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UK - England Golf, the governing body for amateur golf in England, has invested in several portable wireless PA systems from MIPRO in readiness for the coming season.

The equipment will be used to announce players as they arrive at the tee as well as for pre- and post-event speeches and presentations. The systems may be used as self-contained, stand-alone systems or in conjunction with each other if broader coverage is required. The equipment was supplied by AV integration specialists AVworx in Bedford via MIPRO's UK distributor, CUK Audio.

England Golf will run 55 championships and tournaments in 2017, including the European Amateur Championship and the Men's Home Internationals. The organization has taken delivery of two of MIPRO's flagship MA-808 systems and four of the smaller MA-303 units along with six ACT32H handheld wireless microphones (one for each system) plus s

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UK - Evans Audio Visual provided all the elements needed for international hair care company Schwarzkopf to re-launch one of their most popular product ranges, BLONDME, at The Principal Manchester.

Schwarzkopf asked Evansto provide the set, stage, video, lighting and sound for the two-day event, which saw professional hairdressers gather to listen to business summaries, marketing presentations, and live product demos by Peter Marcus Hairdressing, in a bid to motivate and encourage sales. The event also featured a catwalk show as well as an awards ceremony for the delegates who came top in their departments and regions, as well as long service recognition awards for those who had been supporting Schwarzkopf for 15-35 years.

To facilitate the videos, Evans supplied and installed a 10,000 lumen projector with an ultra-short throw mirrored lens, capable of projecting onto the

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USA - Founded in Houston in 1912, Rice University is Texas's most prestigious institution of higher education, a veritable ivy of the southern coastal plains! Although football has always been a big deal at Rice - much more so than at the traditional ivies - its importance has grown as the Rice University Owls have earned five bowl game appearances within in the last decade (the most recent appearance before that was 1961!).

To accommodate and even accelerate that momentum, the university recently invested $31.5m in the new 60,000sq.ft Brian Patterson Sports Performance Centre, which includes offices, locker rooms, student athlete lounges, a sports medicine centre, an auditorium, and a strength and conditioning centre. In keeping with the new centre's state-of-the-art facilities, Baton Rouge-based AV integrator Technical Services Group (TSG) installed Danley Sound Labs loudspe

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USA - Wonderama, a revival of the popular '60s kids variety show, rolled out this month on Tribune Broadcasting's cable network, with a set featuring Solaris Mozart LED fixtures. Hosted by David Osmond (of the talented Osmond family), 13 weekly episodes are in the can with 30 more scheduled.

"We're using 14 Mozarts now, but I'd love to have 150," says show LD Herrick Goldman of HG Lighting Design Inc., New York. "Placed on vertical legs of truss at the back of the set, they're the perfect eye candy for imparting action and energy. Our director, Bob Conover, challenged us to make the room as kinetic and vibrant as possible while still shooting in the round.

Controlled with a GrandMA and bit-mapped for kinetic rainbow effects, we use Rosco diffusion for a slightly softer, homogenous image. They look great for a live audience as well as the TV viewers. Being a seven-ca

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USA - Ben Coker, lighting designer for Porter Robinson and Madeon's co-headlining Shelter theatre tour, has just finished an extensive 34-date run in the US, with Robe BMFL Spots and WashBeams and Pointes prominent on the rig.

The decision to play primarily theatres and sit down venues has been hugely successful and allowed them to present their music in a different context and environment. The show took on the style and feel of a concert with individual songs / breaks in between, live vocals much of the time and a selection of live instruments introduced and played throughout the set from electric pianos to percussion.

It was something 'out-of-the-box' for the electronic music scene and different with a new and interesting energy from these two leading electronic artists. Ben started the design process well in advance, producing multiple concepts which were presented to t

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UK - Audio-Technica has announced that it is to act as exclusive UK distributor for Portuguese brand Artnovion's range of acoustic treatment products from 27 January 2017.

