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UK - Leisuretec Distribution Ltd has announced the appointment of Peter Owen as UK sales manager. Owen joins Leisuretec after six years at Arbiter Pro Audio, where he was responsible for developing sales of JBL Professional loudspeakers and dbx signal processing product ranges in the UK.

Leisuretec managing director Nick Spalding is confident that Peter’s decision to head up the sales team at Leisuretec will prove to be a great move for Owen, the company and in turn the company’s extensive customer base. "Peter always impressed me whilst at Arbiter with his willingness to go the extra mile, making sure our customers received the products they needed, when they needed them. He was also singularly responsible for encouraging Leisuretec to invest in a large stockholding of both the JBL and dbx product ranges, resulting in significant increases of turnover of both l

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USA - High End Systems has announced that Altman Lighting Inc will receive a worldwide non-exclusive license for specific patents belonging to automated lighting manufacturer High End Systems Inc and Richard Belliveau. The agreement finalized today relates to the use of LEDs in lighting products. The patented technology offers significant advantages to the user. Altman will make use of this in their soon-to-be-released Spectra Series luminaires: a line of LED products and advanced patent-pending technology that offers a virtually endless palette of color possibilities to enhance any theatrical or architectural setting.

As part of the same agreement, High End Systems will receive non-exclusive rights to Altman's patents concerning digital stage and architectural lighting technology. Mike Wood, chief technology officer of High End Systems, comments: "We are delighted to have

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UK - A new concept in realistic visual effects is being launched this month. Scene Change, which creates digital video effects, aims to bring the latest in lighting techniques to the theatre.

At an open day on March 25 at the MacOwan Theatre, Earl's Court, Scene Change, a specialist creator of still and animated digital video images, will demonstrate how life-like effects can be brought to the stage. Technical Director Nigel Sadler says: "It's already been embraced by nightclubs, but it's the next big thing for the theatre. This year, we're likely to see it begin to take off in the world of theatre lighting."

"There's so much more that can be done with it. We can create 'real' rain, 'real' snow, moving water, a sun rising -the possibilities are endless." The theatre world has been slower to pick up on the technology, whose uses include visual displays at cl

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UK - Complementing the recent round of additions to the staff working in its hire department (see earlier People News), leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light has announced a new recruit to White Light Sales. Nick Blackman has joined the company as sales office manager, working alongside sales director Peter Threadgold and his team.

Nick Blackman joins White Light Sales from VLPS/Vari-Lite Europe, where he held the position of regional sales manager. Prior to that he worked for the Lighting Technology Group, for FSL International - the leading distributor of lighting, sound and AV production equipment in the Middle East - and prior to that he was with Strand Lighting.

Blackman joins White Light Sales at a busy time - in recent weeks the company has supplied equipment to both long-planned projects and in response to emergency calls, which saw the company supply new

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Australia - Coemar DeSisti Australia has announced some personnel changes. David Lee will take on the role of lighting consoles/control operator training and support. Lee has a wealth of experience in both television and theatre and has been involved in many projects with Coemar De Sisti Australia, including the role of project manager for the Melbourne Broadcast Centre (Channel 7) a turnkey lighting installation which Coemar De Sisti Australia completed in 2002. Lee is still active in the theatre and television industry and regularly operates lighting consoles for major events. Peter Kemp comments: "David’s hands-on console use should prove invaluable for the users of our products."

Lee will be conducting the Compulite and Stardraw training days in Queensland the week beginning March 17 and then in Melbourne the week beginning March 24.

Also announced, Julian

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UK - As fast as digital technology within the broadcast industry develops, Quentor matches it with the design and development of its range of innovative transit case and storage products.

The company’s Q-Fix flight cases are constructed from high quality weight-saving aluminium honeycomb panels, giving a good strength to weight advantage. They also utilize a new, patented, construction system offering high strength and quality assembly.

