USA - The300-watt Satura Spot LED Pro from Elation Professional breaks new barriers as an LED spot, because its colour-mixing engine produces an output in all colours that's as bright and powerful as a traditional 575-watt discharge fixture, says the company.

Not only does the Satura Spot LED Pro consume half as much energy as comparably bright traditional moving head spots, its long-life LED engine lasts on average 80 times longer than a typical 575-watt discharge lamp.

Eric Loader, Elation Professional's director of sales, comm. Ents, "The Satura Spot LED Pro is a totally breakthrough fixture, because its LED engine truly delivers enough output colour-to-colour to compete with discharge fixtures that use double the power.

"This long-awaited technology is finally here - LED engines are now bright enough to where they can start to replace traditional discharge spot

UK - Devon-based drapes, starcloth, LED and visual effects specialist S+H Technical supplied its new LED Stair product to the red carpet launch of the 2013 series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.

The LED Stair was specified by the show's designer Patrick Doherty for the launch event, which was staged at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood UK.

The 11th edition of the massively popular series has moved to a new much larger home at Elstree, and for this, Doherty has again specified S+H's Pea-light starcloth.

For the launch event, Doherty wanted something visually different and spectacular, and the idea of constructing a functional and practical set piece - that also came alive with kinetic motion, energizing the presentation space - ticked all his boxes.

S+H's robustly engineered LED stair product is made up of 122 x 244 mm panels with a high resolution pitch of 7.6 mm, wi

UK - Miltec (UK) Ltd will be showing the production versions of their British made Blakite speakers and Mini-Map miniature LED screens at the PLASA show in October (Stand F10).

The Blakite speaker range was designed by Miltec and is manufactured in the UK using custom drivers supplied by Fane. All seven models are made from birch plywod The range consists of three full range speakers and four subs. The three tops have 8", 10" and 12" drivers with 1.7" compression drivers and are finished in high quality black or white paint.. The sound is very clean and detailed, making them suitable for conference and theatre use as well as schools, live music and clubs. Features include a 35 degree wedge angle, optional rubber feet, flying points, PowerDrive bracket mounting points and pole sockets.

The subs are all direct radiating and available in 12",15", 2x

UK - Robert Juliat, French manufacturer of tungsten, discharge and LED lighting fixtures and followspots, will be exhibiting at PLASA 2013 on stand T76 in the Ambersphere Solutions area.

"We are pleased to be part of the exciting changes as PLASA moves to its new venue at London ExCel," says Robert Juliat MD, François Juliat. "This will be the first exhibition for us with our new local partner, Ambersphere Solutions, which became our exclusive distributor for the UK this summer, and we are looking forward to an invigorating show."

Robert Juliat will be introducing a new motorized yoke as an accessory for its range of Fresnel lanterns. "We have introduced the motorized yoke in response to the huge number of requests we receive from our customers in the theatre world," says sales director, Claus Spreyer. "This option will be of great assistanc

India - The Guru Tegh Bahadur Memorial structure in New Delhi has been brought to life with a stunning light show - featuring fixtures from PR Lighting. The newly programmed show is the result of a design from the attraction's lighting director, Himanshu Sabharwal, in conjunction with Modern Stage Service's Varinder Wadhwa.

This architectural marvel, situated on the main highway, gives an insight into the life and teachings of the ninth Guru of the Sikhs and the illumination has been described as "world class".

Modern Stage Service (MSS) - PR Lighting's Indian distributor - was brought in as a result of the company's long association with Mr. Sabharwal, and Wadhwa specified 16 XR300 Beam and 12 PR-8802's. Mounted on both the ground and the structure itself, they are triggered into action daily after dark from an Avolites Titan Mobile in conjunction with a Dataton Wat

Spain - At the beginning of 2013, Barcelona's most iconic building and the city's most important tourist attraction, the Gaudi-designed church La Sagrada Familia, received a new audio system. An essential part of the system was a number of Denon professional units, supplied by D&M Pro's Spanish distributor, Gaplasa S.A.

With its striking architecture, the Sagrada Familia is a particularly sensitive structure. Considerable care had to be taken with the installation, so the church's custodians contacted Gaplasa, having heard of their success with a number of other sensitive installations in the area, including those at Barcelona Cathedral and Basilica de Montserrat.

