Events

Gallowglass to provide temporary seating

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Gallowglass Ltd, one of the UK's leading suppliers of crew and modular staging for the events market, has extended its hire division to include temporary grandstand seating. "We are always looking for ways to develop our business and open up new avenues for our core operations. The new seating division will help to boost our summer trade and give us an even greater presence in the outdoor events market," said managing director Paul Grecian. He continues: "We do not see ourselves as becoming a large outdoor event supplier. We will be looking to supply the smaller, niche markets with seating solutions. If we can supplement these contracts with additional crew and staging opportunities - then all the better."

Gallowglass' clients over the past five years have included the likes of BBC Radio 1, M2002 Commonwealth Games, Bloomberg, BP, and most of the FTSE 10

IAAPA and EAASI in partnership

Details: 14 March 2016

USA / Europe - IAAPA (The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions) and EAASI (the European Association Amusement Supplier Industry) have agreed to form a new company created to own and manage what they claim will be Europe's largest exhibition for the amusement parks industry. The new exhibition will represent all amusement parks, fairs, manufacturers, carnivals and attractions throughout Europe.

Clark Robinson, president of IAAPA, said: "The strength of the partnership is combining IAAPA's role for the industry worldwide and EAASI's expertise in the European market."

Wieland Schwarzkopf, EAASI president, added: "This historic moment . . . will offer a single meeting point for the European amusement industry."

A final agreement is expected to be announced in the next few weeks.

(Lee Baldock)

Sound Devices' 302 compact production mixer.

Shure Distribution UK at SBES

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Shure Distribution UK, sole distributors of Shure, QSC Audio, Phonic, PreSonus, Aviom and Sound Devices will be displaying the latest broadcast related products, at the SBES Show. Stand 53 will be boasting a number of new products including the new Sound Devices 302 compact production mixer which features three high-performance microphone inputs, informative level metering and flexible headphone monitoring. In addition, the highly acclaimed Sound Devices 442 field mixer that now ships with new channel-fader knobs featuring touch and visual feedback for single-finger control.

SBES will also see QSC's QSControl.net, which encompasses the seamless integration of the company's signal transport, control, processing, and monitoring technologies. QSControl.net melds QSC's power amplification and loudspeaker products into a unified system that enables the user to administer it all

LDI reinforces optimism for industry

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Following the success of the PLASA Show in London in September, it began to appear that business was looking up after a tough couple of years; now, with the successful completion of LDI in Orlando, Florida at the weekend, the current of optimism continues to strengthen.

The majority of LDI exhibitors that PLASA Media spoke to at the show expressed their satisfaction with both the quality of visitors and the level of business being done. Exhibitor Michael Bridgman of British Optical, a manufacturer of high quality optical components for the entertainment industry, commented: "It's been very good for us this year - I would say back to the level of business of three years ago."

The 2003 ETS-LDI showcased a number of innovative new products. This year the show's awards were split into two categories - Product of the Year and Debuting Product/Promising Prototype. Th

Prolight+Sound update

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - With four months to go before Prolight+Sound opens its doors, over 400 companies from 27 countries including Europe, Asia and America have booked exhibition stands at the fair, the organizers report. "The number of registrations and the expectations of the exhibitors indicate that Prolight+Sound 2004 will represent a successful start to the sector's year. Thanks to the first signs of economic recovery in Germany and France, the number of German companies is sure to increase again," says Gerhard Gladitsch, member of the board of management of Messe Frankfurt GmbH.

The new layout of the fair at the exhibition centre takes account of exhibitor wishes and will also make life easier for trade visitors next spring, the organizers claim. Hall 9 features show and stage lighting, lasers, effects and design and installation, and Hall 8 will host lighting and stage tech

International Society for Performing Arts Conference

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Each December for the past 30 years, the Conference of the International Society for Performing Arts has been held in New York. This year, for the first time ever, it will be held in London at the Barbican Arts Centre, from 12-15 December.

The Conference chair, Anne Millman, together with the Barbican Centre host Graham Sheffield, has assembled a programme titled 'The World in London'. Speakers already confirmed include Germaine Greer, professor at Warwick University, who will be giving the keynote speech; Deborah Bull, former principal dancer and now artistic director of the Royal Opera House's alternative spaces programme; Venu Dhupa of the National Endowment for Science and Technology and the Arts; Hardish Virk, marketing consultant for musicals such as Bombay Dreams; Keith Khan, director of Moti Roti theatre productions; and Robin Archer, artistic director of the

TP announces 2004 Awards nominees

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Total Production magazine has announced the nominees for the 2004 Total Production Awards, due to be held on 9 February 2004 at the Novotel London West hotel. Among the awards and the nominations include: for Front of-house Engineer of the Year - Robert Collins, Pete Keppler, Robbie McGrath, Lars Brogaard and Dave Bracey; for Monitor Engineer of the Year - Martin Wareing, Alan Bradshaw, Paul 'Grubby' Callis, Chris Trimby and John Roden; for Lighting Designer of the Year - Tom Kenny, Barry Halpin, Andi Watson, Liz Berry and Vince Foster; for Set Designer of the Year - Alan Macdonald, Mark Fisher, Jonathan Perry, Bill Laslett and Alan Chesters); Video Director of the Year - Blue Leach, Ian Walker, Ruary MacPhie, Paul Eggerton and Larn Poland.

