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14 March 2016

Ahead of their Download performance on Sunday 10 June, Black Sabbath are to record their first album with their original line-up for 33 years. The 1968 incarnation of the band, which also includes guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward, will record new material with producer Rick Rubin. Black Sabbath have released 18 albums since 1969, when they formed in Birmingham.

Music Business - EMI has said it will sell its recorded music unit for £1.

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This is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles.

Over in Jordan, Amman-based R.B. Live Productions, the PR Lighting distributors, have been building ringside ground support trusses for Cage Warriors, an international association performing their art in more than five countries, with live television broadcast.

According to R.B. owner / operations manager, Emad Al Rabadi, "Generic and FX lighting are among the most important elements of the show, especially for the fighters' entrance and the Red / Blue colour changing

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TMB, together with specifiers, lighting designers, and other lighting professionals, has completed or initiated many exciting wireless CRMX projects during the quarter. The festival season was particularly busy with such noteworthy examples as Coachella in California, the Main Stage at Big Chill and the Live & 4Music stages at the Virgin Festival, both in the UK.

The Gold Trophy for CRM

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MTV EMA's spectacular set (designed by Es Devlin), transformed Belfast's Odyssey Arena with a complex combination of curved scenery at both ends and technical production equipment. Every inch of the venue was utilised to achieve the combined requirements of the live show and television producers for the broadcast to over 600m MTV homes around the world.

Blackout director Kevin Monks has worked with the MTV EMA producers all over Europe since 1998. And comments, "The MTV EMA is always a spectacular show and a technically complicated one to achieve. This year we were working to a very tight build schedule, which the brilliant MTV EMA event manager Maggie Mouzakitis delivered with calm assurance - and there were a lot of (crazy) creative ideas for us to accommodate with

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14 March 2016

The coolux Widget Designer PRO 3.0 was awarded the Parnelli Indispensable Technology of the Year Award and the PLASA Rock Our World Award.

The Rock Our World Awards were created to honour innovative achievement by PLASA members and to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of the technology and the designer or integrator who applies it in a real world environment.

The Parnelli Award "recognizes pioneering, influential professionals and their contributions, honouring both individuals and companies."

The ongoing award success highlights the flexibility and reliability offered by the coolux

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The movie was produced and released in conventional 2D, IMAX, Disney Digital 3-D, and IMAX 3D and included sophisticated computer generated 2D/3D visual effects, as well as many extensive and complicated location shots. That level of technical ambition, a very compressed production schedule straddling the Atlantic, and the pressure of a multi-billion dollar franchise would not leave anything to chance.

Josh Thatcher was responsible for the deployment and operation of LumenRadio's CRMX units as part of a gigantic lighting rig on the California set.

"Not only did CRMX Nova by far provide the best range

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"Cree's recent acquisition of Ruud Lighting and its BetaLED products brought together two leading LED lighting companies under one roof," said Chuck Swoboda, chairman and CEO of Cree. "Last month this facility shipped its 500,000th LED luminaire - further evidence of the market demand for the latest LED technology and a need to expand our facilities to maintain our leadership of the LED lighting revolution."

The expansion will extend component and product storage capacity and house several new manufacturing lines for ne

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Live performance, arts and other events are prolific in Israel, and Robe MMX fixtures have been used on several major shows including a performance of Mozart's Magic Flute at the Ha Ha'Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv-Yafo (LD Uri Morag); the final of popular TV talent show A Star Is Born (LD Ronen Najar) as well as for Swedish pop megastars, Roxette's recent concert at the Expo Ground in Tel Aviv, attended by a sold out audience of 12,000.

In all these cases the technical production was provided by the Mazuz Group from Petach Tikva, currently Israel's leading lighting, sound and AV operation. They have an extensive stock of Robe moving lights which have been supplied throug

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Lighting designer Frederik Decker, principal of City Light & Sound, choose to focus on the impressive technology involved in the tightly controlled purification process and naturally stayed with a blue colour scheme to match the water theme. Decker, together with local firm Topas Technology, provided a lighting rig of powerful, yet inconspicuous, Litecraft LED fixtures from LMP to provide saturated colour washes and powerful highlights of key technical apparatus without adding much visible equipment.