"Along with a number of other companies, we were invited to look at how the church's problems could be solved," says Gaplasa's Óscar Valero. "Ultimately, the project we proposed was deemed the best so

USA - Production and lighting designer Justin Geiger of Impulse Creative Group has been handling the visual look on Pitbull's live shows for nearly two years. For the rapper's current Global Warmingtour, Geiger has turned to the Martin MAC Viper family of moving heads to impress fans across the world.

Geiger is one of the first LDs in the U.S. to use the MAC Viper Quadray, Viper AirFX and Viper Profiles on the same stage. "The time it took from when we received the fixtures until they were up in the rig was literally only a few minutes," Geiger says. "The Vipers look fantastic and work really well on this high-energy club show. I use other lights on tour and it's such a relief to have Vipers because of the amazing gobos and optics. They're some of the best I've seen."

Geiger became familiar with the new family of luminaires through production house C

USA - Lighting designer Don Weeks utilised Robe LEDWash 600s for the most recent US leg of l progressive rock band Yes's 2013 / 2014 international tour, for which they are performing three classic albums - The Yes Album', Close To The Edge and Going For The One in their entirety.

New York-state based Weeks has worked for Yes for two years. The creative starting point for this tour was based on a design first created in spring 2012, which presented a starker and more scaled back stage set up than in the past, with no scenic element, and just an upstage video screen.

The idea was to supplement the locally supplied lighting rigs at each venue with a compliment of 'specials' which included 15 x LEDWash 600s.

The venues were a mix of small to large theatres, casinos and some amphitheatres, so they needed something that would adapt and work in all of these spa

UK - Chromlech, Brittany-based manufacturers of specialist lighting fixtures including the award-winning Elidy LED matrix fixture and Gleamer low-voltage dimmer, will be exhibiting at PLASA 2013 in the White Light Zone on Stand F39.

Elidy, the world's first LED matrix fixture capable of projecting volumetric graphics, first came to the attention of the industry when it was launched at PLASA 2012 and went on to win a coveted Etoile du SIEL the following year.

Since then Elidy has taken the world of live performance by storm. This year alone has seen it used to stunning effect on tour with no less than Pink, Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, Bon Jovi, One Direction, Rammstein, Depeche Mode, Bruno Mars and the Pet Shop Boys, television shows including The X Factor, The Voice, and Yves Saint Laurent Fashion Show.

Most recently Elidy has hit the headlines with its spectacular

USA - The new Luxeon Q from Philips Lumileds delivers superior performance in a high-power emitter that serves as a direct drop-in replacement for products that use the standard 3535 surface mount package. Luxeon Q is the first high-power LED based on LUXEON Flip Chip die, Philips Lumileds high performance Chip Scale Package (CSP) device architecture, says the company.

Kathleen Hartnett, product line director for Luxeon Emitters notes, "Our LED is especially competitive when it's driven harder. For instance, at 1 Ampere, a flux of more than 300 lm at an efficacy of 102 lm/W at 85?C is achieved in neutral white at 4000K. The high efficacy at high drive current of the LUXEON Q emitter is achieved as a result of the industry leading wall plug and conversion efficiency of Philips Lumileds next-generation CSP architecture."

The Luxeon Q takes advantage of a fully develope

UK - Manchester based lighting rental specialist dbn supplied a production lighting design, lighting equipment and crew to the three day 2013 Ramsbottom Festival organised by The Met (arts centre, Bury) in association with Bridgewater Hall, and staged at Ramsbottom Cricket Ground in Ramsbottom near Bury.

dbn's project manager Nick Buckley oversaw the operation to light the main stage, which was headlined by I Am Kloot, Richard Hawley and Sinead O'Connor and enjoyed by 6500 people across the weekend. dbn also provided lighting and effects kit for two smaller stages.

The Main Stage lighting design was based on last year's very successful format and the need to accommodate multiple genres of music and performance as well as presenting a set up that was straightforward, flexible and versatile enough for any visiting LDs to work with.

The stage was slightly different this year -

UK - The BA (Hons) Lighting Design programme at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in Outer London and German Light Products (GLP) are collaborating on enhancing training for the next generation of lighting designers and technicians.

GLP's Udo Künzler and Mark Ravenhill have supplied the college with six Impression90 LED moving heads on a long term loan. The units have been installed in the college's unique lighting training and research laboratories, and are available to the lighting design students for projects as well as to augment their designs for a range of innovative lighting projects.

