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Festival Management Ltd (FML), the parent company of the Portsmouth’s ‘International Festival of the Sea’ has been awarded the event management consultancy contract for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee visit to the armed forces in Portsmouth in June 2002. This highlight of the Golden Jubilee year will demonstrate to the Queen the role of the armed forces in the 21st Century. Using an innovative format, it will feature the younger generation of Servicemen and women of all three services and their families. FML is currently involved in putting together the third International Festival of the Sea, a four-day event which will be held in Portsmouth Naval Base and Historic Dockyard over the August Bank Holiday this year. The largest maritime festival in the UK, the event now involves around 700 vessels from all over the world, thousands of exhibitors, traditional craftsmen, m

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Rainmaker, lighting design specialists for the corporate event market, recently designed, supplied and installed a complete lighting system for the launch of the new Gillette 226a/Venus razor. The event took place at the London Tower Thistle Hotel at St Katherine’s Dock. Lighting design was by Paul O’Brien, set design by Adrian Smith and the production company was Line Up Communications North. The brief involved the lighting of two areas and a connecting tunnel. The biggest challenge was squeezing the ambitious set and design into the space which created a fully immersive environment, enveloping the audience.

The first room was a White Room with plain, simple and effective lighting. It was given a ‘chill-out’ area feel, complete with cool water feature, highlighted with MR16s above and below, and by lightboxes containing graphics of the product. The interlinking

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In an effort to increase his students exposure to moving light technology - the future of lighting - Steve Huttley, the chief electrician at the Guildhall School of Music in London, has decided to expand the range of automated lighting equipment included in School’s stock. This already includes Strand Pirouettes, and Steve turned to White Light and The Moving Light Company to look at other products in the market to see what would both broaden the range of equipment experienced by his students and be of value to lighting designers working on productions in the theatre. The Moving Light Company’s extensive experience with automated lighting covers a huge range of products from a variety of manufacturers used on a diverse selection of shows - and their advice therefore tends to be impartial and based on ‘real world’ experience. After many discussions, Steve opted to

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Digital Projection International (DPI) - a wholly-owned subsidiary of IMAX Corporation - has announced a strategic partnership which will expand IMAX's market-leading digital projection technology into the realm of digital electronic billboards. The agreement, with Sweden's DHJ Media AB, is to develop and install digital media network systems that will replace traditional poster advertising with high-revenue digital billboards. The companies announced today that the London Underground is the first to sign up for an installation of the system. To be marketed under DHJ's trademarked ‘Outdoor Evolution Systems’, the IMAX-DHJ networked digital billboard system will allow owners to increase revenues and direct advertsiements to any given location at any designated time of the day, thus allowing for better timeliness of messages, flexibility, and the ability to purchase the entire

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Continuing an impressive rate of international expansion, DHA Lighting has announced the appointment of five new stockists in the Far East and Scandinavia. In the Asia Pacific Region, DHA has long worked with Ken Production Services, Japan, but now adds Singapore-based De Sisti Asia, distributors of quality motion picture and television lighting equipment, to its list of resellers. In Israel, Danor Theatre Systems Ltd, a leading company in design, production, stage and studio lighting and control, becomes a re-seller of the DHA Digital Light Curtain and moving effects. In order to serve Scandinavia, AVAB Sweden now stocks DHA gobos, whilst Svensk Film & Ljusteknik Sweden (SFL) and West Lighting, Finland, stock DHA gobos, moving effects and the Gecko.

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This month marks the beginning of a new agreement between Rosco and Lighting Technology for the sales, technical support and back-up in the UK and Eire for Horizon, Rosco’s computer software that converts a PC into a powerful lighting control system. Lighting Technology have been an established Rosco dealer for over 10 years, distributing the full range of Rosco colour, paint, and gobos, so the distribution of Horizon and its associate products is viewed as a strengthening of the relationship between the two companies.

