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The historic Castle Gardens played host to performances from Status Quo supported by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Will Young supported by Gabrielle, and the 'Soul Legends' show with Angelo Starr and the Team and featuring special guests Gwen Dickey of Rose Royce fame, Clem Curtis from the Foundations, Jimmy James ex of the Vagabonds and George McCrae.

Saturday night saw a very special Military Proms celebrating Sapper 300. An informal brass band was first established in 1836 by the Royal Sappers and Miners and music has been a major part of military life for centuries and over the years the Royal Engineers have been privileged to enjoy the work of some outstanding musicians. The conc

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The vast 20,000sq.ft venue is one of the longest running EDM nightclubs on the West Coast of America and is known for hosting big headliners. And with huge acts scheduled for Super Bowl 50 weekend, 1015 Folsom owner, Ira Sandler, got a jump-start on the renovations. He called on Eric Bernstein of Intelligent Lighting Services in Austin, TX once again to upgrade the club's lighting and video system with gear from Mega Systems Inc., the PR Lighting distributor in USA.

Bernstein kicked off the project by taking Sandler and his technical director Scot Peterson to the LDI Show last November. There they determined the new equipment that would be used in the nightclub.

Above the stage in the main room, Bernstein installed a number of LED displ

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DuShow is the result of the fusion of three different French market leaders - Caméléon, Arp

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The fabric arena is a 2000-capacity, 38m round tent designed to recreate fabric's Room One, giving party-goers the true nightclub experience in a festival environment.

Powersoft's Class D switch-mode K Series was again been adopted by Pioneer pro audio manager, Alex Barrand, to deliver the high octane feeds to their 4 x 3m GS-WAVE dancefloor surround stacks, eight XY-218 18-inch twin bass reflex subwoofers and 12 XY-122 12-inch two-way loudspeakers. But in addition, it took advantage of the Italian company's Armon

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Also on stage were Adam Hall Group's newest brand of stands - Gravity. Exclusively deployed across the festival's three main stages, Gravity stands have won the internationally-recognized Red Dot and IF Design awards, while being recently nominated for the German Design Award.

"For such a festival, it's important that the equipment meets the expectations right from the start. The Gravity stands have even exceeded these. Whether it's about stability or an attractive price-performance ratio with design to boot, Gravity convinced us in every aspect," said Michael Kercher, managing director of 12 L

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Simon Sonnenschmidt, who was in charge of the show lighting design and programming in the Dancehall Soundsystem Arena, for U-Concert Veranstaltungsproduktionen GmbH & Co. KG, used 13 Clay Paky Sharpys, four Spheriscans and four Supersharpys, together with one dot2 core plus and one dot2 F-wing.

Sonnenschmidt explained, "The Supersharpy is the perfect light for illuminating the glass dome on the roof of the ice rink/Dancehall Soundsystem Arena. I created massive columns of light with the four mo

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In 2005, the station celebrated its anniversary by creating its own festival, Mountain Jam. Though not nearly as big as Woodstock, Mountain Jam has become a musical force in its own right, drawing enthusiastic crowds to hear groups like Michael Franti and Spearhead, Widespread Panic, The Black Keys, The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, and more. This year, the four-day festival continued to roll with virtual nonstop mus

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Fantasy Studios' director Jeffrey Wood commented, "Fantasy Film Centre was constructed like a musical instrument. The clarity and detail of the room is beautiful and it's perfect for precision mixing. We are proud to have achieved the re-build in an exceptional way, so that it is compatible and comparable with all of the top mix theatres."

"The Film Centre stage has solid

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"Having worked with Jeff and the 44 Designs team extensively in recent years, I can tell you that there is not a more creative brain trust of individuals in the stage creative space in Nashville," says Pennington. "Every production that I have seen them produce, or been involved with has blown my mind every time! We could not be more excited about this partnership and the ability to deliver amazing production and event services in an affordable manner to the Nashville music community, and beyond."

Nashville-based 44 Designs enters the partnership with over 25 years of experience in lighting, touring and production. As a 360

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"The Go-Between has a pretty interesting history; we opened at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds five years ago, before hitting the Derby Playhouse and Royal and Derngate in Northampton - the reviews were great and we really wanted to bring it to London, but we were aware of the need for a strong actor to play the lead role who could really pull in the crowds. When Michael Crawford said he'd do it, it was the perfect casting, so we started planning to bring the show to the West End."

Tim continued, "The lighting rig we have here in the Apollo is a full mix of what we used in Leeds,

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Grant was the frontman in alt-rock band The Czars in his twenties and thirties, left the music business altogether for six years, and has enjoyed a more soulful renaissance as an electronica and orchestral-driven solo artist on leading independent label Bella Union in his forties, with a string of successful albums to his name.

Following the release of Grant's third solo album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure in Autumn 2015, he took to the road for a short tour of the UK and Ireland which lasted into early 2016. It was on these dates that he began using the Shure microphones, as Ber Quinn, the tour's front-of-house engineer, explains, "The difference once John started using the KSM9HS was startling. A voice as

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CPL MD Matthew 'Max' Boyse states, "d&b has proved a high quality, hugely reliable and consistent solution for our audio needs for many years," adding that as well as continuing their relationship with these latest purchases, it also "steps up a level with a new 'partnership' arrangement recognising our long-term focus on the brand".

