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USA - Veteran Australian LD Francesco Calvi recently put GLP's impression X4 S LED moving heads to the ultimate test - chasing a team of all-action daredevil bike riders known as Nitro Circus.

Founded by ringleader and athlete Travis Pastrana, the Sydney based Nitro Circus Live tour features more than 40 of the world's best action sports athletes performing daring and record-breaking tricks in freestyle motocross, BMX and skateboarding, aided by stunts and accessories involving water coolers, rocking horses, a lazy boy couch and more. The lighting has to be equal to the challenge of placing this into a rock 'n' roll, stadium context.

Brought in by production manager, Brendan Maher, with whom he had worked previously Calvi was hardly fazed.

Although these events follow a typical rock concert model, with build-up day, and the infrastructure built and ready for rehearsals by 3p

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Germany - Last weekend, the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany's largest indoor arena became home to the world's biggest and most-watched Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event. With over 11,000 visitors flocking to arena each day and millions more tuning in online, it was a fitting way to celebrate ESL's first standalone CS:GO event.

Over 27m unique viewers watched the tournament on Twitch for almost 34m hours (nearly 3,879 years!) between them, and at its peak the event was being followed on-line by over 1.3m concurrent viewers - an increase of more than 30% on the last ESL One Counter-Strike event five months previously and a new record for both ESL and the game itself.

ARAM was responsible for set design and technical production, including rental of latest video , lighting technology and camera jib's.

The equipment list included CP Mythos, Sharpy, GM2, Fourlight LED light

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UK - Seven years after its inaugural event at Henley-on-Thames, the Rewind Festival has mushroomed into three events - with Rewind North (in Cheshire) and Rewind Scotland in Perth further celebrating the sounds of the Eighties (and the glamorous attire that accompanies it).

Providing the PA system from the very beginning has been Capital Sound. But while the sites to the north have been problem free in terms of sound propagation, the Henley location at Temple Island Meadows, Remenham Farm, has always been noise sensitive, and until 2013 elicited complaints from the local gentry.

2013 proved to be the watershed year, when acoustics consultants Vanguardia were brought in by the promoter, Impresario Festivals' David Heartfield, and suggested a guaranteed means of curing the problem was to deploy Martin Audio's award winning MLA Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array solution.

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UK - For the NHS Confederation event in June, The ACC Liverpool team provided full production services for the second year running, and this year also provided AV for the conference dinner which took place off site at St George's Hall, Liverpool city centre.

The production needed to be delivered to a set budget, be innovative, colourful, reflect the branding identity and develop from the previous year.

Requirements included live streaming, interactive voting and the recording of all plenary sessions which were then to be made available for post conference viewing.

The annual conference and exhibition is one of the most high profile healthcare gatherings in the UK, bringing together senior leaders from across the whole of the health and social care system.

The team devised its Bring Your Own Device system for interactive voting. Innovative interactive online platforms were

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USA - Originally built in 1960 and now owned by the Tenaglia family, the Jolly Roger Motel is a New Jersey beach icon that has maintained its nostalgic character while upgrading its facilities, opening a pool-side restaurant and adding a modern audio system with Community loudspeakers.

The motel's previous audio system had poor coverage and music quality and had deteriorated from years of exposure to the New Jersey shore's winter weather. Its new audio system improves both music quality and coverage and uses Community loudspeakers designed to perform in extreme weather conditions.

Moyer Electronics of Pottsville, PA, designed and installed the new system beginning with four Community R.15 COAX loudspeakers to cover the pool. Paul Moyer of Moyer Electronics explains, "By placing all four of the R.15 loudspeakers on one side of the pool, we were able to get very good covera

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Romania - More than 70 high power discharge and LED fixtures from PR Lighting were on duty when Beth Hart's Better Than Home European tour arrived in Bucharest recently.

The Los Angeles-based singer songwriter appeared at the Palace Hall - before an audience of 3,000 and performing under a lighting rig dominated by PR Lighting pieces.

These were provided to lighting designer Cristian Simon by Romanian distributors (and event specialists) Temple Media - part of an impressive concert spec sound and lighting package.

Simon, who has worked with PR Lighting fixtures at many high profile performances in the past, chose 20 fully featured XR 200 Beams, with the impressive 189W Philips MSD Platinum 5R lamp), 10 XLED 1061, housing an incredible 61 4-in-1 bright linear colour mix LEDs, 20 high output XR 230 Spots, with their variable linear zoom, and 24 ultra compact XLED 2007 B

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UK - Lifting equipment specialists Hoist UK & sister company Truss UK have recently moved to bigger premises, significantly increasing the size of their previous facilities. The new offices, workshop and warehouse are still based on the Wirral peninsula and are ideally located in the heart of the UK motorway network.