Lighting Technology has strong links with many working lighting designers at all levels of the entertainment industry. Lighting Technology Projects - LT’s Systems Division is a specialist installation company working closely with designers in the architectural, retail and corporate lighting and technology markets. Sarah Davis of Lighting Technology Projects

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Point Promotions have announced a 72% increase in attendance at last week’s ABTT Theatre Show. The show this year expanded into both of the Royal Horticultural Halls, and had widened its remit to attract 30 new exhibitors. The initial un-audited visitor attendance figures show an increase of 72% over last year’s registered numbers. Point Promotions was appointed by the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) to administer the change from the ABTT Trade Show to the bigger and improved ABTT Theatre Show. The expanded show featured on-stage technology such as lighting, rigging, drapes and sound and also many exhibitors with front-of-house technology including seating and staging.

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Slick Systems, the Staffordshire-based trussing manufacturer set up by Michael Wood in 1976, has gone into liquidation, PLASA Media has learned. The company had manufacturing facilities in the UK and the USA.

A meeting of creditors will take place at 11.30am at the Radisson SAS Hotel at Manchester Airport on 25 April 2001. The appointed liquidator is Messrs. Radfords, 12 Portland Street, Southampton, SO14 7EB.

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Show Presentation Services (SPS) has launched a new department dedicated to support the use of all types of information technology in the live events market. SPS Event IT will cater for the now commonplace use of IT within conferences and exhibitions, but its approach will differ from ‘traditional’ IT ideas. "What matters to us," said SPS managing director Robin Coles, "is the event as a whole. Stand-alone computers, flat screens, local networking, Internet access, webcasting and all the associated peripherals are becoming as fundamental as video, sound and lights at many events, and should be delivered with the same professional attitude, with all the technology that comes together to service an event being intrinsically linked. We have staffed SPS Event IT with people who approach anything computerish from the live show perspective. Our crew are not ‘ne

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InspHire Ltd, providers of hire management systems for hire companies, has signed a Partnership Agreement with Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions. inspHire will offer Great Plains Dynamics and e-Enterprise solutions as the fully integrated Back Office solution for inspHire’s SQL Edition. With a long history of working together to deliver new business technologies, the two companies are joining forces to provide a package for small and medium companies. Andy Beal, inspHire MD told PLASA Media: "The signing of the Partnership Agreement between the two companies was the culmination of a two-year search for a suitable Back Office partner to integrate into inspHire SQL Edition. Great Plains' purchase by Microsoft, together with the VBA tools available to us in the end, made it an easy choice. Not only will we be able to offer the same level of two-way integration with our h

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Formula Sound has supplied equipment to a Belgium TV channel’s version of Big Brother. VT4 Date café is a TV programme where 12 individuals jointly run a pub/cafe under constant surveillance by cameras. The programme runs on TV for eight weeks every day at 8.30pm and live at 9pm on Monday. For the programme, Formula Sound provided three FSM-600 mixers, three AVC2 automatic volume control units and three SE219 system equalisers - all supplied through its distributor in Belgium, Deltavox BVBA from Bruges.

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Spanish loudspeaker manufacturer DAS Audio recently hosted a dealer and press visit to its premises in Valencia, during the final days of the city’s world-famous Fallas Festival.

The Festival provided the perfect backdrop for a visit to the company’s manufacturing facilities in both Valencia and Barcelona, where dealers got the opportunity to take a closer look at a number of new speakers recently launched by the company, and first seen just a few weeks earlier at the Frankfurt MusikMesse.

Key amongst these is the Compact 1. Self-powered, it is a three-way, bi-amplified system that can be used as a full-range stand-alone unit or as a mid-high cabinet with bass reinforcement. It features a 1000W ‘Class D’ switching amplifier, which delivers 500W to the low frequency transducer and 300W to the mid/high section. The low frequency section has a G-354, 15" low

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In the world of lighting, there is much talk about lighting style and whether a designer’s particular characteristics are visible in the designs that he or she creates. There is much less talk about personality - perhaps unsurprisingly, given that a lighting designer often ends up subservient to the show and the other members of its creative team.Personality, though, is exactly what lighting designer Anne Militello has given to the New 42nd Street Studios building in New York - and, given her background of work in the City and beyond, her close involvement with the project and the way in which the lighting was created, one can’t help feeling that the building’s lighting personality closely reflects its designer’s own.

