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New Zealand / UK -Selecon will unveil its latest developments in followspot technology at the forthcoming ABTT show in London, with products which the company claims will set new standards in followspot performance. The Selecon Performer Series, which the company says is developed from market and operator demands, features light output that is 2-3 times that of current 1.2kW and 2.5kW MSR/HMI followspots, an extensive control suite, full length body guide rails and is cool to operate. The unit is powered from a domestic socket. The range includes the Tahi followspot (18°-24°: 18° = 1000lux at 43m; 24° = 1000lux at 30m) and the Rua followspot (9°-16°: 9° = 1000lux at 56m; 16° = 1000lux at 34m).

Also new from Selecon and on display at ABTT will be the new Rama range of Fresnels and PCs which, the company says, "deliver precision focus saving t

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Switzerland - Bandit Lites continued its ongoing relationship with Lotus Cars at the Geneva Motor Show, supplying lighting design and production for their stand which included the launch of the new Lotus Europa S. The exhibition was held in the massive Palexpo Centre and it was the first automotive trade show at which Bandit UK has worked with Lotus, following on from a steady run of showroom work around the UK.

Lighting designer Mark Powell was asked to make the stand look dynamic, dramatic and cutting edge with the lighting - reflecting the profile of the show and the launch of the new model. The 'essence' of the lighting also had to highlight Lotus's sleek, high value brand image, and reflect the Lotus S's design philosophy of achieving performance through "added lightness".

The stand clean open lines of the stand were designed by Omni's. It featured the main care

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UK - 2006 saw the launch of a brand new large scale music festival in South Wales: held over two days in Ynys Angharad Park in Pontypridd, The Full Ponty featured live performances from top bands such as Feeder, Funeral for a Friend and Goldy Lookin Chain. Freelance lighting designer Tim Routledge was approached by Pop Factory Events to design a contemporary, rich look for this event that was to be not only suitable for a live but also a TV audience as the event was being recorded for broadcast on BBC2 Wales. The stage was also to be turned around for a more theatrical event to celebrate 150 years of the Welsh National anthem for BBC 1 Wales.

"Emyr Afan, the director, and myself really didn't want to wash the stage out and lose the effect of the rock looks onstage especially as we had a great blackout in the huge kayam structure," said Routledge. "In order to achi

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UK - Lighting designer Esteban Caracciolo specified an Avolites Diamond 4 for his latest UK and European tour with the punky energetic US rockers, Fall Out Boy. Caracciolo has always used Avo consoles, and during FOB's latest US shed and arena leg of the tour - just previous to them hitting Europe this time around - he was using two D4 Elites - supplied by Upstaging.

FOB's set can be as random as it is powerful, there is rarely a set list, and much of the show has to be improvisational, 'live' and hands on - making Avolites the ideal choice of console for the environment. "I have everything right there on the faders, ready to grab whenever I need it," he says.

He adds that in the US, the doors are often open at 5.30pm, curtailing the working day and reducing afternoon programming time, so here again, the D4's quick, simple patching and programming functionality is a

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UK - Lighting Partners, the company behind the hugely successful usedlighting.co.uk website will be exhibiting for the first time at this years ABTT Theatre Show in London. The stand, which will be located in the Lindley Hall (Stand 22) will feature a wide selection of the equipment featured on usedlighting.co.uk plus some exciting new budget lines from its sister site stagelighting.co.uk.

Throughout the show the company will be making special offers, including the chance for visitors to buy a wingnut spanner to take away. "The backdrop to our stand, designed for Lighting Partners by South London artist and designer Fuel, features an intergalactic battle you'd never see in Star Wars!" say the company.

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UK - Channel Four's new flagship chat show, which takes over from Richard and Judy for six months of the year, is the highly entertaining Paul O'Grady Show. Paul O'Grady is famous for his larger-than-life colourful personality, something that is also reflected in the lighting used on the show.

Dave Davey has been lighting Paul O'Grady for two series now and has chosen to use 900mm Pulsar Chroma Strips to illuminate the 18m x 2m high columns. With 90° beam angle the Chroma Strips provide a multitude of colours, which can be easily controlled with a Chroma Zone. The Chroma Strip is an ideal architectural lighting fixture to use for the columns on the set.