Among the other awards to be presented are Rigger of the Year, Production Manager of the Year and Tour Manager of the Year, while favou

ILMC gains grant for live music safety guide

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The Safety Focus Group, set up by the International Live Music Conference (ILMC), has won a grant of 160,000 from the European Union to produce a vital safety guide. The guide is intended for use by live music promoters and workers throughout Europe and beyond, and will reflect best practice in a number of European countries. As one of the conditions of this grant, the Safety Focus Group must now raise a further 40,000 funding from the live music industry to secure the project.

The ILMC says that the safety guide will provide a tool for concert and festival organizers to assess and manage risks, and will be useful to everyone from the new event organizer to the most established promoters. Scheduled to be ready by late autumn of 2004, it will primarily be accessible via a specially designed website, although a limited number of hard copies will be produced. With its Euro

XTA for Hammersmith's AC/DC reopening

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The newly re-launched Carling Apollo Hammersmith celebrated its re-opening at the end of October with a one-off special concert by veteran rockers AC/DC - powered by Concert Sound, an EAW PA system and XTA loudspeaker control.

For one night only, on Tuesday 21 October, Carling brought Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson, Phil Rudd and Cliff Williams to London's landmark live venue to thrill a gathering of their most dedicated fans with a live show. The seats were also removed from the venue for the first time in its history, making it the biggest dedicated live music venue in London.

Front-of-house engineer Paul 'Pab' Boothroyd was at the controls of a Midas XL4, while long-time mix partner John Roden mixed monitors. Boothroyd opted for Concert Sound's new EAW KF760 line array system, flown as an impressive 14-a-side rig, "so I could maximize the power and cove

MA, Zero 88 and Artistic with ACT

Details: 14 March 2016

California-based distributor ACT Lighting hosted MA Lighting, Zero 88 and Artistic Licence: first up, MA showed the latest addition to the grandMA family - the entry-level grandMA micro. This tiny version carries nearly all the power of the regular grandMA, with 1,024 DMX channels, 10 fader playbacks, 20 button playbacks and support for the Pocket PC remote; it's also compatible with DMX over Ethernet and the grandMA 3D visualization software. Other products included the Network Signal Processor (NSP) which allows you to up your DMX channels to 64 universes, should you so require.

Zero 88 showed its Illusion 500 console, which combines the functionality of the successful Frog range with the power of a theatrical tracking console. The 512-channel desk can control up to 24 moving lights and offers 108 sub-masters, allowing freedom for 'on the fly' changes. Zero also showed the Frog Scre

Midgets from Lycian

Details: 14 March 2016

Lycian showed its new Midget II followspots, available in two versions - a 350W arc and a 575W halogen. These, as the name indicates, are compact, lightweight followspots aimed particularly at clubs, schools, small theatres and places of worship, as well as for TV and film use. The Midget II models include a new dichroic glass reflector, a six-colour boomerang, a new cam-operated brake, fader, Nichrome iris, gobo slot and, importantly, a fast, tool-free lamp change.

Avolites

Details: 14 March 2016

Avo' showed the new D4 Desktop system, providing all the functionality of the D4 consoles by connecting a DMX output from to the PC Simulator and Off Line Editor program, together with the optional Pilot, a plug-in hardware surface. The system is designed for use on applications where physical space is at a premium, where the show is mostly automated or as a backup to a console.

ShowCAD

Details: 14 March 2016

ShowCAD's Rowland Hughes was ensconced on the stand of Techni-Lux, the Florida-based lighting supplier, where ShowCAD Artist controlled all the stand's lighting, which included SGM's Giotto fixtures.

SmartMoves for Apollo Design

Details: 14 March 2016

Obviously doing something right, Apollo Design collected yet another ESTA Dealer Award at LDI this year - for the fifth consecutive time. On show was their SmartMove DMX gobo rotator: this can hold one or two B-size glass or metal gobos thanks to a reversible retaining ring, and is compatible with all the leading profile fixtures - Altman Shakespeare, ETC Source Four, Selecon Pacific and Strand SL. It's a quiet unit, with belt-driven operation, and offers an infinitely variable speed range from 0-21 RPM in either direction. The usefulness of the SmartMove has also increased significantly as Apollo has introduced 150 new standard gobo designs to its catalogue, which now offers in excess of 1,000.

Other Award Winners

Details: 14 March 2016

We've mentioned some of this year's award winners already: other winners included Hoffend, who picked up the Rigging award for the Vortek rigging system; Barco, who won the Projection award for the MiPix Modular Intelligent Pixelblock; Yamaha, who won the Sound award for the DM1000 digital production console; TentTec, who won the Lighting Accessory Award for the ML Bracket; and finally, Lex Products, who collected the Widget award for the E-String.

