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South Africa - It was go, go, go for Clay Paky's Massimo Bolandrina on his recent visit to South Africa. Along with Robert Izzett from DWR, a jam-packed schedule saw the pair visiting clients in Johannesburg as they presented a one-on-one demonstration of the Scenius Profile.

"It was very good to see that everyone was enthusiastic about the product," said Massimo. "It was also good to have a warm reception from the customers." The South African industry have come to know Massimo over the years, and it's always great to welcome him back.

The Scenius Profile really sells itself. "Exactly what has been said in the advertisement about the quality of light, you find when you see it. The first thing that catches your eye is the excellence of the projection, of the white, the flat even field and saturated colours. Customers see this and immediately react to that."

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USA - Full service production company GVPmedia utilized the multi-functionality of Elation Professional's Platinum FLX moving head on the AAU Junior Olympic Games Celebration of Athletes, using the award-winning hybrid moving head for beam and spot lighting, as well as floods of light.

The opening ceremony style event was held at the M.O. Campbell Centre in Houston on 31 July and GVP produced the entire show from start to finish including designing the entire set, developing the run of show, and creating custom videos and content.

This was the AAU Junior Olympic Games' 50th anniversary event and GVP fully utilized the Platinum FLX fixtures on the show, explains Gabby Schmees, director of business operations at GVPmedia, Inc. "They were needed for two main jobs," she said. "As a dynamic light show with fast, big looks, and as an even stage wash for IMAG. The greatest utiliz

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Brazil - Just as they had at London 2012 - and many other spectacular Games ceremonies before - Norwest Productions took their extensive Optocore fibre network system to Rio for this year's Summer Olympics.

The Australian-based large event specialists were contracted to Cerim

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USA - After 16 years, seven critically acclaimed albums and a succession of sold-out world tours, New York-based group Bayside remains as raw, hungry and true to its musical roots as ever.

Designer Eric Price hit a visual sweet spot when lighting Bayside's current tour in support of its new Vacancy album. Artfully deploying a collection of Chauvet Professional Rogue fixtures throughout his rig, he is managing to deliver punchy, immersive looks, while avoiding heavy eye candy that could compete with the band's gut level music.

"Bayside wasn't looking for a show full of big lighting looks; this wouldn't be in keeping with their approach to their fans and music," said Price. "At the same time, though, they wanted something that would reflect their music in an exciting and intense way. The Rogues provided me with a great tool for doing this, because they were very brigh

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UK - Leading UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL supplied lighting equipment and crew to the recent UK tour by soul and jazz singer / songwriter and guitarist George Benson.

Benson, who had his most popular hits in the 1970s including the album Breezin' still has a huge following, and tours worldwide from May to October every year. The tour included Benson's 23rd show at London's Royal Albert Hall which was completely sold out. He first played there in 1977 and it's one of the artist's favourite venues.

It was the first year that HSL has supplied the tour, working to a lighting design and spec created by UK based LD Simon Tutchener, who has also lit the last four UK tours. This one was project managed on the road for HSL by Lester Cobrin, and prepped and overseen in HSL's Blackburn HQ by Sean McGlone.

Benson had a six-piece backing band and Simon put toge

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USA - The Behind the Scenes Foundation has announced the Fred Foster Scholarship Fund. Board members had long been seeking a way to honour Fred's innumerable contributions to our industry and, in particular, his unwavering support of the charity since its inception.

The purpose of the fund is to assist the children of Behind the Scenes grant recipients with continuing their education which may otherwise be in jeopardy due to their family's current financial situation. BTS frequently assists individuals whose children are unable to remain in school because the family can no longer afford tuition.

The BTS Grants Review Committee will be responsible for identifying appropriate candidates from among the families of grant recipients and awarding the scholarships which may be used for any accredited post-secondary education program or vocational training.

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World - Multi-award winning Italian singer / songwriter and music producer Laura Pausini started her 2016 world touring campaign in support of her new Simili studio album with a new lighting design created by Alain Corthout and Ignace D'Haese from Belgian based creative visual design practice, Arf & Yes.

This includes 128 x Robe Pointes and 109 x BMFL WashBeams which are right at the centre of a complex and eye-catching rig.

