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UK - Helping to bring a touch of nostalgia to TV screens across the UK, illumination specialists LED Creative supported scenic designer Chris Webster and lighting director Dave Davey on Talkback Thames’ recently revamped The Price is Right.
Recorded in front of a live studio audience, the programme was hosted by Alan Carr who invited members of the audience to “Come on Down” against the backdrop of Chris Webster’s vivacious set.
As a part of the build, LED Creative supplied the team with over 2km of their Alpha 60 RGB system which the designer used to create the myriad of light boxes, which were bursting with colour across the back of the stage. Additionally, each lightbox was fitted with a saturation diffuser, sourced specifically for the project to deliver consistently vivid colours in all key lighting conditions.
Elsewhere within the set, the Al

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USA - Bandit Lites supported Canadian rock band Death From Above on their autumn tour in support of their third studio album Outrage! Is Now.
Death From Above were looking to take the lighting in a new direction and contacted Dara Guiney. Following a discussion with tour manager/production manager Markus Gilgan, Guiney crafted a floor package that would provide the ‘something different’ while staying on budget: a simple rectangle of tilting, zoomable LED bars around the band.
“I had got the idea when I saw a band called Explosions in the Sky play,” said Guiney. “They had a row upstage and downstage of LED bars, designed by Tobias Rylander and operated by Corey Mattonen. Corey explained a lot to me about the LED bars and how positive he was about them, selling me on the LED bar idea. I proposed this idea to the band, drafted it and did a couple of visua

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The Netherlands - As part of their recent move to expand Podium Victorie’s audience capacity, the owners of the Dutch club recently decided to move to an inner-city location.
The venue’s owners wanted to install a state-of-the-art lighting rig to provide visiting bands with the most modern powerful high-energy support. Dutch distributor Rolight upgraded the club’s stage lighting using Chauvet Professional Maverick, Rogue and COLORdash fixtures.
In total, 20 Maverick MK2 Spot LEDs, 61 Rogue R2 Washes, six Rogue RH1 Hybrids and 36 COLORdash Par-Hex 12 RGBAWUV fixtures were specified for the stage. The versatile lighting rig ensures a practically unlimited selection of looks to fit a whole manner of needs, from bold rock ‘n roll looks to subtle theatrical scenes.
“The combination of Maverick LED spots, and Rogue LED washes and hybrids creates a perfect con

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USA - Sky-Skan recently installed a complete audio solution by Harman Professional at the newly-opened Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science.
Sky-Skan created a design that features an 8K 3D projection system with specialised Christie Digital projectors that deliver 30,000lm of brightness, making it one of the brightest projection systems on the planet.
To complement the video system, Sky-Skan needed to design a high-fidelity audio solution capable of delivering crisp, powerful and natural-sounding audio. After careful consideration, Sky-Skan designed and installed an integrated Harman solution made up of JBL Professional CSX F35 loudspeakers, Crown power amplifiers, BSS Soundweb London signal processors and AKG microphones. The design also features Martin wash lights and Martin system controllers that control both the audio and lighting systems.
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France - Elation Professional has appointed Best Audio & Lighting as its new distributor in France.
The agreement is set to go into effect on 15 February.
Marc Librecht, head of sales and marketing for Elation in Europe, says: “A partnership with Best Audio & Lighting was the next logical step for us to move forward in the French market. Establishing our brand in such an important European country is an important piece of our growth strategy and we are proud to have the opportunity to work with such a well-known and well-respected company that belongs to the Dushow Group.”
Best Audio & Lighting’s Sébastien Nicolas comments: “To better serve our business and existing customers it became very natural to offer not only sound but also light. We are very excited to be working side by side with Elation and feel it is a very important partnership fo

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USA - Lumileds has announced the appointment of Jeff Henderson as senior vice president of corporate development, effective 8 January. Henderson has over 25 years of experience in numerous executive roles, most recently at Keysight Technologies.
“As our business continues to scale, Jeff will be critical to our long-term development as he will be responsible for facilitating the process of defining, supporting and executing upon our corporate growth strategy,” said Mark Adams, CEO of Lumileds.
Prior to joining Lumileds, Henderson was at Keysight Technologies, where he was responsible for leading corporate development for the $4B electronic equipment, software and services business, which spun out of Agilent Technologies in 2014.
“My passion is helping businesses grow and maintain relationships that are vital to our company’s success. I look forward to w