Created as a calm, non-commercial oasis for the creation of the theatre arts that are the heart of Broadway in an ocean of commercial development,

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AC Lighting, in conjunction, with consultants Minds Eye, have completed an installation in London’s world famous Oxford Street. The project on behalf of House of Fraser, was a key part of the opening of a uniquely branded department created in the basement area of the store. The department, named ‘therapy’, was specifically designed to promote a broad line of designer fashion and beauty ranges to a younger clientele within an environment that complemented the modern image of the goods. The concept is based around videowalls, glass walkways, a catwalk, a resident DJ, new mannequins and revolutionary changing rooms. For the entrance, the initial creative idea was to use a scheme of back lighting, however, detailed technical evaluation of the site indicated the potential for structural problems and high associated costs. The concept of constantly changing colour washes, dr

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Cereco International, the on-line equipment auction facility run by John Lethbridge, believes it has found a way to protect both buyers and sellers from fraud, without the need to use a credit card. The solution, the company believes, is to be found on their two new sites.

Cereco Used Trade Auctions is again for goods supplied by manufacturers and distributors but will now include VAT registered rental companies, installers and VAT registered sole traders. All of the equipment will be ex-rental, ex-installation or part-exchanged audio, lighting, video or special effects. All of the sellers on this site are known to Cereco International, and have to enter into a written agreement to fulfil certain conditions including replacing any goods not received in the condition described. Buyers deal directly with the seller. This service is completely free to sellers if no sale is achieved.

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Long-running West End musical Witches of Eastwick, starring Ian McShane, has transferred to the Prince of Wales Theatre - with a respecified lighting rig from Vari-Lite that now includes the new VL2416 wash luminaire. The show’s original rig at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, included four VL7B zooming spot luminaires, 29 VL6B and six VL5B luminaires. The new system at the Prince of Wales is expanded to a total of 51 Vari-Lite automated luminaires, consisting of 33 VL6B and 12 VL2416s. The new VL2416 were added to the rig by lighting designer Howard Harrison, following a demonstration of the lights while on site at the Prince Edward Theatre. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh and directed by Eric Scaeffer, the musical is based on the original book by John Updike with music by Dana P Rowe and lyrics by John Dempsey. Production design is by Bob Crowley.

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Vertigo Rigging was called in to design, fabricate and install a completely new grid system into the famous Shaftesbury Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the heart of London’s West End theatreland. The month-long grid refurbishment project started directly after the get-out of the musical Napoleon which had completed its run at the theatre - a complex production also rigged by Vertigo.

The grid project was managed and overseen by Vertigo’s Ken Mehmed and all the new equipment was manufactured in Vertigo’s workshops in Bermondsey. Across the entire 140sq.m grid area, Vertigo stripped out all the old timbers from the Shaftesbury’s drop wells and replaced them with steel box-beams, two per bay. These beams have channels on the top for up and downstage adjustment of the drop pulleys and all connections were fitted with neoprene packers to reduce noise transfer throu

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Leading sound contractor Envo-Tech, well known for its safety and security systems integration, recently unveiled an impressive new showroom at its HQ in Central London. The showroom is expressly designed to reflect the two sides of Envo-Tech's business, and to demonstrate the increasing synergy between them. One end of the large, naturally-lit room showcases Envo-Tech's advanced alarm, PA, CCTV and access control systems, for which the company has gained an enviable reputation among clients such as The Royal Mail, Crown Properties and The National Maritime Museum. The other end displays the comprehensive loudspeaker and signal processing solutions available from Envo-Tech for the entertainment markets, encompassing all of the brands now under the world-famous Mackie umbrella: Mackie, Mackie Industrial, Mackie-RCF and EAW.Founder and managing director of Envo-Tech Brian Puckey commented