The production team was initially concerned about a wirel

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It is here that Providence Maitreya Buddha Missionary Institute has found a place to set up its new monastery. The monastery offers facilities for arts and cultural events and is also designed to serve as a convention centre within its theatre hall (1446 seats). Together with its partner DLHG in Taiwan, MA Lighting proposed a MA Digital Dimmer dimMA compact installation (the space saving alternative to the modular dimMA range) as well as a grandMA2 ultra-light console.

"It was great to have Michael Adenau himself here to take a look. The circumstances have been pretty special and bringing in the founder and mastermind of MA Lighting sh

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Dains handled American DJ, American Audio, Elation Professional, Acclaim Lighting, Global Truss, and Arriba Cases on the East Coast. He is survived his companion, Melissa J. Clements, his son Craig Brian Dains Jr., his parents, and six siblings.

Dains was scheduled to take part in American DJ's Fall Learning Tour on November 16 and 17; the events have now been cancelled, with a statement from American DJ announcing they will be rescheduled. The company expressed deep regret at Dain's passing.

In lieu of flowers, contributions should be made to the Craig Brian Dains Jr. Scholarship Fund in care of the Costantinto Funeral Home, 231 White Horse Pike, Berlin, New Jersey 08

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The system ran Jands' Vista v2 software, and on some sections of the tour operating duties were taken on by John Barker while Sinclair fulfilled other design commitments on his busy schedule - including tours by Peter Gabriel and Goldfrapp, also utilising Vista systems.

Sinclair's innovative design for Adele was sculpted using entirely white light, a bold aesthetic move which has won considerable acclaim. None of the moving lights were seen to move, there was minimal flashing, and was a real case of subtlety and suggestion to augment Adele's powerful performance and natural stage presence.

There was a distinctive back wall of 96 cone-shaped lampshades each illuminated from behind with a 60 Watt

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The project uses innovative LED technology to create the illusion that the pit wheel at the 19th century Lady Victoria Colliery in Newtongrange is once again turning. Similar technology is used to make it seem as if the famous gantry that crosses the A7 to the pithead is being thronged by miners carrying lamps.

"The project highlights our experience installing a wide range of architectural lighting schemes," says Black Light's Head of company development, Phil Haldane. "It shows that we are experts at working with, installing and hED systems."

The installations have a high visual impact. They are designed to dr

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Worship pastor at Little Rock First Baptist is Jerry Wilson who recently joined the staff with a vision to bring the church up to date with lighting gear that would complement the history of the church yet provide the flexible resources of current technology.

Lighting designer Robert Dicken of Full Focus Inc., lighting vendor on the project, worked closely with Wilson on the lighting renovation. "This was kind of a sensitive install because the church has basically looked the same since 1972," Dicken explains. "They were concerned that the congregation would be opp

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Among the many features of this profiler is the flexibility of use projecting coloured gobos on the walls of the stand, made at the time with a transparency sheet and a standard printer.

This new range of LED profilers with a full range of accessories and lenses, consists of three models - FullSpectrum, VariWhite 3000/7000 K and White 3200 K with interchangeable lenses, Soft Profile with lenses by Fresnel or PC and Profile zoom 28°-40° HD - and meets the latest market needs that are looking for high performance, low power consumption and an appropriate cost in the same product.

These features, together with a dedicated software that expands the possibilities of use, have been particularly popular with television production studios

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Growing pressure to cut energy consumption has seen many TV studios turning to LED lighting. Aledin has come into its own, brilliantly delivering powerful output with no loss of projection quality, says the company.

Not only does Aledin retain all the popular features, functionality and optical precision of the Robert Juliat brand, but its lower energy use (85W) and lower heat output simultaneously decrease running costs whilst taking the heat out of the studio itself.