The cases are ideal for applications within the broadcasting, entertainment and AV industries, including as they do flight-trunks and racks, together with more specialized cases for aerials, cameras, lighting and other broadcasting equipment. Q-Fix Cases are offered in a range of standard sizes or may be custom-built in almost any size, style and colour. Quentor also specializes in precision cut custom foam inserts tailored to suit any p

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UK - Saturday 8 March saw Manchester’s production community uniting to show their support for peace, on the occasion of the ‘Don’t Attack Iraq’ event organized by Manchester Coalition Against the War. Consisting of separate marches from the North and South of the city, together with one from Salford, the event culminated with some 12,000 people converging on a rain-soaked Albert Square to hear a packed programme of speakers, plus acoustic performances from Elbow and Josephine Oniyama.

The event was managed by Jon Drape Event & Production Management, with production management and trucking provided by Andy Stratford at Walk the Plank. With a budget of just £50 to cover fuel, Jon and Andy appealed to Manchester’s production supply companies to come up with the goods, a call that was met with overwhelming support.

So it was that Manchester Light & S

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UK - Few in the entertainment and installation industries can have failed to notice how LEDs have transcended their original role as indicators, to become true illuminators. They are 90% energy efficient (compared to just 10% for tungsten), can be made to produce a ‘daylight’ white light, are virtually unbreakable, have life spans of up to 100,000 hours and produce minimal heat. They are poised to become the standard light source, taking over from incandescent sources in many applications, from traffic indicators to street lighting.

Wavicle is a new company set up by former lighting designer and technician Nick Cooke to deal in torches, lanterns and headlamps based on the latest advances in LED and electroluminescent light sources. The advantages offered by LEDs are combined in these products to produce lightweight hand-held lighting instruments. The user benefits by

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Australia - Port Fairy, a coastal village south west of Melbourne, Australia, held its annual Port Fairy Folk Festival over the March Victorian Labour Day holiday weekend, and this year the event was attended by over 15,000 people, entertained by more than 130 acts including 20 international acts.

Performers came from as far as Ireland, Scotland and the USA to join well known local performers such as Jenny Morris, Joe Cameleri, the Waifs and David Bridie for the four-day festival. Powa Audio were contracted to provide sound and lights for four of the seven stages, with Phaseshift Productions supplying the lighting.

Well known lighting industry figure Dave Jackson was engaged to design and operate Stage 2 for the festival. Drawing on the experience of previous years he built a design based around subtle projections and soft moods. X.Spots (eight in total) were selected as the k

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UK - Lumileds LED technology has been used by lighting specialist Tryka LED Ltd as part of a project to light the outside of the new M Club in Belfast. Developed as an additional element to the overall M Club launch, the external lighting project was designed around the building, with the glass windows at the front of the club providing the ideal basis for an LED lighting system. Initially tested on a single window, the design was finalized by PSD Electronics, who worked with Tryka to achieve the desired control and effects.

The project utilizes the Tryka Strip Module 36 in two different lengths - 22 strips at 1200mm and 34 strips at 1700mm. In total, 2016 Luxeon LEDs, 672 each of RGB, have been used to light the external fascia of the M Club. By using a standard silver film over the interior of each window, together with a sealed 'light box', Tryka was able to create a dramatic

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UK - On Monday 24 March 2003, the nva organisation, one of the UK's most successful independent arts charities, will unveil two major outdoor lighting schemes for the Glasgow College of Building & Printing and the Glasgow Tidal Weir at Glasgow Green.

Both schemes have been designed by David Bryant of Spirit Design UK, and are part of Glasgow City Council's Lighting Strategy for the City. nva began to develop artist-led lighting designs for buildings having been awarded a grant of £95,000 from the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund. A number of keynote buildings, structures and architectural details were and partnership funding was acquired through Glasgow City Council's £2.4m lighting strategy and from the building owners themselves.

The two lighting schemes being launched this spring are the most ambitious to date and will set a benchmark for urban lighting design

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UK - This week has seen the launch of The Marketing Business, a company which offers SMEs in the entertainment technology industry, the full range of marketing expertise, from business development and export advice to corporate identity and public relations.