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The manufacturer of one of the most popular forms of rigging hardware, Slick Systems, has been acquired by one of its biggest customers, Outback Holdings. In a move that results in Outback acquiring the building, assets and worldwide manufacturing rights, the company will be relaunched as Slick (UK) Ltd, whilst continuing to operate from the Leek plant. "We’ve two main objectives with this deal," commented Outback Holdings managing director, Mark Surtees. "We initially want to ensure the continued supply of Slick to its loyal customer base, but our ultimate goal is to build the credibility of the system within the industry and to make Slick (UK) a more competitive company." No redundancies will result from the deal, although the shareholders and directors of Slick Systems will not be part of the new venture. "This is a significant move for Outback. As one o

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The Arena Club in Exeter has recently undergone a major refurbishment, which included the installation of completely new audio and lighting systems. Installation company PSD specified and installed two Mach M128 and eight M126 top box units, along with sub bass units from Martin Audio. Two BSS Omnidrives provide processing while amplification is provided by Ecler PAM 2600, PAM 2000 and PAM 560 with mixing from an Ecler Mac 901. On the lighting side, PSD specified a large amount of Martin Professional gear including MAC 500s and 600s, Pro 518 and 918 scanners, MX-4 scanners RoboColor IIIs and Destroyers. Two Martin Pro 2000 foggers provide atmospheric smoke effects. Control is from a Martin Windows-based LightJockey DMX controller.

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White Light has launched a new website dedicated to the company’s popular Training Initiative education programme. Launched at the ABTT Trade Show in 1999, The Training Initiative aims to make the wealth of knowledge and experience held by the White Light Group available to the widest possible audience. The new website gathers information about all of The Training Initiatives projects together in one place. The site includes details of all of the courses offered, details of workshops that have been held, news about recent Training Initiative events, and information about the White Light Resource Pack. Talking to PLASA Media about the new website, White Light’s training co-ordinator, Jason Larcombe, said: "We are very excited about the new website, but it is also just the start. The site will shortly include information about other elements of training in the industry wit

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Dobson Sound has been mixing with the stars at the recent London Fashion Week. Their first show was for former British Fashion Awards New Generation Designers Suzanne Clements and Brazilian-born Inacio Ribeiro, whose current Spring 2001 collection is for French label, Cacharel. Held in a specially-constructed marquee on the upper level of the Natural History Museum, it was a fairly informal show with guest DJ Rob da Bank providing the tunes on Dobson's two Technics 1210s through a d&b C7/E9 combination, and eight flown E3s.

Two days later, Dobsons was involved in the startling transformation of Asprey's and Garrard on New Bond Street to launch Jade Jagger’s new collection of jewellery. The private party was hosted by Ms Jagger herself who was reported to be delighted with the transformation wrought upon the premises in such a short space of time. Engineer Mark Smith, who also loo

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Since the conception of The Big Sound Corporation (BigSound) at the beginning of this year, the company has come to own more Midas consoles than any other company in Wales. BigSound has invested in a total of four Midas consoles - two Heritage 1000s and two Heritage 3000s - from the Birmingham branch of LMC Audio Systems, in order to make Midas consoles available to local bands in Wales. Their Heritage 1000s make regular appearances at Sam’s Bar in Cardiff, a must-play venue whose walls have been shaken by Welsh idols such as the Manics and Catatonia. BigSound find the Heritage 1000 perfect for such a venue, as Duncan Wild from BigSound explains: "The Heritage 1000 has the headroom and sound of a Midas console but put in a compact frame. Delivering this kind of sound outside a 1500-plus venue is a dream."

Proprietor David Davies said: "Like most PA company owners,

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The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) booked Laser Grafix’ services for a series of important monumental screen projections all over the country. This work has been in celebration of the Race Relations Act passed 25 years ago - and the amended law on race equality, commencing 2 April 2001. To illustrate the year when the Act was launched, Laser Grafix sourced images of a range of seventies icons, including Charlie’s Angels. To create the effects, Laser Grafix used a self-contained 7000W xenon projector mobile unit with generator, to move around the country to each site. In each city, however, one main site was used followed by additional smaller sites, to spread the message. Thus, the first projections, on 27 February, were giant images with a football theme, projected across the Manchester skyline with sites including China Town, the CIS building, the Sunley Tower and the
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