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14 March 2016

Russell Armentrout, president of Performance Lighting, says, "When we powered up the Showguns for the first time, everyone's jaw dropped. The whole production staff, including Mr. (Gene) Simmons, were very much impressed by the fixture. And the Showguns are just as easy to hang as any automated luminaire."

Longtime Kiss LD Bryan Hartley designed the system, while lighting director Sean "Motley" Hackett programmed and operated the concerts in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, and at RockFest 2007 in Cadott, WI.

Hackett reports, "I hung the Showguns stage left and stage right of the Kiss sign to fill the gap where video screens used to be. By placing th

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After the infrastructure was installed by Northern Light, AC Lighting won the supply of loose equipment to include 48 x Selecon Rama High Performance Fresnels, 5 x Aurora 4-way Cycs and 2 x Performer Series Toru Followspots.

Matt Kingslake, technical manager at the Grove Theatre comments, "I have been very pleased with the Selecon equipment I used at my previous venue and with the equipment I have seen brought in by visiting companies. Due to my experience using Selecon equipment they were my first choice when sourcing lighting equipment for the Grove Theatre. I am es

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The Arena Hazer features true continuous output of up to 20,000cfm. To aid in diffusion and distribution, it has an integral fan and an auxiliary external squirrel cage blower to adjust the speed and orientation of the haze.

The system is housed in a wheeled road case that allows easy access to the control panel as well as easy refilling. Also included are DMX control capability (for output adjustment, fan speed, and blower speed), a wired remote control and 1.4-quart onboard fluid container.

(Jim Evans)

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One4All is the first dealer to supply Showgun to the Italian market. The company will also represent other HES products including DL.2 and the Road Hog console.

Luisa Valenti, sales and marketing director for One4All, says, "We are excited at the opportunity High End Systems is giving us and we shall do our best to make High End products popular and successful in our domestic market. Showgun is a unique product and we are confident it will be a success."

"We are thrilled about the new opportunities we'll now have in Italy because of this new relationship," says Ruediger Haeming, HES regional sales manager for Central Europe. "I look forward to working together with One4All in promoting o

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14 March 2016

The D4 is controlling the venue's stage lighting rig plus over 800 architectural LED fixtures which are illuminating the interior walls, balconies and general auditorium architecture.

The Opera House in Boscombe originally opened in 1895 as the Boscombe Grand Theatre and has been an entertainment venue of sorts throughout its entire colourful 102 year history. Most recently the premises were leased to local rave 'Slinky'.

Now restored to its former Victorian splendour after a seven-month multi-million pound refurbishment project, spearheaded by owners Arnwood Estates, it has reopened as Bournemouth Opera House, a 3-tier 2200 capacity live entertainment venue.

Mikey Howard was brought onboard

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The lighting rig included 12 x Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1200 HPE, 18 x Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1200 and 168 x Par Cans. They were used to light the 18m x 16m stage with 16m x 11m wings.

Rick Wade, Protec's operations director, said, "I didn't receive a single complaint about the kit we provided. The Aerosmith crew was extremely happy with the venue, set-up, and of course the turn-out, which was very encouraging.

MA Lighting International recently opened its own office, MA Lighting Middle East India, in Dubai. "The idea of our global network is to getting even closer to the market", comme

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14 March 2016

Pandemonium Productions' MD, Simon Garrett collaborated with Brunel University's event manager, Liz Thomas, from the outset. Garrett appointed Malcolm Birkett as production manager. Together they managed their team of preferred suppliers to tackle the challenge of transforming the Athletics Centre into a ceremonial auditorium environment, which complied with current DDA regulations.

Working with appointed set designer, Ian Fogden of IFD Design, Pandemonium configured a set that was sympathetic to the simplicity of the hall.

Custom built by Centre Stage, the modular stage boasted a curved fr

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There is no requirement to be working at the Fringe to attend. Sessions are being held at Assembly Universal Arts (venue number 7) between 9am and midday each day from 13-17 August and 20-22 August.

Anyone interested in attending should contact ETC on telephone: +44 (0)20 8896 1000.

(Jim Evans)

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The event is attended by over 40,000 Scouts from 160 countries around the globe. An additional 10,000 support staff and services personnel are also on-site, involved in running the Jamboree, which features full daily programmes of entertainment taking place on one main and four 'hub' stages.

