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UK - The HSL Group exhibited at ABTT for the second year, reflecting the growing importance of theatre and performing arts markets for the company, one of the busiest and fastest growing lighting rental operations in the UK. HSL highlighted its experience in the theatrical world and its wide equipment inventory.

The company says it has built its reputation on progressive thinking, the provision of innovative solutions, efficient and dedicated service, quality equipment and experienced designers, engineers and technicians to a diverse range of projects. HSL's work encompasses theatre, live events, concert tours, festivals, television productions, corporate presentations, son et lumières, spectaculars, parties and special events of all types.

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South Africa - Located in the chic, affluent suburb of Lonehill, Sequoias is undoubtedly one of Johannesburg's hottest openings of the year. Owner Shelley Chadwick, a South African ex-pat now living in Washington, USA, conceptualised the new venue by drawing inspiration from the likes of legendary clubs worldwide such as PURE in Las Vegas, Red Square in Russia, and Tangerine in the UK. The result is the ultimate cocktail and dining experience enhanced by a state-of-the-art EAW audio system installed by the area's premier pro audio specialist, Surgesound.

The architecture and design concept of the new venue is stunning, including a bar counter made of solid ice, which keeps the cocktails cool while patrons enjoy the spectacular views across Johannesburg. Chadwick was determined to install an audio system that would do her new venture justice. "Whilst living in the US, I had

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India - As India has evolved into a major economic and technological player on the world stage, the country has also become a musical and cultural force to be reckoned with. The Bollywood cinema industry rivals that of the United States, and the new sounds of Bhangra music are filling dance floors on several continents.

It's still a two-way street, though, with the influence of Western music continuing to grow in India and an increasing number of international artists including stops on the Indian subcontinent in their itineraries. One of the country's major concert production suppliers is Reynold Sound and Lighting Services, a company founded in Bangalore by Felix Remedios in 1981 as a branch of Calcutta-based musical instrument manufacturer J Reynold and Company. Reynold's pro audio division, headed by sound engineer Michael Furtado, has provided sound for an ever-growing seri

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Strictly FX, Pushing Boundaries

Strictly FX was founded in 1996 by industry veterans Mark Grega and Ted Maccabee. Our expertise and knowledge of the world’s leading pyrotechnic, laser, and flame manufacturers allows us to curate astonishing live events. With over 500+ shows performed a year, there’s good chance you’ve seen some of our work!

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UK - Leisuretec Distribution exhibited at the ABTT Theatre Show this week, showing the new BlueBeam and BlueDome Systems from GDS (Global Design Solutions) - for which Leisuretec has been appointed the exclusive UK distributor. Blues Systems are designed for use in all front- and back-of-house technical areas, and are ideal for theatres and performance spaces of all types.

The products (both interior and exterior) are designed to replace many existing architectural light sources such as fluorescents or low-level halogen fittings. They are also suitable for inaccessible corners, nooks and crannies, providing an alternative LED working light that is very reliable and needs zero maintenance - not ever needing the lamp or gel changed.

The BlueBeam (spot) and BlueDome (flood) produce little heat and use an integral 0-10v onboard dimmer allowing each fitting to be dimmed to suit the

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

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UK - Stage Electrics has introduced the Encore 'Squelly', its new CE-approved 2-way 15 amp adaptor. With first-hand knowledge of the failings of some previous adaptors, Adrian Searle, Stage Electrics' technical manager, was heavily involved with the design to ensure the product met the strict criteria he had set. The Squelly has a unique offset socket design to prevent cable fouling; its small footprint makes it easy to use with 3- and 6-way dimmers, and the traditional square design with moulded grips ensures it is easily removed from sockets. The Squelly is also shuttered, un-fused and has shrouded pins. The product is in stock and available today from any branch of Stage Electrics.

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UK - SSE Audio Group provided 85 boxes of Nexo's GEO T for the Monsters of Rock concert at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes. The gig saw 60,000 fans turn out for legendary performers such as Deep Purple, Alice Cooper and Queensryche, supported by Journey, Thunder and Ted Nugent.

