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USA - American jam band moe. wrapped its winter tour with a rig featuring Clay Paky fixtures.

A lighting designer with Nashville-based Pulse Lighting, Justin Casey has been working with the band since last July. Moe. tours year-round; their winter tour recently concluded in Manhattan. "The band celebrated its 25th anniversary year in 2015, and the winter tour wrapped in New York City on St. Patrick's Day," says Casey. "I'll be redesigning the winter rig for Moe.'s summer festival tour." Main Light Industries supplied the lights and consoles for the winter tour.

Casey chose 12 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s and four Stormy CC RGBW LED Strobes for the rig. The B-EYEs were the "workhorses of the rig" delivering the primary lighting for the band as well as "eye candy in their pixel

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USA - Superstar DJ Eric Prydz premiered his EPIC 4.0 shows in America this spring, backed up by his 'dream team' of long-time entertainment technology collaborators, RES, to create a colossal visual show driven by Avolites Ai S4 servers.

Playing a total of seven shows spread across New York's Terminal 5, LA's Hollywood Palladium and the San Francisco Armory, EPIC 4.0 was the fourth incarnation of Prydz's assault on the senses.

The behind the scenes team is comprised of Mark Calvert of RES as production director, Liam Tomaszewski as creative director and VJ, Ross Chapple as lighting designer, Ian Gotts as tour production manager, Dave Green as Ai programmer, PRG, PRG Nocturne USA and Lightware USA.

The core element of the ambitious show was another magical-looking hologram, which seemed to float centre stage in front of Prydz as he performs.

"The visual effect for t

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UK - Singer songwriter Hozier has taken his self-titled debut album on tour with a carefully crafted lighting design by Matthew Kilmurry who specified Clay Paky Mythos to play "one of the most versatile roles in the show".

Kilmurry specified the award-winning Clay Paky fixtures from Adlib Audio, employing them for fast-paced punchy beam looks, spot work, atmospheric washes and seamless colour changing.

"The Mythos are incredibly versatile," continues Kilmurry. "They have a huge zoom range meaning they can perform as a spot or wash, which is pretty incredible for one moving light. And on top of all that they are extremely bright."

The Mythos units were flown in the rig, with seven positioned on Kilmurry's upstage/back truss, one on the centre truss and six on the mid stage truss. From here he used the fixtures to complement Hozier's raw sound with aerial looks that swun

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UK - When the O2 Arena, London, and its smaller, 2800-capacity sibling, indigo at The O2, were first opened back in June 2007, leaseholders AEG rubber-stamped an all Harman Professional technical infrastructure. This included two of Soundcraft's then flagship Vi6 digital consoles in indigo at The O2's FOH and monitor positions.

Nearly a decade later, the venue's technical manager Rob Burrows was becoming increasingly aware that technology had moved on considerably, with capacities and processing power greatly increased. After a six-month process during which they reviewed options, they decided to replace both desks with Soundcraft's new generation Vi7000, supplied by Soundcraft Vi select dealer, SSE Audio Group.

"We had done very well with the Vi6's but they were showing their age," noted Burrows. "We had the original first generation desks and they had gigged extremely ha

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Germany - Production Resource Group, L.L.C., (PRG) recently marked the two-year anniversary of its global partner network programme with the second PRG Alliance Summit. Under the theme Gearing Up To Success, the Summit took place during the Prolight + Sound 2016 trade fair at the Festhalle Messe Frankfurt.

Since its inception, the PRG Alliance has grown in both size and reputation, and now offers technology, services and support to event producers in a total of 25 countries.

There are now 15 member companies which make-up the PRG Alliance. The newest addition is DB Schenker - the first member supplying services other than audiovisual. DB Schenker supports the Alliance members with specialized logistics for events with a large worldwide presence and multi-modal transportation requirements.

The PRG Alliance Summit is already a key date on the calendar for members, allowi

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UK - Following what has been an extremely busy and exciting year for White Light, the complete production solution specialist will be returning to PLASA Focus Leeds at the Royal Armouries Museum from 10-11 May. With over 130 different exhibitors working across audio, lighting, video and rigging, along with presentations, technical demonstrations and panel discussions, this year's PLASA Focus Leeds promises to be the biggest one yet.

Since its previous visit to PLASA Focus Leeds, WL has grown exponentially. Alongside expanding its audio department along with acquiring video technology company Shock Solutions, the company has worked on a whole host of projects, including the Rugby World Cup, the NME Awards, London Fashion Week and many more. For all of these projects, WL drew on its unparalleled inventory of entertainment technology;

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Mexico - Multi-brand distributors, Hermes Music México, have carried out a major architectural lighting project in the Santa Fe district of México City.

They have illuminated the 151m high Paragon Tower (dominated by the Hotel Presidente Intercontinental Santa Fe) with LED colour washes from one of their principal suppliers, PR Lighting.

"The client wanted to enhance the building itself on a permanent basis," explained Hermes lighting specialist, Ricardo R Segura de la Cruz.