The Marketing Business is an informal association of three companies which together have over 60 years experience in the entertainment technology business and which individually are recognized as experts in their field: PE Consulting, Harmer PR and The Wells Partnership. PE Consulting was formed in 2002 by Peter Ed, previously marketing director for ETC Europe and business development manager for Strand Lighting. Peter’s experience will be of great benefit to companies wishing to expand their business by moving into exporting or into new market segments by combining tried and tested marketing techniques with in-depth k

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UK - As Trevor Nunn's reign at the Royal National Theatre ends, DHA Lighting has just concluded work on three major productions at the theatre. Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, Nunn’s revival of the Cole Porter musical, Anything Goes, and the director’s swansong, Shakespeare’s Love's Labour Lost, all called on the expertise of DHA staff as well as the company’s products. DHA has a long association with the theatre and has contributed to many prestige productions. The company’s founder, lighting designer David Hersey, has himself lit a number of acclaimed shows over the past 30 years.

DHA was called upon last summer to work with Hersey and set designer Bill Dudley on Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia, nominated for four Olivier awards, including best set design and best lighting design. With Anything Goes, exp

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UK - The education market has traditionally been a strong business area for Strand Lighting thanks toits diverse range of products suitable for use in Educational facilities of all sizes. The introduction at PLASA last year of a wide range of new controls and dimmers aimed at this market has further enhanced the company’s product range, and in support of this, Strand has now launched a new website dedicated to the Education Market and those who specify products for it.

(Ruth Rossington)

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UK - Power Gems, best known for its design and manufacture of electronic HMI ballasts, has released the first in a series of high frequency ballasts for the remote control of fluorescent fixtures used in the motion picture and TV lighting businesses. This four-tube model, FB4/2P, automatically drives both 4ft and 2ft tubes without the need for manual selection. Additionally, a local dimmer and a DMX512 input, provides continuous dimming from full light output at 75W down to 1% light output. Individual tube cut switches are provided for greater flexibility and save the need to disconnect tubes at the fixture. True tube running indicator LEDs are provided for each tube.

The design team’s brief was to come up with a ‘rugged ballast’ with a reduced parts count. The result is a unique four-tube power circuit which employs just three FETs, including a ‘unity&rs

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UK - In the April issue of Lighting&Sound International magazine, our regular Technical Focus section will be looking at the technology related to the development and manufacture of smoke/dry ice and haze machines. We will also assess some of the current standards and safety issues in this area, including ESTA's current work on a new standard covering Theatrical Fog Effects and Equity’s study of the effects of theatrical smoke. This will be followed by a brief profile of the main manufacturers and coverage of a selection of the leading products in the marketplace.

If you would like your product to be featured in this report, please e-mail L&SI’s technical editor James Eade at the e-mail address below before Friday 28 March, 2003.

(Ruth Rossington)

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Canada - Q1 Production Technologies Inc introduced its new banner, new image and a new approach to its business at the Q1 open house and product showcase at its Vancouver facility on 28 February and 1 March. With over 35 years of combined industry experience, Q1 partners Brian Konechny, Phil Bernard and Marc Raymond were on hand to introduce Q1 to over 500 industry representatives who gathered to learn about the new partnership, innovative new lighting products, and the products and services available at Q1.

"Q1 combines our international experience and expertise with the impressive service reputation of Showtime Lighting in Vancouver and our expanded asset inventory in our 20,000 sq ft facility here in Vancouver," stated partner Marc Raymond on behalf of partners Phil and Brian at the open house.

Representatives from Vari-Lite, High End, Strand Lighting, Rosco, Sm

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UK - White Light and Rosco are jointly organizing an ImagePro session to allow people to learn more about the practical applications of Rosco’s gobo slide projector. The informal afternoon event has been arranged to give visitors the opportunity to gain hands-on experience of the Rosco ImagePro. Joshua Alemany, Rosco product manager for the ImagePro and gobo products (and a lighting designer in his own right) will give a practical demonstration of the system and introduce people to the secrets of making a successful slide. Anyone attending can take their own artwork, and create and project their own slide.

The event takes place on Thursday, 3 April 2003 from 2.00pm onwards at White Light’s Merton Industrial Park, Jubilee Way, Wimbledon, facility.

To attend, RSVP to the e-mail address below.

