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Comments Shaun Pearce, MD of Pearce Hire, "The Showman's Show is ideally timed as it offers a platform for us to catch up with our customers at the end of the hectic summer season. The challenges and successes of the season are still fresh in everyone's minds and it allows an opportunity for us to sit down and plan for next year. We can review what has happened over the past few months and then act upon it and build on those experiences in order to produce even better events in 2013."

It has been a non-stop summer

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"We wanted a fixture that was robust and really an industry standard," explained Phil Haddy, head lighting technician. "The ETC brand is well known and respected which is why we looked to them first. Plus the Selador Lustr has the seven colours and is more theatre-orientated without sacrificing the energy efficiency and long life you expect from LEDs."

According to Haddy, the Selador Desire D40 Lustr+ fixtures have been performing well and responding beautifully.

"I really like that they offer a lot more colours than other units do and their output is really good," Phil added

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Lighting designer Shaun Moore adapted his smaller music hall inspired lighting design for the Wembley Arena show. However this one-off gig presented a number of challenges as Moore explains, "The show was a one off, so it was load in at 5am and doors at 6pm. Programming was done over two days at Terminal Studios via the Avolites console using WYSIWYG. We also had a couple hours tweaking over night in my hotel room! Obviously I could have done with a production day, especially as the show was filmed for DVD. On the day itself we had just a few hours tweaking positions and programming."

Frank Turner, the Winchester based, folk/punk singer and guitarist, has been touring almost consistently

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Originally the headquarters of the Cunard Steamship Company, the architecturally dramatic building was completed in 1917, and also served as the main passenger terminal for both Cunard and White Star Line liners.

Now the classic interior has been sympathetically enhanced and reconfigured to become one of the most upmarket office buildings in Liverpool.

LED lighting manufacturer Tryka LED of Royston, worked hand in hand with main contractor on the project, Jennor UK Ltd of St Helen's, to specify and supply its Flexistrip linear strip to illuminate all the public areas of the building. The six refurbished floors were installed with more than 1000m of Warm White Flexistrip 30 IP67 l

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The event was staged at Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) in Johannesburg over two days, and included two evenings of entertainment spectacular and Award presentations starring Lindiwe Bungane of Dream Girls, among other vocalists plus a full dance troupe.

Lighting was designed by TechRig's Robert Grobler, and the very stylish set created by Michael Gill. The two separate evening's programmes were enjoyed by over 1000 people.

A large trussing system was installed over the 30m wide stage, based on three concentric circles with a series of trussing spines coming off the largest circle on the outside of the two smaller one

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Kirkup, working until recently for Zero 88 and Cooper Controls, brings with him extensive experience and has been a particularly strong supporter of the PLASA RDM technologies and initiatives. He is the designer and administrator of the recently revamped rdmprotocol.org website; the leading industry resource and forum for RDM related matters.

"Having worked with LumenRadio as a customer for several years, I can attest to their professionalism, capability to deliver on time, and to provide comprehensive support and backup when required", says Peter Kirkup, "Our work together on several complex projects exemplified just that - last minute purchase orders, technical challenges due to the constraints on site,

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Over the last few months they have purchased 16 Robin 600 fixtures comprising of four Robin 600 Washes, four Robin 600 Spots, four Robin 600 LEDs and four Robin 600 Beams.

"The purchasing of new sound equipment has been put on hold while we focus all our energy and resources on lighting and audio visual," commented Kagiso 'Daystar' Moima, owner of Blackmotion. "Over the years we split our resources way to thin and growth was limited. Now we will head towards modular screens and mapping integrated with lighting."

Blackmotion provides all the necessary services from visual rendering to lighting design. While the company has sound in their warehouse, their l

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The media server technology, developed by the R&D team at Avolites Media, will be exhibited for the first time in the USA at the annual LDI show Las Vegas, 19-21 October 2012 at Las Vegas Convention Center.

Avolites Media will be at Creative Stage Lighting's stand, the company's US distributor, on Booth, # 1129.

Since its groundbreaking use on major events in the UK and beyond the Sapphire Media Infinity System has been the talk of the entertainment technology industry and, at the PLASA show, it won the much-coveted PLASA Award for Innovation with PLASA judges commenting: "It's the first integrated video control surface dedicated to video. It's well thought out and well designed."

Steve Warren, managing director for Avolites Media comments, "The

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Andy Booth, senior contracts manager with Northern Light, said, "Whilst Northern Light has extensive experience of delivering the design and installation of technical systems in theatres and concert halls worldwide, we feel the time is now right to promote our expertise in the design and project management of TV studio systems to an international audience."

Working as a specialist sub-contractor to the construction industry, Northern Light has been responsible for the design and installation of technical systems for TV studios within a multitude of venues right across the UK. Recent projects that the company has been involved in include the Theatre, Film and Television building at the University of Y

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At the Martin US booth, the company will be showing a host of innovative products across LED, HID and creative video technology.

Visitors to Martin's booth will have the chance to win their very own MAC Aura or M2PC lighting controller in a prize giveaway. To be included in the giveaway, visitors need only register at the Martin booth.

Martin will also be holding an exclusive 25th Anniversary VIP Party on Saturday night.

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Award winning lighting designer Ian Tomlinson of Adlib Design, the design department of Adlib Solutions, used Clay Paky Sharpys to deliver an extra special 'homecoming' show for the bands loyal fanbase at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena - the largest venue in the group's 2012 UK tour.

Promising a 'full-scale performance', Lostprophets were out to impress. Tomlinson used the Sharpy's unprecedented brightness and pure, laser-like beam to create an array of spectacular mid-air effects and fast moving, atmospheric backlight.