Mike Oates leads the HSL team who are working closely with Jamboree technical production manager Mike Bryan and lighting designer Andy Hook of Shock Solutions. Oates comments: "It's great to be involved in this event. It has all the infrastructure and demands of a major festival with an excellent atmosphere and lots of dedicated staff all very passionate about doing the job."

Bryan and his Technical T

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Thousands of dance and electronic music fans braved the torrential rain, mud, flooding and truly abysmal weather conditions to attend one of the UK's friendliest alternative 'boutique' festivals.

London-based Colour Sound has supplied the Glade since the event started four years ago, but this year was the first time they lit both main spaces - deciding to go with Robe in both. Twelve ColorSpot and 12 ColorWash 700E ATs - newly bought for the summer - featured on the Glade stage, with six ColorSpot and ColorWash 575E ATs in the Vapour Tent.

Colour Sound's Jasper Johns and Kester McClure looked after lighting for the Glade Stage, producing a generic design with plenty of options and flexibility that would suit all

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"Helen Huang used intense colours in both her scenery and costume designs," says Schertler. "Because the scenery was basically a unit set, it was necessary that my design control the palette to create a leitmotif that would underscore both the characters and the storylines. The Selador units were an important tool in making this work."

Rebecca Fuller Jensen, lighting and video coordinator for CTC explained that Suessical was just the opportunity that CTC had been looking for, "We had seen a demo of the Selador units before, about five months ago and asked if we could try them in production. It just happened that Nancy

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Sykes comes to LSC with an extensive background and impressive employment history, including being part of the LSC team from 1988-1999 as a product development engineer. Whilst at LSC he co-designed the Axiom, which was honoured with an Australian Design Award in 1993. Adding to this, he was also responsible for the design of another 20 Stage Lighting products.

Most recently Trevor has been working with AAPL, a large multi national (Japanese parent) company in the automotive sector.

(Jim Evans)

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The Jewel LED is an LED version of the classic moonflower effect. It features an output similar to a 100W halogen lamp with 47 sharp red, green, and blue high output coloured beams.

The Vision LED features an output similar to a 400W halogen lamp with 26 large, sharp red, green, and blue high output coloured beams. It can be operated as a sound active light show or as a DMX effect.

The Revo Scan LED, a flat-mirrored scanner, has an output comparable to a 250W halogen lamp, with 52 total red, green, white and blue LEDs. There are three operation modes: Master/Slave, Sound active, and DMX. The Revo scan has 4 DMX channels with a four button LCD display and is linkable via XLR connec

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Grease, opening at the Piccadilly Theatre in August, is the latest version of the production that first appeared at the Dominion Theatre in 1993 and was one of the earliest moving light rigs supplied by White Light; the show has been playing in London or touring ever since.

For its latest West End outing, which had its leading actors cast by the public on ITV's Grease Is The Word, lighting designer Mark Henderson has updated his rig to include Martin MAC 300, MAC 550 and MAC 700s, High End StudioBeams and StudioColors, Vari-Lite VL2000 Spots as well as Par Cans, ETC Source Fours, Rainbow colour scrollers and L&E MiniStrips plus Robert Juliat Aramis followspots and haze and smoke machines from Look Solutions. Control for the rig is from a Wh

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The event was project managed for ShowSupport by Andy Mayneord, who led a team of 12 for the get-in on the Thursday to be ready for a Saturday early afternoon start.

Two landscape format 4:3 ratio Lighthouse R16 I/O side screens were installed, and a 4 camera PPU. The cameras were positioned at FOH, two each side of the pit and a hand-held onstage.

Live video director Jim Bennett's fast cut mix matched the jittery energy of the music, adding an additional edgy layer to the show's visuality for the set - much of which was in daylight.

Working closely with lighting op Rob Gawler, the ShowSupport team also supplied a Coolu

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The centre was designed by Penoyre & Prasad Architects in consultation with patients, their families and staff. One of its most striking features is the south façade. Folded aluminium louvres are suspended on a tensioned cable net to prevent direct light entering the building, whilst at the same time creating fascinating abstract imageries.

