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14 March 2016

Never Mind The Buzzcocks which is now being filmed from Riverside Studios. The BBC2 show continues its obviously successful formula with guest competitors from the world of entertainment, regular team leaders Phil Jupitus and Noel Fielding, and a guest judge. Lighting designer Chris Kempton uses what he previously admitted as 'nothing exotic' to complement the industrial and urban design of the set.

Skavlan - Award winning journalist Fredrik Skavlan hosts the most seen talk show in Scandinavia with over 3m viewers. Since the TV talk show was premiered back in 2009, there has been a constant stream of international guests. Filming extra shows in London has meant that they have access to more stars who a

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"Although Austria is a relatively small country the two companies will work together to ensure the Austrian customer base has expedient access to one of the most comprehensive portfolios of Entertainment Lighting equipment available today," says Philips Entertainment Sales Manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Czech Republic, Rainer Weggen."Philips Entertainment has added these market leading distributors to our list of partners to ensure that

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14 March 2016

Andre bought his first Robe products in 2004 and has been a loyal and keen supporter of the brand ever since, continuing to invest regularly in Robe over the years. His most recent purchase - from Robe's Benelux distributor Controllux - has been 16 Pointes and eight MMX Spots.

These were in fact the very first Pointes in Holland - delivered after Andre saw them at Prolight+Sound Frankfurt and was extremely impressed. Being a man of action, he put his money straight where his mouth was ... and placed the order there and then.

As soon as Purple Haze's Pointes were delivered, they went straight

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The new compact six colour cyclorama was selected for a PLASA Award for Innovation thanks to its function and many advantages which it brings for the users. The luminary is specially designed for TV studios, concerts, theatres for back stage lighting or soft front lighting with high CRI (>95).

"During the exhibition the feedback about the product was superb. LL stage CYC contains six colours - red, green, blue, amber, white at 5600K and white at 3200K which is a really big benefit,", said managing director Julius Szaraz.

LL stage CYC 6C provides uniform light distribution, dynamic colour changing and its lifetime is 75.000 hours.

The next exhibition where you can meet with Leader Light is LDI SHOW in Las Vegas (22. - 24. Novemb

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The awards which were celebrating their 15th year were open to any company involved in the AV industry across Europe, from media production companies to manufacturers of any kind of equipment or software used in AV communication; so for this small firm from the North East this is an amazing achievement.

The Live event of the year category was awarded for utilising the newest technical ideas and was open to a wide range of corporate events, awards ceremonies, experiential events, sponsored events, sales conferences, product launches, exhibition events and more. Judges were looking for examples of absolute excellence in lighting, sound, project

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14 March 2016

Out of the more than 140 groups performing at this year's ACL Music Festival, AMD/Lady Bird hosted some of the biggest headliners, including Depeche Mode, The Cure, Vampire Weekend, fun., The National, Passion Pit and Atoms For Peace, featuring members of Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beck.

According to LD Systems director of production services Robert Ausmus, the stage was equipped with a total of

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14 March 2016

JSM's portfolio includes some of India's most successful and well-known independent restaurants. Prime examples are luxury lounge Shiro, with its signature high ceilings, grand statues and award winning Oriental cuisine, and the Hard Rock Café in Mumbai.

JSM, through its subsidiaries, is the exclusive master franchisee for Hard Rock Café, California Pizza Kitchen and Trader Vic's across India and the restaurants are known for their unique designs and uncompromising standards.

The two Mumbai restaurants are centrally located, surrounded by a variety of corporations and movie production houses and, with the suburbs being home to the Bollywood mov

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14 March 2016

The Phoenix Zoo initially hired Clearwing Productions to increase the production value of the annual lighting show, though the two teams quickly determined that the audio system was underperforming ­- not to mention falling apart.

"The Phoenix area is inundated with sun and UV rays, which is very tough on outdoor products," said Nick Pitman, service and systems engineer,

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The location of the building was the main reason for a media façade solution, as it sits in Copenhagen at Rådhuspladsen, where outdoor advertising has been an integral part of the area for more than 100 years.

Transform architect Lars Bendrup said, "This LED media façade was the next logical step. It's an entirely new way of communicating through the language of light. Confederation of Danish Industry is showing a new face - one that reflects dynamism and change."

The media façade incorporates 4,000m of Martin Professional's VC-Strip in a customised outdoor soluti

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14 March 2016

Live Red, presented by Ilary Blasi and Claudio Bisio, brought together an exceptional cast, including Albertino, Elio e le Storie Tese, and Fabri Fibra, with the participation of the international guest Bob Sinclar.

The show was organised with the utmost professionalism, thanks to the quality of the technical staff: director of photography - Marcello Iazzetti, and lighting operator - Marco De Nardi, one of the best Italian console operators. The rental company was DiBi Technology, noted for its work with major productions.

D.T.S. contributed massively to the success of Live Red Vodafone. The lighting system - installed by DiBi Technology - included more than 100 moving heads by D.T.S: 64 x NRG 1201 hanging on the four arch

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Established by pastor Kim Sam-Hwan in 1980, Myoungseong is one of the best known churches in South Korea. Services are broadcast in real time to a number of other church buildings throughout the country and are also broadcast on the internet, Christian radio and television stations in other territories. This means that, while around 100,000 attend the main church building annually, it is reputed to have a million followers globally.

Key to the process are the two DiGiCo SD7s, installed as part of the project to build the new sanctuary. One is located at the Front of House pos

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Continuess Rieck, "My sentiment with regard to the overall number of visitors is highly positive - due to our location directly opposite the entrance we were able to keep a weather eye on this. I felt that Monday and Tuesday were the days with the highest attendance figures; we've booked again for next year already. Meet'n'Greet has priority at PLASA, so we coul

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"The ceilings in the main room are over eight meters high at some points, and the dance floor is under a dome," notes Magued Makram, president of Modern Touch. "It was very hard to generate the high SPLs we wanted without hitting reflective walls and the ceiling. Fortunately, the Meyer Sound JM-1P had exactly the right combination of high power, superb sonic quality, and the precise directional pattern we needed."

