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South Africa - The much loved rock sounds of Prime Circle played at PM Ideas Marketing Awards, held on 1 November at Theatre on the Track, Kyalami. Showgroup supplied the full event from technical to decor.

"There was no specific brief for the event," said Andries Liebenberg, lighting manager at Show Group. Inspired by a Kings of Leon Concert, Liebenberg used square shapes to create striking effects.

Liebenberg had a total of 66 Longman LED Bars and Parcans which were positioned on stage steps and ladder structures to create a clean and striking look. The show also used punchy Robin 300 Spot Classic for large, linear side beams. An Avolites Titan Mobile was in control. "I enjoy the Titan Mobile with a 23" Touch Screen," said Liebenberg. "It's nice and quick for busking bands." The show operator was Levan Van Der Merwe.

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Latvia - Challenged with lighting a huge concert featuring 20,000 performers celebrating Latvian culture in an open air space, lighting designer Normunds Blasãns felt he could only achieve his vision by specifying Philips Vari-Lite's high-output VL3015LT Spots, VL3500 and VL3000 Washes.

Local rental house and production company NA Stage & Light supplied 20 VL3015LT Spot luminaires, 16 VL3000 Washes, and 24 VL3500 Wash fixtures for the massive 25th Latvian Song and Dance Festival, which drew an audience of more than 40,000. The event celebrates Latvian music, dance, art, and culture and took place in the capital Riga's Song Festival at the Open Air Stage - Mezaparks.

"Our job was to light up the open air stage, which had more than 20,000 singers and dancers taking part - a huge space," says NA Stage & Light's Ritvars Sakals. "16 VL3015LT Spots were rigged

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Russia - Elkruff , the Novosibirsk-based lighting rentals company and one of the biggest in the Urals region, has chosen to invest in 24 of Clay Paky's Sharpy Wash 330s and 12 Alpha Spot QWO 800 STs.

The Russian production company's key market is to develop and deliver integrated creative and technical solutions for events of all sizes. For Elkruff this meant it was looking for robust, fast, compact feature rich fixtures that would offer its diverse client base the most value for its investment.

"Elkruff chose to buy Clay Paky equipment because the company's mission is to stock the latest, most up to date technology," explains Slawa Gartung, Clay Paky sales manager for the region. "In particular the company wanted fast moving fixtures that would offer a wide spectrum of effects, not generally available together in other products. This made the Alpha Spot QWO 800

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USA - Ten Robe Pointes have been delivered to Christ Fellowship Worship Centre in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA, specified by lighting designer Aaron Leahy who is responsible for all lighting designs and systems at the 1,747 capacity purpose-built venue.

Christ Fellowship Worship Centre was established in 1984 and stages around four regular weekend services plus additional events.

Leahy first saw Robe's new Pointes at PLASA Focus in Orlando, shortly after the product - Robe's fastest selling to date - was launched at Prolight+Sound 2013 in Frankfurt. He knew immediately that it was the right light for their venue.

Following that, he discussed the matter with Nathan Carroll, director of live production who oversees all Christ Fellowship's technical aspects and arranged for the entire technical team from the Palm Beach Gardens CF campus to have a demo of Pointes at Infocomm

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Australia - ULA Group has announced a partnership with LumenRadio and its appointment as Australian distributor of their wireless CRMX technology systems.

"It is with great pleasure and excitement we announce our partnership with LumenRadio", comments Cuono Biviano, managing director of ULA Group. "The CRMX product line is without any doubt the most reliable and advanced wireless DMX/RDM technology in its class, making it a perfect fit into the ULA Group stable of products. Their wireless products range from touring to architectural projects and beyond making most demands a reality. I look forward to working with the highly skilled team at LumenRadio and providing these solutions to our loyal clients and beyond."

Peter Kirkup, VP of Entertainment from LumenRadio says, "ULAs commitment to their product portfolio and to their customers is outstanding! UL

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Canada - Parasol Advanced Systems of Vancouver is spinning after the enormous success of LDI 2013 and the debut of the new STAR600 system, as well as the "incredible reaction to the KLR Kinetic Light Ring and award-winning Parasol ACS Autonomous Carrier System shown at the event".

For those unfamiliar with Parasol, envision a typical live production application where moving lights are used. They are almost always bolted or fastened to a fixed truss and do not move from their rigged point. The Parasol system is an alternate means of moving the source point of a number of automated lighting fixtures along a pre-defined path.

