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The presentation of 'Mango in big words' was designed by Elsinor of Spain as a celebrity surprise reveal in which the press, gathered on the Millennium Bridge, would be treated to a sail-by of giant pages from the book.

That was to be followed by a presentation by the celebrity guest - Elizabeth Jagger, the new face of Mango - and speeches at the Old Billingsgate Market in the City of London.

The production brief required technical director Adam Wildi and Vertigo's project team, headed by MD Becky Loughran, to organise and equip suitable vessels to transport the giant pa

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The Staging Connections Group, headquartered in Australia, operates from over 90 locations around the world. The group delivers production, design, staging and venue solutions across a wide spectrum of live events and exhibitions as well as providing venue services.

The purchase decision was made for a variety of reasons, as Gearhouse's managing director, Peter McCann explains: "Gearhouse and the Staging Connections Group have been instrumental in bringing the latest and best technology to the Middle East, introducing high-definition solu

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The PA configuration was ground stacked and consisted of six Nexo Alpha M3 mid/tops, six B1 bass enclosures & four S2 subs a side. For the larger venues they added more M3s for in-fills and out-fills as required, and they also toured and used Adlib FD2 cabinets for in-fills.

The FOH desk was a Yamaha PM5D, on which they fully utilised its onboard effects and processing plus the proprietary Nexo processors. The desk also had enough space on which to fit the opening act.

The system was powered by Crown VZ 5002 amplifiers throughout - which are an Adlib standard when ru

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out post utilised one of its fully tour ready Digidesign Pro Tools HD | 2 systems with two fully expanded 192s, one Digidesign PRE, three Audient ASP008 mic pre amplifiers and XTA active mic splits recording up to 26 channels. The company then provided the session data to festival sponsor, London's X-FM, who will be broadcasting the recordings in the near future.

out post, which only started trading at the beginning of the year, worked closely with Jon Mac from The Barfly and Giles Bristow of Austublief Audio to secure the deal. "This is a

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The workshop was also enhanced with the guest speaker Siobhan Hitchen from Rope Assemblies, who went through wire rope inspection and LOLER requirements as well taking part in the workshop as a student.

The main emphasis of the workshop included the current and potential future legislation that the entertainment touring and event industry could encounter. This subject was very competently covered by Verlinde's Hans van der Moolen, who has been at the forefront of the advances in technology and safety within the entertainment event rigging industry throughout Europe for the last 30 years.

Tony Dickson, one of the founders of Hoist UK, say

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John Moore, Impact Marcom's UK rental manager, says: "The wireless microphones we were using had become outdated and unreliable so we investigated an alternative and decided on the AKG system because it is very high quality. Our technicians were impressed by the features on offer, in particular the ability to scan radio frequencies to ensure we didn't conflict with other wireless microphone users in the same venue. They also like the fact that they can monitor the output from a laptop computer, which makes this a very portable and easy to use system."

Impact Marcom's hire team has been supplying products to the video conferencing business for more than 25 years and holds a huge st

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The project was handled for J&C Joel by contracts manager Tony Griffiths, who assisted in the technical design of the building and in the client's final choice of stage equipment.

The client chose a highly flexible arrangement of 14 3-phase, 250kg, single speed, 4-line electrically operated pilewind winch units, plus six 4-line hemp sets.

The Alley is a new 270 seat multi purpose venue funded by a £750,000 Lottery grant - the area's largest-ever award from the Arts Council for Northern Ireland. It is also the first dedicated arts facility designed for the enjoyment of all the district's 37,000 residents. A designated link fr

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Recently owners Robert Newmark and Graham Rebak sensed that in order to keep BBB firing on all cylinders they needed to improve their sound system. And so they returned to their long-term A/V suppliers, the Sound Division Group (SDG).

The relationship with Newmark and Rebak has developed over a three-year period since they were first introduced by near neighbours (and fellow SDG clients), Adam and Charles Breeden from the award-winning Lonsdale.

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Midas won the contract, which went out to tender, after TRT decided that the H1000 offered advantages over the competition, including its FOH abilities. The tender required that each console should have transformer balanced inputs - an option on the H1000. One of the consoles has 28 microphone and four stereo inputs, while the other three have 20 microphone and four stereo inputs, all with the transformer balanced input option.

TRT engineers visited Midas' factory in Kidderminster, UK, to conduct final quality control tests with int

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Owned by the Corporation of the Church House, and designed by renowned architect Sir Herbert Baker in 1939, the building serves as the headquarters of the Church of England. When the general synod is not in session it is let for corporate banquets, conferences and seminars.

The original, fixed tiered seating has been removed and replaced with a level floor; this gives the hall much more versatility and the ability to cater for t

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"Due to large investments and by increasing our hire and sales stocks we've been struggling with space for a number of years and the walls were about to give," says managing director Paul Need. The new building is large enough to house both hire and sales businesses under one roof. A sales counter, and customer reception area enable us to greet visiting customers in a spacious, more relaxed atmosphere than before. Our cable manufacturing department will also be relieved to be moving.

"The increased space will mean further investments in lighting and audio equipment, together with being able to hold more of the everyday items people need at short notice. Being so close to Rosco/DHA means their entire stock is a two-minute walk away."

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PRG Europe's custom gobo resource facility produced special Bryan Adams and 25th Show @ Wembley gobos for the 12 Martin MAC 2000 Profiles controlled by crew chief Gareth Wharrier on an Avolites Pearl 2008 console. For extra effect the company also supplied a four-headed Skytracker searchlight.

