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14 March 2016

London Light's rental business will merge fully under the Aurora umbrella with immediate effect. The coming together will benefit existing customers of both parties with a new increased inventory pool. This integration combined with substantial equipment investment reflects the forward momentum at Aurora, says the company.

Aurora's managing director Nick Edwards says, "We are delighted to implement London Light's infrastructure into our growing operations. In recent years London Light has built up a strong reputation for technical excellence and strong customer relation values. At the same time I'm equally as excited to be welcoming Sam Crook to our management team."

London Light's technical director Sam Crook com

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The event pulled in more than 120,000 people over four days and Robe was the only moving light brand featured on this stage in a stunning production lighting design by Junior Luzbel, who heads the locally based company with his brother Ricardo Luzbel and his partner Ricardo Gordilho.

The lighting rig included 36 x Robin Pointes, 12 x Robin MMX Spots, 24 x LEDWash 1200s, 14 x ColorSpot 1200E ATs and 12 x ColorBeam 700E ATs.

The design process took about two weeks, during which Junior consulted with his crew and technicians and also to make sure he could satisfy all the artists' riders and create a plot that would fit most of their requirements.

The stage had various dimensions -

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Situated on level three of the Tattersalls Club, the Doltone House venue is a prime location for a wide range of events including conferences and weddings and prides itself on grand architecture and sumptuous décor. It's this focus on providing a glamorous ambiance for its guests that prompted Mark McInnes, Show Technology's national sales and marketing manager, to supply the Clay Paky fixtures.

"We wanted to provide a subtle, yet state-of-the-art solution, to illuminate the space. As the Alpha Spot 300 is a smaller sized fixture it's ideal for use in venues which care about the aesthetics of the room," McInnes says. "This particular venue has a flamboyant interior design and feel, so the owners w

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One of the recent adopters has been Seattle band Pearl Jam, products of the city's rock explosion at the beginning of the 1990's.

Their lighting designer Kille Knobel (who has also worked with fellow Seattle rock band Soundgarden) has been with the band since the early part of the millennium - and this latest tour (which visits Europe in June), is her first outing with the X-5 strobes. It is the band's most extravagant production to date - and has been conceived with stadiums and arenas in mind.

"We knew this production would play mainly in arenas, but also a fair number of stadium, festival and outdoor shows," she confirms. "We also do many shows that sell 360°, so creating a show that wasn't com

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Lighting for the show - which is produced by Syco Music with technical production co-ordinated by Production North - was designed by Peter Barnes. Lighting director and operator on the road is Jonathan Rouse and all the lighting equipment and its necessary trussing and rigging is supplied by HSL.

Barnes and Rouse programmed the show - which features an impressive array of 34 different musical numbers - during production rehearsals at LS Live in Wakefield. Their challenge was to keep it visually exciting throughout and give each song a different

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Lighting designer, Alexey Yevstifeyev, who deployed Martin fixtures based on their functionality and brightness, proposed the lighting concept of the show to feature creative lighting and midair effects, consisting of 20 MAC Viper Profiles, 12 Atomic 3000 DMX, 20 RUSH MH3 Beams, 48 MAC 101s and 20 MAC 2000 Wash XB's.

The ice show took place at the Yubileny Sport Palace's hockey rink with the main challenge being the limited time for installation. Taking this factor into consideration, Yevstifeyev used a combined truss mounting and floor mounting system. By placing the MAC 101 fixtures on the floor arou

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Late News - A new Michael Jackson album, featuring eight new tracks from the late artist's archive, will be released on 13 May. Titled Xscape, the track listing was chosen by Epic Records chairman LA Reid, who trawled through four decades of Jackson's demos and off-cuts. The tracks were then updated by the likes of Timbaland, who works with Justin Timberlake,

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On the day, top runners from White Light were dispatch supervisor Steve Smith, hire co-ordinator Josh Yard, and business development director Richard Wilson.

An avid runner, Wilson along with marketing manager Fanny Saint-Pasteur set up the challenge as a team activity and recruited colleagues to join the cau

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Friday 21st March saw millions of viewers tune into BBC One and BBC Two to enjoy an evening of fun, comedy, entertainment and sport live from the Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford.