"I used the Sharpys as an effect - a bit like a laser", explains Tomlinson. "In particular they were used to create big effects into the audience. Weirdly I really l

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The band which has become hugely popular in the last two years, has just finished another very successful US tour playing venues with a capacity of between 5,000 and 20,000, and will release their second studio album shortly.

The lighting - effectively also the stage set for the current design - is described by Warren as "Vintage barn dance with an epic edge" and the idea is that it looks interesting even before the rig is fired up.

Warren was first introduced to Robe products, and the creative potential they offer, by Ian Turner of Southampton, UK, based rental company GLS. Turner, a busy lighting designer in his own right, is also a big fan of the Robe brand. GLS owns a large stock of Robe fixtures and supplied

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When tickets sold out, Michael and Emily Eavis posted a joint statement on Twitter saying: "We're genuinely humbled by the sheer number of people who would like to come to the festival and we dearly wish we could have you all along. Sadly, that just isn't possible, which means a significant number of people have missed out. Demand simply outstripped supply."

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The event - an experiential to promote Clover's Super M milk drink - was staged at Durban's Wavehouse, with Hirezone's Richard Gild the project manager.

For the lighting rig, the company worked to the specification of Parlotones' LD Travis Yeatman, and also provided the most appropriate fixtures for the venue, with which they are very familiar and features a relatively low ceiling height.

Lights were hung above the stage on a ground support system - optimised to gain every last millimetre of headroom - and also on the deck.

The Robe elements included six Robin 600E Spots and six 600E Washes on th

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"We were delighted to step in and do our bit to help with this world-famous concert," says Black Light's head of hires Calder Sibbald. "It was quite something to think that our gear was helping to add to the colour and excitement of this iconic event."

The Proms Last Night Celebrations, which took place in September at the City Halls in Glasgow, featured Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith, Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the dazzling Joanna MacGregor on piano.

"I decided to use the lamps to backlight the audience, as

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Trifu says, "Kusturica is known for flying both actors and scenery, creating a significant challenge in lighting - this was far from a typical theatre show. The moving lights which I specified were easy to control from the Ion. It is a small but very powerful desk - I have used Ions before, and am always impressed by how much fine control I have of intelligent fixtures."

The show is described as 'punk opera'; the theatre's stage can have a large number of actors on it at any one time; and scenery changes frequently. The stage show is from a 1988 Yugoslav film by the Serbian director, and tells the story of a young Romany man with magical p

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The tour's star-studded line-up and non-stop action required hard-hitting lighting and video effects that could keep pace with its frenzied intensity. Yet as with any national concert tour, the gear also had to perform reliably night after night, stand up to rugged travel conditions, and be able to be assembled and torn down quickly.

To set a visual backdrop that would enhance Identity Festival's pulsating excitement, while meeting the tour's rigorous challenges, Charley

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"Vivid Light is where Sydney becomes a playground to showcase the latest lighting technology. It is where your immersive interactive experience creates the next new trend. It is where artist's lighting expressions of art grace the city's CBD and harbour and it is a time where wonderful new ways to play with light touch hundreds of thousands of people," say organisers.

The event transforms Sydney into a wonderland of colourful lights, and surprising adventures, with interactive lighting art sculptures, inno

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"I chose to use the Viper because it was a new fixture with the best light output available," he said of the fixture's 26,000 lumens of power, an output greater than that of 1200-watt fixtures. Locklin also emphasized the Vipers "performance" as well as its "even field of light".

Locklin bottom-hung the 20 fixtures on the truss with one fixture top-hung with pan/tilt disconn

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Curated by high profile Club Silencio from Paris, the Future Young Contemporaries party featured a set by art rock band The Kills and was staged around the uber elegant water roofed 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Herzog du Meuron and Ai Wei Wei (who also designed the Beijing National stadium).

Working for production company Bacchus, Gray proposed an all-LED rig to be as power-friendly and eco-conscious as possible, but without compromising on any creativity.

He produced a concept and

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Cinderbugz Tek-One installed 40 Ilumipanel 48 IP and 34 Ilumipod 48 IP lights, which were provided by Stage Equipment and Lighting. Used as cove lighting, Ilumipanel 48 IP fixtures spread bright even fields of light from inside the second floor's walkway and light the south and north towers on either side of the building. Ilumipod 48 IP lights uplight the façade from the base of 18 columns and highlight the corners of the building.

"We chose RGBW fixtures because we wanted to enhance the architecture and could

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Ayrton's Wildsun 500 K7 is equipped with thirty-one 6700K multi-chip LEDs and, with its 75% optical efficiency, Wildsun 500 K7 is one of the most efficient models on the market.

Wildsun 500 K7 delivers a massive 20,000 lumen output from a power consumption of only 380W. This amazing power and low consumption, in combination with the full motorization of the luminaire, make the 500 K7 particularly suitable for exhibitions and car shows, and the like.

New Advanced Technology also chose the same moment to invest in 200 Ayrton Arcaline 2 fixtures. The Arcaline 2 is a very powerful 16 x 10W RGBW LED batten. Its IP65 ing

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Tibo LED is a high intensity 75W LED profile with a choice of two zoom ranges in one single unit (30°/45 and 15°/ 35°). Plastic, glass or metal M-size gobos can be projected and benefit from the easy alignment afforded by the 360° rotating lens tube. Three color temperatures are available: Warm White (3000K), Neutral White (4000K) and Cool White (6500K). Tibo LED is supplied with a separate, flicker-free power supply which makes it extremely versatile as it can be used in film, television and studio environments as well as in traditional theatre.

Tibo's compact size and cool running LED engine make it suitable for use in historically and architecturally sensitive venues, exhibitions, museums and