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UK - A group of bikers connected to entertainment on a long fun-ride raising money for good causes, the idea for The First Night Riders (motto Out of the Wings and into the Wind) came out of the tyre tracks of America's Long Reach Long Riders. The initial event for the First Night Riders, in 2010, will raise money for The Theatrical Guild, one of the UK's longest serving theatrical charities which offers support to those working backstage and front of house.

Launched at PLASA 09 by a galaxy of stars, including Brian Conley and Liz Robertson, both currently starring in Hairspray, Issy van Randwyck (of Fascinating Aida), Fiona Mollison and director Edward Hall, the event has already enlisted the following riders (subject to work commitments): Richard Bullimore, Steve C

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UK - Exhibiting this week at the PLASA09 exhibition at Earls Court, London, Australia-based LSC Lighting Systems made the official launch of its latest lighting control package - a powerful PC/MAC based lighting control package named Clarity. The Clarity concept was well received by visitors to PLASA09. "It's been really good," said LSC's Pete Floyd, adding, "In fact, I would say it's the best PLASA show we've done."

LSC believes that Clarity, which was a nominee in this year's PLASA Awards for Innovation, will excite even the most experienced user. It offers a powerful feature set and offers seamless integrated control of intelligent lights, LED pixel mapping and Media servers "the likes of which has not been seen before", the company says.

Paul Collison, the lighting/technical consultant for the Beijing Olympics, said of Clarity: "Clarity h

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South Africa - Gearhouse South Africa supplied all technical production - including, sound, lighting, power and structures - plus audience seating for the hugely popular 2009 South African Tattoo, staged at Montecasino, Johannesburg.

The extravaganza featured over 600 local and international performers, blending the traditional Tattoo spectacle of massed pipe bands and Highland dancers with a distinctly African flavour. It was the second year that Gearhouse has been involved in the event, working for producers MC Squared. SABC2 also supported the show and recorded it for future broadcast.

This year the show's production and lighting designer Tim Dunn wanted a fresh, vibrant, contemporary feel, and so chose to light the 'Parade Ground' performance area solely with moving lights and LED fixtures.

Sound was designed by Gearhouse Audio's Dave Tudor and mixed by Pierre Slabbert.

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Strictly FX, Pushing Boundaries

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UK - The Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, a new faculty of the University of Glamorgan housed at the ATRiuM campus in Cardiff, brings together several creative disciplines, including Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music. Recently, the school decided to upgrade its technical equipment with a number of loudspeaker components from EAW. The system was supplied by A.C. Entertainment Technologies.

The equipment list included four EAW JFL210 Compact line array modules and four EAW JFL118 subwoofers. The upgrade was specifically geared toward the school's Division of Music and Sound, which will feature the JFL Series units in a new facility.

Glen Thompson of A.C. Entertainment Technologies was one of the main on-site contacts for the project. He stated, "These JFL210s and JFL118s will be an integral part of the School's music and sound curriculum. They

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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 - Packing 12,000 people into London's ExCeL Centre on each day of its five-day conference demonstrates only a fraction of the powerful reach of the Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC), one of the largest Christian establishments in Europe, led by Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo. KICC's annual London event - the International Gathering of Champions (IGOC) - is broadcast live to an estimated 55 million followers in Africa, the Caribbean and Europe.

Gospel events make distinctive demands of professional sound reinforcement systems. So says sound system designer and FOH engineer Schon Emmanuel, who has worked with the KICC since 2003. "It requires rock 'n' roll levels, R&B-type production quality, and corporate sensibilities."

In the featureless and acoustically challenging environment of the ExCeL convention centre, the IGOC event serves up dynamic public speaki

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UK - Christie has added to its award-winning M Series line of three-chip DLP projectors with five additional models, the Christie WX7K-M and WX10K-M (WXGA) projectors and the Christie WU7K-M, WU12K-M and Christie Roadster WU12K-M (WUXGA) projectors. The most compact in its class, this dual mercury lamp platform now includes WXGA (1366x768) and WUXGA (1920x1200) resolutions in addition to SXGA+ (1400x1050) and HD (1920x1080) models.

"The Christie M Series projectors raised the bar in performance, reliability and design. Now, with the new Christie M Series models, this exceptional performance will also be available in WXGA and WUXGA," says George Tsintzouras, director of product management, business products, Christie. "The Christie M Series projectors are ideal for customers with a broad range of needs. Whether they are looking for an entry-level, three-chip DLP pr

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UK - "Outstanding value for money, great performance and reliability for commercial audio users and a 3-year warranty are the drivers behind the latest TOA sales promotion on our A-2000 series mixer power amplifiers," says TOA. The company develops, manufacturers and markets premier audio and security products across mainland Europe. The extended warranty promotion is available from all authorised TOA audio resellers across Europe.

Brett Downing, sales & marketing director at TOA says: "We're delighted to announce this 3-year warranty for this all round winner of a product which will fit into a range of environments that are suitable, for broadcasting paging announcements, background music in factories, schools, offices, retail and houses of worship. The A-2000 is able to be upgraded to a larger system with the addition of its P-2240 slave amplifier."

