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UK - Creative technical event production expert, Hawthorn, has been commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland to supply lighting for the UK tour of its acclaimed production, The James Plays.

Hawthorn is supplying lighting from its extensive hire range to meet the specification of theatre lighting designer, Philip Gladwell. This comes hot on the heels of Hawthorn's appointment to supply lighting and video equipment for the touring production of Hairspray.

Following critical acclaim and box office success in 2014, The James Plays by Rona Munro, and directed by Laurie Sansom, will undertake a major UK and international tour in 2016, visiting 11 venues across England and Scotland, as well as performing at international festivals in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Hawthorn has supplied a variety of different fixtures, including Martin MAC Vipe

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France - Robe's French subsidiary Robe Lighting France SAS finished the year with some strong sales to a range of high profile theatres.

In the theatre world, Robe's highly refined DL series of LED luminaires - built for the theatre and performance sector - bring all the advantages of LED technology combined with the accuracy, finesse and quality that theatre professionals demand.

Leading French installation, rental and sales company D6BL (D6 Bell Light) from Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris is well known as a theatre and performance technical installer and supplier, and recently delivered Robe DL fixtures to three important theatres, all with different but equally challenging needs.

The venues are the 500 capacity Theatre Bernard-Marie Kolt

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Germany - Philips Entertainment Lighting will be unveiling a broad portfolio of new creative tools for lighting designers as part of the group's immersive 'be inspired by light and create great experiences' stand concept at Prolight+Sound 2016.

From Philips Showline comes the SL HYDRUS 350, which will be launching live at the show. The first Platinum lamp-based luminaire in the originally LED product line, the SL HYDRUS 350 is a super bright hybrid moving light that is designed for the live event and TV market because of its small size and speed.

Feature-packed with a wide zoom range in each mode, the SL HYDRUS 350 offers a vibrant colour pallet and is loaded with all the tools a designer needs to create mid-air effects, clear and precise projection as well as seamless blended animated washes.

"We're really looking forward to launching the SL HYDRUS 350 at Prolight," s

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USA - Elation's EPT6IP LED video display panel has become the LED screen panel and cross rental panel of choice in the upper northeast. Used on an increasing variety of events, the latest example was 11-12 February when Boston's Fenway Park hosted a big air snowboarding and freeskiing U.S. Grand Prix Tour and International Ski Federation World Tour event.

The Elation EPT6IP panels were used for portrait walls on each side of a large take-off ramp. East Coast Lighting & Production Services, Inc. (ECLPS) supplied the panels for the event, working with Elation rep firm Healy Sales and ECLPS's client Mission Six.

"We had screens flanking both sides of the jump structure," explains Nate Almeida of ECLPS. "The riders right screen was 25' wide x 14' high and consisted of 84 EPT6IP panels. The riders left screen was 16' wide x 8' high and consisted of 32 panels. Both screens were

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World - Mexican rock pop band Mana recently concluded its Cama Incendiada World Tour with a large complement of Clay Paky Mythos, A.leda B-EYE K10 and K20, and Stormy lighting fixtures adding colour and punch to the global production.

The Cama Incendiada World Tour was the eighth concert tour by the band, which hails from Guadalajara. It was in support of Mana's latest studio album, Cama Incendiada (Burning Bed). The band has earned four Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammys, five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America and more. No other Latin rock band consistently sells more albums or concert tickets: Mana has sold more than 40m albums worldwide.

Alain Corthout was lighting designer for the tour, which featured 107 Clay Paky Mythos, 54 A.leda B-EYE K10s, 32 A.leda B-EYE K20s and 36 Stormys in the rig.

Two groups of Mythos were on upstage and side cranes. "So

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USA - Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in Burbank, is the largest studio specialising in stop-motion animation in California. Best known for the adult animated character Robot Chicken, the stages also produce Super Mansion, LEGO Scooby-Doo, Bratz and MAD Spy vs. Spy

While stop-motion animation has been around since the silent film era, Stoopid Buddy gives it an irreverent and often R-rated twist. While mainstream Hollywood looks for sources offshore, Stoopid Buddy prides itself on creating everything in house. With its own model making, wardrobe, set construction, lighting, grip and camera departments, the studio operates like a traditional, self-contained studio, but the comparison ends there. The mostly millennial team of directors, camera operators, editors and writers collaborate in ways that blur the historic divisions of labour. With log cabin offices and a Winnebago executive sui

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South Africa - When it came to specifying lighting for the new 3,000 capacity auditorium at Rivers Church's Sandton Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, technical manager Ed Helliwell decided that Robe moving lights were the way to go.

