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Loz joins Essential from PRG Europe where he gained experience supporting such projects as The Lion King, Jersey Boys and Wicked in London's West End, product launches for prestigious clients such as Audi, Lexus and Rolls Royce and special events including the Nobel Peace Prize concerts.

Loz grew up with both parents involved in the entertainment industry and began his professional career aged 16 in his local theatre. Prior to returning to London, Loz travelled the world in the position of production manager for P&O Cruises, looking after the lighting design aboard their cruise liners; all of which earned him a wealth of experience that he brings to the team at Essential.

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"The impression combines high light output with very low power consumption, which is of great importance on tours with very variable lighting sets," Loose explained. "The lightness of these compact moving heads was of crucial importance on this tour, since all the lighting equipment had to be packed into a single trailer attached to the tour bus; with 24 conventional washlights that would have been unthinkable."

Loose mounted the moving heads in a 6 x 4 matr

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Artists on tour have been Snow Patrol, Keane, Human League, Brand New, Jarvis Cocker, Massive Attack, The Klaxons, Lily Allen, and the Super Furry Animals.

This year's shows and events have included supplying lighting for The People's Opening' Extravaganza to launch Liverpool's European Capital of Culture year, ,I>Dream On, the launch of theatre producer Bill Kenwright's new boyband, Roisi

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Based in Austin, Texas, High End Systems employs 156 people and is a profitable company with USD 44m sales in 2007. The total value of the transaction is USD 55m, which implies an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, amortisation) multiple of around eight on the past 12 months. The impact on 2008 EPS (earnings per share) is estimated to be about neutral due to the required IFRS (International Financial R

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"Artistic Licence has a strong footing in the international projects market, and an equally strong presence for its products within mainland Europe," explains Artistic Licence managing director, Wayne Howell. "Within the UK, however, it is viewed primarily as the provider of solutions to a specific set of, mainly DMX orientated, problems.

"Many people do not realise the full extent of our product range, which includes LED fixtures and component parts for OEM, in addition to the well known Art-Net Ethernet products such as Net-Lynx and Data-Lynx. Our intention therefore is to spread the remit of our product range across a wider market, increasing its profile to inc

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As the exclusive UK distributor for the Chroma-Q, Jands and Spotlight brands, A.C.'s lighting area will feature recent additions to each range. The Chroma-Q LED range includes the new Color Punch compact IP65 fixture, providing super bright results for both indoor and temporary outdoor applications, and the Color Split fixture with dual side by side RGBA LED cells. The Jands range includes the revolutionary Vista lighting console with graphic based user interface and the FPX/WMX portable/wall mounted, professional touring quality 12x2.4kW channel dimmers. The Spotlight range includes the Cyclorama Domino RGBA LED floodlight with

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Ben Jenkins, event manager at KAVE, says: "KAVE Theatre Services has established itself as a key player in the outdoor events environment and the Avolites products we now stock have assisted to ensure we deliver top quality results, with the reliability our customers rightly expect.

"Last year we worked with the band The Feeling and the Avolites products allowed us to achieve great results throughout the show. Customers are already requesting the Art 2000T4 dimmers and the Pearl Expert lighting desk for the Edinburgh Festival which we are delighted to supply. There is no doubt that the Avolites dimmers and desks were a great investment as they have proved to be very popular with customers and our engineers alike."

(Jim Evans)

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"The thing that really got me excited was how fast everyone just plain got the new products, and the great ideas they all had for improvements," says president Keny Whitright.

Tom Ferguson, shop foreman and rental operations manager for Hudson Sound and Light, says he appreciates companies asking for input on their products. "If you're going to shove it down somebody's throat, there's going to be some resentment," Ferguson says.

The event previewed some of Wybron's new products as well as changes to its Infogate software, which uses two-way communication protoco

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Together with RTC, Zero 88's distributor for Austria, Zero 88 showed the Frog 2, Leap Frog 48/96 and Jester series as well as the new Master Touch Screen for the Chilli dimmers. Zero 88's powerful 3D visualisation software Light Converse, which played a big role within the lighting design contest, had a lot of very positive feedback during the show, says the company.

A highlight of the event was the lighting design contest. This was the first time a lighting design competition had been arranged at the show and was accomplished in co-operation with the OETHG, DTHG and RTC.

Applications for the competit

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Thanks to tarmLED 4x4's lightweight construction and daisy-chain cabling from module to module using just a single, combined, power and data line, the total weight of the approximately 50sq.m LED-surface, including all power supplies and processors, could be reduced to around 600 kg, which was an essential factor in arranging such a production, due to the limited load-bearing capacities of the existing suspension points. Data transmis

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Building on the success of the past three galas, this year's awards ceremony featured a reception, a silent auction, followed by dinner and an awards presentation - emceed by John Becker.The Pinnacle Business Awards Gala is an occasion to honor both the nominees and award winners, all of which are outstanding representatives of the greater Knoxville business community.

To light the event, lighting designer, Will Twork, primarily chose to use Martin MAC 2000s, 600s, 500s and ETC Source Fours. Lighting was controlled by a Whole Hog II.

(Jim Evans)

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With the upgraded Neutrik connectors, lighting operators can be assured there will always be a strong, seamless flow of DMX data from their controller into the Opti RGB, and out from the fixture to other daisy-chained units, said Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional. This will eliminate the possibility of breakage from heavy use, or of weak or interrupted DMX signals from the older XLR connectors, which can sometimes cause spotty performance.

"We wanted to improve the Opti RGB's control connectivity, and we felt the best way to do this was to switch to Neutrik connectors, which are really tops in the market with their exceptional quality and relia

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Congo v5 rethinks the management of lighting effects for theatre and live events, making them as easy to control as a dimmer with a scroller. Using all the tools available for device control, Congo v5 functions create many new effects. The new Chase effect provides a simple editor for creating intensity effects without using up presets and sequences. The new Dynamic effect uses the existing dynamics concept and brings them into the new Effect Playback world.

