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UK - Working in close consultation with designer Andy Liddle, Hawthorns provided the extensive lighting rig for the launch of the new Liverpool Echo Arena, combined with the celebrations of Liverpool's new status as European City of Culture 2008.

The moving lights were almost entirely sourced from the Clay Paky Alpha range, comprising 12 of Hawthorn's Alpha Profile 1200s, 32 Alpha Spot 575 HPEs, 24 Alpha Wash 1200s and 24 Alpha Wash 575s. On top of these, the rig housed the new Alpha 300 range, with 24 HPEs and 12 Wash lights.

Also featured for effect were 24 GLP Impression LED moving heads. These units were even rigged to the automated 45ft cherry pickers just to make things more interesting. The arena side walls were lit with IPIX Big Boy LED floods.

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Sweden - ProLight & Sound 2008 sees the first showing at the Frankfurt trade show of the recently launched PLM 10000Q, the first product of the revolutionary new Powered Loudspeaker Management Series from Lab.gruppen. The PLM 10000Q comprises a four-channel amplifier, dual Dolby Lake Processor modules, Dante low-latency networking and groundbreaking features for load verification and performance monitoring.

In order to better present the new PLM concept to the widest possible audience, Lab.gruppen will be running a series of multilingual presentations on their stand at ProLight & Sound 2008. Visitors will be able to see and hear PLM presentations in English, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish (obviously) and Danish. Furthermore, persons attending the presentations can win a luxury weekend for two or one of hundreds of other rewards. More information is available at www.labgruppen

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USA - Boston-based Lightspace Corporation, a developer of interactive entertainment and display technology, has announced the appointment of Lee Engineering as its UK distributor.

The Lightspace range comprises three systems - Lightspace Play; Lightspace Design and Lightspace Dance - based on an interactive floor/wall system using 400 sq.mm low-res LED tiles. Each tile contains 4 x 200sq.mm RGB pixels and four pressure sensors, through which the user can interact with the Lightspace surface.

Lee Engineering directors Phil Leedal and Ian Nelson state that the technology fits perfectly within their Education and Special Needs portfolio - a key market for the Lancaster-based company; but there are also systems specific to the entertainment and architectural markets.

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - Nexo will be showcasing its latest compact tangent-array SR systems for touring applications and fixed installation, notably the Geo S12 Series and Geo D with Geo SUB, as well as its internationally-established PS Series. The main attractions are sure to be the debut of the RAY SUB Series of modular scalable bass cabinets, and the first exhibition in Frankfurt of the NXAMP powered TDController, says the company.

The RS15 is a low-profile high-output, modular, scalable bass cabinet which is capable of operating in both omni-directional and cardioid modes.

Nexo's new NXAMP is a powered TD Controller, the first product to be generated by the collaboration with Yamaha. The integration of amplifier, available in two 4-channel sizes, with the Nexo TDController provides a cooler, cleaner and more efficient solution which brings cost and operational benefits to live use as w

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UK - P&O Cruises' Artemis has been refitted, with Luton-based install company TED AV, deciding that Sennheiser audio equipment would be at the heart of The Artemis' entertainment hardware.

Mark Morley, technical production manager for TED AV, comments: "The Artemis was the third Carnival UK Group ship refit we did in 2007. We needed to provide mics for two lounges on The Artemis. One was The International Lounge, which is the main entertainment venue on board. The other was The Horizon Lounge, wrapped around the funnel at the top of the ship, which is more for duos, trios and karaoke nights. That's more of a multi-purpose venue."

In The International Lounge TED installed an eight-way system comprised of four EM3532-U Sennheiser Receivers, four SKM 3072-U handheld mics, nine SK 3063-U beltpacks, ten HSP 4-4-3 radio mics, and four MKE 2-4 Gold lavalier mics routed thro

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USA - The show may have been called Clash of the Choirs but it was all sweet music with the grandMA controlling the lighting for the new NBC series. The show featured five music celebrities - Nick Lachey, Patti LaBelle, Blake Shelton, Michael Bolton and Kelly Rowland -who assembled amateur choirs in their hometowns.

The choirs performed on four consecutive nights in the week leading up to Christmas with viewers eliminating groups as the nights wore on. Lachey's Cincinnati-based choir emerged the winner taking home $250,000 for the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Lighting designer Greg Brunton was challenged to light more than 40 songs during the course of the shows. "We knew what songs would be performed from night to night only one hour before the show because we didn't know which choirs would be moving on," he explains. "So we had to reformat cues each

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Germany/USA - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards took place at The Beverly Wiltshire on Saturday, 9 February. These Awards differ from other Academy Awards. They are not restricted to achievements made in 2007, but are awarded to those who can "demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures".

With this in mind, the Academy has decided that Jörg Pöhler and Rüdiger Kleinke from Ottec Technology GmbH should receive a Technical Achievement Award (Academy Certificate) for the design and development of the battery-operated series of fog machines known as Tiny-Foggers. Their work was one of ten Scientific and Technical achievements honoured by the Academy this year from a short-list of 25.

