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Farmer explains the choice, "The touring schedule was very tight so fixtures needed to be reliable, have numerous functions, offer the maximum creative options and work as we expect, as time to redesign the fixture layout or replace defective units simply wasn't available. Small footprint was essential for the applications involved and we needed power and saturation too."

Farmer's deputy LD, Niall Hannell, adds, "PixelRange is just so reliable, they've been around for a while, they're proven, they work, and they always work - I've never seen one go wrong, I've never

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"The COLORdash Accent is massively well received," said Michael Brooksbank, sales manager for Chauvet UK. "They're perfect for shop displays, museums, restaurants - the possibilities are nearly endless. Plus, the on-board driver and dipswitches make for 'plug & play' application without need for programming."

The COLORdash Accent family features seven high-power, 1-watt LEDs. Their cast aluminum housing helps dissipate heat. Its compact size, measuring 174 mm x 108 mm and weighing 0.6 kg, makes them discreet enough to be mounted almost anywhere or fit any decor, says the company. The fixtures' on-boa

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Entirely developed and produced by Midiator, the Vision Pro's main functionality is to control all the visual aspects of a show in a 'live' environment. It acts as a central command station for various industry standard devices like media-servers, video-scalers, light-desks and other equipment. The list of supported devices consists of well-known brands like Green Hippo, Barco, Grass Valley, TV-One, Kiss-Bo

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PLASA 2010, which runs from the 12-15 September at Earls Court in London, is a major platform for the launch and promotion of innovative new ideas emerging across the event, entertainment and installation industries. The co-location of the AVNetworks Conference is a significant new addition to the event, and is the second Conference to be launched alongside this major international trade show this year.

The one-day event will throw light on the burning issue of networking technologies and protocols, how to make the best use of today's standards and what can be expected in the future.

The conference is aimed

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The new OHM Light from PRG will also receive its European premiere, demonstrating the powerful capabilities of LED technology as a replacement for space lights in the film and television market. The OHM Light offers 80% power savings, minimal heat output and DMX control over its traditional counterpart.

An interactive new feature to the stand this year will be PRG Distribution's dedicated demonstration. Visitors will be invited to attend a complimentary range of sessions that introduce new and key products alongside application examples and case studies from each of their manufacturing partners.

Full details of the subjects, timings and how to register for a

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Southern regional manager Steve Reynolds reports, "Customer care was a high priority for everyone. We worked with all stakeholders to create a plan and briefed staff very thoroughly in that area. It was imperative we create a relaxed and safe environment for the 25,000 capacity crowd from the moment they arrived on site. Parents with small children had travelled for hours in warm cars, so all staff were encouraged to welcome guests courteously, familiarise themselves with all key locations for giving directions and to be patient at all times."

The team of 280 event security professionals from Showsec office

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The Bristol Harbour Festival, now in its 39th year, is one of the largest UK free arts events, covering two miles of waterfront along the city centre's harbourside, with seven different performance areas.

Branding was created for the Queen Square and Millennium Square stages, which showcased a diverse selection of music and dance respectively. The Queen Square stage hosted the Friday night concert, officially opening the 2010 festival to an audience of more than 5,000, while the New York City Ballet made their debut performance in Bristol on the Millennium Square stage.

The scrims for the two stages were both made from Sunbab

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The awards will provide public recognition for outstanding achievements in lighting design by UK based lighting designers, in a number of professional areas. At the same time, these awards will forge closer ties between the world of lighting design and the lighting Industry as a whole.

The awards for The Knight of the Illumination are nominated and judged by a panel of professional reviewers working in the specific categories, selected and coordinated entirely by STLD and ALD.

Television nominations

Light Entertainment

Mark Smithers for Mission 2110

Martin Kempton for Who Dares Wins

Lee Allen for Blue

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VISCO is a total solution provider for Communications & Security System, Traffic Safety, and Storage solution for enterprise. Headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, with branch offices in Ha Noi and Da Nang, the company has an exceptional track record of successfully completing sophisticated projects in Vietnam.

David Chua, general manager of VISCO Joint Stock commented on the importance of having Electro-Voice joining their products portfolio: "It is important firstly because we have been a Bosch partner for many, many years in representing their range of extr

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Collings is responsible for improving systems and streamlining company processes before taking Sunbaba into new marketplaces. "It is great to be working with such a well know and vibrant company who are highly respected within the industry," he says. "I will be working between the Cambridge and London offices primarily implementing new communication strategies and IT infrastructure before taking the company into pastures new."

Jemma Syms has joined as an account executive on a year work placement from an Event Management degree at Leeds Metropolitan University.

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The MultiSpot HP uses an array of 9 pcs. of the new 3W MulTriCell LED devices, it delivers 27W of solid state lighting power, while "perfecting Multiform's UCO (uniform colour output) approach, leaving the days of visible red, green and blue LEDs behind". The lens panel with 36 mm Clear Pass lenses has a beam angle of 30 degrees, to suit most applications. The MultiSpot HP uses temperature controlled fan cooling and a silent switch-mode power supply meeting all regulatory approvals as well as the four-channel DMX control.

The MultiBeam HP marks Multiform's top-of the-line model for indo

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A key product is the Harting Han(R) family of heavy-duty connectors, which are increasingly being used on concert stages and in theatres. At PLASA, two new products within the Han(R) family are being introduced: the Han-Yellock(R) industrial connector series and the Han-Eco(R) range of high-quality plastic connector housings.