"Aledin's long LED life means fewer hours spent on maintenance, while superb optics and sharp shutter cuts give clean gobo projection and the precise control needed to provide perfect key light on prese

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14 March 2016

The photo session for the 22nd CHOGM event, the largest gathering of world leaders ever in Australia, was staged in Pavilion 1 at the Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre. Official photographer Andrew Taylor and a host of national and international media and TV crews needed an even and consistent 4500 Lux level right across the podium on which the 50 world leaders - including Head of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth II - were posed for the photo.

Clifton's Martin McKinney was the lighting director for the shoot and he specified the 12 LEDWash 600s, which were rigged on three trusses, flown at two, five and eight me

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Colin Cuthbert, managing director of Northern Light, says, "Since we rebranded our event production arm, we have been working on some extremely high profile events, such as the MOBO Awards and this year's Enchanted Forest. We're actively seeking - and winning - more work of this kind and have taken the decision to build our events business around the needs of servicing large scale events. This will also stand us in good stead for offering even better service to our smaller clients."

To assist in creating warehouse space and updating of equipment, Northern Light has set up an online auction of ex-hire equipment that is no longer needed.

Phil O'Halloran, head of NL Productions, says, "Our plans for expansion and investment in new equipment mean that we needed to c

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These rugged LED luminaires are designed for applications requiring superb colour mixing or high quality white light for narrow to medium flood and spot lighting applications, says the company.

The Exterior 100 and Exterior 50 "emit a quality of light that traditional RGB systems can't match". The addition of white in the RGBW colour mixing system allows for a wider colour palette for washes of vibrant shades to subtle pastels. When high quality white light is required, cold, neutral and warm white fixtures are also available.

A colour calibration system eliminates the uneven colour projection associated with many LED lighting fixtures. The Exterior 100 and 50 emit like colours acr

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The Color Block 2 Plus utilises the latest generation of LED and optics, resulting in 40% more output (750 lumens) than the original Color Block 2 (530 lumens) when the internal switch is set to full power.

For maximum convenience, it also features a Color Block 2 emulation mode, to simulate the lumen output of the original LED engine when used alongside other Color Block 2 fixtures.

With its extensive colour palette and high CRI of 90, the Color Block 2 Plus fixture is a master at creating vibrant bold colours and subtle theatrical hues. Combined with its built-in variable colour

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Lighting designer/director Scott Warner is responsible for maximising a limited lighting rig so all the bands appearing with DeGraw and Cook have a different look. He also serves as the programmer and operator for the tour bands.

Warner is also a first-time grandMA2 user. He's using the console to control not only Clay Paky Sharpys but also an array of Robe REDWash, Martin 700, Atomic Strobes and Lowel Omni lights.

"I saw the grandMA2 light at LDI and loved the look - it's a great-looking con

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dbn has lit the event for the last 10 years and the company's Nick Buckley was happy to do the honours again - both project managing and lighting designing - working directly for Manchester City Council.

A six metre wide temporary stage was set up beneath a giant Father Christmas structure which is staying in place for the whole Festive period. Above this, the dbn crew installed a sloping box truss, which facilitated positions for all their overhead lighting, and was covered with a stretched fabric canopy for weather protection.

Lighting fixtures on the truss included ARRI 2K fresnels, a selection of Molefey b

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Having worked with the band since 2009, Jason Carroll explained, "Previously I used a multitude of floor based LED par can fixtures to create a 'technicolor' stage look. I also had three white rectangle spandex stretchy shapes behind the band, to throw colour onto and intentionally cast tall shadows.

"But for the current tour, Annie wanted the lighting to be drastically different, with no backdrop pieces and a colour shift to

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On behalf of the Bristol-based TV production company Iambic, Dutch facilities company UNITED was charged with recording the concert. The challenges for Bolke Burnaby Lautier, manager operations sports and events, and his approximately 55-strong team were many, and included a very tight set-up schedule and the need to record the show in 3D format, so enormous importance was attached to ensuring flawless communication between all members of the production team.

The appropriate communications infrastructure was provided by equipment from RTS/Telex, the nerve centre being an RTS Advanced Digital Audio Matrix (ADAM) with a 144 x 144 port configura