Hermes had been approached by locally-based audio and technology company Subsuelo, who were also involved in the project and Ricardo himself was tasked with coming up with the lighting design. "I was asked to cover the whole building fa

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USA - The new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas recently opened with an all-star gala event featuring Las Vegas natives The Killers, Wayne Newton, Shamir, Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soleil. Delicate Productions of Los Angeles and San Francisco deployed a Martin Audio MLA system to ensure consistent coverage throughout the spectacular new venue.

A two-year project representing an investment of $375m, the 20,000-seat Arena will host over 100 events a year including sports ranging from UFC, boxing, hockey and basketball to concerts and awards shows. A special concert featuring Nicki Minaj with special guest Ariana Grande followed the opening night with an upcoming schedule of shows that includes the Guns N' Roses reunion tour, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel and more.

The MLA system, supplied by the Arena's preferred audio provider and MLA partner 3G Productions, was used

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South Africa - Cape Town nightlife recently received a boost with new club The Bank opening just before Christmas, operating three days a week out of the art deco QV54 (54 Queen Victoria Street) building in downtown Cape Town. The lounge style environment - with comfortable, sociable seating areas and strategically placed dancing surfaces rather than a central dancefloor is attracting an enthusiastic hip, young crowd playing a mix of hip hop Caribbean, Miami and deep house.

Lighting and effects are provided by a combination of Robe MiniMes and miniPointe fixtures.

These were specified by G?nter Boisits, operations and financial manager for owners The Nava Group headed by Giorgio Nava, a local celebrity chef and nightlife entrepreneur who also owns five restaurants in the area.

The Nava Group's previously successful club venture, Rhodes House, was legendary on the club

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USA - Three teams presented their projects for the 2016 ASTC-USITT Renovation Challenge on 18 March at the USITT Conference in Salt Lake City. The Renovation Challenge has been designed to engage undergraduate and graduate students in real world theatre renovation problem solving. Students work under the guidance of a faculty advisor and a mentor from the American Society of Theatre Consultants. Each team selected an existing venue, developed a scope of work for improvements and presented their ideas to a live audience and Jury of ASTC members at a USITT Conference Session.

The $750 Honor Award was given to KelseyLiz Habla and Charles Canfield, undergraduate architecture students from University at Buffalo for their adaptive-reuse project in which they proposed to renovate the historic Cyclorama Building in Buffalo, which currently houses an accounting firm, into a new indoor

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USA - When global medical equipment giant Smith & Nephew was looking for images to dress up its booth at the Arthroscopy Association of North America convention, the company didn't have to search any further than the event's host city. Over 17m people visit Boston every year, easily placing the city among the top ten tourist destinations in the United States. Many are no doubt drawn by the picturesque and historic structures that help give this city its compelling character. Darren Lussier and Brian McNamara of Image Production Services drew on these local images to create a 'Boston-Scape' wall at the Smith & Nephew booth, using the PVP X3 LED video panel from Chauvet Professional.

For the doctors and other medical specialists from around the world who attended the convention, images of Fenway Park, Faneuil Hall and the like provided a welcome respite between lectures on weigh

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UK - UK - London live music venue KOKO has invested in an Avolites Arena console to offer more live lighting control than ever before for its impressive roster of bands.

Since the club's restoration and reopening in 2004, transforming it from the Camden Palace into KOKO, some of the music world's biggest names have performed in the space, including Madonna, Amy Winehouse and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The venue continues to attract a diverse mix of emerging musicians and global superstars.

KOKO's head of lighting, Hannu Finnila, has been using Avolites consoles for more than 15 years and is now using the new Arena console on a nightly basis.

"The Arena console is the best desk for what we need to do at KOKO, because we have different bands in every night, meaning I have to do a lot of busking," he says. "As every gig is different, the Arena is already making my life much

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The Netherlands - ETC dealer Ampco Flashlight has installed 30 custom-painted Selador Desire D60XTI Studio HD LED fixtures, alongside seven full colour D60XTI Vivid and ten D22 Lustr+ fixtures, in the stunning new entrance building for Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum - controlled by an ETC Unison Mosaic system.

The museum, which opened in 1973, houses the world's largest collection of the painter's works. The new 800sq.m glass building between the original museum and the temporary exhibition wing accommodates the cloakroom, shops and a central atrium. The 650sq,m of glass with which the building is constructed means that it is flooded with light during the day; so Ampco Flashlight was asked to design a lighting system which would not only be easy to operate with touchscreen panels, but would also respond to external light levels.

The tender also called for the system to interf

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UK - After the success of ISCEx2016, the Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers will return to the picturesque location of Coombe Abbey on March 7-8, 2017 for ISCEx2017.

The Institute certainly raised the bar at ISCEx2016 once again. "It was unquestionably our most successful exhibition yet," said Ros Wigmore, manager, secretariat at the ISCE. "Of our 28 exhibitors, four were first timers - Leisuretec Distribution, Monacor (UK) Ltd, Nexo SA and Yamaha Commercial Audio. And away from the exhibition, I am delighted to say that all the seminars were packed throughout."