Parasol's patented technology now allows moving lights, lasers, or even cameras to be fixed to moveable carriages that glide the lights along a predefined guide way or track. They are self-propelled, motorized carriages that are controlled by wirel

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UK - When faced with the overwhelming choice of lighting fixtures on the market, how can a lighting design and rental company be sure it is making the right decision for its business and its clients when investing in new products? Reading based event lighting specialist, Blinding Light has been in business since 1999 and over the last 14 years has undoubtedly made its mark in what is a fiercely competitive sector. With a diverse client base that demands a range of solutions from corporate and architectural lighting through to full stage artistic rigs at high profile events such as BBC Proms in the Park, Blinding Light has to be sure that its warehouse inventory matches exactly what the client is looking for.

Renowned as one of the industry's stalwarts, lighting designer Anthony (Turbo) Hall has been part of the Blinding Light team since 2011 and played a key role in the company'

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Germany - When we think of tragic love stories, Romeo and Juliet comes instantly to mind, together with the feud between the two families, the Montagues and the Capulets. The story has been rewritten several times over the centuries, always in new ways. This time William Shakespeare's play returns to the stage in the form of a touring rock ballet that starts out in Hamburg and stops over throughout Germany.

This rewrite is the fruit of the creative minds of Rasta Thomas and Adrienne Canterna, the duo behind the international Rock the Ballet show. The lighting was designed by Patrick Woodroffe and Roland Greil from Woodroffe Basset Design, who chose, among other equipment, sixteen Sharpy Washes made by Clay Paky, and a grandMA2 light and Network Processing Unit (NPU) made by MA Lighting.

"Clay Paky Sharpy Washes are unrivalled thanks to their compact size. T

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Denmark - The design goal of The Blue Planet, Denmark's new national aquarium, was to make the aquarium's visitors feel like they had entered the world of the sea surrounding it. Using Rosco's X24 effects projector, lighting designer Jesper Garde Kongshaug created a realistic and controllable water effect to accomplish that goal as he projected that effect throughout the vast concourse areas inside the aquarium.

Aquariums are filled with the ethereal, wavy effect of light shining through or reflecting off of the various pools and tanks of water in their exhibits. Copenhagen's new Blue Planet Aquarium wanted to incorporate those effects into its 'swirling water' inspired design to bring the visitors "into the world of the fish and the life they live under the sea". Lighting designer Jesper Garde Kongshaug knew that, in order to immerse the visitors in an underwater expe

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UK - Aurora Lighting Hire supplied full TV lighting facilities to the Robbie Williams One Night at The Palladium on Friday 8 November for a performance of swing songs old and new.

The evening was a one off to introduce his new album Swing Both Ways, which was released a week later.

Nick Edwards, managing director of Aurora said, "Lighting director Oli Richards approached Aurora early on with an interesting concept. Oli had the vision of creating a staggered celling sculpture out of Martin Mac Aura's. The Auras were required to be rigged on individual scaff drops to make 'sleek' 'smart' vertical drops."

He continued, "Aurora worked closely with rigging experts Actus Industries to develop these bespoke custom pipes. Richards rig also featured Martin MAC Vipers, and Clay Paky Sharpies. Aurora were also able to provide some new retro tungsten lights

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Germany - At the Volkswagen Group's general meeting, an event that this year marked its fifteenth running and has become a company tradition, which this year was held on the evening preceding the opening of the 65th International Automobile Show (IAA), Frankfurt, tarm Showlaser wowed the crowd of attendees from around the world with a spectacular laser show accompanying the performance by the Pet Shop Boys.

A crowd of nearly 2,000 journalists, VIPs, and group representatives experienced at first hand an extremely complex staging that had been specially developed for the evening's show and individually highlighted every one of the group's ten makes.

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Internet - City Theatrical will be hosting the fourth free webinar in a series of five on Wireless DMX on Tuesday, 10 December 10, 2013 at 11am EST (16:00 GMT). This webinar will focus on how to set up a permanent outdoor architectural wireless DMX system using SHoW DMX Vero and Vero Net.

If you would like to learn more about this application of wireless DMX products please register for this event by simply logging on to City Theatrical's website.

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USA - The Miss America pageant returned to its Atlantic City origins this year and lighting designer Allen Branton was charged with lighting the cavernous Boardwalk Hall and making sure 53 beautiful women looked their best whenever the TV camera turned their way. He was aided by grandMA2 lighting consoles from Atomic Lighting in Lititz, Pennsylvania.