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South Africa - DWR Distribution has announced the appointment of Shannon Fagan as accounts manager.
Born in Zimbabwe before moving to South Africa, Shannon studied accounting and has had four years’ experience in the workplace. “I am very excited to be here,” said Shannon. “It’s definitely an opportunity to grow.”
As DWR has expanded over the past 11 years, it has become necessary to ease the load of the accounts department. “We are delighted to welcome Shannon to the team and know she will fit perfectly into this family,” said Duncan Riley of DWR. “Shannon has a wealth of knowledge and skill, and more importantly, a great attitude. We hope that she will spend many happy years with us.”
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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) will be showcasing many UK-exclusive and other product highlights from its extensive portfolio of over 200 brands, at PLASA Focus Glasgow 2018 (stand B1)
A leading one-stop provider of professional equipment to the entertainment industry, AC-ET’s expert lighting, rigging, audio and video sales divisions will showcase how they can supply and advise on leading brands from each major product category, to offer customers access to complete technology systems suitable for touring, theatre, venues, education, film & TV, corporate and other markets.
The company’s lighting division will feature highlights from its massive portfolio of industry-leading and popular-selling brands, which cater for a wide range of budgets. The stand includes LED washlights, hybrid luminaires, blinders, moving lights, lanterns and profiles from U

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USA - Lighting designer Herrick Goldman, principal of HG Lighting Design, announced last summer that he would be donating a portion of his design fees throughout the year to Behind the Scenes and he recently presented his first cheque to the charity.
HG Lighting Design is the first firm to make an ongoing pledge of a portion of design fees to the charity and Behind the Scenes applauds Herrick for his leadership. HG Lighting Design provides lighting services for a wide variety of markets including theatre, dance, and corporate events, as well as for permanent installations and museums.
Herrick Goldman stated, “HG Lighting Design is thrilled to be a Behind the Scenes Pledge-a-Service Partner and we are proud to be the first design team to do so. We hope that many other designers will choose to join us in this worthy cause. As HGLD grows and adds team members and collab

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Europe - Lighting and video rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment has invested in new Robe MegaPointe moving lights, Blackmagic video control technology and new pre-rigged trusses, all of which is out on the current 2CELLOS tour playing arenas in key capital cities around Europe .
West London-based Colour Sound is providing lighting, video, rigging and crew, working closely with lighting designer Crt Birsa and production manager Chris Griffiths.
The UK performance was a roof-raising extravaganza staged at London’s Royal Albert Hall with the band accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. They played out some of 2CELLOS hugely dynamic repertoire which went from the decorum and refinement of assorted film scores to the raucous rock-out mayhem of AC/DC and the Rolling Stones covers.
Crt, a big Robe fan, was delighted when Colour Sound was able t

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USA - A sense of expectation runs like an open road through the flowing music of Counting Crows. Mike Zielinski, the band’s long-time lighting designer, captured this wayfarer quality on their recent A Brief History Of Everything tour, co-headlined with Matchbox 20, by creating a suspension bridge-style backdrop that spanned the width of the stage. Anchoring the evocative structure were 25 Chauvet Professional STRIKE 1 fixtures supplied by Upstaging, Inc.
“It’s going on 18 years now that I’ve been designing for Counting Crows, and this was an entirely new concept, but it’s something I’ve wanted to do for some time,” said Zielinski. “The bridge represents the band’s Bay-area roots as well as the spirit of its music. On a more practical level, the bridge design also gave me something to punch through the daylight at outdoor venues.”
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Poland - One of the biggest New Year’s Eve 2017 celebration was held in the city of Zakopane, in the south of Poland. The team at Aram, an international full-service stage design and production company and a member of the PRG Alliance, worked alongside over 70 additional crew members led by production designer Giorgos Stylianou-Matsis and lightning designer Adam Tyszka, to deliver state-of-the-art video technology and lightning setup for the event.
Following three weeks of construction works, the stage was built at the foot of the Tatry Mountains, with a spectacular design that was fully complementary to the setting and weather conditions, providing a viewing experience to fans on-site and online alike.
This year’s celebration, broadcast on TVP2, was titled New Year’s Eve of Dreams, and it marked the second edition of a popular TV concert that welcomed a