"Using Nexo's proprietary GEOSoft package, we designed the GEO T system to stay contained within the Bowl, and cover the floor of the arena," says Nick Pain of SSE. "It did such an admirable job when it came to the throw, there was no need for us to set up any delays."

The Nexo GEO T system was configured in SSE's by now customary LCR design. Left and right arrays of 26 T4805 cabinets plus two T2815s flew above 12 CD18s, stacked in four columns of three. In front of the middle of the stage, three T2815 units were stacked on top of eight more CD18 subs. The system was powered by Ca

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Delivering ultimate brightness and unique looks, Zeo’s distinct face design is defined by a central LED monolith and four reflectors, backed by four RGBW engines. As a blinder or strobe, Zeo promises powerful impact with 30,000+ lumens. With its sheer brilliance and playful effects, Zeo is ready to amplify the energy on any stage.

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UK - Blackburn-based installer Romers Electronics has carried out AV installations at two local premiership football clubs - Blackburn Rovers and Wigan Athletic - selecting Allen & Heath's iDR DSP system for both projects.

Earlier this year, Romers was tasked with refitting the executive areas of Ewood Park's Jack Walker stand, part of Blackburn Rovers' 31,000-capacity stadium. The three suites needed a new audio distribution system to provide more flexibility and control of the various sources for match day hospitality events and private functions. Each suite required access to local sources - a music source, radio, and wired mic inputs - and access to network-based global sources, comprising Rovervision, the Club's in-house TV Company; Radio Rovers, the match day radio station; and Atmosphere, a system that transmits the crowd and pitch noise into the suites.

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UK - Avenue Q - winner of the 2004 Tony Award for Best New Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score - is a hilarious and irreverent look at life through the eyes of recent English graduate, Princeton. Previewing until 28 June, the show is a symbiotic partnership of actors and hand puppets create the diverse range of characters that live on Avenue Q.

The show's lighting designer is Howell Binkley, who last week won a Tony for his lighting of Jersey Boys. Lighting is an integral factor when it comes to the successful delivery of many of the jokes, and supplying the lighting as well as accessories such as smoke machines and mirror balls for this stunning show is PRG Europe.

Craig Bennett, project manager for PRG Europe says: "PRG has a strong relationship with Howell in the USA; it's certainly one of our strengths to be able to supply a 'home fro

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Europe - Digigram, a world leader in PC audio interfaces and innovative networked audio devices, has announced the expansion of its European distribution network through partnerships with Community (UK), Audio Systems (Switzerland), Ivamod (Croatia) and Media Chip (Portugal).

Digigram's business development manager Philippe Onillon says he is pleased to welcome these new partners on board as it takes the company another step forward in its goal of bringing sales, consultancy and support closer to its customers and end users: "Digigram has built its success on a strong track record of partnerships, from OEMs to distributors, and we are committed to continuing to serve our end-users by extending our relationships with carefully selected and highly skilled local partners", said Onillon.

Digigram has already established a global network of best-of-breed technology and di

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UK - Greg Oliver has joined RCF as technical sales consultant, tasked with supporting RCF's dealer and distributor network, which will include on-site demonstrations of their larger speaker ranges including Acustica, 4PRO and the newly launched TT+.

Oliver originally worked for RCF and then Mackie, before joining KV2 Audio in 2003. "I thoroughly enjoyed my time with KV2 and I felt I learned a great deal from the team," he says. With KV2's move to new offices in Harrogate, he decided not to relocate.

RCF's Phil Price added: "I am really pleased to have Greg back with RCF. With the introduction of the new pro speaker products at this year's ProLight&Sound, it has become even more important to present them direct to the our clients. Greg will be offering complete loudspeaker system audio demonstrations to our client base by visiting either with on site demos or pre

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UK - Thanks to three triple-platinum UK albums, four number one singles, a BRIT Award, a Q Award, a Smash Hits Award and two Elle Style Awards, the Sugababes have already secured their place in British music history. The quality of their music has allowed them a level of success beyond their rivals, a fact proved beyond doubt when they became the first pop group ever to grace the main stage of Glastonbury in 2003.

