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The play was performed in a three-storey office and warehouse complex in the Royal Albert Basin, East London. Stage Electrics' London Bridge branch supplied large quantities of equipment which included cabling, distro, dimming, lanterns and haze machines for this extraordinary production.

"We knew from the start that this was going be a massive project. With a particularly short lead-time and a huge amount of space to cover, it was vital that we could depend on our suppliers. Stage were able to provide us with all the kit and more importantly the backup we needed throughout the project," commented Euan Maybank, technical director, Punchdrunk.

Business development manager Pau

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Running alongside PLASA 2010, the PLASA International Rigging Conference is taking place on 13-14 September in the Earls Court Conference Centre. This 'world-first' unique event has attracted delegates from Europe, USA, Canada, Asia and Australia - making it an invaluable international industry forum for the international live entertainment and event rigging community.

Industry icons speaking at the conference include Unusual Rigging's Alan Jacobi, Star Events Group's Roger Barrett, Prolyte's Marc Hendriks, CM ET's Cristiano Giavedoni and Sapsis Rigging's Bill Sapsis.

Unusual Rigging's Alan Jacobi, LVO, states, "Unusual are delighted to be su

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"4Wall has been a key client for many years. Similar to Tomcat, 4Wall is a company that values integrity, quality and performance," commented Don Dimitroff, sales and marketing director for Tomcat USA. "And through the Master Stocking Distributor programme, together we will be able to better serve our customers on the East and West Coasts and throughout North America."

In its role as a Master Stocking Distributor, 4Wall will carry a full stock of Tomcat truss at their Las Vegas, Nevada and Moonachie, New Jersey locations.

(Jim Evans)

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"In Germany, American companies are often considered somewhat conservative and lethargic," says Rainer Blanck, Sommer Cable CEO. "They are not really interested in grooming the German market because it is tiny compared to the US-market. Intelix is different. They are a clearly structured, modern American company with products strongly adapted to the European market. Plus, their technology is of good workmanship, have a very ergonomic and attractive design, and are known for their dependability."

"Sommer Cable's

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Stuart Gibbons comments, "It's a pleasure to have secured Simon Caldwell and the ISS team's installation skills in the new Tüchler/Le Mark project. To be able to offer the new, exciting and innovative range of PVC Projection Screens available from Tüchler and have them installed by ISS means our customers will receive superior service from enquiry to installation."

Caldwell and his highly respected team have worked on a number of entertainment projects including installation of stage engineering equipment for Disney Cruise ships, Thesselonika Concert Hall and many projects for system integrators based within the UK .

(Jim Evans)

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The Entertainment Valley double decker stand, is named after the road all three companies reside on, and will offer clients and friends of the companies a Belgium Beer Café environment to discuss their services and potential projects.

The Belgium neighbours each specialise in different production disciplines; Stageco are internationally renowned for innovative stage designs and temporary structures, whilst EML Productions are a prominent supplier of audiovisual equipment and The Powershop provides event power supplies.

The international trio have collaborated on many different proj

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14 March 2016

Yvonne Vriesen has found a new challenge outside the entertainment business and has left Prolyte after seven years' service.

The recently returned Date Jonkman, in addition to his function as account manager for Latin Europe, has been appointed account manager for Germany, where he will gradually take over responsibility from Peter Draaisma.

(Jim Evans)

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Carlos Cunha, owner of Boomerang, comments, "We were looking for an established and structured company that could offer a wide range of products to fulfill all the different market demands.

"We chose Proel because it is very active in this field with a 360° offering. Boomerang has also recently gained exclusive distribution of Turbosound for Portugal, therefore it was quite a natural choice for us to turn to Proel to complete the range of products to satisfy our customers' needs."

(Jim Evans)

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It fell to Northampton-based Unusual Rigging to create, in that cavernous space, a 45m long theatre which straddled tracks and platforms and would house 1000 people and a genuine 66 tonne steam train.

Unusual Rigging's Simon Stone said, "We are used to dealing with the unusual but this was a real turn around - we took the theatre to the train instead of the other way around."

The primary concern was the station's glass roof which, not designed to take heavy loads, needed to support 450m of truss weighing 5 tonnes, with an additional 2.5 tonnes of lighting equipment and one tonne of s

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Both Mark Hendriks, technical director at Prolyte and Prolyte Rigging course lecturer, Rinus Bakker will have an active role during the PLASA International Rigging Conference. The annual Prolyte distributor Awards will be presented during the show.

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

A statement confirming the merger declasres, "Both companies represent the cutting edge in professional truss and staging systems, each with their own strengths and specialities, their drive for high quality products and innovative design making them a natural fit. This merger will create a new organization that is stronger in every sense and is set to become a dominant force in the industry in terms of size, product range, resources and, crucially, sales force."

The statement continues, "This in turn will open up new market opportunities in and outside the fields that both companies have served up until now. Based on brand strengths and fuelled by

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14 March 2016

The weekend for Stageco will kick off on Saturday with the Muse concert at Wembley Stadium, one of the UK tour dates for the band. Stageco has engineered a spectacular skyscraper designed stage for the world tour, creating the illusion of a band playing in the basement of an imposing building.

On Sunday Stageco will be at the Help for Heroes concert, which supports Prince William and Prince Harry's charity, at Twickenham Stadium. Stageco will provide a Super Roof for the one off concert, featuring Robbie Williams, Katherine Jenkins and a host of contemporary artists.

The busy weekend finishes with Stageco sharing a double decker stand at PLASA 2010 along with fellow Ent

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Brought in by Richmond Event Management, it was AP Security's first time at the event and something rather different from the live music circuit which tends to dominate the company's summer workload.