Dave has also chosen to use the Mac 500 for the show. The Mac 500 is a durable and reliable industry standard profile. The silent fan cooling is ideal for a show like Paul O'Grady where the requirement to reduce lighting no

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UK - ESP Lighting, a division of ESP Production, has invested in a Jands Vista T2 lighting console. The company provides a complete production service for a wide range of shows ranging from one-off corporate and music events to theatre tours and concerts: Paul Bellucci, who runs the lighting and staging side of the company, first saw the Vista demonstrated at PLASA. Having been a JANDS owner/user for several years, from an Event through to a Jands Hog 250 and Hog 1000, but for the last year had been looking for something new.

In February, Paul decided to get out of his 'comfort zone' so together with Tom, a younger member of the lighting team, took a day's training at A.C. Lighting and came away with a Vista T2. The console's first outing was for The Nth Fest, a groundbreaking twelve hour Christian Rock Festival featuring over 30 bands.

Prior to the Festival, Paul and Tom fami

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UAE - The Emirates Palace Hotel, recently built on the beach of the Gulf of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, shows off the beauty of Arab culture, combining traditional themes and reflecting the national identity of this affluent country.

Majestic, impressive, covering an area of 1 million square metres and surrounded by a beautiful garden and lawns, the Emirates Palace Hotel has a unique and multi-faceted structure, with façades reproducing the different nuances of colour of the sand in the Arabian desert.

The palace is an architectural marvel and an international landmark, with some 114 domes, all of which are covered with glass mosaic tiles. Designed taking every tiniest detail into consideration, capable of offering an unrivalled quality of service, this building has been created with the aim of whisking its guests away into the world of aristocracy, where every wi

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UK - HSL is supplying full lighting production and crew for the Beautiful South's new Superbi tour, designed and operated by Dave Byars, and currently on its first UK and Irish leg. The tour is being project managed for HSL by Mike Oates who says: "It's great to be working with Dave. He spent three days in our demo room pre-programming elements of the show, and we're honoured that both he and tour manager Simon Foster have trusted a new company to supply the kit."

Byars is renowned for the quirky, skilful blending of imagination and idiosyncrasy in his designs. The starting point for the tour was custom-made set of drapes, consisting of ruched red wine-coloured stage drapes, borders and riser scrims and a grey upstage tab drape. This gives the stage a plush, textured feel that's part theatre and partly a modern ironic take on the classic 1950s Mecca ballroom loo

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UK - PRG Europe provided lighting equipment and crew services for two very distinct productions at the 40th Brighton Festival: Group F's spectacular firework display in Brighton's Preston Park and the world premier of the Lost and Found Orchestra at the Brighton Dome concert hall.

French firework expert Group F has an impressive back catalogue, including the display during the 2006 New Year celebrations at the London Eye, the spectacular show on the Eiffel Tower during the millennium celebrations in Paris and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens Olympics. The Brighton event was no less spectacular.

Overseeing the lighting hire needs for Preston Park was Loz Wilcox, project manager at PRG Europe's Croydon office, who explained: "We were contacted by event production manager Jon Linstrum, via event organiser Zap Art, back in November last year. I contracted one

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UK - Strand Lighting has announced that its new Project office, located in Cambridge, is now operational. "It has been a long road since our June 2005 announcement of our planned consolidation of the multiple UK sites to a single facility, but I am pleased to say that we have now completed the transfer of all UK projects, customer service and accounts functions all under one roof," says David Catterall, European sales director. "I believe this should significantly improve our service levels and the quality of communication over the next months."

"We have retained a strategic store of service parts and a workshop facility in the London area for service support but essentially we are now all operating from one main UK office or from satellite home offices connected to that office".

The Projects office in Cambridge is managed by Ed Twentyman, who has

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France - State Automation dimming and network products will be installed this summer by INEO Media System for a new permanent dimming system at the Grande Halle - the iconic building inside the premier urban cultural park, Parc de la Villette.

Built in 1867 by Jules de Merindol as the old oxen market, and was entirely transformed in 1982 by the architects Bernard Reichen and Philippe Robert to become the place for all sorts of events from theatre shows, creative exhibitions to cultural activities of concert, balls, dances, photo expos and films. The Grande Halle, is undoubtedly the main treasure of the park for its unique identity of "where the most diverse people cross one another."

State Automation was the pioneer in developing the sinewave technology in 1995, won the PLASA Award in 1998 and had the world's first SineWave installation at Sydney Opera House in 1999.

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UAE - Mall of the Emirates in Dubai is one of the largest shopping malls outside of North America. But that is not what makes it unique. Although the Mall features the usual amenities of a large shopping centre, its claim to fame is something altogether new for a desert environment - specifically, a one-of-a-kind indoor ski complex.