Among the motion pictures which have employed the Tiny-Fogger are Spider-Man 3, I Now Pronounce Yo

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UK - Stage Electrics has invested in 22,000sq.ft of additional storage space due to the increasing popularity of the company's temporary ice rinks.

The new storage facility is situated in Croespenmaen, near Blackwood in Caerphilly which is situated close to the M4 just 40 minutes drive from the company's head office in Avonmouth. The storage facility is situated on a large mixed usage estate and potentially another half million square feet is available if required in the future.

This year Stage Electrics supplied 13 temporary ice rinks in the UK and Ireland including rinks of 850m2 in Manchester, 810sq.m in Brighton, 600sq.m in Cambridge, 450sq.m in Huddersfield, 325sq.m at Marwell Zoo and for the third year Gloucester's rink, two rinks in Bristol, a 600sq.m rink in Tralee, Ireland and an artificial rink at Earls Court at the Boat Show.

Gordon Wells, head of finance at Stage

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Germany - Danish manufacturer DPA Microphones will be co-exhibiting with its German distributor, Mega-Audio at Prolight & Sound 2008.

On the stand, musicians Benjamin Koppel and Jens Haack will be performing on a small stage, miked with DPA 4023 compact cardioid mics mounted on FGS4000 flamingo stands.

A listening post on the stand will present the company's new SACD, Miking A Grand Piano, recorded in the DPA in-house studio. The SACD presents a number of stereo comparison and demonstration recordings of a grand piano using different combinations of DPA mics.

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - The new Electro-Voice SB2A powered 12-inch subwoofer eliminates the need for external system processing and amplification, addressing the demand for lightweight high performance portable sound systems, says the company.

Featuring dual 350W amplifiers, the SB2A's switch-able powered speaker output can drive either an external 8 ohm passive subwoofer or full range loudspeaker. It can be configured with a variety of loudspeakers for a multitude of sound reinforcement applications.

The SB2A shares the same injection-moulded enclosure as EV's passive SB122 subwoofer. Both utilize the EVS12S woofer, designed from the ground up for optimized performance within this small footprint enclosure.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Funktion One has added a new rental company to its UK Rental Network. The newly formed partnership between Steven Ward and David "Steedsy" Stevenson took delivery of their first Resolution 4 Touring system last week. Powered by the MC2 amplifiers and XTA loudspeaker management system, the rig was out on hire for the first time on Saturday night for a local charity event.

Steven Ward comments: "Steedsy and I had worked together 20 years ago, before both going on to having successful businesses within the entertainment industry. However, we had both been dabbling in sound hire and kept up with developments in technology. Following on from a meeting over a year ago we decided to form a professional sound & light hire company.

"After a trip to PLASA, we set our sights on a Funktion One system. There was an obvious gap in the market for Funktion One in Cent

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Germany - Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall (Berlin Philharmonie) is one of the city's cultural icons. Its unique, pentagonally-shaped Great Hall, with its centre stage, has been praised for its intimate ambience and stellar acoustics. It now boasts a new Meyer Sound system.

"In a concert hall of this calibre, with its truly exceptional natural acoustics, there are limitations on what can be done in terms of sound reproduction," says Klaus-Peter Groß, Berlin Philharmonic Hall's audio engineer.

Provided by Berlin-based Werner Audi, the completed system is a multi-faceted design that creates natural imaging localising two sound sources. A centre array of 12 M1D ultra-compact curvilinear array loudspeakers is augmented by five UPJunior ultracompact Vario loudspeakers, which provide the source point imaging. A second array of five M

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UK - Since its debut performance in March 1968, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has become one of the most popular musicals in British history, with more than 20,000 schools and theatre groups interpreting the play.

The latest revival of the show, starring newcomer Lee Mead, takes place at the West End's Adelphi Theatre, and features the work of award-winning sound designer Mick Potter, who created a Meyer Sound loudspeaker system provided by London-based audio equipment sales and rental company Orbital Sound.

The main system for the Adelphi Theatre performances features 12 Meyer Sound M'elodie loudspeakers per side, along with four 600-HP and four 700-HP subwoofers per side.

"Working on a show like Joseph is quite different from a typical pop concert," says Potter, a veteran of West End and Broadway pro

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UK - Paradigm AV is launching the ultimate version of its Trojan transportable large screen rear projection displays.

A 110in, full 1080p HD resolution display was given its debut at last month's ISE Show in Amsterdam - making it the largest HD display on sale in the world, says the company.

The portable display is designed to wheel in, pop up, switch on - and be ready for use in just two minutes. The rig comes complete with ProjectionDesign Cineo 30 projector built into the housing, offering up to 6,000 ANSI lumens, with a 7500:1 contrast ratio (on/off).

Paradigm AV founder, Greg Jeffreys says: "All HD, data and video inputs are accepted and displayed and the image is optimised as a result of the high-brightness, high-contrast dnp optical screen."

The Trojan HD110 also obviates screen burn-in and enhances acuity. Advanced dnp optical screen technology delivers t

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UK - Technicians at the Royal Albert Hall will no longer have to don a safety harness and be hoisted 9ft into the air to focus luminaires, thanks to the safe thinking of senior technical manager Luke Manning, who has replaced conventionals with moving lights, including ETC Source Four Revolutions.