Promoting their current album Taller in More Ways, the girls have recently completed a successful UK tour using Sennheiser's SKM 935G2 wireless mics supported with Evolution EW300G2 IEMs. The cardioid SKM 935G2 features nine frequency banks each with up to 20 directly accessible presets and Sugababes monitor engineer Chris Trimby states: "The SKM 935 vocal mic has proved to be an excellent choice due to the usual Sennheiser RF reliability, and it also provi

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Finland - FogScreen Inc has launched a new type of screen, named FogScreen One. The European premiere for the product is at TILE show, Maastricht. The original FogScreen has a fixed screen size of 2m x 1.5m: the Linkable FogScreen's width is 1m, but the screen is modular, which means that any number of screens can be linked together, say the company.

FogScreen, which allows images to be projected onto a thin veil of fog, has won many awards, including TESA (The Event Services Association) Award for Innovation 2006, the EU's 2005 European IST Prize, a PLASA Award for Innovation (2005), the first prize in Laval Virtual 2004 (user interface category) and InnoSuomi 2003. FogScreen has been said to be the innovation of the decade in audio-visual technology, the company says.

"FogScreen One gives a wide variety of new possibilities for different customer needs", says Mika

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USA - Pharos Architectural Controls has announced a new North American distribution agreement with ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls Inc) at Lightfair International 2006 in Las Vegas. The show was an ideal opportunity to introduce the Pharos product line to ETC's dealers, reps and customers. There was much interest and enthusiasm about how well Pharos will fit with the ETC product line, and the contribution the Pharos Lighting Playback Controller (LPC) will make to forthcoming projects. Both companies are delighted at the positive response and the show was a great success.

The award-winning Pharos LPC is ideal for architectural, retail and themed entertainment environments that require sophisticated control of colour mixing, dimming, moving light and LED sources. Its advanced timeline-based lighting control, versatile triggering options and rugged solid-state construction make it

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UK - Continuing to offer sophisticated computerised automation for rigging and scenery at a significantly lower price than anything else in its league, AVW Controls has introduced the Pegasus range of power flying hoists.

Celebrating its 10th birthday this year, AVW, a bronze sponsor of the Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference, launched its new Pegasus power flying system at ABTT 2006. Designed for AVW by respected mechanical design engineer Mike Barnett, the Pegasus power flying hoist combines Barnett's engineering skills with readily available, off-the-shelf components to offer safety, reliability and fast delivery times at the lowest possible price, say AVW.

Intended primarily for lifting scenery, lighting bars and curtain tracks, the system is designed to offer clients a range of options to fit any and every possible requirement. Control is via AVW's own Impress

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Canada - MDG, the Canada-based manufacturer of fog and haze generators, has appointed Thierry P. Fletcher as sales director responsible for MDG products and the new distribution division. MDG president Martin Michaud commented: "Thierry's wealth of experience and philosophy of professionalism is consistent with our own ideals and modus operandi here at MDG. We welcome his input and creativity and it shall be a pleasure working with him to better serve our clientele worldwide."

Fletcher began his career in the industry as a salesman for various professional photographic equipment suppliers, while pursuing his studies in Economics and, at the same time, got involved in stage hand work at the local IATSE. in September 1986. In 1997, he graduated from Lionel-Groulx College in Theater Production, and, in December of the same year, joined the team at Solotech as lighting spe

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UK - The opening day of the ABTT (Association of British Theatre Technicians) annual trade show saw Strand announce its first customer for its new Palette range of consoles. White Light, based in London and Halifax, UK, have ordered their first three classicPalette consoles for immediate duty in its rental stock.

