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14 March 2016

Named in honour of the late designer, developer and commentator Tony Gottelier, this award aims to recognise the product developers who have made a significant contribution to the development of the equipment and tools that enable our entertainment technology practitioners to continually push the boundaries of event production, presentation and installation.

Once the shortlist of nominees is decided, the Voting Phase will begin. This year, to help ensure that only legitimate industry professionals can cast a vote, voting for the n

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14 March 2016

Working in the main Concert Hall, which holds over 1,000 people, Bico installed a Unison Paradigm system with 24 ways of dimming to control the house and rehearsal lights, along with an sACN network system, all connected both to a new Ion control desk and several wall mounted fader stations. Two 48-way Sensor dimming racks and five gateways were also fitted for show light.

Søren Jørgensen, sales project manager at Bico, comments, "This year, we were tasked with updating all their old dimmers with streaming ACN (sACN) and integrating the house and stage lighting. After doing on site tests with the Ion and another manufacturer's desk, the Ion was specified because it operates sile

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The Victors - the first to enter South Africa - are installed in the largest of the venue's three auditoria, the 1487-seat main Opera Theatre, where upcoming shows include Le Grand Cirque Fantazie, African Songbook, the Cape Town International Ballet Competition and Mamma Mia!.

Senior lighting operator, Nicolas Tilney comments, "Robert Juliat has fantastic equipment with superb R&D. Their followspots are extremely user-friendly with the placements of their controls. The followspots have a general feeling of high quality. From what I had read and seen I knew what I wanted and what I would get from RJ. There was no reason to compare them with any other products."

Robbi Nassi from Electrosonic add

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The lighting designer of this event, Liufeng Shu, renowned for having realized several shows of international significance, including the Singapore International Cantonese Opera Festival and the Qingdao Austria Sail, has chosen the iSpot Extreme 6000, the iSpot Flex and the CF 7 Hard Edge X, which are all Coemar products.

The iSpot Flex, launched in 2002 at the LDI in Las Vegas, boast three patents. They are the first moving heads made with 2000 W discharge lamps, featuring a carbon fibre body.

The iSpot Extreme 6000, created for the Winter Olympics of 2006 in Turin, are the first moving heads with a 1450 W lamp.

The CF 7 Hard Edge X won the Award for Innovation in 2000, are

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14 March 2016

Melvin Benn, who runs the Reading, Leeds and Latitude festivals, described it as "blatant money-grabbing". He told BBC News, "The quantum leap in what the PRS are being paid by live music promoters is very, very substantial compared to what it was 10 years ago. Live music is so much stronger than it was, and therefore the receipts the PRS are getting are substantially more than they were. Instead of being ple

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14 March 2016

Investors in People is a national standard which helps organisations transform their business performance. Preparing for the IIP assessment (which took over a year) has involved all of the Black Light team and has led to a business-wide rebranding, improvements in its business systems and a number of changes in staff roles and responsibilities. Together, these have streamlined the company's operations and improved customer service.

"IIP has helped me, as the business owner, focus on what is important for Black Light and start rolling that out," says Gavin Stewart, Black Light's managing director. "I hope tha

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14 March 2016

With its external chairlift, the Swiss Pavilion is an eye-catching element of during the Expo. The chairlift takes visitors up to the flower beds of the green roof, as a symbol of the natural environment. In contrast, the interior area stands for the urban part, where 21 Barco CLM HD8 projectors are used to create a 360° projection showing visitors images of the cities Zürich, Basel and Geneva.

Winkler VST is responisble for the planning and technical realisation of all AV equipment. "We have experience with Barco's CLM HD8 projectors and have learned that they are ideal to use in multi-p

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14 March 2016

In the five years since the company's creation, i-Pix's products have proved popular with lighting designers for concerts and live events - including forming the core of the design for Radiohead's 2008 world tour, and more recently as a key element of the Kick Off Celebration Concert for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa.

The current i-Pix product line-up includes the BB1 'building block' modular LED light-source, the BB4 LED washlight, the BB7 beamlight/washlight fixture, and the versatile Satellite.

"In our five year history, we have doubled our revenues year on year, and both our product range and expertise have increased," notes i-Pix founder Chris Ewington. "We have worked directly with l

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14 March 2016

The extra touch screen panel of MADRIX is one of the most used features. From now on, the special user interface can be adjusted more easily to the users' needs. You can choose from 3, 12, 24, 40, or 60 Storage Place buttons per side (A and B). The software automatically scales the user interface to its optimal size and according to the screen resolution.

MADRIX supports a lot of well-known industry standards, such as DMX512, Art-Net II, Streaming ACN, DVI, T9, and the Philips Color Kinetics and Insta/ROBE protocols. The application supports pixel mapping and is both an effect generator and media server with ca

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Walker, who started in the position on 4 May, working from Martin UK's new London office, brings a wealth of AV industry experience with him. After working at the video rental company Creative Technology for 14 years, the last five as sales director, he operated his own independent audiovisual consultancy the past two years. His experience spans all segments of the entertainment and live event sectors.

Commenting on his hiring, Walker stated, "It is an exciting time to join the industry and one of the most important manufacturers in it. This is a time of great product development and innovation, including the convergence with video.

"It feels like a natural and logical career progression from video into the lighting and visual solutions business a

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On air since 1996, Storytellers is a programme that bases its popularity on the intimate meetings between the stars and the audience who can ask their favourite stars questions. Over the years the programme has had guests such as Sting, Elton John, Alanis Morissette and Coldplay.