Located in the heart of what is deemed 'New Dubai,' the 223,000sq.m centre offers a full range of shopping, leisure, and entertainment activities. Officially opened in November 2005 it is home to over 400 retailers and includes Ski Dubai, the five-star Kempinski Hotel, and Magic Planet, the largest indoor family entertainment centre in the country.

Martin Professional Middle East, already responsible for some of the region's most distinguishing lighting solutions, was called in to provide a dynamic lighting scheme for several key areas. Ski Dubai i

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UK - Compulite Vector control systems and Hippotizer media servers, all supplied via Stagetec Distribution, provided all the intelligent lighting and media control on the latest production of X Factor - Battle of the Stars on ITV, shot at Fountain TV Studios in Wembley.

A Compulite Vector Blue operated by Russell Grubiak controls the three Hippotizer Stage media servers, all running in dual output mode and a Vector Green operated by Bill Peachment controls the intelligent lighting rig consisting of 34 Vari*Lite VL3000 spots, 32 Vari*Lite VL3000 washes, 30 VL5s, 34 VL6Cs, 10 VL1000TSFrm, four High End Cyberlights, 20 James Thomas Pixel Par 90s, 46 Pixel Line 1044s and 36 Pulsar Chroma Strips - all run on eight streams of DMX transmitted via Ethernet from the Vector.

The Vector control systems were used for the previous series of X Factor, but the Hippotizer media servers

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USA - Color Kinetics Incorporated today announced that it has been awarded approximately $1.7 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop an LED-based alternative to incandescent lamps for general illumination.

Color Kinetics is one of five companies, including General Electric, Eastman Kodak, Osram Sylvania and SRI International, to be awarded a share of $7 million in this round of DOE funding for LED-based solid-state lighting. As is customary, the awards and the specific details of the proposals are still subject to final negotiation between DOE and the participants.

Color Kinetics' proposal, An Integrated Solid-State LED Luminaire for General Lighting, aims to develop replacement lamps for 60-watt incandescent light sources that, with a four-fold increase in efficacy to 80-lumens per watt, would meet or exceed the efficacy of nearly all conventional li

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UK - Leading staging company Stagecraft Theatre Services recently completed the design and installation of a new theatre system at the award-winning Mossbourne Academy in London. Mossbourne, which recently won the RIBA Award for Design Excellence, is one of the new flag-ship community academy schools in London, opened by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2005.

"Working with the team at Mossbourne, we have created a lighting and sound system which is equal to that of many professional theatres. The lighting is rigged onto a flown truss to give the school complete flexibility and we have installed a variety of lanterns to ensure that every angle of the stage is covered. Likewise, the sound system includes sound desks which give direct access and control of the CD/DVD players, the mics and radio mics, to allow students to move around the theatre without losing sound quality,"

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As the world waits for his main tour to kick off, Robbie Williams gave fans a hint of great things to come ina series of 'warm up' shows. L&SI's Chris Henry caught up with the crew in Dubai . . .UAE - It's official, the Robbie Williams machine is rolling back into action (following a well-deserved post-Knebworth rest) and boy, is it a slick operation. As the technical teams head to Belgium for more rehearsals and test builds, following a three-week stint at Northern Studios in Wakefield, the tour proper finally kicks off on 9 June at Croke Park in Dublin.

Billed as the 'spring leg' of the tour, Robbie's three South African shows and one in Dubai, with his 'B rig' have been and gone. L&SI met up with the brains behind the scenes, and asked what treats lie in store on the main show, and how on earth do you top KnebworthΩ

Wob Roberts, production manager "It's been diff

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Dubai - The fourth annual PALME 2006 show took place on 23-25 of April in Dubai's World Trade Centre. The show's organisers claimed a 30% increase in visitor numbers after the event, so were the exhibitors' palms crossed with goldΩ

The exhibition comprised three individual sector shows, Install, Event 360 and MUSAC. Install unsurprisingly focussed on the installation market, Event 360 targeted those with event and production needs, and MUSAC catered for the musical instrument market. PALME's well-developed seminar programme ran alongside.

A slinky dancer projected on a FogScreen lured visitors to the company's stand. CEO Mika Koivula indicated that FogScreen were "open to options" of an office or distributors in the region.