The tour kicked off with five large stadium dates - all completely sold out - in Italy for which the set and video was designed by Igor Ronchese from Tekset based in Paderno Dugnano. It now continues in the U.S. where Pausini has a massive following especially amongst the Hispanic population, and then Latin America where she is also hugely popular. At the 27th Lo Nuestro Awards in 2015 she stated that although being Italian, "half of my heart be

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UK - PLASA opened the doors of Olympia this morning with a sense of anticipation. And it wasn't disappointed. It seems that answering the industry call to relocate back to the PLASA Show's original turf has payed dividends.

"It was encouraging to see so many people arrive for the very beginning of the show," says PLASA managing director Peter Heath. "PLASA's emphasis is where it should be, creating opportunities that will lead to sustained growth for our commercial divisions, leading back into the membership through increased activities and initiatives. The relocation to West London, and the move to a September date, as well as an enhanced seminar programme, more interactive showcases and technical workshops are all part of this, and were very much driven by member feedback. Early indications are that it's working."

So what is in store for day one? As well as a host of inn

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UK - The 2016 PLASA Rigging conference, sponsored by Unusual Rigging, Outback Rigging and PRG XL Video, kicks off on Monday under the watchful eye and steadying hand of Total Solutions' Chris Higgs. Now in its seventh year this annual industry assembly opens with a keynote address from the father of the modern rigging industry and founder of Stage Rigging Inc., Rocky Paulson.

During his presentation, Rocky will talk about his career as a rigger and the influences that shaped it. "I feel very lucky indeed to have been invited to speak at this year's conference," he says. "I'm very much looking forward to being there, not least to renew old acquaintances and make new ones."

Chris should have his work cut out during the day's other sessions as we look forward to hearing from industry heavyweights the likes of; Chris Skeith, The AEO, Mark Surtees, Outback Rigging, Tom Goode, G

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UK - Today at PLASA, James Gosney, Head of Installed Sound at Stage Electrics and Emma Bigg, AV Architect at Octavius RE will look at the important questions to ask when designing an Audio Visual Installation.

"A good, well-designed and installed audio system should last a venue at least 20 years," says James. "However, there are too many times where I'm called in to design a new audio system for a venue, simply because the original one wasn't designed and installed properly. The aim of this session is to save you, time, money and heartache."

James and Emma will take you through the necessary steps to ensure your system design and installation exceeds your customer's expectations and highlight the potential pitfalls along the way. Based on a wide variety of real life experiences, with examples of good and bad practice this seminar will give you the tools to ensure the best

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UK - Today at PLASA, Zoe Milton from the Association of Sound Designers (ASD) presents Pin The Mic On The Actor, a session that has previously featured in the PLASA Show Seminar Programme and received such a good response that she has been asked to run it again.

During the session, Zoe will give a practical demonstration of wireless mic dressing - how to hide them, dress them, colour them, make them work with long hair, short hair, glasses, hats, wigs, or on someone who is completely nude. Putting the over the ear, under the ear, in the hair, on the cheek, hip, groin, small of the back. Whether the mic is micropore, Transpor, Tegaderm, Hapla band or Zinc Oxide, this seminar will look at the many different options for mounting a mic and transmitter on an actor.

The session takes place in the Audio and AV Theatre on Sunday 18th September from 15:15 - 16:00

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UK - Forty years ago this October, the new National Theatre building opened on London's South Bank. It housed three theatres, production workshops, rehearsal rooms and all the state-of-the art technology you'd expect in a new world-class venue. It was also home to a new kind of lighting control capable of dealing with the National's 800 plus dimmers, moving lights, colour changers, projectors and more. Specified by theatre consultant Richard Pilbrow and partner Dick Brett, Lightboard offered a wealth of powerful tools for mixing and balancing lighting, creating cues with complex timing and overlapping fades. At best it was considered only borderline possible with the technology of the day - but with a mix of clever planning and cunning engineering by Rank Strand's development team, the project was realised.

The recent recovery of an original Lightboard by the Backstage Heritag

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UK - As the most widely supported ethernet lighting protocol in the industry, Art-Net has arguably come of age with the release of version 4, which is timed to coincide with the PLASA show.

Artistic Licence is well known as the inventor of Art-Net and a leading expert in lighting control, and as such is the perfect host for PLASA 2016's dedicated Art-Net Zone. This exciting new initiative - on Stand R71, on the show's upper level - is supported by PLASA and LSi magazine and aims to provide expert education and training on the use of Art-Net and related protocols.