The move reflects the growth and success of both companies over the last year which has seen an expansion in the company, the product range and business generally which meant that they outgrew their previous site. The new workspace boasts a 10,000sq.ft building, along with extensive yard space.

Tony Dickson, director of Hoist UK & Truss UK comments, "Our new Moreton facility consists of ample office space for an ever growing sales / admin team, substantial customer meeting areas, plus extensive warehousing with a lifting equipment testing bay, that should sup

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Austria - Engineering company, AV Stumpfl has expanded its presence in creating an extensive visual systems product and service offering to its extensive international client base.

In speaking about the expansion, Tobias Stumpfl, CEO at AV Stumpfl GmbH says, "Over the past few years, we've established ourselves with a solid foundation in creating a wide range of robust projection screens, in-house warp, blend and auto calibration technologies and projectors. With a reputation for excellence in engineering, our systems are backed by an experienced team of visual display professionals with direct experience in the simulation and training sector ranging from civil aviation to aerospace, education, military, security and operations."

All products are custom engineered for their intended application and manufactured in Austria.

All screens are custom made to measure in

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UK - Specialists in the hire of giant video screen technology for events, broadcast, TV and entertainment industries, Cheshire, UK-based Euroscreens Ltd has taken delivery of Calibre LEDView530 Universal rental, staging and events switcher-scalers for its complete turnkey production solutions.

The LEDView530 performs screen processing for high-profile projects that Euroscreens works on. As an all-in-one solution, the LEDView530 has optimal operating modes and can be used on either LED video walls, projection or for scan conversion.

Euroscreens has deployed LEDView530 in a number of different scenarios, from edge-blending of projectors at corporate conferences to LED screen processing for live broadcast events.

Most recently the LEDView530's were used to process LED screen content for Matchroom Sports Boxing, shown live on Sky Sports HD. For this event 4 LED screens that were

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UK - A wide array of Clay Paky fixtures was spread over numerous stages at one of UK's biggest dance festivals, Parklife in Manchester, with several of the major acts' lighting designers 'very happy' to discover them in the rig.

Event production house Audile supplied 12 Mythos, 16 Stormy CC strobes, 96 Sharpys, 12 Alpha Spot HPE 700 and eight Alpha Beam 700 fixtures to the event, which takes place in Manchester's 600-acre Heaton Park.

The fixtures were rigged on The Temple outdoor stage and several of the Big Top arenas; lighting artists such as hip hop giant Nas and Brit and NME 2015 award-winner FKA Twigs.

"As so many lighting designers are familiar with Clay Paky fixtures they were very happy to find them in the rig as they knew they'd be able to achieve the looks they wanted," says Rob Leach, director of Audile. "The Mythos was extremely popular on accoun

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Denmark - Lighting designer, Kasper Lange, chose to work with Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures for the current Dizzy Mizz Lizzy tour of Denmark which kicked off with six shows in April and May and continues to take in the majority of this summer's festivals. The vintage alternative rock band started life in 1988 and found huge success in Denmark and Japan.

Lange, amongst whose credits is the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen in 2014, specified 65 MagicBlade-R units which were supplied by Ayrton's Danish distributor, Bico Professionel A/S, to LiteCom A/S, the contracted supplier of lighting and video for this revival tour.

Kasper Lange explained why he chose to use the MagicBlade fixtures. "I have been following Ayrton for some years, as they are a company that always seem to make innovative and interesting lighting products, with a design factor that really makes them sta

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Finland - Valokaivo, a difficult-to-translate Finnish word for 'Light Well', is also the name of an interactive light installation located in the central market square of the Finnish town, Lahti. Valokaivo is essentially an array of skyward-facing lights, illuminating when passersby step on different sections of the protective glass panel. Such an interactive installation required the participation of several specialty organizations and components from high-quality manufacturers, including Martin Professional lighting elements.

The installation was designed by Studio Lux Nova and Marjut Kauppinen. Studiotec supplied the Martin VC-Dots for the media surface and the reActor Media server. The Invisible developed the interactive digital content and installed the IP camera motion tracking.