Nick Edwards, Managing Director commented: "This was a large undertaking for our company which started back in January with initial site visits. The main focus was to transform the Copper Box Arena from a Sporting venue into a large scale TV broadcast studio. Effectively along with our production partners we were challenged to transform the Copper Box into 'TC1' (the BBC's now defunct flagship studio and former host of Sport Relief)."

The night was hosted by David Walliams, Gary Lineker and Da

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The ambitious production, set in the round, attracted rave reviews, with the Guardian praising its 'genuine theatrical spectacle', and the Express saying it was 'magnificently staged'.

Lighting designer for the production, which ran from late February into March 2014, was Andrew Bridge, three-time recipient of the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and long time collaborator and friend of PRG.

"The Gubbay/RAH producing operation has been going for 20 years and I have lit them all," says Bridge. "It presents a challenging schedule with load in on Sunday and first open

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As a lighting designer working in the 1970's Flores specialised in using the latest, innovative equipment in the development of sound and lighting for the club industry. Today his designs reflect his on-going dedication to taking club installations into a new dimension with the use of innovative, interactive equipment.

Recently Led4Skys finished their first installation using the Visual Productions lighting control products. The project was for the Night club, Dady'O. Located in the centre of Cancun, Mexico, Dady'O is one of the most popular dance clubs in the world.

Flores created a new design and build for the sound booth and also the

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"Sagebrush had been using a large amount of video elements in the previous worship centre but when they started the second phase project in building a new worship centre, they wanted to improve upon that and chose the Elation EPV762 video panels," stated Stephen MacAurther, lighting systems designer and engineer at VAST Technologies Inc., the Albuquerque-based systems design and installation company that completed the install.

VAST Technologies got involved with the new 2000-seat worship centre based on their previous work at the ministry's various campuses, which included the Albuquerque location's original main worshi

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ETC's stand will feature two displays stocked with conventional and LED fixtures for indoor and outdoor applications, some of which are created specifically for broadcast use, such as the Source Four LED Studio HD, Selador Desire D22 Studio Tungsten, Selador Desire D40XT Studio HD and Selador Classic Pearl luminaires.

Also on display will be ETC's newest fixtures, including the Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr, Source Four Mini and Source Four LED CYC.

"Our fixtures are designed to meet the unique requirements of film and TV lighting," explains ETC

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Exhibiting for the first time, the LightGeist team was delighted with the impact the new products had on visitors and the instant response they generated.

"Visitors were fascinated with the effects produced by LightStick and the flexibility and versatility of Badger and Splodger," says LightGeist CCO, Nigel Hedley. "Our new 'cloud lighting' technology aroused great curiosity and we are encouraged by the number of designers and technicians who have expressed an interest in incorporating these exciting new products into upcoming projects."

LightGeist's LightStick, Badger and Splodger are based on a cablefree RGB LED solution which can be adapted to expand lighting displays into the audien

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Robert Juliat chose to refocus attention on its followspot range to reinvigorate its presence in the German market. The models on show - the Cyrano 2500W HMI, Lancelot 4000W HTI and Victor 1800W MSR - proved a great hit, not only in the German market but also with the international presence that was so evident at the show.

"The quantity and quality of visitors to our stand from all over the world confirmed Prolight + Sound as the international tradeshow where we need to be," says RJ sales director, Claus Spreyer. "Our followspot range is known the world over and the positive response we continue to receive from customers old and new never ceases to inspire us. This is a good indicator for

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Hall, based in Las Vegas, was most recently with Philips Lighting as the western regional sales manager for Philips Entertainment.

Due to customer demand and increased popularity, Robe Lighting is expanding its reach in the U.S. under new CEO Bob Schacherl. This is one of several new appointments to be announced in the coming weeks in order to provide Robe clients better sales support and enhanced customer service.

"This is absolutely a huge move for me," said Hall. "Joining Robe is so exciting. It's a big deal to work again with Bob and I'm so excited about the product line. There's an incredibly broad range of luminaires for both entertainment and architectural applications. Now that I've had a g

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The Tate Modern - formally Bankside Power Station - is among Gray's favourite spaces to light in the city. He has also worked on several events and projects for Mission and is familiar with the scope and style of their work which give him plenty of ideas about the right ambience to create in.