Eighteen LEDWash 1200s, 10 x Pointes, eight DL4S Profiles and eight miniPointes later - together with 26 x LEDBeam 100s purchased a few months earlier from Robe's South African distributor, DWR - they have a dynamic and flexible lighting rig in place which is making a real difference to how they can light their popular worship session and other events.

The new technology is also a good fit with the tasteful and eye-catching proto-industrial design of the new building, complete with coffee shop, large atrium and a collection of bespoke designer artworks made from recycled engineering waste, all created by Senior Pastor Andre Olivier for the

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Italy - Clay Paky lights are co-stars on the stage of Nek's show, Prima di Parlare Live 2015. Radio Italia is the official radio station of the tour which played theatres across the country.

The set, designed by Gi

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USA - Lumileds today kicks off Mid Power March, a month-long event to introduce a variety of mid power products that feature "breakthrough performance and unmatched product reliability".

"Since we first entered the mid power market in 2012, our focus has been to offer mid power LEDs with a performance edge over our competitors," said Lumileds senior VP of sales & marketing Emmanuel Dieppedalle. "Part of that edge has come from leveraging our leading high power technologies for the mid power market. Mid Power March is all about showcasing the many breakthroughs we've made and are making in application-optimized mid power LED development."

Lumileds will release products during Mid Power March to specifically address different market needs. These new products will join Lumileds already extensive mid power and low power family.

"We know that the mid power LED market is gro

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USA - Lighting designer Jason Liggett turned to the ease of Elation Professional's new Emotion moving head digital light to project organic looks for a 2016 New Year's Eve performance by American rock band Joe Russo's Almost Dead at the Fillmore in Philadelphia.

"It occurred to me that I needed to have more options to create unique textured looks," Jason explains of his decision to use the new generation digital light. "I needed a video element that was not too literal and could be hidden within our stage and set design. I needed a digital moving light projector that I could control from my console. The Emotion was very easy to drive."

The Emotion is Elation's new plug and play DMX moving light with an on-board media server developed in cooperation with High End Systems. Utilizing only 32 DMX channels (54 in extended mode), it houses royalty-free digital art and videos wit

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USA - Some of the University of Tennessee's most exemplary students arrived at Legislative Plaza 17 February to share the impact the university has had on their lives at the 10th Annual UT Day on the Hill. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the event which was coordinated by The UT Office of Government Relations and Advocacy.

Bandit provides these services at no cost as a means of giving back. Bandit set the stage floor with VL 2500s to cover the room with patterns and colors, while GRNLite LED Battens lit the upper balcony walls. ZR 44 smoke machines gave the senators and representatives a dramatic entrance. Additional lighting came from custom UT gobos shot with ETC 5 degree ellipsoidal, while the stage lighting and control was provided by the venue.

In addition to legislators hearing personal testimonies from the reigning Miss Tennessee, UT Martin's Hannah Robison,

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UK - When the European premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens came to London, Utopium were on hand to illuminate the red carpet royalty and Nelson's Column.

Thousands of dedicated fans flocked to London to celebrate the latest instalment in the Star Wars franchise, where Stormtroopers and Jedi knights joined the cast and celebrities for the biggest premiere of the year.

It was in Leicester Square that the cast and crew were joined by celebrity guests, as the area around the Empire and Odeon cinemas were transformed into a space-themed venue.

LED lighting from SGM illuminated the entire length of the red carpet, as well as the two cinemas and the stage set where the world's media captured the stars.