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PLASA has announced changes to its elected board including the appointment of Adam Blaxill as the new chair.
Blaxill joined the PLASA Board as the Professional Services Representative in 2012 and was elected as vice-chair in 2014. He has been voted as the new chair of PLASA through a simple majority vote.
Blaxill takes over from Ed Pagett who has served as chair for an extended seven years. During this time Pagett oversaw the de-merger with ESTA with the support of an executive committee which included Blaxill as vice-chair and Martin Hawthorn as treasurer. This valuable work enabled the survival and growth of PLASA.
Pagett will continue to serve as a non-executive director, contributing his extensive knowledge and expertise to advise and support the association as it continues its work in the industry.
As a director of Stage Electrics - one of the UK’s leading

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World - ADJ Lighting’s new LED-powered hybrid moving head fixture, the Vizi CMY300, is now shipping. The unit offers a host of professional features, including CMY colour mixing, twin GOBO wheels, motorized focus, zoom and iris, wireless DMX and two rotating prisms.
Since its debut at PLASA London back in September, the fixture has garnered interest from lighting designers and installers across the globe and was recently presented with the Best New Club Light title in PLSN magazine’s inaugural Gold Star Awards at LDI 2017.
The Vizi CMY300 has a specially-designed 300W LED engine that generates an incredibly powerful beam of light, making it suitable for installation in big venues as well as for large-scale tours and one-off events. As a hybrid fixture, it can function interchangeably as a beam, spot or wash luminaire, allowing designers to achieve maximum effects f

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USA - Chauvet DJ has a long legacy of leading the way with lighting innovations. That tradition will continue at the 2018 NAMM show, as the company introduces additions to its wireless Freedom series, a smart, versatile new version of its popular GigBAR and “a host of other new products that are destined to raise the bar in their categories”.
Visitors to the company’s NAMM booth (11133) will see the new Freedom H1, a compact 100% truly wireless, battery-operated LED wash light with a built-in D-Fi transceiver and a single hex-colour (RGBAW+UV) 10W LED that produces a rainbow of realistic accent light colours. Completely wireless, this compact fixture can be mounted “virtually anywhere, even on most metal surfaces, thanks to its magnetic base”.
Another NAMM newcomer for Chauvet DJ is the GigBAR Flex, which represents the next generation in the series that’

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UK - Technical production specialists Light Fantastic Production Services have just made a large investment in the latest Robe moving light technology. The order includes Robe’s new MegaPointe and LEDBeam 150 moving light fixtures plus a selection of Pointes, Robin 600 LED washes and DL4X Spots in a custom white bodied finish.
Based in Elstree just north of London, UK, the company services a wide range of prestigious projects providing lighting, audio, video & scenic services. The company also provides extensive dry hire services to other industry clients.
The total investment value is over a quarter of a million pounds and the kit will be used to service Light Fantastic’s action-packed ongoing project schedule and dry hire requirements.
Working primarily in the premium events sector, from high profile experiential events to spectacularly jaw-dropping pr

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UK - The Hammond Theatre is a contemporary theatre situated in West London. Seating 380 people, the venue features a range of performances and attracts professional companies from across the UK. It is also an accredited venue for National Theatre Live, Royal Opera House and the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company screenings. The venue recently decided to upgrade a range of its existing fixtures and approached WL to supply them with the latest equipment.
The technical theatre manager at The Hammond Theatre is Daniel Dar-Nell. He comments: “I manage all aspects of the theatre on a day-to-day basis with my assistant, which includes managing the box office and the bars all the way through to the technical side. Our programme is mainly a 50-50 mix of school shows and external hires. We also offer live cinema screenings, conferences and concerts; meaning we need a technical set-up t

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UK - Lighting designer Davy Sherwin has created a 'formidably cool' lighting set for Wolf Alice's latest album campaign, Visions of a Life. Conceived in collaboration with the band to keep the focus tightly on-stage, Sherwin's stripped-back yet versatile design supports what The Guardian's Gwilym Mumford describes as an "exuberant jumble of dream-pop and grunge", confidently melds with the emotional peaks and troughs, uncertainty and angst of Wolf Alice's catalogue.
Using a modest selection of lighting fixtures, all supplied by specialist concert touring and event lighting solution provider Lights Control Rigging (LCR), Sherwin's sculptural, atmospherically diverse design is as intoxicating and pounding, and by turns as sparkling and dark as the eclectic collection of songs it's there to enhance.
"The band was keen to develop a fresh new look. They wanted

