USA - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's Wrecking Ball tour continues to roll across the country with three Manon, eight Topaze, and four Lancelot followspots from Robert Juliat. The Boss is touring in support of his 17th studio album, also called Wrecking Ball, with an electrifying series of concerts featuring a number of technical innovations.

Robert Juliat followspots first went on tour with Bruce Springsteen in 2007, on the Magic tour. Lighting designer, Jeff Ravitz, of Intensity Advisors in North Hollywood, California, wanted to use Manon and Topaze spots in the truss for their optical quality but he also needed the spots to have electronic power supplies to insure there were no frequency interference issues with the video system on the tour. Robert Juliat got together with Morpheus Lights, of Las Vegas, Nevada, the production company for the tour,

UK - Bow Arts Trust, the East London arts educational charity, is the recipient of the first major installation of Artistic Licence Engineering's new modular Multichrome Tube LEDfixtures.

Integration company, Technical Entertainment Services, which specialises in architectural LED feature lighting, was commissioned by Bow Arts Trust to refurbish its permanent installation of vertical tubes of light which are suspended over the public walkway between its two buildings on Bow Road.

"Bow Arts Trust wanted to replace the existing fluorescent tubes with an LED alternative which would better comply with their environmental concerns, and offer extended lamplife with reduced maintenance and running costs," explains TES technical director, Matthew Owen.

Owen proposed a multi-pixelRGB fixture as the best solution to these requirements, which would also allow Artists in Resid

UK - West London based Entec Sound & Light supplied a substantial stage, architectural and garden lighting package to the 2012 Larmer Tree Festival, staged in the picturesque environs of Larmer Tree Gardens at Tollard Royal, south Wiltshire.

It's the seventh year that Entec has been involved with providing lighting the popular boutique festival, set in the environment originally created by prominent Victorian, Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, and opened as the first private gardens for 'public enjoyment' in the UK.

The Entec crew of five was led by Richard Hutton. The equipment and designs covered five principal music stages of various sizes and a theatre / club space located in England's oldest corrugated iron building.

The Main stage was an 18m saddle span structure which was new for this year, bringing its own set of lighting challenges for designer

UK - During PLASA 2012, Spotlight will be exhibiting its new LED products from the Green Line range. Those fixtures are characterized by high optical performances and energy saving, lower heat emission, long life of the LED source, no generation of dangerous infrared and ultraviolet rays, to the benefit of the lit up people and objects.

At Hall 1, Booth H5, Spotlight will present the new products of this series dedicated to the entertainment sector. For the first time at PLASA, they will show ProfiLED 100 RGBW, ProfiLED 180 RGB and FresneLED 200 White (CW, NW, WW). Furthermore, on preview, they will present ProfiLED 200 White (CW, NW, WW) and FresneLED 250 White (Tunable).

Spotlight will also feature a selection of their various ranges dedicated both to the entertainment and the architectural markets.

Customers and Visitors are welcome to discover the advantages of the LED t

Slovakia - PR Lighting fixtures have appeared on the biggest DJ festival to take place in the Slovak and Czech Republics.

The Chinese manufacturer's territory representatives, Techhouse, ensured that the portfolio was well represented at the Bee Free (free festival) after taking on the distributorship at the end of last year.

"The quality of the products is vital to us, and we are delighted when that is matched by the price," states CEO, Stefan Kollar. "When we purchased the first samples of the lights at the end of 2011, we were positively surprised by the quality and reliability."

They had no hesitation in recommending them to the event, which was again held at Aiport Pieštany, and attended by around 20,000 visitors. Organised by teams from Storm Promotion and KuulFabrik, every year more than 150 DJ's perform on five stages.

Techhouse's rental

Ukraine - A Jands Vista L5 was chosen by lighting and visuals designer, Rob Sinclair, to control lighting and media for British rock legends, Queen. Their recent string of high profile shows featured American Idol star Adam Lambert as lead singer.

The first highly anticipated show truly tested everyone's technical and creative skills. Performed in front of enormous crowds (estimated at up to 500,000 people) in Independence Square, Kiev, Ukraine - the concert was televised live as part of the Euro 2012 Football Championships as well as streamed online.

Although Sinclair has been a keen Vista user for a number of years, this was his first experience using the new flagship L5 console. Choosing to do so on a show of such stature and visibility was a real testament to his confidence in the reliability and flexibility of the Vista family.

