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Now the venue has formed a creative partnership with Yamaha Music which will see new variations being introduced to the Bedford's successful formula by providing "the very best conditions, technical support and live performance opportunities and exposure for new original UK talent".

The partnership will see top international Yamaha artists performing and sound engineers providing support to new talent, additionally Yamaha's international reach will help promote and expand the Bedford's outreach programmes in the UK and USA. Yamaha are also planning the broadcast 'live' webcasts of gigs and events on their Yamaha Download website.

For artists such as James Morrison, Paolo Nutini, KT Tunstall a

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The Spanish Open Golf Championship was hosted at Real Club de Golf El Prat in Barcelona, 5-8 May, 2011, and it produced a couple of firsts. South Africa's Thomas Aiken claimed his first major international victory, whilst the Arena Group supplied all temporary structures and events overlay to the event for the first time.

Shortly afterwards, Arena will also be supplying a variety of temporary facilities to the Volvo World Match Play Championships in Spain and the Madeira Island Open BPI in Portugal, both of which fall on the same weekend, 19-22 May, 2011.

Working with their Madrid based partners Carpa 10, the Arena Group supplied more than 2,500 sq.m of bespoke temporary structures for t

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14 March 2016

HHB's Mogami product specialist Matthew Fletcher comments, "Any audio or video recording or production system is only as good as its weakest link and Mogami ensures that it isn't going to be the cabling that lets you down. From the tiniest lavalier microphone cable to a heavy duty digital snake, every Mogami cable is designed and manufactured to perform at the highest levels."

Speaking on behalf of Mogami, president of sales Lew Hirabayashi says, "We're delighted to appoint HHB as our exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland, a company that shares our commitment to quality, reliability and customer service. HHB has a comp

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14 March 2016

In order to give moviegoers an enhanced 3D experience with the sonic impact that they cannot get in conventional cinemas or at home, Pacific Theatres management chose to install a permanent Meyer Sound EXP cinema sound system.

"The accurate delivery of the creative content is of the utmost importance to the movie going experience and the EXP System exceeded our expectations. Meyer Sound was very professional in their approach to the design of the sound system while effectively collab

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14 March 2016

Sonoval is built on foundations laid by Pierre-Alain Fumeaux, through his work with comedian and impressionist Yann Lambiel, and the company's director of sound and light is Valentin Jacquaz who was the first audio professional in continental Europe to purchase the M7CL48-ES digital mixing console and the company's Yamaha inventory also includes SB168-ES stage boxes, as well as more consoles, including M7CLs and LS9s.

"Yamaha equipment is a professional choice, the technology is 100% stable, many engineers know them and the price is also right," he says. "I re

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14 March 2016

Guetta's FOH sound engineer is Hassane Es Siahi, who came onboard last August at the start of a festival tour which was also serviced by Adlib. However, this is the first full DJ set production tour in terms of touring the equipment, as Guetta's action-packed performance schedule normally consists of large one-off gigs worldwide using local productions.

Adlib's account manager Phil Kielty says, "David Guetta is by far one of the most innovative producers in the dance world and his live performances are always show-stopping. Hassane's creative talents are really shining through in producing a great sound, and of course it's good to be working with Alan Green & his team again".

Es Siahi conferred with Guetta and they listened to several options before bo

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14 March 2016

Dave has recently spoken at the PLASA Focus show in Leeds and had one of the largest audiences of all the 20 seminars hosted at that event. He is bringing his seminar series titled The Art of Mixing a Show to ENTECH where he will explore the most important ideas behind putting a mix together, how to add a third dimension to a flat, two dimensional mix and looked at using dynamic processors in a creative way.

Over the past decade Dave has spent time mixing for some of the most influential acts in the UK including Amy Winehouse, Seasick Steve, Corinne Bailey Rae, and many others on some of the biggest festivals, TV shows, and venues all over the world.

Most recently

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Fox, who undertakes all the AV and digital signage consultancy and implementation for main contractors, Barbican-based Trans European Technology (TET), has placed these at the hub of a Harman Pro audio solution.

In Manchester, where a second conference room has just been added, this includes eight JBL Control 26CT recessed ceiling speakers (in the larger room) and eight Control 24CT in the smaller, driven by Crown XTi amplifiers - with the sound processed and distributed via two dbx ZonePRO 641M 6 x 4 digital zone processors.

