The company now offers a range of 12 competitively priced mobile stages. Sizes now available are from 8m x 6m up to the 15m x 12m SAM stage. Included in the acquisition were cable ramps & front of stage barrier all of which can travel inside the stages along with motors and risers offering a saving in transport costs and 'one stop shop" to event organisers.
(Jim Evans)
The award was presented to inspHire on Saturday 7 May at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London by award sponsors HSS and host Paul Ross.
The Hire Awards of Excellence are designed to y recognise excellence throughout the hire industry. The award acknowledges the success of inspHire as a supplier to the hire industry and is one of the industry's most sought after accolades.
Chris Branson, CEO of inspHire commented, "This particular award means so much to us as it is voted on by our existing customers and reflects how well thought of we are in the industry. We take great pride in our customer service and to have this recognised is a fantastic pat on the back for all of the team at inspHire who work so hard."
(Jim Evans)
Drawing on unprecedented access to more than 2.5m anonymised ticketing transactions, the report's main findings are as follows:
Large-scale live music across all regions of the UK attracts at least 7.7m attendances by domestic and overseas music tourists
Collectively they spend £1.4bn during the course of their trip
This is a positive contribution of £864m (GVA) to the national economy and equivalent to 19,700 full-time jobs
Although 5% of all music tourists come from overseas, they contribute 18% of total music tourist spending
From these findings UK Music has issued a list of recommendations to Government - including the implementation of a national live m
The Robe Product ReferenceApp contains comprehensive information and statistics covering the full Robe product range, including an entire catalogue of 'key data' in the form of one sheet with all the essential technical information you need to know about Robe. The App also has user manuals, DMX charts, gobo layouts, etc. and allows users to download and hold as much reference information as they need.
Photometric charts, video demonstrations and assorted other information will be added in the coming weeks.
It is intended as "an invaluable tool for lighting designers, operators, programmers and technicians who are on the move, enabling them to have the crucial facts and figures at their fingertips wherever they are". These can then be used for a myriad of
Following an accident involving a via ferrata on the 5th of May 2011, Petzl launched a voluntary product safety alert to all users of the SCORPIO via ferrata lanyards (L60 and L60CK) manufactured prior to March 2005 and all Absorbica energy absorbing lanyards manufactured before May 17th 2011 up to serial number 11137****.
As a consequence Petzl has decided to take the following actions:
1. Temporary stoppage of all Petzl tear webbing lanyard production.
2. Temporary stoppage of the sale of all stock of SCORPIO and ABSORBICA tear webbing lanyards for inspection before resuming sales.
3. Extension of the product safety alert of 13.05.11 to include all Petzl SCORPIO energy absor
Goudy is a familiar face to Nexo's employees, distributors and customers, having acted as the company's PR and communications consultant since 1997. Armed with a Eurostar season ticket, she will now take up a wider remit to develop NEXO's marketing strategy across its varied international marketplaces, and work to enrich client relations, communications and customer support.
Well known in pro audio circles, Goudy's career as an independent press agent has spanned three decades, and includes many memorable figures and events. Since her first PR appointment, to Rupert Neve, she has witnessed the rise (and fall) of the recording industry, the arrival of digital audio technology and the launches of pioneering products like the Neve Capricor
The event, more than double the capacity of previous Big Weekends, will feature six stages of music. The majority of the tickets for BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012 are being allocated to people living in Hackney and the surrounding boroughs. The announcement was made during a special simulcast broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra from the Olympic Park.
Radio 1 and 1Xtra's controller Andy Parfitt said: "This is the most ambitious event in the station's 44-year history. We aim to enhance the overall London 2012 s
It's just a year since members of PLASA and ESTA voted to merge the two Associations, and in the intervening 12 months, PLASA has reinvented key elements of its operations introducing a new membership structure, a new Governance system and election process, granting the vote to Organizational and Individual members, and launching a complete new PLASA logo and identity.
Whilst the day will reflect on the achievements of the last year, it will also invite members to feedback on what they'd like to see PLASA doing for their specific business sectors, additional services they feel should be offered and the role they'd like to see PLASA taking in the wider industry.
The formalities however, are a relatively small part of the
Calloway comes to the post from the Greensboro, North Carolina offices of Tyco Electronics, where he served as that company's product manager.
"My role today with Liberty effectively brings all the skills I've developed over the course of a very satisfying career together into one place," Calloway said on his first day on the job. It's like I've come home to where I was always meant to be. My experience within the Network/IT infrastructure industry will definitely be an asset in terms of helping Liberty's drive to smooth the transition to digital within the AV marketplace."
(Jim Evans)
Introduction to DMX & RDM (Wednesday 29 June) - This training day covers all the basics of the DMX and RDM protocols. Aimed at people who are new to the technology, it will start from the beginning of DMX, explain how it works, how it can be used and will highlight good working practices. The second half of the day will cover the new protocol RDM and show how this will benefit the industry.
Colour-Tramp (Thursday 7 July) - Artistic Licence Colour-Tramp control system is specifically designed to enable you to programme and control two and three dimensional lighting arrays.
DALI (Wednesday 5 October) - DALI training was the first of the Artistic Licence Engineering Training Days and has been so popular that extra dates have been added and an expl
The LEDView510 is a flexible routing switcher and interface for connecting LED screens to almost any HD and SD video source; it takes the feature set of that product and adds a number of key enhancements, most notably a multiple-unit mode with auto-zoom functionality. This allows several LEDView510s to be connected together, each powering its own LED screen. A wall of up to four screens high by four screens wide can be created, with a maximum screen resolution of 7680 x 4800. "With low latency and genlo
Show Atelier also took the opportunity to announce the winners of their online Get Your Own Vista competition, which Jands Europe sponsored with the donation of the first and second prizes - a Jands Vista M1 console with an 128 channel dongle and a Jands USB-DMX interface with 128 channel dongle respectively.