"We were really looking forward to the new challenges that the Fiesta presented," says AP's northern regional manager Simon Miller. "As always we started planning well in advance, in this case in April, and attended monthly meetings in Bristol where all the partners would meet and discuss the event and their roles within it."

AP's staff covered the entire site except the car parks, including al

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This day and a half, ETCP recognized workshop features training from industry experts. Day one consists of a half-day course on fall protection led by Bill Sapsis, president and founder of Sapsis Rigging, Inc. as well as a half-day course on truss design, use and theory taught by Will Todd, product support manager for TomcatUSA.

For the morning of day two, Will Todd and Keith Bohn of Tomcat USA will lead a session on ground supported and outdoor structures which includes an overview of design elements and safety consideration of these structures, examples of real world scenarios from the Tomcat

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Clients are now looking for more economical, yet high quality build methods for large exhibition stands and event sets, says the company. HWS offers a solution to that, with large-scale tensioned fabric systems that are already a popular alternative to more traditional build methods.

HWS has partnered with American company Dockside Canvas to produce high-quality tensioned fabric structures using their patented Fab-X-Frame aluminium extrusion system, designed specifically for large exhibition stand builds.

The HWS walling system produces seamless fully printed structures of any size, but is also suitable for smaller sets, event walling and branding. The fabric can be printed to high resolution wi

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They have also developed some innovative features for LoadGuard motors when used in production applications. The hoists come complete with sealed bearings around the loadchain wheel so there is little chance of rain entering the hoist components. They have also fitted a drain system which consists of a short tube from the load wheel area (where water can sit after rain comes down the chain) to the exterior of the hoist. The drain system means that the water exits the hoist in the hook area.

(Jim Evans)

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The high-load-bearing models are specifically designed for use in event technology rigging and fair-booth construction. A huge number of companies have used them to suspend everything from speakers, lights, trussing and more in the construction of their exhibition stands at shows throughout Messe Frankfurt, Messe Berlin and Hannover Messe, to name a few, including the recent Light+Building show in Frankfurt and Showtech in Berlin.

Growing safety awareness throughout the event production industry and increasing demands for products'compliance with European norms and accident-prevention regulations has benefitted Reutlinger systems: they are the only load-bearing cable system to have o

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A major strength this year has been the return of several leading audio brands and over 60 new exhibitors overall, including Ateis, Avid, Baldwin Boxall, Bosch, Bose, EAW, Electro-Voice, Intertek, Korg, Mackie, Martin Audio, Penton, and SCV/ Turbosound, as well as over 250 loyal exhibitors.

In one of the show's numerous innovations for 2010, visitors were able to watch the PLASA Awards for Innovation judges assess this year's exciting nominations in a series of live presentations on the interactive Innovation Gallery at the entrance to Earls Court 2.

Video of those presentations will be screened in the Innovations Gallery throughout the show, allowing othe

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The new devices can help to minimise the weight of flight-case or light-bar mounted lighting dimmers as well as truss-mounted hoist controllers and automation systems for theatre and concert touring, says the company.

Key features of the Han-Eco Series include inserts that accommodate tool-free, snap-in, rear-mounting modules from Harting's Han-Modular series fitting into front or rear mounting adaptor frames. The extensive range of modules available provides a high degree of flexibility by allowing connectors to be assembled to handle data, control, power, fibre-optic, coaxial and pneumatic signals. A separate PE module provides the necessary full grounding and finger-safe user protectio

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Foster started ETC in 1975 with the goal of installing the first memory lighting-control system in the New York Metropolitan Opera House. During his time he has developed a wide range of innovative products including Mega-Cue, perhaps the first console to utilise digital multiplexed data over two conductors between the desk and dimmers; the Concept console that led to the Expression / Express line of control desks; the Obsession Console and the Sensor Dimming System.

He contributed to the design

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The Awards for Innovation, for the first time, were judged 'live' at the Innovation Gallery by an independent panel of 16 expert judges, in front of show visitors and a camera team on Sunday 12 September. Show visitors are able to watch the judging process replayed on large screens in the interactive Innovation Gallery for the rest of the show.

Seven Awards for Innovation and one Gold Award were presented by PLASA CEO Matthew Griffiths, while ETC founder Fred Foster was honoured with this year's Gottelier Award in recognition of his work on such legendary products including the compan

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Earlier, Barlow and Williams said: "It's great that people like Shame so much and we can't wait to perform it live for the first time." Also in the line-up were Tom Jones, Alexandra Burke and Pixie Lott. The concert, which took place at Twickenham Stadium also featured comic talent including Bruce Forsyth, Peter Kay, Michael McIntyre and Jack Dee.

Some 60,000 people were at the event - including 150 personnel injured in combat who attended the show free of charge. Proceeds will go to the Help For Heroes charity, which raises funds for wounded troops and their families.

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14 March 2016

The new firmware enables the coaxial (BNC) ports to function not as MADI, but as Digidesign Venue's proprietary coaxial digital snake.

"With this release, Digidesign's Venue consoles and stage racks can be connected via a DD4ME to the Optocore network," states Optocore founder, Marc Brunke. "The audio flowing between the Stage Rack and Console (or vice versa) can be output via other Optocore devices in the network, thus enabling networking functionality to Digidesign products."

Several consoles and racks can be placed on the same network, and an unlimited number of splits of any input channel are possible.

(Jim Evans)

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This new interface provides both global and device-specific information for front of house monitoring, allowing on-screen management of even the most complex audio networks from a single location. With the Pro64 Network Manager, front of house engineers now have remote control of every Pro64 device in a network through a PC connected to the network's Control Master device.

Network settings and audio parameters for e