After developing the initial design, Marjut Kauppinen and Studio Lux Nova brought in Studiote

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South Africa - Blood Brothers, South Africa's first supergroup, is a project featuring 10 of the country's best known musicians and rock heroes, who recently played a special one-off concert to a hugely enthusiastic 3500 capacity audience at Johannesburg's Carnival City Big Top venue.

Lighting - almost entirely Robe, a mix of Pointes, MMX Spots, LEDWash 600s and 300s, LEDBeam 100s and PARFect 100s - was designed and operated by Magz Schoeman, head of lighting at the busy venue.

Magz was very excited when the opportunity arose to light such a high profile event, and put substantial energy and detail into designing the rig for the occasion.

A pre-production meeting revealed who was in the band. Magz had already worked with some of the individual bands involved, and learned that the set would be three hours long and be a mix of the greatest and best loved hits of the key bands

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UK - Every year Newham Council hosts Under the Stars; a free, four day music festival for those living in the borough of Newham, with the aim of bringing the community together. This year it took place on 13-16 August at Central Park, East Ham and featured a wide range of artists. Following White Light's work with Newham Council last month on The Mayor's Newham Show, the complete production solution specialist was once again on hand to provide all of the lighting and rigging support for this occasion.

Now in its 16th year, this year's Under the Stars was the biggest one yet. The line-up featured chart-toppers Maxi Priest, Aswad and Hot Chocolate along with children from Newham's Every Child a Musician programme who took to the stage to entertain the crowd. There was also a performance by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra who performed a classical music set. Over 60,000 attended t

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UK - West Midlands based technical production and solutions specialist Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) has made its first purchases in a major new round of investment in Panasonic laser projectors.

A fleet of 24 new projectors will comprise 12 each of two models, the PT-RZ670 single chip 6500 lumen and the PT-RZ 12K 3-chip 12000 lumen machines.

"The idea is to replace the older stock of conventional bulb-lightsource Panasonic projectors completely," explains CPL MD Matthew Boyse.

"We need to keep constantly moving with the technology alongside offering our clients the best and most appropriate options for all of their projects" continues Max, highlighting the fact that the new machines also draw less power and are essentially more eco-friendly.

As most events are now under pressure to prove - and improve - their carbon footprints, this is set to become

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USA - Intensity is the name of the game at American Ninja Warriors. More of an athletic event than a reality show, the popular NBC programme, which is perennially number one in its time slot, treats its 6m viewers to a breathtaking display of physical power, quickness and dexterity. Lighting director Edward Motts brought forth similar qualities in the searing lightshow he created for the 2015 edition of the program, using Next NXT-1 and Nexus LED fixtures from CHAUVET Professional provided by Aspect Lighting.

Taking place at the USS Iowa battleship museum as a salute to the armed forces, the summer 2015 American Ninja Warriors set featured a daunting obstacle course made of gleaming aluminium truss. Accenting the imposing image of the course were a collection of Nexus 4x4 LED panels and Nexus 4x1 LED strips.

Motts positioned two rows of four Nexus 4x4 panels acro

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USA - When The End Times tour kicked-off at the Concord Pavilion in California, it was the first official tour for the Smashing Pumpkins following the release of their latest album Monuments To An Elegy.

As the long-time tour lighting designer, Lawrence Upton of UV Lighting was once again designing the lighting rig for the alternative rock band, and the co-headlining line-up with Marilyn Manson presented a set of challenges. Working with tour lighting provider DPS, Upton created a festival-type lighting rig complete with 24 VL4000 Spot luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite to give himself the creative freedom needed to surpass those challenges.

"Anytime you do a co-headlining tour you ramp things up a lot and as you get closer to the event people start to add more and more production elements," began Upton. "In the production design, we ended up with seven la

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Denmark - UK artist and Quincy Jones protégé Jacob Collier is only 20 years old yet his undoubted talent as a musician and singer has already earned him the epithets of 'jazz's new prodigy' and 'jazz music's new messiah' from some heavy-weight music reviewers.

Currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music, Collier recently embarked on a project with Ben Bloomberg, a PhD graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, to find new ways to multitrack live music. As a fan of the brand, Bloomberg chose to use DPA microphones. These included the versatile d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphone, which was used to capture drums, percussion, melodica and piano; a d:dicate 4011 Cardioid Microphone for drum overheads and a d:fine 4088 Headset Microphone, which Collier wore throughout his performance.