Rose Bruford and GLP are collaborating on developing a close partnership, working together to provide the best possible training to students and professionals. This new partnership has been made possible by lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe, who is an Honorary Fellow of th

USA - Lighting designer, Chris Reade is touring non-stop using a Jands Vista T2 console and S1 wing to control lighting for platinum selling country music artist, Dierks Bentley on the Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley: Locked & Reloaded Tour.

Spanning across most of 2013, the Locked & Reloaded Tour is an action-packed event featuring two of country music's hottest artists; and for this Reade needs a powerful, reliable and rock solid system to control the show.

First introduced to the Jands Vista platform in 2008, Reade was immediately impressed with its simple, powerful operation - quickly adopting the technology as his preferred choice of control. Since then Chris has purchased his own Vista T2, S1 and M1 consoles, and hasn't looked back since!

Reade's lighting design perfectly complements the set design by Bruce Rodgers of Tribe Inc, which is both large and ambitious - i

Sweden - LumenRadio confirms that leading moving light and LED manufacturer Robe lighting has been appointed distributor for the CRMX brand in Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.

Robe and LumenRadio have been working closely for a long period of time. With more and more customers requiring a trustworthy wireless DMX/RDM system to use alongside the Robin products in the Czech and Slovakian markets, the new cooperation was a natural step.

Robe's sales manager for Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, Petr Kolmacka says, "Since we offer LumenRadio's OEM modules in most of the Robin fixtures, customers are asking for the boxed products as well. We have already received requirements for LumenRadio demo systems from some of the largest theatres and TV studios in the area.

"One of the largest theatres in the Czech Republic, the Jiri Myron Theatre (the Moravian-Silesian Nati

UK - The eagerly anticipated shortlists of lighting designers nominated for a much-coveted Knight of Illumination Award have been announced.

Established to celebrate outstanding achievements in British lighting design in the sectors of TV, Theatre and Concert Touring and Events, the awards are voted on by panels of professional reviewers who work in each of the specific sectors.

"It's been the most popular Knight of Illumination awards to date with an unprecedented number of submissions across the categories Theatre, Television and Concert Touring and Events," says KOI Co-ordinator Durham Marenghi. "This year KOI organisers have been inundated with submissions of stunning lighting design work, all of which deserve the highest recognition for their creativity."

So without further ado, and in alphabetical order, the following are the shortlists for each cat

UK - PLASA London 2013, which takes place at ExCeL London from 6-9 October 2013, is putting out a final call for entries for the 2013 PLASA Awards for Innovation, before the deadline of Friday 27 September. More than 25 entries, ranging from audio interfaces and lighting controls to Ethernet switches and luminaires have been approved so far. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in the new AudioLab Arena on Monday 7 October at 6.00pm.

The PLASA Awards for Innovation recognise products that advance the industry by demonstrating a new style of thinking, improving technical practice or taking a key step forward in terms of safety. All successfully vetted products are judged against one another on the strength of their innovation alone.

Companies and products in the running include:

• Altman Lighting (STAND F40) - UV LED Spectra CYC - A 100W cyclorama/wall wash lumina

UK - LED lighting pioneer Litepanels will be demonstrating its expanded line of Sola and Inca LED Fresnels with the new Sola 12 and Inca 12 fixtures, at PLASA London 2013 from 6 to 9 October.

The daylight balanced Sola 12 and tungsten balanced Inca 12 are designed for lighting designers and cinematographers seeking alternative to traditional 2K incandescent Fresnels. The new fixtures encapsulate energy efficiency and outstanding quality of illumination, says the company.

"The revolutionary Sola 12 and Inca 12 have begun shipping to customers worldwide and have already been exceeding customer expectations," says Chris Marchitelli, vice president global marketing, Litepanels. "This is our first time exhibiting at PLASA and the first time we will be demonstrating the final production optimised fixtures since their launch. This show provides us with an excellent opp

Sweden - Behind every concert and every TV show we see, behind every play of lights on the stage of a theatre that leaves us admired, behind the effects of a skilful lighting of urban architecture or a space for the public, there is always a big deployment of sophisticated technologies. Not all shows, however, have the same ability to excite us, some are great and exciting, others are dull and monotonous.