The Art-Net Zone promises to be a hub of activity, with many of the industry's most knowledgeable experts in ethernet and DMX/RDM lighting control on hand to provide one-on-one training, mini-seminars and practical product advice in an 'Art-Fest' session. Visitors will find Wayne Howell & Fraser Connolly (Artistic

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UK - Doughty Engineering has unveiled three new clamps at this year's PLASA show whilst showcasing other items making their UK debut and a range of long-standing favourites.

Visitors to stand L50 will be the first to see the new Atom G Clamp. This 'baby' joins Doughty's popular Atom Clamp family and has been designed in response to a customer request for a clamp that is suitable for small architectural luminaires.

The Clamp Space Saver is another unique product from Doughty that is making its first appearance at PLASA. Clamps can be awkward to store and transport, with lots of wasted space in each storage box due to their size and shape. The Clamp Space Saver allows the clamp to fold down, reducing in height to just 50mm - saving 100mm of space per clamp. Made from high tensile Aluminium, it has a SWL of 100kg and has been designed so that the clamp does not have to be rem

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. (AC-ET), a leading one-stop provider of professional equipment to the entertainment industry, will showcase a selection of the very latest technology solutions available from their vast portfolio of over 200 leading brands, in their large exhibition zone (main stand E30) at PLASA 2016 - Olympia, London, UK, 18th - 20th September.

Staff from the company's dedicated Lighting sales division - which supplies any aspect of your stage, theatre, or architectural lighting system - will be present to demonstrate the latest lighting solutions from brands including Chroma-Q, Jands, ProLights, Spotlight, LumenRadio, Luminex and Tourflex Cabling, amongst others.

The company's dedicated Film & TV sales division - which offers a comprehensive one-stop inventory of lighting, control and grip solutions for film, television, studio and locati

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UK - At PLASA 2016, Yamaha Commercial Audio and Nexo are demonstrating the seamless connectivity of their products. The jointly-hosted stand J10 features a unique, zoned design which showcases a range of scaled audio solutions - from the smallest room to the biggest stadium. A significant feature is a comprehensive Dante network, allowing staff to demonstrate the ease with which Yamaha and Nexo products can be seamlessly networked to provide complete, easily managed system solutions of any size.

The stand will feature a significant new Yamaha product, alongside the flagship RIVAGE PM10 and CL/QL series digital mixers, the Commercial installation Solutions (CIS) series of processors, mixers, amplifiers and loudspeakers, plus a range of input and output options.

Key Nexo products on show will include the ID Series (ID24 and S110 sub), GEO M6 compact line array and DTD amplif

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UK - On stand G60 at PLASA 2016, Philips Lighting - home of the Vari-Lite, Strand, Selecon and Showline brands - is showing visitors the very latest products from all of its renowned brands.

The first in an innovative new LED range from Philips Showline is the SL LEDSPOT 300: a compact, high output LED luminaire that offers great colour choice from its CMY colour mixing and fixed colour wheel, plus a range of dynamic effects from its rotating and fixed gobo wheels, three-facet prism, Iris and framing system. Other recent Showline additions include the SL BEAM 300fx and the SL HYDRUS 350 - an "astonishingly powerful" luminaire designed for the live event and TV market.

New from the Philips Selecon brand are the PL1 MKII LED range, plus the new PLprofile4 MKII - an updated product which now offers improved colour consistency across units and new power saving features. The Se

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UK - Immediately following the launch of Spiider, PLASA 2016 Platinum Sponsor, Robe, is set to show this latest, innovative product at PLASA 2016. Spiider builds on the extreme success of Robe's best-selling 'industry standard' LEDWash series with a completely new concept and optics.

"Spiider is really something special which everybody will love!" says Robe's CEO Josef Valchar. "Forty-two Spiiders will be in action on the Robe booth - which is an absolute 'must-see'!"

As well as Spiider, Robe will be showing Halo and the Viva LED.

Halo is a special bespoke new Robe LED 'pixel technology' device, which can be used to transform PAR cans and add other dimensions to stage and TV sets, whilst the Viva LED is a moving light that has driven the introduction of a CMY version of this small, punchy workhorse fixture.

"PLASA is an important show," continues Josef. "We recogni

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UK - Audio is higher on the agenda at this year's PLASA Show. There is an increase in representation from manufacturers, whether exhibiting in their own right, or in partnership with their dealers and distributors; within the seminar programme with sessions such as Pin the Mic on the Actor, AV Installation Strategy for Venue Owners and Beyond Surround - immersive sound techniques; and educational events like Audinate's Dante Training Programme and

Merlijn Van Veen's Low Frequency Control primer, proving particularly popular.

