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George is based in London. This is his second tour with Cullum and his first as LD, where he works very closely with Cullum's Artistic & Visuals Director Nickin Corrigan to produce the captivating live performance aesthetic. This is based around creative, quirky and highly effective use of IMAG camera footage which was George's starting point for the lighting design.

The lighting equipment is being supplied by Leeds, UK based rental company Zig Zag Lighting who have serviced Cullum's live work for some time. His tours have also incorporated Robe products for a while.

For Momentum, the lighting design in

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Behind the controls at monitor world for the past seven months has been Fabian Quiroga, back on his DiGiCo SD8 desk since his departure earlier in the year from a lengthy stint with The Black Keys. The SD8 was provided by Eighth Day Sound's UK shop.

"After doing a few small tours with the band's previous console, I knew I had to go back to my DiGiCo board," he muses. "When I came into this camp, management wanted the transition of a new monitor engineer to be as smooth

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"We selected a Meyer Sound Mica solution based on its overall sound quality, high efficiency in compact enclosures, and the availability of strong technical support in Spain," explains García-Diéguez. "For conferences, it delivers high clarity and intelligibility in all seats, while for concerts, it is excellent for all music styles, including folk, classical, and rock."

The Meyer Sound

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Richard used 36 MagicPanel 602 fixtures when the opening sequence for the National Football League's weekly prime time show was filmed. Previous years have seen Pink and Faith Hill sing the opening night theme songs, but this year the torch was passed over to former American Idol winner, Carrie Underwood, who made her debut during the first week of the NFL season on September 8th, 2013.

Richard was determined to create something impressive to mark Underwood's debut. "With a new Artist singing the theme song for this year's 'Sunday Night Football' Season, I envisioned that we needed to

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The agreement, which allows Elation to distribute High End's new HedgeHog 4 and Nano Hog 4 lighting consoles in the US, Canada, Latin America, South East Asia and India, caused quite a stir on the show floor.

"The distribution announcement started things off with a bang and really set the tone for the rest of the show," said Eric Loader, director of sales at Elation Lighting. "This gives us a powerful and intuitive industry-standard lighting control platform and we're thrilled to be involved with it. Customers were equally excited and interest in it was great throughout the show so

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The kaleidoscope theme was the brainchild of Showroup's Johan Els who focuses on the aesthetic and decor elements of an event, and Andries Liebenberg, Lighting Manager.

To create a playful ambience, circle shapes were used from everything in the venue from the ground up. In juxtaposition, the floor of the entire venue was tiled in black and white blocks. The lighting was thanks to a collaboration of various brand including Robe Robin 300 Classics and was run off an Avolites Titan Mobile.

The event included two Prolyte circle trusses with screens as surfaces and a 360° circular screen structure. To project images onto the 360° structure, front projection was utilized by

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With a prominent stand secured, Jands are returning to Melbourne to not only meet new and existing clients but to showcase many exciting brands that they have to offer.

"After the success from the 2012 show, we are excited to be exhibiting at the 2014 Entech Connect," said Jands' Mallory Harvey. "We anticipate the same quality and quantity of visitors as seen in 2012 and look forward to showcasing the latest technology to the industry."

Entech Connect will also see Jands running an onsite training zone.

"It's fantastic that Jands are really embracing the educational aspect of Entech Connect with their offering of the training zone, which I'm sure anyone from the audio, light

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The organization also has completed and released OCA version 1.2 of its base specification, and forwarded it to the Audio Engineering Society (AES) for review as part of the X210 standardization of OCA. OCA Version 1.2 continues the development roadmap and schedule. It enhances OCA's ability to work with different media transport technologies, and incorporates significant feedback from early adopters.

"We are very excited to announce the issuance of Version 1.2 of the specification and to welcome our new members to the OCA Alliance," said Morten Lave, OCA Alliance vice chairman and CEO/managing director of TC Applied Tec

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Lucy - a respected and sought-after lighting designer with an eclectic 20-year career - has specified 12x Color Force 72 1.8m / 72" and six Color Force 48 1.2m / 48" length fixtures to wash numerous scenic elements softly and evenly, evoking the atmosphere of the play's period.

