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Magic - The Unique Stadium Show is the first time that the magician duo has ever played a football stadium and it also signalled the end of a sold-out 120-date arena tour by the Ehrlich brothers in spectacular style.

WI's Geert Stockmans was contacted by production manager Thomas Bartz who was in charge of co-ordinating all the ambitious show's massive automation elements.

The stage was built at one end of the stadium and the production used the massive LED screen already installed for public viewings of Germany's UEFA Euro 2016 soccer championship matc

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Given the building's historic significance and beauty, it was understandable that lighting designer Jean-Pierre Willson of Unfazed Productions wanted to accent the palatial structure's architectural flourishes when he created a design for Africa Day eKapa!, an annual Africa Day concert celebrating the anniversary of the Organization of African Unity. To help him achieve this goal, the LD relied on a collection of Chauvet Professional Rogue fixtures supplied by Audiosure.

Willson used Rogue RH1 Hybrids, flown from the venue's vaulted ceiling at a height of 82' (25 meters), and Rogue R2 Washes, positioned on

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The group, described as "pop alchemists" consists of lyricist and singer Aluna Francis and producer George Reid. The duo has been bringing their compilation of pop and electronic sounds to the likes of the Firefly Festival and Lollapalooza, while simultaneously gearing up for their forthcoming album, I Remember. DJ Snake's remix of their song, I Know You Like It proved to be a massive success and skyrocketed to the top of the charts as one of the world's most streamed songs of all time.

Working with lighting designer Eric Baum, Bandit provided a lighting package that included GLP Impressions, GLP Spot Ones, and Bandit's exclusive LED GRNLite Batten. Baum created a dyna

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The show is one of a number of festivals in the rising star artist's action-packed summer and fall schedule which LA-based LD Brody has been lighting for the last three months.

He was delighted to learn that the lighting package for GDF contained the BMFLs. Snake's show design features big, bold, high-impact looks mainly using primary colours with plenty of red and white.

There's continuous audience interaction throughout the set, and Brody explained that he

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Adlib's lighting manager Dave Eldridge co-ordinated the lighting requirements for Bonamassa's regular LD Justin Duguid for the UK section of the tour, while Adlib director Dave Jones looked after all things audio for both the UK where a full sound rig was supplied and Europe where the tour continued with a control package. Eric Roa is the tour's production manager and Charlie Rushton was the main Adlib lighting tech out on the road, with Mark Johnson as the main Adlib PA tech.

The musical thread for this tour was British Blues Explosion with the music of Eric Clapto

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Throughout its most recent existence, the venue has rented PA systems for major shows. But, as of June, BergenPAC is now a self-sufficient venue featuring its own L-Acoustics Kara sound system designed and installed by Boulevard Pro, a leading NYC metro area audio systems and backline provider supplying L-Acoustics sys

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Commenting, Mark Trevena, training manager of tvONE said, "Our CTS accredited hands-on sessions remain popular, but we hear from clients that their time is becoming more and more precious. The tvONE Training Academy Studio provides a solution that maintains the high quality of presentation and content our partners, installers and end users expect, but provides new formats and forms of content that they can access instantly online at a time that suits them."

In order to deliver the high standard of presentation that the Pro AV industry expects from tvONE, the studio is fitted out with nearly £100,000

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This will provide ICMP students with a unique opportunity to study in and engage with an immersive industry environment, building their networks amongst some of the music industry's biggest names.

Tileyard Studios is the largest professional music community in the UK, with more than 70 music studios and 100 businesses that provide a home to a wide spectrum of companies working in music, film, television, fashion and creative new tech sectors. Artists and companies at Tileyard include Mark Ronson, Tynchy Stryder, The Prodigy, John Newman, Lily Allen, Notting Hill Music, Marathon Artists, Spitfire Au

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As part of the review, DCMS has opened an online survey asking for feedback on the Arts Council, which is open for submissions until 20 September. ACE deputy chief executive, Althea Efunshile, said she felt the body was well placed for the review, referencing changes to the application

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NANO RX modules were installed into Look Solutions Viper 2.6 smoke machines and Pea Soup Phantom hazers to provide full wireless control of the output and variable blower control.

Andy Thompson, of AC Lasers notes, "It is important to have full, balanced coverage of haze in arenas or outdoor festival stages for lasers to look their best, and W-DMX is the only practical solution for us."

Daniel Briggs, of AC Lasers adds, "All of the nodes are connected to a Wireless Solution BlackBox F-1 G4S Transceiver, which supports ArtNet I/O through Ethernet, allowing us to operate straight from the laser control software."

W-DMX's OEM components are distributed and supported by ON LX, an emerging company based in the South East of England. Ja

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Lighting design for Space and Time Continuum is a collaborative effort between Jake Whittingham and Dave Hill with Whittingham on tour with the production as lighting director and board op. In addition to 35 Elation Platinum Beam 5R units that the band had in the rig for the 2015 outings, a new Elation kit of 17 Platinum FLX hybrid moving heads, eight Platinum Beam 5R Extreme beam lights, 26 ZW19 LED beam/wash effects and eight ACL 360 Bar effect lights have joined the line-up.