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USA - Rental company and production house Creative Technology used Elation Professional’s Fuze Wash 575 luminaire to highlight cars on the Kia and Volvo booths at this year’s LA Auto Show.
Creative Technology has used Elation Design PAR 575 opti par moving heads on auto show booths for years - as have many other production companies - and plenty of Design Par 575 fixtures were to be found at the 2017 LA Auto Show. The company sought the benefits of an LED solution and turned to Elation’s new cool-white Fuze Wash 575 LED PAR moving head luminaire with motorized beam control.
Held 1-10 December at the LA Convention Centre, the LA Auto Show is one of the most influential auto shows in the world. Elation has a tradition of lighting excellence on auto exhibitions and has designed the Fuze Wash 575 to optimise the way a vehicle looks and assume the role as a new workho

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The Netherlands - The TivoliVredenburg in central Utrecht features seven different music performance spaces and is in the process of having its house and public area lighting upgraded with Anolis Ambiane RGBW LED luminaires.
With around 300 fixtures installed so far, approximately 650 Ambianes will be in place when the project is completed.
The spectacular building designed by Herman Hertzberger was part of the CU2030 urban redevelopment scheme and opened in 2014.
The new dedicated arts and performance complex incorporates Vredenburg, an original live music venue standing on the site since 1979, with six brand new venues, all fully sound-proofed and self-contained, ranging in capacities from 175 to 2000. These include Rhonda, which continues the spirit and vibe of Tivoli, another historically significant Utrecht music club at the heart of the city’s music sce

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China - Legally Blonde - The Musical opened in December to glowing reviews in Shanghai’s Culture Square Theatre at the start of its China National tour. From China it will move to Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre in May, before returning to the USA in October 2018. Produced by Big League and directed by Jeff Moss, with choreography by Grinch veteran, Bob Richard, Legally Blonde the Musical is a celebration of pop culture.
Responsible for the smooth running of the technology on tour is the team from Intelligent Lighting Services (ILS), led by lighting engineer and company founder, Paul Gould. As part of the tour’s lighting inventory Gould’s team supplied two MDG ATMe haze generators to provide the haze with which to show off Kirk Bookman’s fun and vibrant lighting design.
The two ATMe units were purchased specifically for the tour, but

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UK - The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) announced the winners of its Michael Northen Award at the Annual Lighting Lunch on 18 December 2017 in London.
The Michael Northen Award is supported by a further two awards: the Francis Reid Award and the ETC Lighting Award; and is awarded annually to students studying in the UK, who have demonstrated strong, imaginative and creative lighting design.
Underlining its commitment to the nurturing of new talent in lighting design, the ALD placed the organisation and management of this year’s award into the hands of those closest to its effect; the ALD Student Committee. Head of the committee, Rory Beaton explains, “We have taken some time this year to implement improvements to the structure and processes of the award. As an example, to ensure greater consistency in the marking of the award we created more judges this y

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World - Taking the reins from the former European master distributor AED Distribution, ETC Ltd and GmbH will now distribute High End Systems products in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA).
ETC Asia will take control of distribution for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
This is the latest step for ETC in “assisting High End Systems to even better serve their customers in the regions”. ETC welcomed High End Systems into the family in April 2017 and has already made significant investments in stocking, personnel and product support. This is set to continue, says the company, with a particular focus on EMEIA and APAC over the coming months.
High End Systems general manager Becky Koester comments: “Since assuming the role of European master distributor several years ago, AED Distribution has made great strides in establishing High End Systems as a

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UK - Dry-hire provider TSL Lighting has agreed to acquire corporate and event lighting specialist Blinding Light.
The companies will continue to operate under their individual brands but under the leadership of TSL owner and MD Sam Tamplin and his senior team, with TSL account directors Dom Sheerman and Loz Wilcox assuming day-to-day management roles at Blinding Light.
Tamplin comments: "Today's news marks the start of a fantastically exciting opportunity for both TSL and Blinding Light. The additional skills and equipment resource within our combined team will be a huge advantage to all of our clients, both existing and new. Our unique collaboration will allow TSL to continue to provide dry-hire, projects and trade rental, locally and nationally alongside Blinding Light's existing focus on the Corporate and Event market.
"We are delighted to welcome t
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