Sinclair's design concept began wit

Israel - Television lighting designer Ofer Jacobi specified Robe Robin MMX Spots together with LEDWash 1200 and 600s for the latest series of Dancing With The Stars, Israel's version of BBC Worldwide's massively successful Strictly Come Dancing now in its seventh series..

Jacobi has lit all seven editions of the show to date, and each one has featured Robe moving lights.

However this was the first time that any of his lighting designs have included MMX Spots and Robin 1200 LEDWashes - all of which are supplied by Danor Rental.

Dancing With The Stars is recorded in Studio 1 of the GG Studio Complex in Jerusalem, the country's largest TV production facility.

The set is designed by Avi Fahima, with the basic elements styled on the original classic BBC version, with a new video theme added for this Israeli series, consisting of scenic LED panels running ar

USA - grandMA2 has gone country playing key roles on the Brothers of the Sun tour, with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, and at CMA Music Festival, which held concerts at Nashville's LP Field.

"I've been one of the beta testers for the grandMA2, and this year marks the first time that I felt I could exclusively spec the grandMA2," reports Mark Butts who serves as programmer for the tour, with Chesney and McGraw, and programmer and lighting director for the CMA Music Festival. "I'm now specifying them for all my new projects."

The Brothers of the Sun Tour is the tenth that Butts has done with Chesney. The all-stadium tour features "simple straight trusses but a lot of stuff. I decided to go with four grandMA2 full-size just to manage the complexity of the show," says Butts.

The consoles need to manage large amounts of data. "Kenny

UK - The eagerly anticipated shortlist of lighting designers nominated for the coveted Knight of Illumination Award has been released.

Organised by the ALD, STLD and Clay Paky and now in its fifth year, the Knight of Illumination Awards provides public recognition for outstanding achievements in lighting design by lighting designers working on productions in the UK.

Professional reviewers who work in each of the specific categories have agreed the shortlists and the awards will be presented at a glittering ceremony on 9 September at Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, London.

The shortlists for each category are as follows:

Television - ENTERTAINMENT: Mark Kenyon for Strictly Come Dancing from Wembley; Tom Sutherland for Red Hot Chilli Peppers Live at Koko and Mark Kempton for Not Going Out

Television - SMALL STUDIO: Tom Kinane for Just a Minute

UK - Visual Productions will bring the new IoCore to PLASA2012. This input and output interface module will be highlighted on their stand, Hall 1 - G23.

The IoCore is an expansion module in the CueCore product family of solid-state lighting controllers. It offers interfacing to digital and analogue inputs and digital outputs and supports various protocols like DMX, RS-232, OSC, UDP and Art-Net.

The IoCore features eight inputs that can be individually configured as digital or analogue input. Set as digital input, it allows for an easy connection with for example physical switches and sensors. When set to analogue, it supports 0-10V and 1-10V inputs; ideal for connecting to household dimmers.

Theeight outputs on the IoCore are relay-switched and can handle 3 Amp. The digital outputs can be used to switched various other devices like A/V equipment, blinds or heavy-duty relays.

Denmark - Martin Professional has been marking its 25th Anniversary throughout 2012 with a number of activities and one of the more ambitious projects is an historical Evolution Gallery that recently opened at the company's headquarters in Aarhus, Denmark.

The Martin Evolution Gallery, a permanent installation, retraces Martin's history in the entertainment technology industry from its roots in the '80s as a fledgling producer of fog machines and disco effects to the leading company it is today.

The historical timeline is set against a background of major world and Martin events and showcases the company's record of technological advancement and product launch frequency through the years, an evolutionary journey that continues to develop.

Besides a fascinating look at technology's unrelenting march over the past 25 years, the timeline offers the visitor a chance to examine t

Spain - Lighting designer Oscar Gallardo has turned to an energy and cost-saving MAC Aura lighting rig supplied by MFO S.L. Productions for Joan Manuel Serrat and Joaquin Sabina's current tour.

After the spectacular success of their first tour Dos pájaros de un tiro (Two Birds with One Stone), Serrat and Sabina have launched a follow up tour Dos pájaros contraatacan (Two Birds Strike Back) that is playing to audiences across Spain and South America this summer and fall.

Oscar Gallardo is one of Spain's top lighting designers, having lit Serrat and Sabina shows for years, as well as other artists like David Bisbal, Luz Casal, Presuntos Implicados, Rosana and many more.