With the first day of the show completed, there is a definite air of optimism around Olympia, particularly from the audio fraternity. We talked to some returning exhibitors and some first timers to see exactly what it is that is making this such a positive experience for them.

"PLASA needs people from the audio industry to get behind it," says SFL

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UK - Taking place at PLASA Show, the Essential Dante Training seminar, sponsored by a number of leading audio technology companies, including Audinate, Focusrite, Solid State Logic, Roland, Yamaha and XTA, has been designed to give a great opportunity to gain a greater insight into Dante Audio Networking Technology, which has become the de-facto standard in connecting uncompressed, highly synchronous, low-latency audio network devices.

Introduced by PLASA's managing director Peter Heath, the seminar will include Dante Level 1 and 2 training from Audinate's Kieran Walsh, live table-top displays and a session on deploying Dante networks in live events from Liam Halpin.

"Audinate is pleased to co-present this day of seminars in cooperation with PLASA," says Kieran. "Attendees will receive training that will help in taking the Dante Certified exams, discover how some of the la

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UK - Netherlands-based Highlite International was founded in the 1990s and has since grown to be one of Europe's leading suppliers of show equipment and a worldwide distributor of light and sound equipment. What started as one container of show equipment has grown into a company that supplies products to over 70 countries and employs a workforce of over 150. Its brands are Showtec light, DAP audio, Infinity light, DMT LED-screens and Artecta architectural lighting.

Of particular interest on its stand this year are the Showtec LED Sunstrip Lamp GU10, Infinity Chimp 300 and Infinity iS-400 440W LED-spot with CMY.

More than 60,000 Showtec LED Sunstrip Lamp GU10 have been sold since the Sunstrip Active was launched - the equivalent of 600,000 halogen lamps.

"As LED technology becomes more advanced, it's now possible to replace the Sunstrip halogen lamps with an LED variant

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UK - Announcing an unprecedented line-up of new, cutting-edge, entertainment lighting innovations at the PLASA Show this year, Elation Professional can be found on Stand C40. The company's bumper line-up includes the new Fuze Series of dynamic LED wash lights, the ZCL Series of high-output LED effects, and the DTW Series of variable white LED lights.

Visitors can also find the new seven-colour Platinum Seven LED wash luminaire, plus the TVL CYC RGBW cyc wash fixture, the Sniper Pro (an upgrade of the PLASA Award-winning Sniper 2R with three times the power) and the Protron 3K Color, a high-power 40,000 lumen LED colour strobe.

Elation's line of creative high-res LED display panels, the EVHD Series, comes in three pixel pitches (2.8mm, 3.9mm and 5.9mm). EVHD modules are curveable, to meet a wider range of creative applications and feature a fanless design with complete fron

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UK - Hoffend LivePipe hoists - Engineering Product of the Year at the 2016 ABTT Trade Show - are on the Hall Stage PLASA stand N40.

The innovative approach taken to design and operation has led to a faultless installation in Tennessee, completed by BellaTEX Inc. & Ty Prewitt sent this independent report:

"I have nothing but good things to say about the LivePipe product. It offers significant and unique advantages - & showed us it will work in very difficult situations.

"LivePipe was not only the best solution in this case, but its cost was on par or lower than other options. I believe it's appeal will be broad. It can be exceptionally quick to install. Since it doesn't include hoisting a 150Kg motor, 'quick' actually has some validity.

"The assembly and installation process is significantly simpler than any other products I've encountered. The heaviest section was

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UK - d&b audiotechnik will be hard to miss at PLASA 2016, with plenty of opportunity for visitors to view the company's latest sound innovations, and to meet and chat with experts from the d&b GB team.

Newly appointed d&b sales partner SFL Group can be found on stand V60, where d&b's DS10 Audio network bridge will be shown, alongside other points of interest from the company's portfolio. Also exhibiting is d&b sales partner SSE/Wigwam, at stand J20, where visitors can find hands-on introductions to d&b's NoizCalc, the far field noise immission modelling software and the new QSC plug-in Q-SYS. NoizCalc is also up for a PLASA Award for Innovation (and don't forget you can see all this year's nominated product upstairs at the Innovation Gallery).

d&b GB is also playing key roles in a number of new PLASA Show attractions this year. For those thirsting for audio networking tech

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