Based in Paços de Ferreira, near Porto, Artnovion designs and manufactures absorption, bass traps and diffusion products, as well as offering insulation solutions for pro audio, residential and architectural applications. From wood and fabric tiles to acoustic doors and anti-vibration wall and floor solutions, the Artnovion range is distinguished by a strong design language created by company founder Jorge Castro.

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UK - The charity formerly called Behind the Scenes UK has announced that its annual Live Events industry Charity Golfing day is back, re-branded and re-invented. Join the team behind Backup - the technical entertainment charity - along with friends and colleagues for a day of fun, frolics and frivolity - anything other than actual Golf!

The Gold Day will take place on Wednesday 12 April 2017 at The Drift Golf Club, East Horsley, Surrey, from 1000-1900hrs. For team entry, sponsorship opportunities and general inquiries please contact info@backuptech.uk

Last year's Golf Day was a great success, raising over £7,000 for the charity.

Backup - the technical entertainment charity - run by a Board of Trustees from our Entertainment Industry. Previously known as Behind the Scenes UK, Backup provides help and financial support to

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World Beater - The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has awarded Adele its global artist of the year prize in recognition of her "simply phenomenal" success. Adele's achievement is particularly notable as her third album 25 was not released until late November. It went on to become the fastest selling album in British history. It sold more than 800,000 copies in its first week and with the album kept off streaming sites, its chart success was entirely made up of physical and download sales.

The second biggest selling artist of 2015 was Ed Sheeran - despite him not releasing a studio album during the course of the year. The IFPI says its top 10 chart is the only music industry ranking to accurately capture the worldwide popularity of artists across physical formats, downloads and streams.

Early Bath - Coldplay played to an estimated

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USA - As part of an ongoing project to upgrade its technical infrastructure, Northside Christian Church in New Albany, Indiana, has recently purchased an SSL L300 live console.

Founded in a small basement in 1970, Northside has gone from strength to strength, now serving over 5000 people each weekend. Ted W. Roberts, administrator at the church, provides oversight of technical infrastructure, drawing on his own extensive, high-end live sound and touring experience. Most recently, Roberts helped specify the new console: "It's very different when you work with only one or two key department heads and then everybody else is a volunteer," says Roberts. "They have to be set up for success. If you don't provide the right tools for the job, the volunteers can't enjoy it because they sense imminent failure all the time."

When Roberts came to Northside five years ago it already had

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UK - New Order's recent UK and European tour in support of their latest album, Music Complete, featured a vibrant lighting design controlled via an Avolites Arena console.

The tour marked the first time lighting designer Andrew Liddle opted for the Arena - Avolites' latest console.

"I was really keen to give the Arena a try and it proved very worthwhile," says Liddle. "I saw it to be a natural progression from the Avolites Tiger Touch I've been using since 2010, and found it to be a whole lot more. Hardware wise, it's the complete package - lid off and good to go. For what it is, it's really compact, not too bulky or weighty, and the layout's great and the second screen is useful too."

Alongside the main display, the Arena offers a second touch screen providing an additional workspace window and also labelling the adjacent macro buttons and rotary pots. These fu

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UK - Working with production designers, Louis Oliver and James Scott of Okulus Design, PRG XL Video supplied lighting, rigging, and video for Chvrches most recent UK tour.

The package combined specially adapted trussing, a variety of lighting types, plus custom-built LED video towers.

Oliver's multi-layer design centred around three monoliths of LED video screen. This was built from PRG XL Video's MC-7T LED, supplied by senior account manager, Paul McCauley, and housed in custom units built specially for the tour. The 7mm LED was selected because of its visual clarity.

Senior account manager, Roy Hunt worked closely with Okulus on the lighting and rigging specifications to ensure a smooth and perfectly executed tour.

The lighting package included 33 Martin MAC Auras. Okulus specified nine in a mid-stage truss and 24 on the floor. Eight of these were used to surroun

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UK - Utopium worked alongside lead contractor Richmond Event Management (REM) to help shine a spotlight on the Bristol Green Capital closing ceremony, as the city celebrated a successful year, February 2016.