All of the Color Force units are rigged overhead between a series of portals to wash down in subtle colours. They create a full wash and also work in smaller sections to create a 'broken up' coverage.

"For me, the best thing about the Co

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The day kicked off with a short briefing from Bruce Riley on his recent travels to PLASA. Then it was over to Nick Britz.

For those who had never sat in front of a desk before it was a great thrill to record their first cue! For the experienced, a few novel tricks and tips kept them interested.

Nick Britz comments, "At the end of the day, education makes our job simpler too as the users have a better understanding of the equipment. In regards to the DWR team, it's so much easier to sell something that you know."

DWR's Duncan Riley believes consistent industry training is imperative. "I think we take a lot for granted thinking people know the equipment," said Riley. "It's real

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Managed by Mario Radice as CEO and Giorgio Radice as commercial director, this recent initiative, effective from 1 November 2013, has been put into place to ensure the highest level of service for SGM's Italian partners.

Says Peter Johansen, "Moving all activities to Denmark has not caused us to neglect either SGM's origins nor our valued and loyal Italian customers. We have been planning this set-up and now the timing is just right."

Mario Radice is no new face to SGM and the lighting industry. Having working closely with Peter Johansen since 1992, the two passionate lighting enthusia

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The grandstand not only features a 4500-capacity amphitheatre surrounding the Theatre of the Horse parade ring, but eight new restaurant and dining spaces, and four undercover terraces on each level facing west over the Theatre of the Horse.

Brookfield Multiplex chose The P.A People to deliver the networked television distribution and audio systems. Required acoustic performance criteria for each space and an indicative number of zones were nominated, along with an overview of functional requirements and environmental constraints. A 1000 port Ethernet network specif

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Taking place at Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome on 10th November, the EMAs included performances by Eminem, Miley Cyrus, Bruno Mars, Icona Pop, Katy Perry and Kings of Leon, all of whom used Sennheiser 2000 series in-ear monitors and a combination of Sennheiser 5200 or 2000 series wireless microphone systems, except Kings of Leon who opted for MD 431 wired mics.

Two of the biggest challenges for sound designer Derrick Zieba were the amount of RF channels needed and that the presentation podium was at the far end of the Ziggo Dome from the perf

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Having historically hired front line sound for its main 2500-capacity Academy 1 from Liverpool-based Adlib Audio, this summer the Union began to upgrade its technical capabilities considerably to ensure that all four rooms were rider friendly.

The catalyst has been technical manager Stuart Wright, who was brought in 13 months ago to mastermind the refit. "The venue was very set in its ways and everything needed upgrading when I arrived," he said.

Although the main room remains on long-term rental - with a Soundc

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Ferry remains the ideal combination of mystery man and rock star and Clay's flattering and restrained lighting palette artfully reflects this. Conjuring up an intimate, smoky jazz club feel on the show's opening, half way through he seamlessly segues into dynamic concert style lighting backed by bright video imagery.

Clay's fixture palette, supplied by technical and creative production company One Big Star, includes Philips Vari-Lite VLX3 Washes for front, face and key lighting and Philips Selecon Rama Fresnels make up much of the cross lighting floor package.

Clay discusses: "We wanted a tungsten/jazzy feel for the opening of the show so t

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Enter front of house sound engineer Dave Roden, sound rental company, Capital Sound Hire and Martin Audio. That three-way relationship with the band has remained intact from day one. Seventeen years on, Kelly Jones and Co. have just completed another successful arena tour to give some exposure to the recent album, Graffiti On The Train, as well as old back catalogue favourites like Dakota.