Monacor (UK)'s UK field sales manager, Leighton Castle, said, ''The event provided us with a great opportunity to network with industry peers and to reach out to those who may not have been overly familiar with the Monacor brand and service. We very much look forward to ISCEx2017, and to many years exh

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USA - Major Lazer unleashed their new live show - which will be touring throughout 2016 - at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California - playing two Coachella (main) Stage sets, one on each weekend of the 125,000 capacity festival.

The show featured a complete new set, lighting and visuals design by Kyle Kegan of Voyage Productions and utilized Robe BMFL Spots, BMFL WashBeams and ColorStrobes - amongst other lights. All the Robes were newly purchased by Rainbow Production Services (RPS).

"Those strobes are simply mind-blowing," declares Kyle, using them for the first time after receiving a demo and swapping the originally specified product for the new ColorStrobes.

Major Lazer's new stage set includes eight three-sided Periactoi-style 13ft high towers which are about 7ft wide (six were used at Coachella). The first facade is a scenic speaker cabin

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USA - After a highly successful run in London at the Chocolate Factory, John Doyle's The Color Purple opened to rave reviews at the Bernard B. Jacobs theatre on Broadway in December 2015. Interestingly, Doyle's latest version is a far cry from the original flamboyant Broadway show. This time Doyle opted for a much more streamlined, pared-down production, leaving more room for the performers to shine and for the intense emotions to resonate.

Just as he did for the London production, Doyle turned to Tony Award-winning sound designer Gregory Clarke to create a clean, powerful sound design that would accurately reflect the extraordinary passion of Alice Walker's tale of black female oppression and emancipation in the American south.

"I deployed EM boxes on the original London version of the show in 2013 and they performed spectacularly well," explains Clarke. "I specifi

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UK - Vanguardia has secured sole UK distribution rights to MeTrao - "a pioneering tool set to transform audio management at live events".

On 1 May 2016 Vanguardia is launching MeTrao's distribution, through which audio professionals and event organisers across the UK will be able to benefit from the product's technical wizardry.

Offering a new way of measuring sound and vibration, MeTrao was devised by Dutch entertainment technology experts Event Acoustics, based in Utrecht. The intelligent sound management product allows event organisers and sound engineers to meet noise control regulations with ease - while maximising the quality of audio output at the highest possible levels. Vanguardia has done a deal with the product's main European distributor, Ampco Flashlight Sales, to secure UK rights.

MeTrao was launched in The Netherlands in 2012, where it has sold over 200

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Serbia - Pro audio specialists, Studio Berar DOO, has added the prestige Powersoft brand to its distribution portfolio. According to sales director, Bojan Po?u?a, the company had been searching for a brand that would meet their criteria for high-quality, including the requirements of their clients when it comes to creating such solutions.

"We very quickly came across Powersoft and immediately liked the fact that we share the same philosophy - namely, uncompromising quality and remarkable standards. Powersoft products are the most advanced solutions in the field of audio amplification production and are an essential component in any signal chain."

Po?u?a said their decision was based on decades of experience in renting and selling solutions in the audio field. "It has taught us to recognise quality and so Powersoft was our logical choice. As a brand it offers exactly what w

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UAE - Venuetech LLC has been appointed as the first Middle East distributor of the ELC Lighting and Green-GO range of products.

Silvio Cibien, sales manager for ELC Lighting commented, "We are delighted to welcome Venuetech on board as exclusive and indeed the very first distributors of our product range in the Middle East. Venuetech's regional experience and knowledge of the industry is second to none and the company's reputation is held in high esteem by those working the AV industry. While our kit has been installed is some high profile projects in the region, this is the first time that local customers will be able to buy directly from a local distributor, which gives them the added benefit of product support on their doorstep, should they need it."

Elie Khairallah, technical director of Venuetech said, " Within the context of its continuous strategic development, Venu

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UK -The Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) 2016 has announced that this year's ceremony will take place at major live entertainment venue the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith on the 18th September.

"Eventim Apollo is renowned for celebrating world-class talent of all kinds, so we're thrilled to be hosting the Knight of Illumination Awards 2016, which champion the exceptional work of the world's leading lighting designers," says Sarah Myring, Eventim Apollo Front of House and Corporate Sales Manager.

"It's also fitting that so many of the designers have themselves worked on shows at the iconic venue, which has recently undergone an overhaul with colour wash LED lighting to create a truly state-of-the-art lighting system. This is an excellent opportunity to recognise the talented community of lighting designers that have come through our doors over the years, and we're delighted

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Non-Runner - Romania has been expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest after its national broadcaster failed to pay debts of more than £11m. Ovidiu Anton was due to perform the song Moment Of Silence in the second semi-final of the contest, which will take place in Sweden on 12 May. However, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) confirmed the nation will now no longer be able to compete after Televiziunea Romana (TVR) failed to meet a 20 April repayment deadline.

A statement on the Eurovision website said, "The EBU has withdrawn member services from Romanian public service broadcaster Televiziunea Romana (TVR) following the non-payment of debts totalling CHF 16m."

Reasonably Well Off - Adele has been named as Britain's richest ever female musician, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. A list of the top 50 music millionaires in the UK and Ire

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