Branton marked his sixth consecutive year lighting the pageant, which was televised on ABC-TV. After spending a number of years in Las Vegas the show moved back to Atlantic City where "the venue, audience and scenery doubled in size," he reports. "Given the size of the hall and way the show was set in the room, every single element of production had to be rigged from overhead - and there's no permanent rigging infrastructure. So there were 240 individual rigging points for lighting, sound, video, scenery, cable manage

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UK - Lighting designer Nick Richings has specified Showline's high-output SL PAR 150 ZOOM luminaires to create a 'jolly', bright wash for the current hit musical tour of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

Richings - who has 25 years' experience working in theatre lighting in the West End and Broadway on hit shows including La Cage Aux Folles and Starlight Express - is utilising 36 of the SL PAR 150 ZOOM luminaires to wash the stage in the traditionally bright musical colours.

"The SL PAR 150 ZOOMs have only recently come onto the market so this is the first time I have ever used them and I'm really impressed with the light output," says Richings. "The lens is great - they go nice and narrow, and they offer really good colour mixing. The warm and cool whites are also surprisingly good."

Richings is using the die-cast aluminium LED SL PAR 150 ZOOM luminaires

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USA - Chauvet Professional has added the Nexus Aw 7x7, a versatile warm white LED panel, to its Parnelli Award-winning series of Nexus LED displays. Emitting bright, narrow beams from 49 powerful 3-watt 2,800K CREE LEDs, the Nexus Aw 7x7 offers the flexibility to generate high-impact aerial effects, produce warm white washes, project outward as an audience blinder, or create vibrant text and animated graphics displays.

Designed for use in arrays, Nexus Aw 7x7 panels feature a quick rigging system with integrated alignment and load-rated interlocking hardware for easy construction of displays of all sizes. This adaptability in both configuration and function makes Nexus Aw 7x7 panels ideal for a variety of applications - from live events, touring and stage productions, to nightclubs and entertainment venues, to broadcast/studio lighting.

Using one of several control options --

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UK - Mood, drama, invention and Robe moving lights were at the heart of the elegant, intricate lighting design created by Rich George from 3DL&S for jazz-pop singer and songwriter Jamie Cullum's Momentum tour, which has just completed its first UK leg and now heads to Europe.

George is based in London. This is his second tour with Cullum and his first as LD, where he works very closely with Cullum's Artistic & Visuals Director Nickin Corrigan to produce the captivating live performance aesthetic. This is based around creative, quirky and highly effective use of IMAG camera footage which was George's starting point for the lighting design.

The lighting equipment is being supplied by Leeds, UK based rental company Zig Zag Lighting who have serviced Cullum's live work for some time. His tours have also incorporated Robe products for a while.

For Momentum, the lighting design in

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USA - Lighting designer, Benoit Richard can lay claim to the first use of Ayrton's new MagicPanel 602 fixtures in the USA with his lighting for Carrie Underwood as she performed 'Waiting All Day for Sunday Night', the opening theme song for NBC's weekly coverage of NFL Sunday Night Football.

Richard used 36 MagicPanel 602 fixtures when the opening sequence for the National Football League's weekly prime time show was filmed. Previous years have seen Pink and Faith Hill sing the opening night theme songs, but this year the torch was passed over to former American Idol winner, Carrie Underwood, who made her debut during the first week of the NFL season on September 8th, 2013.

Richard was determined to create something impressive to mark Underwood's debut. "With a new Artist singing the theme song for this year's 'Sunday Night Football' Season, I envisioned that we needed to

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Norway - Harman Professional has announced the appointment of Joachim Bogetvedt as sales manager, Nordic, Martin Professional. Based in Kristiansand, Norway, Bogetvedt will lead sales and initiatives for Martin Professional across Northern Europe, reporting directly to Steen Matthiesen, Vice President EMEA sales, Martin Professional.

Commenting on the appointment Matthiesen states, "Martin has strong traction in the EMEA market and Joachim has played a significant role understanding, meeting and exceeding the complex requirements of our customers. Joachim's experience and commitment to the growth of Martin Professional has greatly improved our business in Norway and we expect the same from his expanded territory in the EMEA region."