Dave Isherwood, technical director of White Light says: "We were impressed with the power and flexibility of the new console and the new click and point graphic environment. We already have a large fleet of 500 series consoles which remain very popular across a broad range of users so we could see that being able to introduce the Palette series in addition brings this new Strand control system within the range of an even larger number of users."

Isherwood continued: "Being able to read existing 300/500 series show files directly into the Palette console

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USA / UK - This year sees ETC celebrating 30 years as one of the world's most popular names in entertainment lighting equipment, and 10 years of serving the UK and European markets. A record 250,000 ETC Source Four luminaires were shipped in 2005 and the company expects to exceed that this year, which also sees the highest number of product releases of any year in ETC's history.

Seen at ABTT was a new model in ETC's SmartPack range of economical and compact dimming solutions. The Wall Mount version of SmartPack is now available with six 20A dimmers and is ideal for architectural applications requiring high performance dimming at an affordable price. This convenient, low maintenance unit can be installed directly, without any other parts, anywhere there is free space, say ETC. SmartPack is usually controlled via DMX, while for architectural purposes ETC offers SmartLink with the

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UK - Global Design Solutions has announced the appointment of Adam Cooper to its team to strengthen the ongoing activity of technical product design. Cooper comes across from Stage Electrics where as projects engineer he worked on projects from designing and testing power and battery systems for Manchester Passion, to designing LED dimmers and lighting for the Royal Court Theatre.

A strong knowledge of paging systems, interfacing, fault-finding, problem-solving, AMX design, VoIP and vast experience with servicing most theatrical and entertainment equipment means Adam's new role as design engineer at GDS will further compliment the innovative company, which recently launched new LED products BlueBeam and BlueDome.

Director Matt Lloyd said: "Due to the ongoing development of GDS and the increased demand for its services, the company is delighted to appoint Adam, who brings

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UK - Flight case specialist 5 Star has invested in a new highly specified extrusion cutting saw and a NC measuring length-stop, which have been installed in the cutting department at 5 Star's Cambridgeshire HQ.The new machinery will aid efficiency and work-flow, and was needed to keep pace with the exceptionally healthy 2006 order book, says the company.

The new systems include a Kaban AA1020 400mm diameter semi automatic up-cut profile saw with a plus and minus 20 degree mitre capability and dual pneumatic holding clamps. This will be used primarily when bulk cutting profiles to length, either prior to being fitted on to the case, or before 'V' notching by other machinery.

The other purchase is a Pertici Visual RF length-stop. This unit has been installed onto an existing GTI Kombimatec 'V' notching twin blade saw and will control the position of the 'vee' cuts that are requi

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UK - Adlib Audio has placed an initial order for two new Soundcraft Vi6 digital audio consoles, after trying out the desk at rehearsal sessions for the Scissor Sisters in London. Dave Kay of Adlib says the Vi6 is his "board of choice" for their forthcoming US and UK tours.

After just one gig at a student venue (engineered by Adlib's Richy Nicholson), Dave Kay was confident about putting the new console in front of the Scissor Sisters, as they prepared for their summer festival dates. "It's a very stable digital platform, delivering fantastic audio quality," said Kay. "It's the first digital console I've used where the metering and the dynamics behave like an analogue console. The Vi6 uses the same language as an audio engineer, and I feel it's really smoothing out the transition between analogue and digital."

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South Africa - UK cable specialist VDC Trading has supplied a range of high quality cables to South African audio distribution company Surgesound for installation into Sequoais, a new bar that is designed to bring the ultimate "mixology" and dining experience to Johannesburg.

Sequoias (pronounced Se-koi-as), which opened its doors to the public at the end of May, features a bar counter made of solid ice, a spectacular view of the city and a bar and cocktail menu designed by two of the best 'mixologists' and cocktail flairers in the world. Christian Delpech, 15 times world flair champion and World Champion mixologist Toby Ellis, both from Las Vegas, were brought to South Africa specifically to help design the menu and to train Sequoias' barmen in flair, mixology and technical bartending.

Owner of Sequoias, Shelley Chadwick, a South African ex-pat now living in Washing

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