Bloomberg and Collier's collaboration dates from the beginning of 2015 when Bloomberg

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UK - The Barn on the Farm is one of the growing number of independent events that now populate the summer festival calendar. Since 2010, the event has grown year on year and now presents a broad spectrum of up and coming artists on multiple stages with pro-audio systems and professional lighting rigs. Lighting designer, Bryan Leitch was approached to submit design proposals for all three stages.

"My design was originally produced with a narrow beam LED unit in mind but then, quite by chance, I saw the Ayrton MagicDot R fixtures in action online and decided to contact Ambersphere Solutions straight away for more information. Lee House from Technical Sales was my consistent point of contact from then on."

"The festival's chosen vendor was Colour Sound Experiment," continues Leitch, "and between us we replaced my original choice with MagicDot-R units and

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UK - Founded in 1989, Killik & Co is a private client stockbroker and wealth manager based in London. Its head office is housed on Grosvenor Street, Mayfair in a Grade II listed building that was formerly the Japanese Embassy.

The main meeting room at Killik & Co's Mayfair office, known as The Music Room, is a sumptuous, wood-paneled space which hosts a variety of events from seminars and presentations to regular lunchtime briefings and meetings

Over recent times the company's technical support department had been upgrading certain software elements of its IT infrastructure such as going from Microsoft Lync 2010 to 2013 and concluded that in a world of unified communications, its existing AV provision was not adequate. Killik & Co's senior support analyst, Henry Selzer, followed up an earlier speculative contact with Audiologic with a firm interest in upgrading the audio provi

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Switzerland / Germany - In June, German metal band Heaven Shall Burn used a barrage of effects from 36 Elation Professional Sniper 2R multi-effect lights to get the crowd going at Switzerland's biggest rock festival, the Greenfield Festival, then did the same in July at the With Full Force Festival in Germany.

Austrian-based rental and production company MartinKames.com, who worked with several bands at the two festivals, has worked with Heaven Shall Burn on their shows worldwide since 2008 and provided floor package lighting and stage effect lighting for the band at both Greenfield and With Full Force.

"The speed of the Sniper was the most crucial aspect of the Heaven Shall Burn rig," stated Nadine Horitani, head of events & sales at MartinKames.com. "The effect possibilities combined with the large quantity of fixtures made for a one-of-a-kind lightshow. Heave

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South Africa - For many Land Rover enthusiasts, it was difficult to swallow the lump in their throat as they sat around the camp fire with Kingsley Holgate, a humanitarian and modern day explorer at the Landy Festival South Africa 2015, held on the 22 and 23 August at Soetdoring Vakansieplaas in Vereeniging.

Kingsley 'Greybeard' Holgate chatted around the fire. EPH Productions contributed to the setting by creating an intimate look using six Robe Robin 600s, two Martin 401s and control on a grandMA Lite. "We used the Robins, positioned on truss totems, to light the trees and to imitate the fire, creating warmth and ambience in the bush," said Andre Westraad from EPH Productions.

Kingsley has ventured through every country on the African continent and talked about his upcoming Heart of Africa Expedition, which is said to be his toughest exhibition yet. The aim is to r

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USA - Set to open fall 2015, Vault 634 will be a premier location for first-class private events in the revitalized heart of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Its building was erected in 1911 for Lehigh Valley Trust, Allentown's biggest bank at the time. It has a Greco-Roman façade complete with ornate lion heads and an interior that bespeaks the bank's prestige at the time of its construction. Gold-leafed crown molding, a Victorian stained glass ceiling, marble flooring, Tiffany glass lamps, four massive stainless steel vaults, and six stunning murals all serve as highlights in an altogether distinguished interior.

Vault 634's owner has invested $3m in renovations that will ready the space for weddings, parties, fundraisers, and the like for up to 250 people while preserving the building's rich history. As part of that renovation, integration firm Sage Technologies (Mount Joy, Pennsylv

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Columbia - D.A.S. Audio recently held a series of training seminars in Colombia as part of its ongoing commitment to provide sound professionals with training in D.A.S. technology. Led by D.A.S. technicians for South America and the Caribbean Roberto Almodovar and Ramón Franco, the seminars held in Medellín, Bogotá and Cali were attended by a record number of Colombian sound professionals eager to learn more about D.A.S Audio's sound solutions.

The first seminar, held in Medellín, was organized in collaboration with local distributor Coaxial & Digital Music and attended by roughly 150 professional audio technicians and operators.

Local company Cyan Eventos Medellín handled the technical production for the seminar, which featured a training course on the DASnet remote monitoring and management system as well as the EASE Focus acoustic simulation and modelling software.

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