Oscar, along with Juan Gomez Cornejo, Tano Astiaso and Nicolás Fischtel, is one of the forerunners of the Asociación Española de Autores de Iluminación (Spanish Association of Lighting Autho

UK - Rosco has introduced the LitePad Loop - a ring light that represents the latest addition to the popular LitePad line of LED lighting fixtures. LitePad Loop is an innovative, easy to use ring light that quickly installs around the lens of a camera for on-axis lighting, says the company.

LitePad Loop is just over nine inches in diameter with a four and half inch centre hole. The light engine within the Loop is Rosco LitePad which is well known for its flattering, indirect light output.

LitePad fixtures are widely used in film and video production because of this quality. Its innovative mounting assembly makes the LitePad Loop easy to install onto any camera - including film, video, and DSLR units.

LitePad Loop is comprised by two main parts - the Loop itself and the mounting assembly. The Loop has a plastic housing which allows for our most durable and lightweight LitePad

France - The city of Agen in France is undergoing great changes with several projects seeing the light of day in recent years. The facades along Boulevard de la République and Place Wilson have been beautifully illuminated thanks to the use of 350 Martin Tripix 300 linear LED luminaires and six Exterior 410 colour changers.

In charge of the project and installation were companies Electromontage and Inéo while lighting design was by Lionel Bessière of the Toulouse-based company Quartiers Lumières.

The Tripix 300s are attractively-designed IP66 LED bars based on tri-color LEDs for a better mix of colors under the lens. This produces a wide range of shades, in particular bright whites, subtle pastels, and vibrant saturated colors, with no chromatic decomposition.

The Exterior 410 houses very powerful pre-mixed LEDs and is used for lighting designs requiring perf

UK - At the end of June the High Definition Festival was held at Hainault in Essex. In only its second year it has already become one of Europe's leading dance music festivals with nearly 9,000 people turning up to party. Acts included Ms Dynamite and world famous DJ Fedde le Grand.

Lighting designer Terry Lewsey specified a total of 12 LEDHead 324W moving head wash luminaries and 30x LEDHead SBar battens to be included in the lighting systems across eight stages.

The 324s have 108x 3W RGBW leds and were used for general stage washes and movement.

All of the lighting production and effects for the festival were supplied by Light Design Ltd, based in Rainham, Essex. They have had both of the units featured above in their rental stock for over a year and have recently increased their stock levels due to high demand in the festival and corporate markets.

Terry Lewsey commente

UK - Czech technical solutions Provider AV Media invested in a substantial amount of new Robe moving lights and Anolis LED fixtures which is installed at the 'Czech House' Pavilion, a base for all sports fans and supporters of the Czech National Team during the London Olympics.

The Czech house took over the entire Business Design Centre building in Islington.

Czech National TV's Olympic broadcast studio is located there, and the Pavilion features massive screens so the public can enjoy all the best of the Olympic action, together with food, beer, wine and digestives, chess, streetball, art, Czech Team merchandising and a host of other cultural offerings including a stage for live bands, DJs and other entertainment, with sociability high on the agenda.

AV Media's Project Manager Filip Klein explains that when they won the contract to co-ordinate all the technicals for the Cze

UK - Detonate Indoor Festival in Nottingham is an eight-arena, four-venue music festival featuring over 50 artists and dozens of Chauvet fixtures. The annual event features some of the leading drum and bass acts around, including Sub Focus, David Rodigan and Skream.

One of the venues, The Forum, featured a stage filled with 48 Chauvet Professional MVP 18 modular video panels, 14 Chauvet Professional Q-Spot 260-LED and six Chauvet Professional Q-Wash 260-LED moving heads, and eight Chauvet DJ Intimidator Scan LED 300 scanners.

Found throughout the other four (of the eight) stages were a selection of Chauvet fixtures, specified by Stage Electrics and JPS Sound and Light.

(Jim Evans)

UK- Robert Juliat will have two products making their PLASA debut this year: the new TIBO and ZEP profile spotlights, which expand Juliat's comprehensive spotlight range with new LED and tungsten solutions.

ZEP is a new LED profile spotlight featuring a powerful new 150W white LED engine that offers high light output yet low power consumption. Available in warm white (3200K) and cool white (6000K) versions, ZEP is based on Juliat's long-established 600SX range, uses the familiar SX double condenser optics system and is available in three zoom ranges - 643SX 28/54?, 644SX 16/35? and 641SX 11/26?.