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Bulgaria - Dance Club Revolution, in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, has recently had a new Community-based sound system designed and installed by ProAudio. Sunny Beach, also known as Slanchev Bryag, is Bulgaria's largest Black Sea resort which has more than 120 hotels and is rich in entertainment facilities.

The 1,000 capacity, 550sq.m Revolution club is situated underground on the main street below the Slam Café, another customer of ProAudio. For the new building, ProAudio was commissioned directly by the owners of the venue. "In this top resort, the competition to be better amongst clubs is high", commented ProAudio's Stanislav Petrov, "So, our brief was for a system that would really enhance Revolution's reputation for the best sound."

"We chose Community for the main system", continued Petrov. "Four SLS960 with two delay iBOX iHP1596 louds

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UK - At the PLASA09 exhibition at Earls Court, London, this week, DiGiCo announced that it would donate its 500th SD8 digital mixing system to honour the contribution of two well-known, loved and respected engineers, John Roden and Jim Douglas. "Both showed tremendous support for DiGiCo in the early days of the company, but are sadly no longer with us," said managing director James Gordon.

Having only launched the console at PLASA08, manufacturing the 500th console in May 2009 was a huge achievement - and the DiGiCo team wanted to mark the occasion by putting something back into the industry they are so proud to be a part of.

As well as being known as a first rate engineer and consummate gentleman, John Roden was a friend and inspiration to many. He had an impressive list of credits to his name, but was perhaps best known as Paul McCartney's monitor engineer, a role

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Denmark - One of Denmark's most iconic cultural venues, the Opera House (Operaen) in Copenhagen is a multi-million dollar concert venue which opened in 2000. But, though huge resources were put into the venue's acoustics, it has taken a Yamaha digital mixing engine installation to get the perfect result for performers.

Administered by the Royal Danish Theatre, the main stage of the Opera House features five satellite stages for set preparation and training purposes, as well as such conveniences as stage lifts and movable ballet floors. In total there are over 1000 rooms within the building, yet only around 1500 seats in the auditorium to ensure acoustic perfection for audiences.

However, one problem that became apparent for operatic performers was that the onstage sound is very dry. To solve this, audio systems specialists Moto Audio Sales devised a solution using a Yamaha DME

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USA - When it comes to intelligibility requirements, very few, if any, productions are likely to be more demanding than providing a PA system for the White House Communications Agency. With that in mind, when US President Barack Obama recently spoke to a crowd of employees, political dignitaries and members of the press at the Navistar/Monaco Coach plant in Wakarusa, IN, Cincinnati-based production company Loud & Clear chose to deploy a small yet highly effective L-Acoustics loudspeaker system.

The rig consisted of three dV-DOSC flown per side, paired with a single ground-based dV-SUB located back by the mix position. Two stand-mounted 115XT HiQ enclosures per side delivered side-fill to the audience, with another pair discreetly positioned under a school bus for VIP area fill. Furthermore, four 8XT coaxial systems were located on the Presidents platform--two providing front-fil

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UK - During last week's PLASA09 exhibition at Earls Court, London, Allen & Heath celebrated 40 years of pro audio product design. The British mixer manufacturer marked the occasion with a party held on the top floor of London landmark, the Gherkin, attended by distributors, industry partners and the press.

Allen & Heath took the opportunity to announce its distributor of the year, which was awarded to Audio-Technica in Germany, before introducing special guest, former MD Neil Hauser, who headed up Allen & Heath from the company's inception in 1969 until 1988. Current MD, Glenn Rogers, took the helm in 1990.

"It would not be an exaggeration to claim that I have witnessed innovation on a daily basis at Allen & Heath since I started as a junior engineer in 1983," stated Rogers. "For 40 years, the company has maintained a philosophy of listening to customers and str

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UAE - Tannoy's Qflex digital beam steering array system has been deployed to great effect within the highly advanced new Terminal 3 development at Abu Dhabi International Airport in the UAE.

Formally opened in April 2009, the new AED 1bn (c.£200m) Terminal 3 facility marks a significant milestone in the impressive growth of Abu Dhabi's main airport, expanding the capacity to 12m passengers per annum - an increase of 5m. The 88,000sq.m terminal has been built to serve as a hub for the UAE's national airline, Etihad Airways.

The client (ADAC) appointed acoustic consultancy PMK International which has a regional base in Dubai, to design and specify an audio system that would meet the demands of the expansive airport retail area, and after considering many options Tannoy's Qflex was selected for the project.

A total of five Qflex 32 arrays was all that was required to prov

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UK - Exhibiting at the PLASA09 show in London last week, Trantec has launched its new S6 Wireless System, which it says "is taking the 19" 8-channel concept to a new higher level".

The rack-mounted S6 receiver comprises eight receiver modules, internal antenna distribution,headphone monitor, and USB connectivity - and also incorporates a comprehensive user interfaceon the front panel allowing the user to configure and monitor all channels, with or without anexternal PC.