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Morpeth, which specialises in arts and music, has recently invested in an ETC Congo jr and two SmartFade lighting control desks, as well as SmartPack dimming. Chris Bocking at Redbridge Drama Centre, who was brought in as a consultant for the installation, explains: "We recommend ETC control desks because they are very sophisticated yet user friendly. One of the problems which all schools face is that staff leave and there might be no-one else trained to

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Four grandMA full-size and one grandMA ultra-light are used to control three major performance halls: the Opera House for operas, ballet, and dances (seats 2,416) the Concert Hall (seats 2,017) and the Theatre, for plays (1,040 seats). All grandMA consoles are connected via MA-Net which is based on fibre optical. Besides other fixtures the National Centre for the Performing Arts has got 200 moving lights installed.

ACE - Advanced Communication Equipment provided the lighting equipment. Lighting design was a joint effort by NGT,

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Infinite Audio Systems won the 'Best Sound Installation' category; and the founder and CEO of the Miami-based installation company, Lord Toussaint said, "It is an award that perhaps represents the level at which we are installing nationally, and soon internationally. We are designing and integrating more than audio systems. We are installing 'revenue generating equipmen

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"Based on this new partnership, Nexxus will be testing its new Array Lighting LED lamps to achieve Energy Star certification," stated Zdenko Grajcar, chief technology officer for Nexxus Lighting. "This partnership enforces Nexxus Lighting's commitment and initiatives to increase energy savings for our customers and protect the global environment.

"The guidelines for Energy Star Certification as it relates to solid state lighting (SSL) have been established and by utilising our patent pending Selective Heat Sink (SHS) technology we feel we will not only meet the standards, but exceed them.&

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The band's 2008 show was designed and directed by William Baker, who also designed the set, with the lighting design created by Baz Halpin. On tour and for Croke Park, lighting was operated/directed by Dave Lee.The show was produced by Production North.

The design saw Halpin going very theatrical, with all the structures concealed, apart from a centre stage 'W' shaped truss. Lighting fixtures were all positioned on a series of angled trussing sections, some of which moved. This ensured the gaps were filled, and that light could be focussed from all angles right across the performance area for even and balanced coverage.

Upstage, there were six moving trusses, all suspended on two points each. Running on Bandit's own fully

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A central feature of the stand was the EvenLED cyc-lighting system, already supplied by White Light to one major musical and "in demand from many more shows". A metre-square tile containing 16 super-wide-angle three-colour LEDs, each individually controllable, EvenLED is designed to be built into an array behind a BP screen; there it can evenly light a cyc at a throw as low as 25cm, creating an array of bright colours or - because each pixel is individually controllable - rainbows, clouds, graduations, colour wipes and more.

Also on stand were products from White Light (including the White Light Snow Machine and the VSFX Optical Effect System), plus products from the many companies for which White Light is the exclusive UK's distributor, in

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Lighting designer Ali Pike has worked for the Liverpool indie rockers since they were unsigned three years ago, and says: "Adlib have always looked after us, whether it's been a few specials for one offs and the previous tour, right up to the full rig and crew for this one - they are absolutely brilliant."

Pike's design starting point for the tour was based on some elements that have been used in their live visuals for some time. A lot of the initial concept ideas also came from the Backfire at the Disco promo video, which features a series of DJ and disco lighting effects.

Pike persuaded the band that they could reproduce some of these on tour using more robust and practical kit like PixelLines. The back truss was rigged with four bars of 6

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The Reading-based company was contacted by the German office of production company George P Johnson, after they received a call from Nissan. Blinding Light's Paddy Stacy took an outline brief late on Wednesday afternoon which was to create a car showroom environment in the Hotel's Kings Suite for a series of presentations the following Monday and Tuesday.

He prepared the quote, designed and drew the lighting plot and kit list and sent these to George P Johnson for approval. They loaded in at 2 a.m. on the Monday to be ready for the first show at 10 a.m.

Blinding Light supplied over 200m of trussing that was laid out on the fl

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The move into this area is new to Massteknik UK but has proven extremely successful for Massteknik Sweden utilising knowledge gained within the LED rental business over the past twenty five years, says the company.

Clulow's career in AV began with the Plasmascreen Company where he headed the sales team, moving on to managing the company. His move to Aviation Television and Communications supporting airshows worldwide saw other skill sets being required. His last position saw him working as business development manager for ADI.

Mike Bone who heads Massteknik UK says: "With us developing our business into this new and growing market sector Garry's knowledge and expertise makes him a valuable addition to the team."

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The steel and fabric structures were manufactured and installed by Base Structures with the intention of the three-dimensional wave shapes to link the car park with the original purpose of Cardiff Bay and its connection with the sea. Another visual link with the sea was the requirement for the night time appearance of the wave to be lit using a combination of blue and white lighting.

Particular consideration was taken by Light Bureau in the sp

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FX unlimited bought its first Avolites console back in 1993 explains founder Alan Muller, who has worked with the brand ever since. The inventory includes Pearls and Sapphires, and they have just taken delivery of their first of the new Tiger consoles. The company also has a stock of FD and ART 2K dimmers.

FX Unlimited shows tend to be very moving light orientated - they own Robe, Clay Paky and Martin fixtures.

They took the opportunity to purchase the new Avolites Pearl Tiger from Avolites' south African distributor DWR Distribution, FX Unlimited feels that the Pearl Tiger is an ideal console for smaller conferences with simple set ups of up to 20 moving lights.

FX Unlimited is also the in-house technical supplier for the Cape Tow