of July 2016, Edinburgh based Black Light has been awarded Constructionline and The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS) accreditations.

Constructionline is a procurement and supply chain management service that, assesses, collects and monitors standard company information. Black Light gained the accreditation through a question set that is aligned to PAS 91, the standardised pre-qualification questionnaire developed by BSI to reduce duplication within the construction industry.

CHAS is the fastest growing health and safety assessment scheme in the UK. Its main aims are to improve health and safety standards across the UK and reduce duplicated safety applications for both suppliers and buyers.

These accreditations will benefit Black Light by saving time and resources, giving guidance of supply management and promoting that the company shows co

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Denmark - The ancient city of Viborg in central Jutland is one of the oldest in Denmark dating back to the Eighth Century Viking settlements and has always had a tradition for meetings and commercial and social interactions. Each year in June the streets, squares and parks become energised with Snapsting, a 10-day annual festival, organised by the city to bring entertainment, arts, culture, sports, music and fun to its community!

The three main entertainment stages this year were equipped with Robe moving lights provided by rental company Lystek, headed by Kristoffer Neilsen, one of the country's well known theatre LDs.

Kristoffer delivers and co-ordinates full technical production for the event, and his lighting rental company Lystek supplies lighting to the entire festival apart from one area, an exercise which empties his warehouse!

Snapsting offers around 260 perfo

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South Africa - The Parlotones Orchestrated Live saw the band deliver a mesmerising performance together with a chamber ensemble, arranged and conducted by composer and musician Brendan Jury, at the Teatro at Montecasino, Johannesburg.

For the first time in his career, lighting designer Kevin Stannett from Crosslight had an entire Phillips Vari-Lite rig at his disposal and as always, he programmed on a grandMA2 light. Gearhouse Splitbeam was the full technical supplier at the venue.

Recently awarded as the Naledi Lighting Designer of the Year, Kevin is experienced at creating dramatic lighting effects, fuelled even more so having worked exclusively for Natani

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UK - dbn Lighting, working for Somme 100 and Manchester City Council, provided lighting, LED screen and rigging equipment, an enormous electric-art sun piece and crew for a major cultural concert as the finale of the Somme 100 Manchester, a massive public art and performance event in Heaton Park, Manchester marking the UK based commemoration of 100 years since the start of the First World War's deadly Battle of the Somme.

dbn's Pete Robinson led their team and worked closely with lighting designer Chris Davey to realise his specification and design for lighting a main orchestra / choir stage plus a smaller dance performance stage that was built just in front.

The concert section of the event included Manchester's Hallé Orchestra playing several well-known pieces of music related to the First World War and a major physical dance piece which was staged on the forestag

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Germany - Jugend Forscht is the biggest youth science and technology competition in Europe. The event was created by the then editor-in-chief of Stern magazine, Henri Nannen, way back in 1965. Every year, in addition to the regional contests organized in the individual states, a national competition is held, which is the highlight of the event. It is contested by the young scientists and researchers who win the first prizes in the regional competitions.

During the final, the best competitors are tested in the seven Jugend Forscht subject areas. This year there were 51 participants, and the contest was managed by the Jugend forscht e.V. Foundation, together with the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn.

The Paderborn-based firm Jansen Lichttechnik dealt with installing the rig and lights in the Sch

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