On 13 June it was the turn of Christina Aguilera, with lighting designer Tom Kenny opting for 16 Infinity ACL, 24 Infinity Wash XL and some 50 ParLite LEDs.

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The events which took place over a two-week period in June, saw some of the UK music scene's hottest and developing talent take centre stage at Regents Park- London, Stanley Park-Liverpool, Castle Park- Bristol and the Vale, Birmingham.

The four events were project managed by Stage Electrics' Andrew Siddon who used EAW KF965 loudspeakers and a Yamaha M7CL console to mix the live bands. Stage Electrics also provided all

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Brandon Siemion, Lumenpulse's executive vice-president for worldwide sales, comments, "Fibre Optic Systems is well-placed to distribute Lumenpulse as the company has experience in the LED field and knows the best use applications for Interior and exterior projects. The company works closely with many lighting designers, engineers and architects in the region.

"The timing for us to choose a partner in the UK is not only to develop new projects, but also support projects specified from North America. FOS has great experience supporting LED projects in the UK and other countries in Europe and the Middle East.""

Gordon Addison, FOS technical director, adds, "We

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14 March 2016

The Bradley Centre, home of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, will soon set the standard for LED center-hung integrated displays. Featuring over 1,000sq.ft of 6mm pitch LED video distributed across four main screens, over 91m of 10mm entertainment strips and scoring matrix, and a customised underside display, the Bradley Centre's centre-hung display will blaze with over 232sq.m and nearly 2m pixels of LED video.

"We are very excited about partnering with the Bradley Centre for their LED renovations," said Matt Ritter, TS Sports VP of sales. "The new centre hung will consist of customized radius corners making it one of the most dynamic LED systems in professional sports.&quo

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Cubehenge, the brainchild of Cubes Concept, was conceived last autumn with Glastonbury Festival in mind. Constructed using IBCs (1000 litre containers usually employed in the transportation of liquids), each cube was fitted with an LED colour changing unit supplied by UK distributor Batmink Ltd and was individually controlled via DMX using ChamSys MagicQ software and Mini Wing controller.

The 40m diameter installation cons

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Hawthorn provided all technical and site services for the event including power, lighting, sound, staging and site services. During the event and licensing stages of the project, the team worked closely with the Venue and the Licensing Authority on both health and safety and noise restrictions.

Hawthorn's project manager, Chris Knight, commented, "It's great to be involved in this important Centenary event and see so many people have such a great time."

A total of eight acts performed, combined with a birthday address from the head of the organisation. Between the acts members of the organisation performed on the front of the stage whilst the rear was set for the next a

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This year's lighting design included 33 video screens spread around the room, being controlled by a total of nine Media Servers from both Green Hippo and Pandoras Box. LSC Clarity lighting and multimedia control system was chosen to control this major element of the show.

Having seen Clarity's ability to control Media Servers so easily, LD Rohan Thornton specified a control system based around a VX20 wing, a VX10 wing and Clarity software outputting four universes for control of all Media Servers on the

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"Although the contest was held last month, we've been focusing on our newest product line, so we postponed the drawing," says CEO Niclas Arvidsson, "We plan to hold regular competitions through the group site throughout the year, so people that join the group now still have future opportunities to win. It has turned out to be a fun and efficient way to communicate with our customers and users of W-DMX products so we want to encourage its growth and reward our members."

The winners are: Henrik Vaaben, Scott Peterson, Udo Thimm, Adam Moffat, Adis Spahic, Anne Sarmanne, Ashley Reeves, Audun Bull Hansen, Aziz Adilkhodjaev, Bo Thögersen, Broyden Mills, Charles A Versnel, Craig Beatson, Dalibor Golic, Erlwin de Gans, Gus

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PLASA 2010, which runs from the 12-15 September at Earls Court in London, is a major platform for the launch and promotion of innovative new ideas emerging across the event, entertainment and installation industries. The Theatres Trust's Ecovenue feature is a significant new addition to the event, designed to showcase the pioneering environmental efficiency practices being implemented across London venues.

The venues profiled in this uniquely designed 'theatrical' showcase are all participating in the Trust's European-funded Ecovenue project, designed to improve the environmental performance of 48 London theatres. Amongst those featured will be the Albany Theatre (Deptford), the

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14 March 2016

Luminair for iPad is billed as "a giant leap forward from its related iPhone version", and includes new features like instantly editable quick-touch cues, project-based draggable colour swatches, popup contextual controls, external keyboard support, and a user-configurable UI.

"Luminair for iPad is the result of over two and a half years of multi-touch development, and is one of the most exciting new products currently making waves in the entertainment and LED lighting markets", says compa

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Having worked as a sales manager in the UK for the past seven years, in her new role Allan will primarily focus on identifying new trends, as well as expanding services and strengthening relationships with LDs and key customers European-wide, in one of the company's key market areas.

"For the past seven years I've been lucky enough to work with a great customer base within the UK, which has included numerous companies, venues and freelancers, many of whom have become lifelong friends," says Allan. "This new role will be a natural progression to do the same European-wide in a market area that I really enjoy working in. It is also perfect timing as we have launched a number of new and exciting products so

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Pollstar magazine said an average of 6,951 tickets per show were sold, down 9% from the same period in 2009. The information comes just after it was announced that two weeks have been cut from the American Idol tour. Promoters Live Nation said eight shows by the Idol finalists, including winner Lee DeWyze and runner-up Crystal Bowersox, have been dropped. The Jonas Brothers, The Eagles, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, John Mayer and Limp Bizkit have all pulled summer dates in the US.

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