As Bristol prepared to hand over its 'European Green Capital' title to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, residents gathered in Bristol's Colston Hall to reflect over the innovations in 2015 and consider the legacy of Green Capital 2015, hearing exciting plans for the year ahead.

REM contracted a range of local suppliers, including Utopium and Evans Audio Visual Staging, to help transform Colston Hall where this event took place.

Within the main Colston Hall auditorium, Utopium installed a truss system, which enabled drape reveals throughout the ceremony. Following the presentation, moving drapes revealed a procession of children with illuminated umbrellas, first

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Germany - At the recent 165th IAA motor show in Frankfurt, experiential sound design company PaniX GbR responded to specific client demands for "surround sound to follow video content" by employing TiMax audio showcontrol and 3D audio animation capabilities for the exhibits and conferences of two separate auto brands.

For Hyundai, the PaniX team used a single 32-channnel TiMax SoundHub with MADI to create a dynamic and immersive press conference for the Korean manufacturer.

In the first instance TiMax created an intimate atmospheric soundscape for the very large press conference space. TiMax delay-matrixed Image Definitions also drew sharp focus onto locations at the left and right of the conference, as J

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USA - The ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas features a technologically advanced convention and event operation that each year hosts an extravagant New Year's Eve celebration. /I> winding down the proverbial rabbit hole so they reached out to PRG and Vickie Claiborne, lighting and digital media product specialist, for the lighting design. During the planning stages, she was asked to accentuate the interaction between the audience and the performers, so she chose the small yet powerfully creative Showline SL 300 BEAM FX LED luminaire from Philips Entertainment for the task.

"I've worked with ARIA on lighting designs for a wide variety of special events since its opening in 2009," began Claiborne. "I've always done ARIA's New Year's EvRinging in 2016 for VIP and invited guests, event producers wanted to take the night to Wonderland

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USA - A winter storm couldn't stop the prestigious 24th Annual Trumpet Awards which celebrates and honours African American achievers and those who support the African American experience.

, and honours accomplishments in diverse fields including law, medicine, business, politics, the Arts, civil rights, sports, entrepreneurship, entertainment and other careers.

Hosted by actress Nia Long and actor Mike Epps, the honourees of this year's Trumpet Awards included EVP and COO of General Motors Alicia Boler-Davis, Former Secretary of Labour Alexis M. Herman, Chancellor of Wayne Community College Dr. Curtis L. Ivery, HRH Princess Masmah Bint Saud, R&B singer Ne-Yo, film and television producer Will Packer and legendary actor George Wallace. TBandit Lites provided the lighting package for the event which took place 23 January at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centrehe African A

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USA - ESTA's Technical Standards Council has announced the recipients of the third annual Above & Beyond Awards designed to recognize outstanding Technical Standards Program volunteers. The awards celebrate those volunteers that have made a significant contribution or effort that advances the Technical Standards Program.

The TSP exists because hundreds of individuals from across the industry volunteer their expertise and significant amounts of time throughout the year to write standards that increase safety, solve problems, and make life easier. These awards are particularly meaningful to the recipients because the nominations are made by their peers within the Technical Standards Program.

The Above & Beyond Awards for 2015 were presented to:

Tyrone Mellon Jr. (Electrical Power Working Group) was cited "As a significant contributor to ANSI E1.24, Dimensional Requiremen

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Europe - At ISE 2016, which opened in Amsterdam today, AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV confirmed the appointment of two new distributors in Eastern Europe.

Stefan Kr

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Switzerland - The picturesque town of Bulle in the Canton of Freibourg is nestled in the rocky hills that separate the French and German-speaking regions of Swizerland. Bulle, a regional economic hub, is also home to Globull, one of Swizerland's most popular and cutting edge nightclubs.