The two open day workshops took place in different venues, the first at Moscow's Fomenko Theatre and the second at the Theatre & Arts College # 60.
Each day started with an in-depth presentation by Jands Europe's Neil Vann on the Vista v2 software and its many possibilities, with an overview of the power and simplicity that this dynamic control system offers.
Areas covered included tracking b
Set-exchange was set up by lighting designer and production electrician Peter Harrison. He told The Stage, "The idea came from me working with some of the small companies as well as the big companies and seeing waste in one and scrimping and saving from the other, so it came out of trying to share resources."
Set-exchange is structu
The background to the document lies in the introduction of new EU Directive and national legislation regarding AOR, and the subsequent agreement, by manufacturers attending a presentation that PLASA's Ron Bonner and the Health Protection Agency gave at the PLASA 2010, that guidance should be created.
In short, the new legislation requires employers to assess the exposure to the workforce of AOR and if the exposure is believed to be above permitted levels, the employer will need to measure the levels and take action to reduce the exposure. Manufacturers will also have a duty to supply relevant safety information. In the UK this is enshrined in health and safety law, but will also be part of the conformit
Built to house works created by its namesake, sculptress Barbara Hepworth, as well as other British contemporary artists, visitors will be able to augment their visual experience through a variety of multi-media talks, presentations and lectures in the Charcoalblue-designed auditorium.
Charcoalblue's design director, Gavin Green, collaborated with Chipperfields to deliver a balance of style and technical wizardry in the space. Green, who is fresh from the launch of the RSC's new 1,000-seat theatre, says , "Working alongside a world-respected, multi award-winning architectural firm like Chipperfields has been an honour and an extremely rewarding learning experience. In addition, contributin
On the 15-16 June, at the Royal Horticultural Halls, London, the money raising motorcyclists will be showcasing photo highlights from last year's charity ride. However this year they will be looking to top last year's total of £12,000.
This photo slideshow, which features backstage images of number of historically important UK venues, will be displayed on a large screen, generously provided by Blitz Video and positioned in the Lawrence Hall Foyer.
FNR organisers will be on hand on both show days to sign up any motorbike-riding volunteers looking for adventure! The ride will depart on 18 June from outside of the National Theatre, London, escorted by London police motorbike outriders.
FNR organiser David Ed
Peavey Commercial Audio, and Audinate along with Allen and Heath, Lab.gruppen, and media partner Sound & Communications, will be presenting "a morning of insightful and real world presentations by the industries top A/V manufacturers" on Tuesday 14 June at the Rosen Centre in Orlando.
The seminar also includes AV design consultant Stefan Mathias of the Hartmann + Mathais Partnership. Mathias will also be speaking about their Goethe University AV installation in Frankfurt, which recently won a Sinus Award at this year's PL+S. In add
Druce previously spent 10 years at beyerdynamic, and subsequently Polar Audio, as national sales manager. More recently he was employed by Audio-Technica as UK sales manager, pro-audio and installation.
CUK Audio MD, Stuart Thomson comments, "We have grown rapidly during our early years and acquired distribution of an excellent range of advanced technology brands. For our next phase of growth we need to step up our customer support, and that's where Simon's experience expands our capabilities.
"Simon will work alongside
The SP20 is a humidity proof 20 Watt sound projector that ensures "good, powerful sound reproduction", making it suitable for speech and music. It is fitted with a 4" broadband loudspeaker, the power is adjustable by the integrated 100 V line transformer and can be altered using the four different power taps for 20 W, 10 W, 5 W and 2.5 W.
The mounting
While marking historic moments, both organisations will, as always, be concentrating on the future, showing some of the latest advances in lighting technology. White Light is taking two stands at the show.
Filling these will be some of the latest LED fixtures, which see LEDs move into the world of framing spotlights rather than just washlights: both the new Coemar Reflection LED ko and the Juliat Aledin spotlights will be on show.The Aledin takes the established Juliat profile spot bodywork and adds a white LED source, while the Reflection offers either white or colo
The DragonFly, adapted from Technomad's rugged military technology, is idesignedfor mobile pro audio and staging events that require "outstanding audio quality, lightweight portability, quick setup, ease of operation and durable construction for outdoor events". The self-casing, 100-percent weatherproof design fully protects the system components from moisture, dirt, shock and other elements in outdoor environments, supporting everything from ceremonies and parades to sporting events and concerts, says the company.
The inclusion of green, rechargeable and long-lasting battery power, along with a potent audio output, supports mobile audio free of extension cords for crowds
Working alongside both industry partners and leading end-users, engineers at Lab.gruppen and Lake have taken a significant leap forward with this latest release of Lake Controller; designed to offer "ever greater flexibility and compatibility for end users, further optimizing system audio performance".
New levels of functionality are provided as PLM Series products now support a new processing module type. The extensive filtering can be used to create both crossover and driver EQ, facilitating linear phase, minimum phase or arbitrary phase filters. The filters can also be used to create classic crossovers and specific driv
To coincide with the new website, Goboland UK is also presenting a new catalogue at the show which can be downloaded directly from the website. Choose between Black Steel, Premier, Designer and Glass Gobo Collections.
Following its launch at PLASA 2010, Goboland UK will be promoting its GoboSlides, the economical film-based alternative to full colour