Roden retains a fierce loyalty towards Capital Sound and has never been let down by their recommendations. "I started with the old [Martin Audio] F2," he remembers fondly, "and then moved on to Wavefront technology, the W

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With a cast led by Jude Law as the English King, Henry V follows Privates on Parade (which featured Simon Russell Beale), the world premiere of John Logan's new play Peter and Alice (featuring Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw), The Cripple of Inishmaan (featuring Daniel Radcliffe) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (featuring David Walliams and Sheridan Smith). The productions have all been directed by Michael Grandage, formerly artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, and designed by Christopher Oram. One of the main aims throughout the season has been

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The show was broadcast live across the Univision network with a staggering 9.8m viewers tuning in to all or part of the three hour telecast, which also generated record levels of interactive social media activity.

Colina has lit the Latin Grammys for the last seven years, and each year he and set designer Jorge Dominguez collaborate to produce a stunning visual concept for the action-packed line up, which included 21 live performances and the 13 Awards pres

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Critics' Choice - Three artists have been shortlisted for this year's Brit Critics' Choice award, won last year by singer Tom Odell. Chloe Howl, Ella Eyre and Sam Smith are in the running with the winner to be announced on Thursday 12 December. Howl has been compared with Lily Allen, while former Brit school student Eyre scored a number one as the vocalist on Rudimental's Waiting All Night. La, La, La, Smith's collaboration with producer Naughty Boy, also reached number one in the UK singles chart.

Voting for the 2014 Brit Awards opened for members of the music industry last week. Their shortlists fo

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Medina's lighting designer, S°ren Peglau, selected both variants of SGM's LED tubes for his design creation: 150 pcs 1-meter LT-100 and 50 pcs 2-meter LT-200, specifically acquired for this tour by rental company Comtech.

Peglau's vision was to place the tubes in various heights and depths to fill out the stage and make it seem random and unintentional. "The effect I was looking to achieve was for the lighting to drizzle down over the musicians. For this, I created content that moved vertically in a slow mode," states the designer, who for other pieces of music also produced a slow-running fire effect for the tubes.

Also the audiences were invited to become 'immersed' in the setting, with tubes hanging over their heads, for whic

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Launched in October at Sir Terence Conran's apartment in London, Holo is available in a bespoke range of colours and materials to achieve a unique minimalist design, including wafer-thin German engineered glass, brushed aluminium and chrome.

"Holo is the biggest hologram product on the market using projection and projectors," explains Steve Blyth, managing director of Engage. "But there's more to Holo than sheer size. It's a

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This year, it was the turn of brothers Chad and Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and Daniel Adair, collectively known as Nickelback. The Canadian rock quartet, with five Grammy nominations and over 50m album sales, filled the outdoor arena with a crowd of about 18,000.

Front-of-house PA was a Nexo STM modular line array system, provided by Fantasy Event Engineering of Austria. Under the supervision of Fantasy's Hannes Knapp, a multi-national engineering team set

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Following sustained year-on-year business growth, Century Point's 6,000sq.ft of office had more than reached capacity therefore Sennheiser UK moved to its new 15,000sq.ft home in Marlow, Buckinghamshire earlier this year.

BA (Hons) Spatial Design and Graphic Arts students at the University in Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, came up with distinctive designs for the new Sennheiser UK office in Globe Park, Marlow, making the most of its curved walls and glass partitioning.

"Students tackled a design challenge to make the new offices for Sennheiser UK look more distinctive and convey their core business to people who use and visit the offices", commented Alison Shreeve, Head of School

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Siyan's Tom Grant explained that Ben's spec did not originally contain Robe products, but as this is one of Siyan's main moving light brands, he agreed to the suggested substitutions and use Robe for the first time.

"It was a very positive experience all round and Ben was happy with the fixtures," comments Tom, who saw him craft a high impact show from the floor rig with six Robe LEDWash 600s and eight MMX Spots at its core.

For the larger UK shows, Siyan boosted the overhead rig with additional fixtures including 20 more MMX Spots.

A twin 22k video projection system was also sup