The latest deal includes substantial quantities of Y and V series speakers, which replace all CPL's older Q-series stock, and another large amount of E-series - E6s, E8s and B4-SUBS - taking the place of the E3 series and older E products. This is complete with all the requisite rigging a

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The 11-day festival, which brought together contemporary dance, visual arts, music and theatre in interactive installations, exhibitions and performances, featured more than 200 international artists, and will be held annually for the next three years with a view to extend into the future. The occasion was marked by the procurement of a new ATMe haze generator to complement The Lowry's 15-year-old MDG Atmosphere.

MDG's ATMe is an evolution of the Atmosphere which is a long-term industry standard. ATMe has an added degree of controllability which attracted the attention of The Lowry's head of technical services, Dave Woodward, and was supplied by MDG UK complete with a portability kit.

The ATMe was brought into use for

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EXPOSURE The Musical tells the story of young photographer Jimmy Tucker who faces the biggest challenge of his life when a stranger commissions him to find and shoot the seven deadly sins within modern-day London. Yet, throughout the night, a series of encounters with girlfriends, family history and the world of celebrity reveals there is more at stake than just money.

The lighting designer on the show is Ben Cracknell. He comments, "Projection plays a huge role in E

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The purchase is part of the plan for the anticipated mid-2017 opening of their new Plenary Building, a multi-purpose venue built on the site of the original 1987 Convention Centre, with a capacity of up to 3,500 seats. Local production and installation company AJS were selected to fulfil this government tender, and have developed a close working relationship with the ACC.

"This was all part of the Convention Centre's tender process for stock replenishment and the new Plenary Building," relates AJS's Luke Hattam. "We contacted Australian High End Systems distributor Lexair Entertainment for guidance. We were successful in our

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With a construction period of almost 17 years, and extending to 57k in length, the world's longest tunnel is regarded as the "Swiss project of the century", and has attracted many superlatives.

The construction, which is 7k longer than the Eurotunnel, is the heart of the new Railway Link through the Alps and connects the cantons of Uri in the north portal Erstfeld in central Switzerland to the south portal in Bodio (Canton Ticino). As a result, the travel time from Zurich to Milan has been reduced by one hour to about two hours 40 minutes. For freight transport, the new Gotthard tunnel brings great

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A few kilometres from the city of Modena, the ancient villa represents an important part of the tenor's life and it contains a vast collection of personal items, souvenirs and scene costumes that Pavarotti was particularly fond of. Unreleased pictures and videos are projected in the rooms where the Master spent his last years, and constitute a great opportunity to get to know more directly the artistic and human heritage of the tenor.

The quality of the audio system is a key feature of the Home Museum. Willy Gubellini, a sound professional who has worked on all editions of the famous charity project Pavarotti & Frie

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William Castro, owner and CEO of Wynwood Audio, says, "I've been using API for a long time and being able to now offer it to my clients is very exciting for me. API has been a leader in this industry for many years, and I'm looking forward to supplying their products and helping my clients have a better quality sound."

(Jim Evans)

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The announcement was made by Chris Wildfoerster, senior director of Touchpoint Americas for MUSIC's Enterprise Division. "Goldsmith Sales & Marketing has earned great respect from channel partners and consultants," states Wildfoerster, "MUSIC looks forward to working with Goldsmith Sales & Marketing to continue building on MUSIC's family of solutions and expanding our market presence while increasing sales through our channel partners."

Michael Smith, principal of Goldsmith Sales & Marketing commented, "Goldsmith Sales is proud to be representing one of the most

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For nearly 40 years, Avolites equipment has been found surviving the mud in each corner of the Worthy Farm takeover. This year the British manufacturer's consoles and media servers were not only used on the main stages such as the Pyramid, which was also powered by Avolites ART2000 dimmers, the Other, John Peel, West Holts and the Acoustic Stage but also Arcadia Spectacular and The Temple immersive dance environments, and afterhours areas such as the Unfairground art field.

Lighting designer Andrew Liddle, whose recent portfolio includes OMD, The Charlatans and La Roux, has been working with Avolites consoles for the past 35 years. Like Avolites, Liddle is a Glastonbury stalwart, hitting the fes

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Handy, who have recently moved into impressive new 6,000sq.ft offices in Sidcup, Kent, are well known for global retail installations and content management - having completed AV projects for clients such as Adidas, Dior, Kenzo and Primark.

The company is now expanding its offering into other key vertical markets, including corporate, stadia and leisure and the arrival of 5,888kg of various pitch LED panels will allow instant fulfilment on orders, with Handy's expert team on hand for any required installation.

As well as order fulfilment, the large stock holding will partly be used to demonstrate the benefits of different LED pitch solutions

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"We already have a solid relationship with Clay Paky's UK distributors, Ambersphere Solutions and have invested in Clay Paky before with great success so it seemed the obvious way to go.

"We needed a new 'Big' output versatile fixture to replace some of our older technology and the Scenius simply ticked all our boxes. We did a shootout at a local theatre; the beam width and the optical quality were more than impressive. The s