"I love highlighting the room's imposing industrial architecture - 152m long and 35m high - and bringing it into a new dimension and context using the full height and scale. Most visitors don't immediately notice a lot of the detail, so lighting the space is a big chance

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The show's designer, Chris Lisle had been alerted to the new light last year, "I had seen a couple of YouTube links of the B-EYE prior to going to LDI last year." He said. "I knew right away that it would be a great fixture to use on One Republic. After seeing it in person, that feeling was confirmed. I had started to get the ball rolling with Dave Ridgway of Neg Earth as soon as I had seen the videos. He asked that I speak to Philip Norfolk from Ambersphere who represents Clay Paky in the UK market: Philip would be at LDI."

"Chris really wanted to try them out," explained Norfolk, "and when he told me One Republic woul

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Back by popular demand, Perrier Award-winning comedian, writer and original star of Grumpy Old Women, Jenny Eclair is joined by fellow recruits Susie Blake and Kate Robbins in a new theatrical production based on the hit BBC British TV show.

Matt has been providing the raucous live show's lighting since 2007.

"The lighting had to recreate a number of contrasting scenic environments - from the initial sunny garden, to a torture chamber, a Saturday night TV Strictly Come Dancing-like show studio, a wine bar, and a tea shop, amongst others," explains Matt. "With only one full set, all these environments had to be created with lighting and th

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The band embarked on a seven-week headline tour of Europe in mid-March with lighting designer Trevor Fairclough turning to Elation's Platinum Beam 5R Extreme for the punchy output and speed needed to keep up with the hard driving band.

"Having a speedy pan and tilt really helps with the tempo of the band. Being able to run a tilt effect at 200bpm with no compromises in size really gets the crowd pumping," commented LD Trevor Fairclough, who also handles programming and lighting operation for the band.

The Platinum Beam 5R Extreme houses speedy three-phase motors for quick effect ch

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With a stadium audience of over 40,000, plus tens of millions of viewers tuning in worldwide, the Winter Olympics has been a much-anticipated event. Marenghi used a lighting rig originally specified by lighting designer Al Gurdon for the Winter Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies, to create a spectacular new design for the Paralympics Ceremonies.

"I was tasked with enhancing the artistic elements of the ceremonies of the Winter Paralympic Games with a lighting design that would thrill both the live audience in the massive Fisht Stadium and at the same time satisfy the TV companies broadcasting t

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Commenting on the appointment, Miguel Mezquita, managing director, Earpro, stated, "The new cooperation between Martin Professional and Earpro further reinforces the close relationship and commitment that Earpro has had with Harman for more than 25 years. This agreement will undoubtedly benefit the interests of customers and users throughout the Spanish market. With this new setup, they will have access to the most comprehensive offering of AV solutions across the professional sector."

"Within the past three years, our people have done an amazing job reaffirming Martin Professional'

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MGG's newly appointed general manager, Denzil Smith, who joined the company in December, took the production to a new level. With a team of professionals at his side including lighting designer from MGG, Kevin Rieck, and the assistance of system technician, Thomas Peters, the event was technically flawless.

This was no mean feat as the event, which ran off a grandMA2 full size, included close to 150 Robe fixtures, 48 ClayPaky Sharpies (forty more Sharpies than last year) and some 400m of Prolyte Trussing besides a list of other fixtures.

"It ran so well," said a clearly pleased Denzil Smith. H

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UK production group Boom Pictures, who recently acquired production powerhouse Twofour Group, produced the show. Lorraine Heggessey, who worked closely on the show, is the executive chair of Boom Pictures Group(The former BBC1 channel controller, and CEO of Talkback Thames).

BBC daytime commissioner Jo Street ordered the non-transmittable pilot, which was recorded in front of a live audience at Studio 1 at The BBC Wales Television Centre in Cardiff, with a view to take the series to Manchester's new MediaCity, should the show be taken forward to series.

The appointed lighting director to the project was Steff Jones, who worked close