The new Han-Yellock(R) connector series incorporates a number of features that make it suited to use in stage automation, concert lighting and power distribut

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Its introduction is causing headaches - and considerable expense - for the UK and European manufacturing sector. The UK is one of only three of the EU's 27 member states where EN54 is yet to become law, but that will change in April 2011.

The complexity of the EN54 regulations, and the demands it places on manufacturers for testing, are onerous, especially in systems incorporating equipment from different manufacturers.

The situation is not improved by widespread uncertaint

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They were used by the event's production lighting and video designers Philip Winward and Nick Jevons of Electric Fly Productions to illuminate the stage and dancefloor in the VIP tent, and to illuminate the Live Terrace area.

It was the first time that they have had the chance to use this latest i-Pix product, which was launched 'live' at Glastonbury just a few weeks earlier, but Jevons liked the BB 2x2s so much that he even rigged two in the main stage front-of-house mixer area - from where he was operating the lighting for the two-day event. This made it look pretty and exude a warm, inviting ambience to all entering 'lighting world' at the back of the enclosure.

Says Jevons, "i-Pix has always supported us ever s

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The following evenings were filled with Verdi and Tchaikovsky performed by some of the biggest names in classical music, as well as a swing night. The event culminated with The big night of film music performed by Mousse T. and his band and the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg. TSE AG of Berlin was once again responsible for the sound production, and this year they selected two Eclipse consoles from Innovason to handle FoH and monitoring duties.

Martin Kaiser, technical director for Classic Open Air Berlin, explained

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It was the eighth year that XL has supplied these central London events, which were once again project managed for them by Chris Saunders, working with an XL crew of 15.

The headline acts for Hard Rock Calling were a blend of classic rock genres represented by Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney. XL supplied a five-camera PPU 'house' IMAG system which was directed by Ruary MacPhie using a GV Kayak, and this stayed in place for the whole run of shows.

The cameras were positioned two at FOH with long lenses, two in the pit on track-and-dolly and the fifth mounted on a remote pan/tilt head above the stage, all of which com

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So successful were the Dinosaurs' appearance in the Capital that the exhibition has now headed for the South West and Bournemouth which is, appropriately, the gateway to Britain's only natural World Heritage Site, the Jurassic Coast.

Dinosaurs Unleashed features life-size animatronic versions of the land-living Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, Triceratops and many others. One of the key features is, however, a virtual prehistoric aquarium, where marine reptiles like plesiosaurs and cephalopods such as ammonite

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This distribution and partnership agreement offers customers a complete project solution. Hoist UK can integrate products from each partner's expertise and equipment through a single dealer source. The result is a complete project solution, minimizing customers' need to select and manage many different suppliers.

"The Best of All Worlds partnership offered by Hoist UK gives customers the opportunity to find products from industry brand leaders that are seamlessly designed, conceived, manufactured and delivered with one call," said Tony Dickson at Hoist UK.

J. R. Clancy designs and manufactures off-the-shelf and custom automated and manual rigging systems, heat resistant borders, fire curtains and

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Featuring the patented x7 Color System, the six different Selador LED models produce a light and colour quality that conventional LED systems cannot duplicate, says the company. The latest addition to the Selador range, which will be on show at PLASA, is Vivid Pearl, producing high output true whites from 3200oK and up and specifically suited for TV, alongside a new and improved Vivid-R, which now produces 50% more light than previous models - while consuming 10% less power.

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Also at the show is the new TCP-IP CueSystem a Networked cue light system which launched at ProLight + Sound earlier in the year. In an industry first, with the ever-increasing trend towards completely networked show control and lighting systems, the TCP-IP CueSystem bridges the gap for stage management environments.

The TCP-IP CueSystem uses the established ergonomic control platform with standard GDS outstations. Output nodes are then used

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New from DTS is the XR3000 Spot moving light fixture which utilises the Philips 1200W fast-fit lamp and features full continuous pan/rotation among many other features. Also new from DTS is the FOS 100, a modular LED batten with 15 addressable lightsources, which can be racked up in multiples and used to display low resolution video content and graphics to great effect.

Another launch from DTS is the Delta 10 LED RGB wash unit. This comes in three variants : (a) with a selection of lenses, (b) with variable zoom lens control via DMX and (c) a moving fixture featuring DTS's patented FAR full pan and tilt rotation and remote zoom. All

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The passive, wired-for-biamplification QX Series draws on the knowledge and engineering resources gained through the development of EAW's AX Series, maintaining its reputation of 'big horns in compact packages'. All full-range models have squared, sy

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"Of course 3D mapping has been around for quite some time, but we have developed our own in-house tools in order to provide this service at the best quality possible," states the company's CEO, Hadi Al Bahra.

He specified two stacked Christie HD 8K projectors to handle the 3D mapping projection onto the stage. The native 1080 HD resolution three-chip DLP 8,000 ANSI lumen digital projector offers a variable contrast ratio of 1600-2000:1.

"The effect was sensational and the two projectors collectively prov

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The team provided staging, banners, stage management, lighting and sound production on both from 30 July to 1 August for the festival's main stage, which saw bands such as Athlete perform to crowds in excess of 1,500.

The festival was first held in 2005 and has continued to grow each year, with the drpgroup coming on board to achieve a new level of technical production in 2010. The drptechnicalservices team erected the stage, including banners, lighting and all audio equipment before the festival opened.

Ian Ruhback, senior show technician, commented, "It was a great to be able to