"The biggest determining f

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"We are very excited to be associated with BMD", says ImageCue CEO Bill Hewlett. "Their animated artwork for musical theatre scenic projections is stunning, and the way they build cue-able content is a perfect match with ImageCue."

ImageCue allows BMD's scenic projections to be played back on cue from a standard lighting controller using only 12 channels of DMX512. Both ImageCue and BMD have been featured in Richard Cadena's Video Matters column in LSi magazine - ImageCue in November 2015

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When Macy's began a new initiative to transform a retail location into the 'Store of the Future', they approached Gaiam with an opportunity to create a completely new retail environment meant to achieve a higher level of customer engagement. Understanding exactly how they wanted to capture the attention of Macy's shoppers, Gaiam began working with Reflect who chose to incorporate FLEXLite NXG 3.9mm LED video technology from Nashville-based PixelFLEX into the new retail environment.

"As a fitness and wellness brand partner of Macy's, we were very excited about the opportunity to take part in their technology renovation and feature a spa

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The Classic Open-Air Music Festival in Nuremberg, Germany, is one of the biggest of its kind in Europe. The series of free outdoor concerts, organised by the city, features the Nuremberg state orchestras on stage in the Luitpoldhain park. As a mark of respect to the tragic events in Munich this summer, two July dates were cancelled, but an enthusiastic crowd of 60,000 gathered for the next scheduled concert, with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley and featuring organ soloist Cameron Carpenter.

In Phase Event is one of the primary rental suppliers of Nexo systems in Germany. CEO Ernst Sieber

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Safari in the City was a charity gala dinner hosted by the Zoological Society of London at Regent's Park Zoo. Held in a large, tepee-style tent to raise money for the fight against the poaching of rhinos, elephants, tigers and other wild animals, the key audio requirement was to provide enough coverage and volume for a gala evening, without any unnecessary spill.

"We used a QL1 because of its comprehensive facilities in a very small footprint. A Rio1608-D i/o unit was positioned by the lectern to keep the XLR cable length to

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Logic Systems, Self's company, provided over 75 Rogue, Legend, COLORado and COLORdash fixtures to send light across the stage from every conceivable direction at the band's sold-out performance at the 20,000-capacity Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis.

Flying fixtures from six truss structures that spread out diagonally from the center stage like extended overhead fingers, he was able to hit the band and audience with down washes and beams. He also hung

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Lighting was designed by Merle McLain who has worked with the band for 23 years. He was on the road operating the key and conventional lights and also directing and switching seven robo-cams as well as keeping an overview on all-things visual. Running the moving lights was Robin Seefeldt. Lester Cobrin was HSL's project manager on the road, with everything at the warehouse end managed by Sean McGlone.

Earth Wind and Fire, one of the most successful bands of the 20th century have embraced many musical genres including soul, funk, jazz, hip hop, R'n'B, pop, rock, Latin and African - and have a huge and eclectic fanbase as a result. Their live shows are known for their vibrance and en

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The Kinesys elements comprised eight Elevation 1+ drives working in conjunction with one tonne Liftket motors capable of 12m a minute movement, controlled via Kinesys Vector software operated by Paddy Neilly and the set-up included a Kinesys PD-ES power distribution and Emergency Stop system.

The two lighting pods were both loaded with a 6 x 6 grid of Elation SIXPAR 200s with 16 x Clay Paky Sharpys around the perimeter of each. They

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Voting in the Gottelier Awards is only open to PLASA Members, registered readers of LSi magazine and pre-registered visitors to PLASA 2016. All will receive an email with a unique code inviting them to place their individual vote via the PLASA Show website. Voting closes on Friday 9 September 2016 and the winner will be announced at the PLASA Show at Olympia, West London, on Monday 19 September.<

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New features also include social media and manufacturer website links to enhance the user experience with further information on products, and an up-to-the-minute news section with additional useful links including products articles, shows & events, designer backgrounds and even career opportunities at JHS.

An interactive Dealership Locator with contact info, directions and street view facility can be accessed directly at product level for consumers to find their nearest stock

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They have used the Milos M400 range of truss to realize custom installations in various public places in Hong Kong. Among their many creations is a hanging sculpture in Pacific Place shopping mall for its 25th Anniversary celebration and a hanging goat display at the PMQ Goat ARTventure exhibition gallery.

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"We met up with a lot of clients, really nice guys," said Date. "I felt very comfortable with them. The funny thing is that typically when you walk into a rental company, no matter if it's based in North of Europe, Holland or Spain, the people are always the same."

Date has been with Prolyte since 2002. "Like many other people in this industry, I was a DJ at the time, playing records and that is how I came to meet the former owner of Prolyte," Date recalls. "We had a beer together and he said I should work for his company."

Robert Izzett from DWR has met with Date many times over the years. "He is an amazing guy and we appreciated the visit," said Robert. Date is temporarily filling in for Paul-Erik Ha