Manning reports: "The principal reason we've upgraded all our generic heads to intelligent units is for health and safety reasons. The whole industry has a duty to improve working conditions and to reduce the risk of accidents wherever possible."

ETC's luminaires product manager Tom Littrell adds: "The Source Four is the most efficient tungsten luminaire for entertainment, given its high performance lamp and a dichroic ellipsoidal reflector which pushes more light out of the front and heat out of the back. This means a 750W Source Four is as bright as a 1200W unit with

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There's more evidence that we are working in a global village: Glastonbury UK based Serious Stages shipped 10 containers with two of their new Solar Roofs to Australia for a busy summer festival season there, including Elton John's The Captain and The Kid tour. And still on the live music front, our list of unusual and different concert venues got another addition this week when Deep Purple and Tina Turner played at a party in The Kremlin for Dimitry Medvedev, widely tipped to be Russia's next president.

Popular television series are providing an unexpected and welcome bonus for all involved in the touring business. The latest to go out on the road is Strictly Come Dancing which is proving an excellent showcase for the industry's creative teams and products.

In the events diary, The ARC Show, the RIBA-accredited business event for those involved in architectural, retai

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UK - Codex Audio, a Midlands-based audio rental and production company that specialises in the supply of high quality systems to the corporate entertainment market, has recently taken delivery of six Lab.gruppen FP 10000Q 4 x 2500W at 2 ohm power amplifiers from the FP+ Series. The amplifiers were demo'd and supplied by LMC Audio.

Codex Audio had used the original fP Series amplifiers for many years. When Lab.gruppen released FP+, Codex's David "Lofty" Lockhart was keen to try them out. "My first question was, 'Can Lab.gruppen really make a better amp than the fP?'" observed Lockhart. "The answer has got to be a resounding YES - FP+ amplifiers are even better. We think FP+ is a real step forward in amplifier technology."

LMC Audio's Paul Hinkly adds: "We believe that Codex Audio is at the forefront of a new breed of PA company that is success

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Australia - Glastonbury UK-based Serious Stages shipped 10 containers with two of their new Solar Roofs to Australia for a busy summer festival season there.

The Solar Roofs were utilised for Elton John's The Captain and The Kid tour followed by Sydney's Big Day Out event, where the 2008 line rocked with Rage Against The Machine, Bjork, Arcade Fire, Carl Cox and many others.

Serious's 22m wide, 12m deep Solar Roof - as used on the Elton gigs - offers 12m of headroom and also featured a 2.4m thrust running its full length. This version of the Roof can support up to 24 tonnes of flown equipment. It was supplied complete with double out-rigged goal post towers standing 9.6m wide and 15m off the deck, facilitating two PA hangs and video screen supports each side.

The tour visited assorted wineries and country houses and was Elton's 12th of the country. Serious worked with

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Germany - At the Live Sound Forum, the Messe Frankfurt open air presentation area, K.M.E. is going to present the line array PANO "under conditions close to reality". The presentations take place daily. During the 20 minute demonstration the system will be presented by different styles of music and detailed information and explanations. The PANO setup consists of 12 tops QL 906 and four cardioid subs QCB 318 each side, amplified by four SR 7100 racks and adjusted to a defined area.

Another K.M.E. system will be on display on the Denon stand. DJ GFC will present the new DN-HS5500 Direct Drive Turntable Controller & Media Player using K.M.E.'s Individualized PA system CA 7.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - David Caulfield, the former managing director of Martin Professional Plc, has returned to the industry at the head of a new venture, Gator Europe. Formed in association with Tampa, Florida-based Gator Cases, Gator Europe will provide local contact and communication for Gator OEM customers, manufacturing 'own brand' case products for companies in the entertainment industry and beyond.

Founded in 2000, Gator is the largest case supplier in the entertainment industry, selling more than 80,000 cases per month to 90 countries worldwide. The company has over 2,700 dealers in the USA, and distribution takes place from two large warehouses in Tennessee and Utah with a two day UPS ground shipment to 95% of the USA. Gator has been nominated the NAMM accessory product of the year, winning three of the last four years.

The company has a 400,000sq.ft global manufacturing facility in D

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The Netherlands - Between 24 January and 3 February 2008 at Ahoy, Rotterdam, over 200,000 people flocked to see the tenth birthday party of Vrienden van Amstel 2008 Live music spectacular featuring many Dutch live acts.

Each artist performs two tracks and on the third track, the next artist comes on stage, sings part of the song before taking over to perform their two songs. With so many different acts and styles, it demonstrated the versatility of the MagicQ consoles, say the company.

Every day, the opening sequence of the show included a two-minute drum solo with audio, lighting, video and pyrotechnic all synchronised together using SMPTE timecode. The two MagicQ MQ100 Pro consoles each took a SMPTE feed to ensure perfect synchronisation with a total of 77 different lighting cues fired automatically during the opening sequence.

Ignace d'Haese from Arf & Yes designed the se

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