The club's main system targets the dance floor and adjacent seating areas with twin-flown clusters of three-each JM-1P loudspeakers, with four 600-HP subwoofers floo

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Made in Sud showcases the very best cutting-edge and emerging young comedy talent in the south of Italy, with the final episodes in each run of programmes recorded live.

Carotenuto - who has worked for RAI for 30 years and currently lights shows and events for their OB Unit all over Italy - used 35 LEDWash 1200s to illuminate the audience in this instance.

The 30 x LEDBeam 100s were used in two 6x9 matrixes either side of the upstage LED screens. They provided intense back-beam effects for certain camera shots - for which they were highly effective.

The Robe fixtures for this show were supp

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Exhibiting for the first time with Ambersphere Solutions, its new UK exclusive distributor, Robert Juliat revealed a bright, new-look stand design, complete with a range of startling pink TIBO fixtures. "The pink TIBOs succeeded in drawing a lot of visitors to the stand and generated much excited chat on th

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During the facility tour, guests were given an exclusive look at the processes involved in making a DPA Microphones product. Culminating in a live, hands-on workshop at the Nørrebro Theatre in Copenhagen, attendees were presented with demonstrations by a singer/actor and a band of DPA's collection of microphones.

"The conference was a huge success as it allowed those attending to really get to know the DPA Microphones," says Christian Poulsen, CEO of DPA Microphones. "The company has changed a great deal in rece

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Ellie Goulding's engineers are Oz Bagnall (FOH) and James Neale (Monitors). Oz specified the Coda Audio system, which once again proved to be a flexible solution for the wide variety of theatre and town hall venues.

It was the first time that Adlib has worked with Bagnall and also with tour/production manager Derek Fudge, proving a very positive experience all round. Adlib's crew - systems engineer George Puttock and stage monitor technician Alan Harrison - were also a big part of ensuring that Ellie Goulding's performance had the best possible live sound.

The system comprised 24 x Coda LA12, 16 x ViRay and 16 x SCPF spea

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Around 50 people joined Haydn Cruickshank and the Colour Sound team at Bovingdon Airfield in Buckinghamshire where they energized with the Slide School Drift Academy (SSDA) headed by Alan Arnott and spent the day engaging in one of the most exhilarating and exciting divisions of motorsport - drifting.

This company's annual day out this year continued the extreme sport theme - in the past they have gone wake-boarding, indoor skydiving and indoor skiing. "It proved to be another fantastic day of fun and action," comments Haydn, adding that taking those wh

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Blitz Communications delivered a complete set, staging and audio visual package for leading agency Four Colman Getty. Lisa Perkins, event manager, commented, "Tuesday night's event was a huge success and we are absolutely thrilled how the evening progressed. All the suppliers from the Guild Hall to AV company Blitz and Carly Rogers Flowers, were brilliant throughout and came together really well on the night."

Munir Samji, executive chairman at Blitz added, "It was our pleasure to support this prestigious event for

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14 March 2016

Lighting designer Kobi Rozental specified 80 W-DMX units to deliver wireless DMX to colour changing streetlamps along the main highway leading to the city, at a distance of approximately 1 km (.6 miles). The streetlamps change colour in a chase, leading the way to the city. LED Lighting Solutions in Israel supplied all W-DMX equipment and lighting. Ory Yaffe of LED Lighting Solutions said, "We Could not install wires between the pillars, so wireless signal was the only option in this case. It works great and the signal is solid."

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The new Academy will incorporate the existing training programmes run by Shure and integrate new workshops and seminars, delivered via a variety of media, including e-learning, webinars and hands-on instruction. In the UK, this brief will extend across the entire Shure Distribution portfolio and include training and certification for brands such as DIS, QSC, Radial and MyMix.

"We have always offered detailed technical training for our brands at the SDUK HQ in Waltham Abbey, and those events, such as Axient accreditation and Q-Sys training, will continue under this new umbrella,&q

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Hosted by Matt Lucas and produced by Attitude, the award-winning gay magazine in association with Virgin Holidays, the glamour and the glitz was in full flow.

Eclipse's production manager Andrea Witt and project manager Nikhil Shah worked closely with Attitude's show producer Annie Bracken and Seasoned Events to ensure that everything ran like clockwork on the night and that the setting and environment helped make it a memorable night for guests.

The gala dinner and awards ceremony saw a star-studded line up of celebrities rock up, to see the likes of Daniel Radcliffe, Paul O'Grady and Cher collect their awards, together with a special guest appearance by c

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Whenever a show is underway at the ICC, the new network passes music and control data from the ICC Control Room to synchronised LED fascia lighting displays and to a new sound system that includes QSC loudspeakers and amplifiers in and outside the IFC mall.

"Q-Sys was the only audio management system that could offer built-in audio playback and DSP, full monitoring of any input and control of the amplification and speakers, all down a standard fibre connection between the IFC and ICC, and with full redundancy and remote management func

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Hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Reggie Yates, the concert was part of the SL20 Campaign which is celebrating Stephen's life with a series of awareness-raising events throughout the year. It was recorded and broadcast on BBC1 and an album of the live performances is also due to be released.

XL Video was asked onboard by promoters AEG Live to supply video production which was co-ordinated for them by project manager Gareth Jeanne. He worked closely with the AEG Live production team led by Kahren Williams and Keith Wood.

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