(Ruth Rossington)

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Switzerland - Mirco Cibin has moved his famous Bypass operation to the Les Acacias development area of Geneva, and created a luxurious multi-million dollar club for the city’s chic and VIP clientele. The marble-interiored venue, which boasts a VIP champagne bar and an 80-cover fine dining restaurant on the mezzanine floor, has already hosted a number of ritzy parties - most recently during the Geneva Motor Show and the returning Americas Cup Team Alinghi - as well as many television crews. With this affluent target market in mind, the club demanded a high specification of lighting, sound and video.

The club favoured Coemar lighting, and Alessandro Caldarera (Coemar’s technical and marketing man) supported the architect, Marco Lucchi, by designing an inventive rig equal to the talents of lighting operator, Romain Toppano, and controllable from an MA GrandMA desk. The

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UK - At the end of January this year, in appalling weather conditions that shut down much of East Anglia, lighting designer Mark Ridler suffered a devastating accident on his way home from work. As a result, Mark is now paralysed from the waist down in what is described medically as a T11 injury: in lay terms this means there is no hope of recovery and he will be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Mark, who is 38, started his career as chief electrician for the Piccadilly Theatre in London, where Mark White (now with ETC) gave him his first job. He then worked as resident lighting designer for the Phoenix Dance Company in Leeds, then at the Nottingham Playhouse, later going on to Sadlers Wells and The Peter Hall Company at the Piccadilly, The Royal Court, and the Royal National Theatre. A member of the ALD, for the last four years Mark has worked for Maurice Bril

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UK - Slough-based pro audio and lighting specialist Stagetec has launched a major new initiative - ‘Spotlight on Education’ - to enable schools, colleges and educational establishments to get more value from their technology budgets. Stagetec has always been active in the schools market, which represents 20 per cent of the company’s turnover. It’s also an area that’s been very rewarding in terms of building future relationships, via training schemes and investment in designing and installing practical, cost-effective schemes to benefit tomorrow’s potential performers and production designers and technicians.

Stagetec’s range of special offers provides an opportunity for drama departments to gain access to a wide range of sound, lighting and studio products at reduced prices: "Spotlight on education will help consolidate Stagetec&rsq

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UK - The UK’s new National Directory Enquiries service has changed to a new telephone number - 118888. To assist it’s UK press launch, the London-based agency PR-21 commissioned the services of Laser Grafix to produce and execute the world’s biggest ever 'guerrilla lighting' PR stunt. PR-21’s Ian Twinn came up with the vision of illuminating the BT Tower green and projecting the telephone number onto the tower, and the subsequent spin in the press being ‘BT Turned Green with envy at rival’s half-price calls’.

A simple enough idea - but how do you light a 628ft tall tower, all the way around with four projection points, without permission, except for CAA notification - and what kit do you use? Sales and projects manager at Laser Grafix, Richard Hawkins, sought knowledge and a free dinner from LD ‘Mr. P’ (real name kept secret

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UK - A Charity Gala Concert at the Royal Opera House, London, drew together a glamorous line-up of acting and musical talent in support of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

Among the stars helping to raise money for the cause were Alan Bates, Terence Stamp, Nicholas Grace, Dame Eileen Atkins, Michael Palin, Rula Lenska, Sinead Cusack and Jeremy Irons. Among the musical line-up were Bryan Adams, Brian May, Alessandro Saffina and the Operababes.

Production manager Robbie Williams brought in White Light Events to take care of lighting, a duty overseen by lighting designer Mikey Robertson, with Jason Larcombe as associate LD. Robertson says: "The stage was too big for our purposes, even with the number of performers who would be appearing on it, so we halved the depth by putting in a back projection screen. This freed up some of the side lighting fixtures which we used for back-

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UK - The MacRobert Arts Centre is a multi-purpose arts venue based at the University of Stirling. A recent extensive refurbishment project has seen all its performance spaces completely upgraded.

The work has been carried out by Edinburgh-based black light, who installed the new technical facilities within the six performance and presentation spaces. Paul McGreal, the company’s project manager, took on the planning and management of the £650,000 project, whilst Jock Wallace, as the company’s site manager, spent most of last summer on site, supervising the practical elements of the installation.

The key elements of the project included the installation of new lighting control and dimming equipment, audio and PA systems, cinema projection and sound equipment, communication and stage management equipment and AV systems. black light also used its in-house resources (o

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