But the hub of the installation is the new AKG CS 5 Conference System. Each of the two rooms is equipped with

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14 March 2016

Absolute Radio had signed a high profile deal with smart to promote the new smart fortwo campaign. This saw Absolute Radio run a promotion on the Geoff Lloyd Hometime show which culminated in the station staging the silent gig and one lucky listener winning a smart car.

Wanting a funky central London location with a special vibe, the venue - a charismatic stripped-out Victorian warehouse space peeled back to its raw RSJs and original brickwork - was chosen. There was one major logistical challenge - they needed to stage the show without violating the noise restrictions for

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14 March 2016

Truss UK will promote "British engineering at its best with innovative product development for the entertainment industry offering quality at every stage".

One of the many products in the forthcoming Truss UK catalogue that will be showcased at the ABTT trade show in London during June will be the TT range of trussing systems.

"The TT product is one of the most versatile trussing systems you would ever buy, therefore probably the only trussing system you will ever have to buy; offering the strength of medium duty truss in a compact configuration", says Hoist UK's Tony Dickson.

"The TT range of truss is different in the fact that it can be used any way round in almost any configuration, with the new products designed

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14 March 2016

Taking place at the Esprit Arena - a temporarily-converted football stadium - in Düsseldorf, the contest featured performances by acts representing 43 different European countries and was televised live to an audience of millions by national broadcasters Norddeutscher Rundfunk Fernsehen and ARD German Television.

Yamaha worked closely with rental company Neumann & Müller to provide an audio system that would provide both high quality sound and cast-iron reliability. The event's senior sound engineer (PA), Jochen Jensen, approached Yamaha's Art

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This event was sponsored by six discrete companies - d&b audiotechnik, Shure UK, RTS Telex, Roland Systems Group, TTA and Figure53, best known as the authors of the QLab show control system. It was staged by RADA in their 180-seat Jerwood Vanbrugh theatre.

John Torger Skjelstad from Norway's TTA opened the proceedings with an in-depth discussion of the art of performer tracking and localisation, using as a demonstration the StageTracker system that he authored and which is now

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14 March 2016

Event Lighting Services are a supplier of lighting, audio and special effects equipment based in the Isle of Man. ELS were commissioned in late April to provide the audio and lighting for a private wedding party that was held in a marquee at the medieval site. The client requested the ancient ruins be illuminated, creating a stunning back-drop for their evening event.

Rushen Abbey dates back to 1134 and sits by the Silverdale Burn in what is now Ballasalla. Acquired by the Manx Government in 1998, it is the most substantial and important medieval religious site in the Isle of Man.

ELS faced a host of challenges whilst specifying equipme

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14 March 2016

Following an accident involving a via ferrata on the 5th of May 2011, Petzl launched a voluntary product safety alert to all users of the SCORPIO via ferrata lanyards (L60 and L60CK) manufactured prior to March 2005 and all Absorbica energy absorbing lanyards manufactured before May 17th 2011 up to serial number 11137****.

As a consequence Petzl has decided to take the following actions:

1. Temporary stoppage of all Petzl tear webbing lanyard production.

2. Temporary stoppage of the sale of all stock of SCORPIO and ABSORBICA tear webbing lanyards for inspection before resuming sales.

3. Extension of the product safety alert of 13.05.11 to include all Petzl SCORPIO energy absor

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"We love the idea, so we're really glad to be able to provide the console for this unique studio," enthuses Steve Flower, Audient's technology strategist who will be part of the set-up crew with his colleague, UK sales manager Gareth Williams. "We want to give the event our full support, and to that end will be tweeting our way through the set-up and ensuing weekend."

The Audient recording desk will be used alongside the Cowshed Studio's classic keyboard collection,

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When owners Kassia Picone and Tristan Grier decided to install a background music system into their new venue, in the adjacent 100 year old bakery, they called upon Paul Morris of Morris Communications.

"Initially it was to be a simple background system neatly crafted into the existing building but a couple of days into the project Tristan decided that he wanted to have intimate live performances through the background music system," says Morris. "That changed everything. We had a frank discussion and I told him that what he wanted was completely different and the budget would need to incr

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14 March 2016

"The second installment of our Middle East Roadshow in Doha was met with great attendance during all three sessions during the day," commented Moswain Antao, Roland video specialist. "We received great feedback and interest from the market for both our audio and video solutions."