Utopium's Colin Bodenham, who designed and project managed the event, called on a wide range of fixtures from the SGM portfolio, including 68 SGM P-5s, 12 SGM

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USA - Ranked by US News & World Report as America's best institution of higher learning for entrepreneurship, Babson College has long been an incubator of future business leaders. Arthur Blank, founder of The Home Depot, went to school here; so too did legendary former PepsiCo Chair Roger Erico, as well as members of the Ford and Toyoda automobile families. In keeping with this tradition, the school often sponsors talks by prominent business leaders, the most recent of which was A Conversation With Governor Mitt Romney. In addition to be treated to a vigorous exchange of ideas, the sold-out crowd at this session saw a clean, crisp stage presentation created by Image Production Services using a collection of fixtures from CHauvet Professional.

The session at the college's 440-seat Stephen D. Cutler Center, which featured the former US Presidential candidate and fo

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Germany - Every year, during Marburg b(u)y Night, Marburg city centre lights up: more than sixty public and private buildings become the stars of the show, and the shops stay open until midnight. The centrepiece of the event this year was the Blickpunkt Schloss project - with lighting up and regular intervals backed with appropriate music. Flashlight Veranstaltungstechnik GmbH dealt with staging the events.

Among the equipment the company chose to use were 39 Clay Paky Mythos units, one grandMA light, one onPC command wing, one 8Port Node onPC and four VPU plus MK2s (video processing units). An MA remote control system was also installed to control the lighting around the castle using tablet computers. The show was pre-programmed with the help of a 3D MA and a 3D model of Marburg castle.

The lighting designer, programmer and operator Sebastian Haffer comments, "We used Cla

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UK - The Father is one of the most successful theatre productions to have opened in recent times. Following an initial run at Theatre Royal Bath and The Tricycle, the play made its West End debut last year and received five star reviews. Due to popular demand, the show is returning once again, with both a West End run at the Duke of York's Theatre and a UK tour. Following its previous work on the production, along with its reputation as the West End's leading lighting supplier, WL is once again providing the lighting equipment for the show, with ETC products playing a significant role.

Written by Florian Zeller, The Father tells the story of 80-year-old Andre who lives with his daughter Anne and her husband Antoine. Or does he? Still in his pyjamas and becoming increasingly unaware of his surroundings, Andre begins to wonder whether he's losing control...

The

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Sweden - Latour Industries AB has signed an agreement to acquire 24.7% of the shares in LumenRadio AB through a directed share issue and acquisition of existing shares. Other large shareholders in the company are Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund and Almi Invest.

LumenRadio develops, manufactures and sells equipment for wireless radio communication. The products are based on multiple patents, where the basic idea is to enable reliable communication without interference in a world where the available frequency space becomes more and more limited.

LumenRadio's technology is based on "Cognitive Coexistence" where the units scan the frequency spectrum continuously to locate and use free channels. The company has 10 employees and annual revenue of SEK 20 million in 2015.

"I am very pleased that Latour Industries will become a partner in LumenRadio. Latour's long-term investment

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USA - Martin by HARMAN lighting fixtures were at the centre of the annual Los Angeles holiday special, L.A. Zoo Lights, a not-to-be-missed night time light show extravaganza. Martin MAC Quantum Washes and MAC Quantum Profiles were chosen to provide innovative designs for the event. The fixtures were part of an elaborate water, light and laser show that takes place a few times a day at a vacant sea lion exhibit.

This year's event, both bigger and brighter than last year's, included self-guided tours of an expanded area of the zoo, featuring all-new LED lights, lasers, 3D projections and a musical water-and-light display. L.A. Zoo Lights is produced in collaboration with theatrical set designer Gregg Lacy and Bionic League, a production design company known for innovative, large-scale events and stage credits that include Daft Punk, Deadmau5 and Kanye West.

Martin Phillips,

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USA - A lineup of Martin by Harman lighting fixtures, including the new Atomic 3000 LED strobe, are illuminating the way for Disturbed's world tour. In support of the release of their new album, Immortalized, the band wanted to deliver an in-your-face, larger-than-life show.

Lighting designer Matt Mills, who worked with Disturbed on the band's last tour in 2011, deployed an array of Martin MAC Quantum Washes, MAC Viper Profiles and Atomic 3000 LEDs in a light show aimed at mesmerizing huge arena crowds. Mills' previous work includes tours with Nelly Furtado, Motley Cr

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Germany - GLP has taken a major step to boost its domestic sales force in the face of increasing product demand, by recruiting one of its former senior employees.