TIBO is an innovative, compact, lightweight versatile profile spotlight, featuring an entirely new compact design that mates either an LED or tungsten lightsource to a unique optical design that offers two zoom ranges in one single fixture. In LED form, Tibo uses a 75W white LED array

Maldives - The holiday resort destination of the Maldive Islands, in the Indian Ocean, has provided the exotic location for PR Lighting's latest foray.

Local event management company, BeamOn, is using the popular XS1200 Spot on the celebrity TV show, Tharinge Rey 2012, broadcast by Maldives TV station, DhiTV.

Recorded in a local theatre, the series runs once a week (over four weeks), with all shows pre-recorded two days in advance.

Working in conjunction with the TV station, BeamOn designed the lighting rig, specifying six of the high power XS1200s among the lighting effects, chosen for their colour temperature filters and colour saturation; the lighting is controlled from an Avolites Pearl Tiger console.

Everyone has been delighted with the lighting dynamics, reports BeamOn's Abdulla Shareef (Allo), and he expects these will feature again on future DhiTV shows in t

South Africa - An audience of 2,000 attended Super M Live with The Parlotones performance at the Gateway's Wavehouse in Durban on Sunday, 5 August 2012. The concert was hosted for winners of the Clover Super M competition, and was also held in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Durban based rental company, Hirezone Audio Visual, provided the full technical at The Wavehouse including lighting, sound, av, staging and screens. The Robins came out to play, and while most of the fixtures were rigged on the Prolyte Ground Support and on two Prolyte bars above the stage, some were also placed on the stage for beam work. Philips Selecon Profiles were utilised for flood lighting and LED parcans added colour.

"The Parlotones were excellent," commented Richard Gild from Hirezone. "I have a new found respect for them and on stage they rock." Gild adds the entire show r

South Africa - The 2012 PSL Awards were staged at the Lyric theatre in Gold Reef City, Johannesburg, and honoured South African football players, coaches and officials.

This year the event was lit by Nicholas Michaletos from l technical solutions provider, Sound Stylists, who supplied lighting equipment and crew for the show.

Robe moving lights were at the core of the rig for the event, which was broadcast live on SABC channels 1, 2 and 3 as well as SuperSport.

Michaletos worked closely with set and production designer Wayne Sproule from Pendragon Dezign, with whom he's worked very successfully on previous projects including the Sports Awards of Gauteng at the end of 2011 for the same client - producers Warren Bowles Corporate Communications (WBCC).

They were very keen to keep this visual continuity with the PSL Awards, and so asked both back in the same roles.

The Robes

UK - Perfectly timed for London's Olympic summer is the new stage adaptation of the classic British film Chariots of Fire - telling the story of a much earlier Olympic Games.

Described as "one of the great treats of the summer" by the Sunday Times, the show opened at London's Hampstead Theatre before transferring to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End. It is adapted from Colin Welland's original screenplay by writer Mike Bartlett, features Vangelis' original music from the film, is directed by Edward Hall with designs by Miriam Buether and has lighting by Olivier- and Tony Award-winning lighting designer Rick Fisher.

To supply the lighting for the show, Rick Fisher turned to his regular collaborator White Light, which supplies his award-winning design for Billy Elliot in London and has regularly supplied the touring rigs for his designs for both

Grand Finale - The London Olympics closing ceremony was broadly welcomed by the world's critics. According to The Guardian, the event was "a kaleidoscopic spectacle" that showed "the energy of British popular culture over the past few decades". The Telegraph said the show was "meant to be about cheese - an unabashed, honking hunk of over ripe Stilton".

"This all-star mix of live and pre-recorded music was a major crowd-pleaser," declared David Rooney of the Hollywood Reporter, saying the event would be "regarded as a wonderfully chaotic treasure trove by some and a hot mess by others". The New Zealand Herald described the event at the Olympic Stadium in east London as "a pop culture smorgasbord that had touches of brilliance, beauty and bewilderment".

Olympic Effect - West End box of

Australia - The Venue and Events department of the University of New South Wales has recently invested seven Chroma-Q Color Force 72 / 1.8m LED battens to provide wash lighting effects for its various productions. The Chroma-Q Color Forces are mainly used in the University's Science Theatre which hosts a variety of performances including dance, theatre, community projects and award ceremonies.

"It was time to replace our old tungsten cyc lights and moving towards an LED future was the best option," commented Padaric Meredith-Keller, senior theatre technician. "Not only will we save energy but also hours of labour time spent replacing gels and bubbles that would regularly die."

The department already owns several Chroma-Q products all of which have performed flawlessly. "We've been happy with our Chroma-Q products as they have a great light quality plus

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