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German lighting designer Jerry Appelt specified masses of lighting to deliver different looks for the 43 competing countries, three interval acts and opening act for the Final broadcast. Over 2,100 moving lights were incorporated into the design, with the majority hung overhead, spanning the entire space of Düsseldorf Arena.

Twenty-four Falcon Flower 3000Ws made a massive impact at floor level with four placed on each side of the stage at its widest position and another 12 lined along the back LED stage wall. Four more were placed on the catwalks in front of the stage.Sixteen Falcon Flower 7000Ws were placed in the ceiling, with eight hung on a moving truss directly behind the stage. Lighting control was delivered via grandMA2 full-size consoles, t

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Dedicated to the Brazilian music genre known as Axé, with its roots in Salvador de Bahia, the event featured popular Brazilian artists such as Ivete Sangalo, Cláudia Leite, Chiclete Com Banana and Asa De Águia.

The 12-strong technical team from production company Estação da Luz ensured that the promoters - DM Promoções e Eventos - had a first class sound and lighting infrastructure (as they have for the past 10 years) - with SGM lighting providing the bulk of moving heads.

Marcelo Claudio Cesar's company has been building up an inventory of SGM fixtures, supplied by local distributors Hot Machine, over a number of years, and today runs 112 Giotto Spot 400, 24 Idea Beam 300 and 12 Ribalta LED colour

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The event, more than double the capacity of previous Big Weekends, will feature six stages of music. The majority of the tickets for BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012 are being allocated to people living in Hackney and the surrounding boroughs. The announcement was made during a special simulcast broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra from the Olympic Park.

Radio 1 and 1Xtra's controller Andy Parfitt said: "This is the most ambitious event in the station's 44-year history. We aim to enhance the overall London 2012 s

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14 March 2016

It's just a year since members of PLASA and ESTA voted to merge the two Associations, and in the intervening 12 months, PLASA has reinvented key elements of its operations introducing a new membership structure, a new Governance system and election process, granting the vote to Organizational and Individual members, and launching a complete new PLASA logo and identity.

Whilst the day will reflect on the achievements of the last year, it will also invite members to feedback on what they'd like to see PLASA doing for their specific business sectors, additional services they feel should be offered and the role they'd like to see PLASA taking in the wider industry.

The formalities however, are a relatively small part of the

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14 March 2016

Lighting director Bernie Davis commented: "As soon as it was announced that the marriage ceremony was taking place in Westminster Abbey I knew that ELP were the right crew for the job. Over the last eight years or so I've used ELP as the lighting supplier on so many high profile broadcasts from the Abbey that by now ELP riggers and electricians know every square inch of the building. They are trusted by the facilities staff at the Abbey and virtually on first name terms with the Vergers...so when thinking about risk management, who else was I going to use?"

With so much cutting-edge digital technology on display from the words broadcast media - hi

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14 March 2016

"MK Light & Sound have impressed us by their dedication to supporting their customers and partners and we believe they will do very well in representing CRMX wireless lighting controls in Slovenia," says Anders Ardstål VPO of LumenRadio.

MK Light & Sound have already started a demonstration tour of CRMX products in Slovenia and the customer response so far has been" extremely positive".

"CRMX is the given choice for us in offering our customers reliable wireless lighting controls," comments Dean Karov at MK Light Sound . "The customers want something that always works, and CRMX is the only brand that can deliver on that promise as we see it. We are naturally excited to have started marketing CRMX products in Slovenia and alre

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Currently in its fourth year, the Knight of Illumination Awards was established to recognise the talents of lighting designers working across the creative arts in the UK. Past winners include Bernie Davis, Baz Halpin, Cate Carter, Dave Davey, Al Gurdon, Andi Watson and Paule Constable.

The Awards are the only programme dedicated exclusively to the stage lighting designer's craft in the UK, and, in all likelihood, the only competition in the world where winners receive an authentic medieval battle sword - crafted in Toledo, Spain.

Neil Austin, who received his 'knighthood' for work on the London-staged musical, Parade, said: "The Knight of Illumination Awards are the gold standard. They are the only awards to honour lighting de