Committed to staying on the leading edge of music and lifestyle trends, Globull is constantly working to create and maintain a sharp, sleek atmosphere inside the three storey dance club. Toward this end, the club's management recently decided to install a group of Chauvet fixtures to ensure an infinite variety of looks (for a very finite budget!) in the club's mainfloor lounge/performance area.

To complete the installation, Bulle based install company, Sonart, installed a selection of Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrids, along with Intimidator Scan LED 300 moving fixtures from Chauvet DJ

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UK - Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting for punk duo Slaves most recent tour which culminated in a highly animated show at Brixton Academy in London, with lighting created by Francis Clegg part of design collective MIRRAD.

Francis came to the table with a scheme to match the energy and ebullience of the band's live shows.

Brixton was the biggest venue on the tour, the showcase gig and a huge deal for the rising star band, so the lighting was based on this space, but the rig also had to be adaptable and scale-able to fit all the other venues which included a round of academies and still look the business.

Says Colour Sound's H (Haydn Cruickshank), "Francis is very talented, he has an excellent eye for aesthetics and a fantastic feel for music. All his designs are fresh and interesting, and it was a great pleasure to be the supplier on the different legs of this o

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USA - When a Magnet High School for the performing arts in the San Francisco Bay area needed to upgrade its theatre it called on DSC Design of Novato, California to design an upgraded lighting system. DSC Design specified an all-LED lighting design and a new dot2 XL-F lighting console from MA Lighting.

DSC Design handled design and technical management for the high school's theatre upgrade, as well as programming classes for students and faculty. The theatre is a key component in students' performing arts studies: It is used for dramatic and musical theatre productions, dance, the orchestra and jazz band.

Part of MA Lighting's new range of compact dot2 consoles, the dot2 XL-F is durable and lightweight with intuitive operation. It includes a full programming section, master playback section, 14 fader playbacks and 28 individual playback buttons.

"The dot2's easy learni

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Ireland - Clay Paky SuperSharpys transformed Dublin's city-centre sculpture, the Spire, into a 398ft lightsaber to celebrate the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

As the film opened in Ireland's capital, the SuperSharpys' intensely precise beams, which are three times brighter than the previous Sharpy, illuminated the entire length of the O'Connell Street structure in vibrant blue to emulate the Jedi weapon.

Commissioned by Disney, Tom Rohan of event production house Eventco conceptualised the installation alongside lighting designers Mick Murray and Matthew Cregan. The team specified 16 SuperSharpys from Ciaran Tallon at Psi Dublin for the ambitious project, which received national press attention and brought unprecedented crowds to the monument with thousands sharing photographs across social media.

"Following our installation at the Spire for the Inte

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UK - Middlesex University in London boasts a strong performing arts department and was eager to upgrade both its Ravensfield Theatre and Dance Studio space. Whilst state-of-the-art equipment was a necessity, so was the need to be environmentally-friendly, with the university determined to be as green as possible and change their previous lighting equipment to LED only. As a result, they approached White Light to purchase the perfect set-up.

Bruce Allen is technical production manager at Middlesex University and oversaw the upgrade of both spaces. He comments, "As this was quite a significant investment, we needed to ensure that the equipment we purchased not only fulfilled our immediate aims but would also be sustainable for the long-term.

"The main priority of the upgrade was to ensure that all of the equipment purchased was as environmentally-friendly as possible. We are

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France Over 300 Robe BMFL fixtures were sold to the French market in the few months since the formation of Robe's new French subsidiary, Robe Lighting France SAS.

The BMFL was launched in autumn 2014, by which time French lighting professionals were ready to specify and keen to use the high-powered multi-purpose luminaire, and as soon as the new company was established, the business could 'hit-the-ground-running'.

"BMFL sales far exceeded our initial annual expectations and we steamed past those first targets in just six months," commented a delighted Bruno Garros, CEO of Robe Lighting France, who added that - given that the new company was formed just a few months after the launch of Robe's flagship moving light. "We didn't expect to catch up with some of the other European countries quite so fast."

The ball started rolling in May 2015 with a purchase of 46 x BMFL Spo

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