Dejan Hajdukovic, who had been part of the sales team between 2008-2012, returns as sales manager, and will be based at company HQ in Karlsbad, Germany.

Dejan brings a wide network of contacts, particularly in the lighting design and rental company sectors. Now he will team up with key account manager Oliver Schwendke to undertake responsibility for field sales, largely in the southern part of the country.

Having started his professional career in the hotel and catering industry, he says that lighting had always been a hobby "and in 2008 GLP offered me the opportunity to turn this into a profession".

Stated GLP managing director, Udo K

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UK - Blackout has appointed new project manager, Alex Duke, to join its expert team of riggers, February 2016.

As the complete supplier of rigging and drapes to the live events industry, Blackout has recently worked on projects such as the BRIT Awards, the National Television Awards, London International Horse Show and The Sound of Music Live.

Duke has worked for Blackout as a freelancer since 2000 and now joins the team on a permanent basis; overseeing sight visits, quoting, logistics and overall project management. His 18 years of experience in the rigging industry has seen him work on the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony, Les Miserablés Korea, and international theatre productions.

Duke comments, "I am extremely excited to be given the opportunity to work at Blackout and be part of a fantastic team. I have very big shoes to fill but I'm loo

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USA - As energy use restrictions grow, consumers need more reliable, flexible and affordable power-control solutions for lighting systems. ETC developed the Unison Echo family of products to meet those demands and to enable complete integration of control systems.

With the addition of EchoAccess and the DMX Scene Controller - both of which are compatible with all currently shipping Echo hardware - users can configure and customise self contained systems, presets and zones while maintaining system wide control. Existing Echo products have also been updated in terms of capabilities and features in order to better meet energy codes, such as ASHRAE 90.1, CA Title 20/24 and IECC.

EchoAccess is ideal for those looking to utilise the full capabilities of the Echo lighting system. Consisting of a Bluetooth interface and a mobile app, EchoAccess allows you to remotely configure and

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UK - Light Motif reports that partners Point Source Productions are now part of TSL Lighting. For Light Motif this means they now have a far greater inventory of 'event style' kit to offer clients and are able to service more events and on a larger scale.

Rob Mills, managing director of Light Motif, said, "We are delighted to share this exciting news, it's something we have been wanting to shout about for some time. This partnership puts us in a different league to our competitors as well as being able to offer our clients and their events that bit more. We can't wait to start working with TSL and our existing team to create some extraordinary events together."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Lighting designer Larry Foote created a dynamic and versatile rig for t Maddie & Tae's Life Of Our Years tour with Lee Brice, using only a single fixture: the Nexus 4x4 COB LED panel from Chauvet Professional.

"This is Maddie & Tae's first shot at bringing their own lighting with them out on the road," said Foote, who used eight Nexus 4x4 panels provided by 4Wall Entertainment Lighting. "Maddie & Tae got off to a very fast start, but they're still very new, so the touring details haven't caught up yet. I wanted Nexus, because I needed a rig that could fit into a single trailer. More importantly though, I was looking for something that could create a lot of different looks, as well as something that would play well with the house lights at the different venues on the tour."

Foote positioned the Nexus panels on upstage pipe and base stands. "I wanted a rig that could s

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Canada - The combination of electronic music, icy décor, powerful architectural projections and a program featuring the best local and international DJs, makes Igloofest at Montreal's Old Port the place to be during January and February each year.

This year, for the 10th edition, 120,000 music lovers braved the harsh Canadian winter for four consecutive weekends, to join the largest outdoor party in Montreal. Lighting designer Karl Gaudreau of design firm 4U2C in Montreal, created the beautiful lighting scenery which, for this particular edition, evolved around a backdrop design element of painted shipping containers, also functioning as shelters for people attending the event.

4U2C deployed luminaires from SGM for the first time, which turned out in their favour, as the biggest challenge at Igloofest is the weather, with heavy fluctuations in snow conditions and te

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