When used in stand-alone mode, the operator can modify frequencies, user names, and mutelevels. RF levels, AF levels and battery status can be viewed and individual audio channels can bemonitored through the headphone output. The frequency set can also be downloaded to thetransmitters via an infrared port. Under PC control, the system can be monitored remotely givingthe additional functionality o

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The Netherlands - The Alcons LR7 micro pro-ribbon line-array system can be deployed in a wide variety of applications.

Now, the new BRK5LR7 extends the versatility of the LR7 micro line-array system even further: With this swivel yoke, up to five LR7 cabinets in stand-configuration and up to seven LR7 cabinets in flown configuration can be stand or truss mounted.

A special feature of this yoke-mounting solution is that full curving functionality is maintained, thereby enabling a complete pole-mounted full-sized line-array system.

Both the five unit and seven unit configuration can be connected to one single ALC amplifier channel, for a very efficient system lay-out.

The yoke is connected to the middle cabinet with two connecting plates on the side of the cabinet, secured with two quick-release pins each. The connecting plates are attached to the yoke with conical joints, c

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UK - Pauline Tambling has been appointed appointed managing director of the National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural Skills (NSA).

Pauline has been working as acting managing director of the NSA for the past five months. In this time she has set up the NSA Board, launched the NSA website and is leading a capital bid to build a Centre of Excellence on the Royal Opera House Production Park in Thurrock. She has successfully recruited over 170 industry members from the live music, events and theatre industries, who will work in collaboration with the NSA's 20 Founder Colleges to deliver world-class training for the world's greatest stages.

Pauline has extensive knowledge and experience of the creative and cultural sector, having worked as a senior member of Arts Council England for nine years, where her role included policy, research, training and setting up Creative Partne

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UK - Announced at the PLASA09 exhibition in London, Trantec is to offer a trade-in discount of up to £450 per channel for Trantec, and other qualifying manufacturer's radio mics, when purchasing new Trantec channel 38 equipment. With the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the funding of the Channel 38 switchover, Trantec says it is offering "a positive solution for end users and dealers alike".

The scheme was introduced alongside the company's new 'Channel 38 ready' S6 Wireless System at PLASA09. The rack-mounted S6 receiver comprises eight receiver modules, internal antenna distribution, headphone monitor, and USB connectivity - and also incorporates a comprehensive user interface on the front panel allowing the user to configure and monitor all channels, with or without an external PC.

The trade-in scheme, which will work in conjunction with the Trantec dealer a

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Italy - Taking place for the second year in 2009, the Jazz:Re:Found festival is fast becoming an Italian answer to that most famous of jazz festivals held in Montreux, Switzerland. This year Lighthouse Technologies became a technical sponsor of the three day event, providing two LED screens and technical expertise throughout.

Held in the city of Vercelli, near Milan, Jazz:Re:Found is already becoming one of the most important events in Italy's musical calendar and so event management company Casanoego went out of its way to build on the first year's success.

Artists such as Lamb, Josè James, Jazzanova, Hot 8 Brass Band, Stephanie McKay and Casino Royale were booked and the technical infrastructure also saw a significant upgrade, with Casanoego choosing Lighthouse screens to provide "the ultimate in visual impact and performance".

Lighthouse supplied a 4 x 4

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UK - At PLASA09, London-based installation company The Sound Division Group became the first UK customer for Nexo's new PS8 R2 compact loudspeakers, launched at the show earlier in the week.

David Graham of Sound Division placed a substantial order with Tony Torlini, sales director of Fuzion plc, for PS8s, LS500 and LS400 subs, and system processors. He confirmed that the new speakers will be installed at the Berkeley Square venue Morton's Club, which is opening a new boutique nightclub as part of an extensive interior refurbishment.

Nexo's PS8s are a regular fixture on London's chic nightclub circuit. Recent installations include Raffles, Vendome, Bungalow 8, Kitts, Stringfellows and the Pigalle Club.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - EMF worked closely with the Southbank, Royal Festival Hall and the Shell Centre to provide two nights of projection with multiple large format 7kw slide projectors and 8,000kW Space Cannon Search Lights as part of the launch of the new game, Monopoly City Streets, a collaboration between Hasbro and Google.

EMF transformed the iconic riverside building into the golden 'Monopoly Towers'. The charity Kidscape also benefited from the projection of big outdoor of images which successfully promoted their anti-bullying campaign.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Sennheiser UK provided on-site support at the twin V and Reading/Leeds festivals over two consecutive weekends.

At V2009's Weston Park site, Sennheiser UK's artist relations team Mark Saunders and Phil Cummings, along with its RF service team, were on hand throughout the weekend of the 22 and 23 August. Based in a Portakabin located adjacent to the main stage, the team was well placed to offer advice and support - plus the odd free chocolate - to anyone who needed it.

Artists using Sennheiser microphones included Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal, who were using the new G3 SKM 935 hand held radio mic with G3 EM 500 series receiver; Keane using the SKM 935 G2 with EM 550 receiver; The Saturdays with the SKM 935 G2 and EM 500 receivers and The Script using SKM 5200 handhelds with KK 105 heads. In addition, Snow Patrol made good use of the Neumann KMS 104 wired vocal microphone.<

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