Bogetvedt began his career in private lighting and audio rental and sales and joined Martin Professional Scandinavia in 2009 as Key Acco

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Germany - Astera LED-Technology has unveiled its new wireless spotlight, the SpotMax (AX10). This enhanced spotlight is now Astera's biggest and most powerful spotlight, surpassing their previous high-power LED spotlight (the AL7-XXL) by than more than 30% in total LED power and brightness. The SpotMax has a myriad of new features and upgrades, including the addition of TruColor Calibration, amber LEDs, long-life Samsung batteries, Khatod lenses, and high-quality Philips LEDs, plus many other benefits.

The SpotMax produces a narrow, perfect 13° beam from its nine RGBAW LEDs, but the spotlight also comes with two easily attachable diffusors for multi-effect possibilities; one is a wide angle diffusor, and the other is a wallwash effect.

The TruColor technology enables the SpotMax to achieve complete colour consistency, meaning that customers will always receive the exact sa

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USA - ETC's Source Four Mini - a compact, 23 cm version of the legendary Source Four spotlight - picked up a PLASA Members Choice Award in the Gadget category at the LDI show. It earned the award due to its crisp optics, crystal-clear image projection and outstanding efficiency.

"We're thrilled that PLASA recognised the Source Four Mini," says ETC fixtures product manager Jim Uphoff. "It was a big draw at LDI, and is becoming a popular choice for lighting professionals, because it's so versatile, going where larger fixtures can't. It may be cute, but it's a powerful tool that deserves a place in any designer's toolkit."

In addition to being a product showroom, the ETC stand also served as a functional theatre, staging a series of presentations on lighting fixtures and system design. It was standing room only for the LDI guests who packed the booth to hear E

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USA - LDI premier show sponsor Elation Professional enjoyed perhaps its busiest LDI Show ever as the company continued to raise its profile in the industry with a number of key product launches that included the surprise announcement of a distribution agreement with High End Systems.

The agreement, which allows Elation to distribute High End's new HedgeHog 4 and Nano Hog 4 lighting consoles in the US, Canada, Latin America, South East Asia and India, caused quite a stir on the show floor.

"The distribution announcement started things off with a bang and really set the tone for the rest of the show," said Eric Loader, director of sales at Elation Lighting. "This gives us a powerful and intuitive industry-standard lighting control platform and we're thrilled to be involved with it. Customers were equally excited and interest in it was great throughout the show so

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South Africa - Like a kaleidoscope with forms constantly shifting and changing, Showgroup orchestrated a captivating production for the Nedbank Top Achiever Awards held at Gallagher Estate in Midrand.

The kaleidoscope theme was the brainchild of Showroup's Johan Els who focuses on the aesthetic and decor elements of an event, and Andries Liebenberg, Lighting Manager.

To create a playful ambience, circle shapes were used from everything in the venue from the ground up. In juxtaposition, the floor of the entire venue was tiled in black and white blocks. The lighting was thanks to a collaboration of various brand including Robe Robin 300 Classics and was run off an Avolites Titan Mobile.

The event included two Prolyte circle trusses with screens as surfaces and a 360° circular screen structure. To project images onto the 360° structure, front projection was utilized by

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Australia - Jands has announced its continued participation at Entech Connect 2014, whilst adding a training zone area and becoming sponsors of the 'Staging Technicians Lunch'.

With a prominent stand secured, Jands are returning to Melbourne to not only meet new and existing clients but to showcase many exciting brands that they have to offer.

"After the success from the 2012 show, we are excited to be exhibiting at the 2014 Entech Connect," said Jands' Mallory Harvey. "We anticipate the same quality and quantity of visitors as seen in 2012 and look forward to showcasing the latest technology to the industry."

Entech Connect will also see Jands running an onsite training zone.

"It's fantastic that Jands are really embracing the educational aspect of Entech Connect with their offering of the training zone, which I'm sure anyone from the audio, light

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UK - Billed as 'the latest in the exciting tradition of War Horse and His Dark Materials, Emil and the Detectives requires lighting designer Lucy Carter to transform the National Theatre's Olivier Stage into 1920s Berlin, utilising the subtle colours and theatrical grade dimming of Chroma-Q's Color Force 48 and 72 premium performance LED battens.

Lucy - a respected and sought-after lighting designer with an eclectic 20-year career - has specified 12x Color Force 72 1.8m / 72" and six Color Force 48 1.2m / 48" length fixtures to wash numerous scenic elements softly and evenly, evoking the atmosphere of the play's period.

All of the Color Force units are rigged overhead between a series of portals to wash down in subtle colours. They create a full wash and also work in smaller sections to create a 'broken up' coverage.

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