Vicky Fairall, formerly of DHA, was the friendly face of Goboland who were launching their brand new steel gobo collection

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USA - Worldwide-automated lighting manufacturer High End Systems (HES) has announced the Collage Generator, a new software feature coming soon for the HES DL.2 Digital Light. The patent-pending software enables DL.2 fixtures to create seamless panoramic media projections controlled from a lighting console. Collage Generator allows the user to take any image, either stock or custom content, and segment it into countless images for projection through DL.2 fixtures.

Says Scott Blair, HES DL.2 product manager: "This new feature differs from the existing edge-fading feature in DL.2 in that Collage Generator allows the user to define a panorama using a selectable array of fixtures and then manipulate the panorama as if it were one single fixture. This special form of edge-blending is optimized for this fusion of images into one."

Providing an example, Blair adds: "The

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UK - White Light moves to the Lindley Hall at this year's ABTT Trade Show; products from Robert Juliat, LDDE, Wireless Solutions and others will be on show. Leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light will be exhibiting at the ABTT Trade Show once again this year (14-15 June, Royal Horticultural Halls, London). White Light has switched halls this year, to the Lindley Hall. "The Lindley has blinds on its windows," comments White Light's managing director, Bryan Raven, "which we hope might make for an atmosphere slightly more conducive to demonstrating lighting products!"

Those products will including a selection of new ranges from Robert Juliat, including the Super Korrigan and short-throw Lucy followspots plus the Lutin interchangeable PC/fresnel lantern and Espion DMX tester. Alongside these will be Look Solution's new Unique2 hazer as well as their

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The tiny town of Culdaff boasts a live music venue which is one of the Irish Tourist Board's rising stars. L&SI reports . . .

Ireland - Far up on the craggy, northernmost coast of the Republic of Ireland lies a small and pretty village with two treasures it can call its own. Culdaff (pop. 200), in Inishowen, County Donegal, boasts both one of Europe's top-rated Blue Flag beaches, a perfect golden strand, and, these past few years, one of the island of Ireland's most enterprising live music ventures, the Backroom at McGrory's.

The Backroom, whose seated capacity neatly equals the village's population, is the main reason McGrory's is one of the Irish Tourist Board's rising stars. It's complemented by a 70-covers restaurant with an enviable reputation for fresh locally-sourced cuisine, while the atmospheric main bar serves up yet more food and live music.

Culdaff's remoteness h

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USA / UK - Theatre Projects Consultants has announced that leadership and ownership of the firm has been transferred to a new generation of leaders. "For the past few years, we have been planning this ownership transition of the UK and US companies to the younger members of our team, and we feel that now is the right time for that change," said Richard Pilbrow, founder and chairman.

The transition allows key members of staff to take on both leadership and ownership of Theatre Projects Consultants and provides for ownership to extend to other members of the firm in the future, the company says.

The UK team will be led by David Staples, Alan Russell, Jerry Godden, Mark Stroomer, Marion Daehms and Andrew De Rosa. Staples comments: "Theatre Projects has been at the leading edge of theatre planning for almost 50 years. This transition allows us to build on that wealt

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UK - Over the past 20 years, Texas' rocky, bluesy style and Sharleen Spiteri's potent, souly vocals have helped carve out their special niche, cultivating a diverse fanbase.

Adlib Audio is supplying a JBL VerTec PA for the tour, which is being engineered by Andy Dockerty at FOH and Marc Peers on monitors. Dockerty has worked with Texas since 1993, and says it's the only band guaranteed to get him out of Adlib's Liverpool HQ!

New for this tour, they are running a Shure KSM9 radio mic on Spiteri's vocal, which seems to be working well, with a combination of BSS 901 frequency conscious gating, and dbx160A compression. Her vocal in the mix is the bottom line, and Dockerty says it's excellent for substantiating the rich, gritty resolution of her voice. He used a VerTec 4888 system on their 2005 theatre tour, and has gone with the VerTec 4889 system for this tour - powered by Camco

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Spain - Projected Image Digital has supplied, installed and commissioned 60 Element Labs VersaTube LED fixtures in a stunning basement bar lighting scheme at the Hard Rock Café in Barcelona.

This follows on from PID's work with Paula Reason of Cadmium Design and Steve Inwood, Hard Rock International's director of European Development at the Hard Rock Café in London. Here they supplied a customised VersaTile installation for the back wall of the basement bar.

PID's David March says: "We were delighted to working with Paula, Steve and the Hard Rock Team again - they are always up for pushing technology to new and interesting boundaries."

The award winning Barcelona site is the busiest HRC venue in Europe - situated right on the aorta of Plaça de Catalunya. Such was the success of the VersaTile installation in London, that it was decided a similar featu

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