Lightscape Projects - part of the Light Projects Group - was responsible for the lighting design, installation and programming. A total of 64 Tryka Strip Module Optic IP67 in different lengths were selected for the project, along with other Light Projects LED fittings.

Light Projects Group's director Roger Beckett enthuses: "The Tryka LED linear units were mos

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Aimed at a wide range of sectors and applications, the Pearl Tiger is equally suited for small theatres, conferences, schools & colleges, small to medium scale productions or production companies, tours, venues and nightclubs, says the company.

The Pearl Tiger's features include Theatre Playback, timecode, MIDI triggers, 2,048 channels to 240 moving lights on four isolated DMX outputs, 10 playback submasters, expandable to 15 with external playback wing, plus full personality library in the console, with free updates on website.

Also featured at the show will be the new D4 Infrastructure products - specifically Avo's Showsafe system; the Tablet PC for remote de

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Gary Fails, City Theatrical's president, said: "I first used Dave Johnson's candles when I was a Broadway electrician. Dave was making them and selling them himself and I called him then and we worked out an agreement for CTI to be the exclusive distributor of his candle products. This sale allows CTI to take over the manufacturing processes and to make improvements in the technology, such as LED based candles, to allow these product lines to grow both now and in the future.

Dave Johnson commented: "I was lo

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One of the fastest growing lighting and rigging rental companies in the UK, HSL services a host of entertainment sectors including theatre, live events, concert tours, festivals, television productions, corporate presentations and special events of all types. The last 12 months has seen an increase in activity in every market sector for HSL, the company reports.

HSL has large stocks of all the latest lighting technology - including moving lights, LED light so

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14 March 2016

He turned to Paul Normandale for the lighting design, who put together a show that was both visually engaging for the lucky fans gathered at the Electric Ballroom in London, while also camera friendly - as the show was broadcast to various American TV channels that night.

Normandale said: "We had very limited stage space and power, so I had to come up with a practical plot to give the audience a feeling of just turning up to a small pub or club show. This was of course then filmed for American TV links which were mixed, edited and despatched overnight. I

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DPL is one of the first UK production companies to purchase the new 125mm version of the popular LED webbing system and has used it on a number of events since adding the panels to its rental stock. The company provides its production and lighting design services to a broad client base which includes the architectural lighting, concert, fashion, multi-media and corporate events sectors.

Owner Darren Parker comments, "I was amazed that I could still see the Color Web in daylight after walking about 175m away from it, so knew it would be ideal for the all-day lineup on the stage."

Featuring 64 colour mixing LED cells with a pitch of 125mm for double the resolution per

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Under the terms of the agreement, the sole shareholder of ALS would receive cash consideration of approximately $1.1 million, 260,000 shares of Nexxus Lighting's Common Stock, and based upon certain future earn-out formulations, up to an aggregate of approximately 425,000 additional shares of Nexxus Lighting's Common Stock.

Paul Streitz, the president and sole shareholder of ALS, is expected to remain as president of the new, wholly-owned Nexxus Lighting subsidiary.

"We believe that Advanced Lighting Systems has significant opportunities for growth," stated

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Sponsored by GAC, this year's music included pre-show live music from The Dirt Drifters, Dead Country, Chris Janson and Jeffrey Steele. Keni Thomas performed the National Anthem before a two-hour live show that featured Rodney Atkins, Van Zant and Taylor Swift, joined by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

Lighting designer Mark Carver chose to use ETC Source Fours, Gladiator 3k Followspots, Martin MAC 500s, 600s and 2000 washes, and Vari*Lite 3000 spots to light the show. Equipment was controlled by two Wholehog IIs and wings.

Carver said the surrounding s

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"With the MA system we got the flexibility we need. We have large range of productions here from bands which we 'busk' to opera where we use a more theatrical programming style. We are using LEDs and video a lot more. With the grandMA video and the MA mediaPC we are able to control these with the lighting desk," explains deputy technical manager Ingo Rheinhardt his choice of the grandMA system. Besides others the lighting rig consists of 16 Martin Mac 700, 24 Martin TW1 and 18 ADB Warps.

The Barbican Arts Centre, which recently celebrated its 25th birthday, is Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue, presenting a year-round programme of ar