Compulite's Vector

Details: 14 March 2016

Compulite's Vector lighting control system, which we featured in our coverage of the Australian 'Logies' in July 2003, is doing very well. Currently with 10 Vector units installed worldwide, including two at Channel 9 in Melbourne and another at the Palais du Sport in Paris. With up to 40 due to be in place by the end of the first quarter of 2004, Compulite's managing director Yehuda Shukrun was pleased with the system's progress.

Vari-Lite goes Quiet

Details: 14 March 2016

Vari-Lite's new toy was the Series 3000Q luminaire, an expansion of the powerful 1200W Series 3000 fixtures, but designed with low-noise operation in mind. With its 'Q' for 'quiet', the new fixture claims an audible noise output reduction of 50% from the original Series 3000 series, say VL. This reduction has been achieved by slowing the fixture's seven fans and redesigning some key elements to better handle the increased heat load. A high-performance UV/IR window filters unwanted non-visible wavelengths from the lamp that would otherwise be passed through the optical path; other changes include the use of higher temperature materials and more efficient airflow paths. The Series 3000Q features all operational features currently in the Series 3000 fixtures - the trade-off is strictly thermal, say VL.

Vari-Lite will provide a "Q-kit" which includes everything you need to conver

Enliten / White Light

Details: 14 March 2016

Enliten's Exhibition PAR has been a big seller to rental houses serving the auto show market in the US: now its incorporation of Osram's new 150W HSD 7000°K daylight lamp, as demonstrated at LDI, makes this a lighter, whiter proposition than ever before. White Light showed its VSFX range of moving effects projectors

Fourth Phase / PRG

Details: 14 March 2016

Fourth Phase showed the Mbox system. MBox integrates the versatility of video with the flexible control of automated lighting, enabling video, stills and real-time effects to be combined for visual effects that can be displayed by any projector, LED wall or monitor.

L&SI Networks with Cirque Du Soleil

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Lighting&Sound International magazine (L&SI) will stage its second Networking event in February, when it offers readers a unique opportunity to take a behind the scenes tour of Dralion, the latest production from the world-renowned Cirque Du Soleil, which comes to London's Royal Albert Hall in the New Year. The first Networking event was a great success, providing 56 delegates with a backstage tour and performance of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium.

For the next event, which will take place on 13 February, delegates will be able to join L&SI at the Royal Albert Hall and meet with members of the Cirque Du Soleil production team, the Royal Albert Hall's technical crew and representatives of the companies who have supplied lighting, sound and rigging expertise to the production.

The day will include a guided tour of the historic venue and modern produ

CKI accessories from City Theatrical

Details: 14 March 2016

City Theatrical's latest lighting tools included a line of versatile accessories for use with Color Kinetics' LED-based lighting systems. The first accessories in the line are for use with Color Kinetics' popular ColorBlast, ColorBurst and ColorBlaze units: standard accessories include accessory holders, top hats, half top hats, spread lenses, egg crate louvres, and barndoors. The company showed moving prototype versions of the Color Kinetics ColorBlaze 48 (pictured), while also on display was a moving version of ETC's MultiPAR-3, with Wybron CXI colour mixing scroller; both were motorized in the tilt axis with 180° of movement, 16-bit control, and encoder feedback.

Also from this prolific award-winner was Lightwright 4, which picked up the LDI Product of the Year award in the Software category. V4 is the latest version of Lightwright with a host of new features - among them a 62 DMX

Syncrolite

Details: 14 March 2016

The 'big' lighting specialist from Texas, Syncrolite showed a prototype of its new fixture, the MX1000 - but the unit is so new that we'll have to wait to tell you about it.

Pacific followspot from Selecon

Details: 14 March 2016

Selecon introduced the followspot version of the Pacific luminaire (pictured right, with Philip Sargent), bearing the familiar characteristics of the Pacific's innovative heat management technology. The Pacific followspot offers a wide choice of lamp sources to suit most throw requirements, is silent due to its fanless design, and is built with easy maintenance and ergonomics in mind.

Strand shows SLD

Details: 14 March 2016

Strand's new SLD sinewave dimmers received their world debut at LDI. The SLD dimmers feature true sinewave output, making for quiet lamps and accurate control. The SST (Solid State Transformer) dimmer modules can dim a wide range of loads including incandescent, inductive and capacitive devices from a fraction of a watt to full capacity, and produce less than 1% harmonic distortion. The units carry built-in short circuit and overload protection, and SLD status reporting and advanced waveform compensation is standard. The units are available with Single Pole, Double Pole and RCD circuit breakers.

Strand also introduced a new USB Key drive with its Designer Remote software built in. Plug the new drive into the USB port on a PC or Mac notebook with a wired or wireless Ethernet connection and you'll be able to access displays and controls on any Strand 300 or 500 series console.

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