"We have a good relationship with Wembley so had no worries when it came to arranging this event at relatively short notice," says PRG Europe's Loz Wilcox. "Everything went really well, and we're proud to be able to support Bryan Adams' 20th year and 25th show at the Arena."

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Towers Clair Showco, based in Toronto is providing Adamson Speakers for the entire North American Tour that will continues into the US, starting 30 May 30 in Florida and finishing 21 June in California.

Furtado's FOH Engineer Jeffrey Holdip gave his approval to the Y-10 Adamson system used during the rehearsal period in Toronto this past January. The feedback gathered while mixing during the Canadian dates confirmed Holdip's instinct about wanting to tour with the Adamson system.

The set-up required 16 rigging points. Mai

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Last autumn, Glen Smith recommended a 32-channel Verona for the adjacent BP Lecture Theatre, and such has been its success, the Museum has repeated its order for a smaller 24-channel console.

"We just replicated the system we have next door," says Museum sound engineer Dave Hogan. "Compared to the console we're taking out of service, the Verona offers a significant general improvement in sound quality and better gain before feedback. We can control everything through the desk, all the loudspeaker configurations we have in the theatre - mono, stereo, surround. Before we had to use other devices to control the 5.1 surround sound, so now there's absolutely

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The first test of the new technology took place at the Fix club in Thessaloniki, a well-known venue which hosts many celebrated Greek vocalists. Since then, the Vi6 console has been used for a variety of applications, from classical music to television production. Sofia Vossou, a Greek singer and former Eurovision contestant famous for her interpretation of modern Greek music, and folk maestro George Katsaros have both made use of the desk in their live concerts.

The console has played its part in several popular television productions at Alter Channel, a private TV station, including Jungle and The Party of Your Life. And to underline its versatility, it has been used to mix the Philharmonic Orchestra of Athens at an outdoo

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One end of the warehouse featured a long SoftLED backdrop, and the Cisco Globe - a 7ft high MiPix construction commissioned by Cisco in the US - suspended in the ceiling. Three warehouse aisles featured Nintendo Wii machines hooked up to Christie S+20 Roadsters and 14 x 8 rear-projected screens, so gamers could get right into their different worlds - which was mostly boxing - by the end of the night.

At the far end of the warehouse - normally use

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The entire installation at the Seasalter Christian Centre was cabled using Van Damme microphone, speaker and data cables, supplied by VDC Trading which also supplied all of the connectors for the project.

The Seasalter Christian Centre is an Anglican church that can accommodate a congregation of up to 350 in its main hall. The new building also includes meeting rooms and kitchen facilities.

Crystal Clear Audio's managing director Nick Fatkin says: "The AV and lighting installations were highly specified in order to meet the demands of the congregation and of external customers who use the hall and meeting rooms during the week. I used Van Damme cables because they are reliable

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The event, which is free to all members, has a strong agenda this year and will feature a key vote on a major membership restructure, updates on the radio licensing issue which threatens every aspect of the industry and a highly respected guest speaker in former MP, Tony Benn.

The AGM, which begins at midday, will cover the key activities of the last 12 months, including the ongoing development of qualifications for the sector, PLASA's commitment to improve member services, the launch of an events division and the most recent developments in the organisation's high-profile lobbying campaign to challenge the auction of vital radio frequencies.

The AGM will also address the future as th

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Soundhouse has been working on high-profile events across Germany and Europe since 1982. In addition to its new addition, the company already owns more than 10 Midas consoles ranging from the Venice through XL200, XL3, H1000 and H3000.

The H4000 was put straight to work as monitor console on Argentinean singer Semino Rossi's arena tour of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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Some of Color Kinetics' more recent local installations include Bank of America Pavilion, Boston Hyatt Downtown, Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Westin Boston Waterfront, Rustic Kitchen, and Sushi-Teq at the new InterContinental Boston. Its intelligent LED lighting systems also generate colour and dynamic lighting effects in multiple locations within TD Banknorth Garden, Boston's premier sports and entertainment arena. These and other installations exhibit both the versatile aesthetics of digitally controllable LED s

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The CMT package - the fourth consecutive year they have supplied the event - included several LED and projection surfaces, a camera/PPU package, an 8-channel Watchout video control system, eight lasers and 14 crew to install, operate and support the visuals systems.

During the dinner, the ARK charity organisation (set up by the hedge fund industry to raise money for children affected by poverty, abuse, disability and illness) announced the launch of the Clinton-ARK Initiative for Mozambique, through a strategic partnership

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Akun Tehdras put in place a dual redundancy system throughout, which effectively meant two of everything, one of which was purely for back-up purposes. As InnovaSON's technical field manager, Matthieu Le Failler pointed out, "When your show is being performed in front of 12,000 people and going out live to 100

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The £2m project will be completed in September, with state of the art facilities both front of house and backstage. "We have been working closely with the local authorities to increase the overall site capacity and we're delighted with this new offering for touring artists and promoters. We plan to operate up to three separate rooms if required, and can increase the auditorium of Carling Academy Oxford for larger touring acts, utilising the maximum lower floor space. The upstairs 'Zodiac' room can also run at the same time with a flexible capacity fo

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"I had been using the Maxxyz with The Alan Parsons Live Project since 2005 whenever I could, but many of the shows the act does are one-offs and there is no touring production," Martin comments. "I had also just used the Maxxyz on the 2006 African/European leg of The Black Eyed Peas and the 2006 US Tour for Chris Brown - it is my first choice of console for any of the acts I'm doing.

He continues, "The Maxxyz has an ease of programming that allows me to build several complicated cuelists in a short period of time. The layout of the console