What makes the difference is the lighting designer, the artist who uses light as a creative tool and plays with the rhythm of the music or the atmosphere of a theatre piece. For the lighting designer, projectors are like the brushes for a painter and his art is to shape the light, adapting it to the needs of each show.

Patrick Woodroffe is one of the most famous lighting designers in the world since many years and shines with his art the most famous artists, the stars of the

Belarus - The Miss Supranationa pageant recently took place over a three-week period in Belarus, with the gala final held at the Minsk Sport Palace.

Promoted by the World Beauty Organization, the spectacular event, held in front of around 5,000 people, and transmitted live to more than a billion viewers globally on ONT, owed much to the PR Lighting inventory supplied by local distributors FE Belimlight.

Working for Polish production company ARAM Multimedia, who were responsible for the entire project including light design and control, FE Belimlight's designer, Igor Piotrowsky, supplied 48 each of the powerful XL1500 Wash and XL1500 Spot from the company's large inventory of the Chinese manufacturer's fixtures; these utilise a powerful 1500W short arc discharge lamp, optimised by the use of a high quality and efficient optical system.

While the wash lights were focused on th

UK - PLASA London 2013 will host a plethora of global, European and UK product launches for the pro-audio and entertainment lighting industries at ExCeL London from 6-9 October 2013. Many of the new products on show are also candidates for the 2013 PLASA Awards for Innovation.

Chris Toulmin, Head of Events, PLASA London 2013, said: "Visitors come to PLASA London expecting to see the latest products and technologies, and they will not be disappointed with the wide range of exciting product launches at the show. We are proud that so many manufacturers choose PLASA London to launch their new products to the market."

Here is just a selection of the new products that will be on show at PLASA London 2013:

Avolites (STAND M10) will launch a range of wings to extend the capabilities of all of its Titan consoles - the Sapphire Touch Wing, Sapphire Media Wing a

Denmark - Lighting designer Andrew Pygott was pleased to learn Danish rental company Comtech began offering Martin's MAC Viper Profile and designed a Martin rig for Sir Elton John's show at Denmark's Resenlund Park composed of the high-output profiles.

"I was very interested in giving the Viper Profiles a go ever since a demo at our Barnsley headquarters in England," says Pygott, who incorporated the Martin fixtures into the rig as the primary spots on the show, part of Elton John's 40th Anniversary of the Rocket Man tour.

"Its size-to-light output ratio and the good selection of stock gobos available made it an excellent fixture to clone and easily create multiple looks during the show," Pygott says. "The Vipers are also remarkably fast on function including movement, which is outstanding for its size."

Pygott positioned the Vipers on fi

UAE - Robe lighting is expanding its Middle East operation with the formation of Robe Middle East Trading LLC, a new company complete with a new regional HQ in Dubai.

This is the first part of Robe's current planned medium term expansion strategy, the initial stages of which will be rolled out over the next three months.

Robe Middle East will be headed by Robe's Middle East regional sales manager, Elie Battah, who is already well known and respected in the industry. It will distribute the full Robe ranges of moving and digital lighting fixtures and Anolis architectural LED products, driving the presence of both these premium brands across the region.

Says Battah, "Robe Middle East will provide the platform to continue the high standards of excellence expected from Robe." These will include office and administration, demo & training facilities, full sales and techni

UK - Vibrant new music TV series Ochr Un returned for its second series of production, recording over a period of eight days in one of North Wales's leading TV studio facilities this August. Produced by production company Antena Television for Welsh language mainstream broadcaster S4C, the programmes feature an array of different music numbers by artists from a diverse range of genres. With the programmes recorded 'as live', there was also a secondary chat studio, used for presenter links and interviews.

Returning to his place as lighting director following a successful first series was London- and Cardiff-based Steff Jones, who worked closely with production designer Gwyn Eiddior throughout the planning process.

Jones comments: "Versatility was a major key in the brief from Elis (series producer) this series, which had to be reflected in both the scenic and ligh

Australia - LSC reports that its latest 2013 International Catalogue has been released and is also available on the company's website as a PDF download in both standard and print quality formats.

This latest catalogue has detailed information including photographs and ordering codes on all LSC products that are available in the International market including some new and soon-to-be-released products as well.

Those interested in obtaining a hard copy of the catalogue should contact LSC directly otherwise the PDFs can be downloaded from http://www.lsclighting.com/catalog.

(Jim Evans)

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