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With the new Mantra Lite console breaking all sales records at LSC, the next version of software has been released and adds further powerful features including a Shape Generator. The Shape Generator allows easy creation of Circles, Fig8, BallyHoos and other FX's on the Pan & Tilt of any moving light.

As a complement to the Mantra Lite, a new Mantra Wing will be launched at the show. Each wing adds an additional 12 fixture faders, another 10 pages of 10 playbacks as well as an extra DMX 512 Universe hardware output. Up to two wings can be plugged into a Mantra console giving the system the ability to control up to 48 fixtures with 10 pages of 30 playbacks over three universes of DMX via XLR, Art-Net or sACN.

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"PLASA is an important show, and we recognise London as an entertainment industry capital of the world which is why we are focusing on three innovative new products," comments Robe's CEO Josef Valchar.

With Spiider, Robe has experienced unprecedented levels of anticipation surrounding this new product which is launched worldwide just three day days ahead of the show.

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

The Halo, a special bespoke new Robe LED 'pixel technology' device, can be used to transform PAR cans and add other dimensions to stage and TV sets.

The runaway success of the Viva LED moving

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They were used to light up the Capitol Theatre in Offenbach in front of an audience of 400 for a Saturday night series on the RTL network called Mein Bestes Jahr - a retrospective in which Germany's top comedians showcase the best and weirdest moments of their own favourite year.

The versatile Gerdon has worked extensively with RTL, and with some of the country's favourite comedians such as Mario Barth, regularly sourcing GLP LED solutions from Felix Sandmann at PRG.

It was Sandmann who accompanied Gerdon on the first site meeting to this old theatre with

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With the Papers Committee continuing to sift through a swathe of submissions, details of the first speakers for Showlight 2017 in Florence are coming to light. The programme promises to be as fascinating as ever with the following international lighting specialists the first to sign up:

Aldo Visentin will share some of his experiences over many years of touring with, and lighting for, Maestro Andrea Bocelli.

Lighting designer Colin Ball will show how he uses theatre and film lighting techniques to light many buildings, including the Tower of London and the Palace of Westminster.

Declan Randall will tell of his experience of acting as set and projection designer, in addition to lighting designer, for an original production of Sister Act in Jo

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Delivered in front of an audience of creative industry professionals, Hancock used his first speech to set out his three main priorities, which he described as "backing success, access and synthesis". After praising the creative industries as "absolutely central to our post-Brexit future", Hancock said he would "fight to ensure that the creative and digital industries are at the heart of this government's industrial strategy." The minister went on to pledge that creative sector tax reliefs wo

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For four days, top acts like Robin Schulz, Paul van Dyk, Sven V

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This year, the famed festival's Red Bull Elektropedia Room delivered a high-energy club-like feel with a Ignace D'haese, Jonas Weyn and Tijs Coene (Arf & Yes) designed light show that featured 100 Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures supplied by Phlippo.

D'haese and Weyn of Arf & Yes drew on 500 individually controlled moving heads in the collection of Rogues to create a mesmerizing multi-dimensional look on the festival stage. He fixed the fixtures around all four sides of the large industrial-style indoor spa

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Having amassed 60 DS6 fixtures and over 240 single heads including a quantity of the latest wirelessly controlled DS1 battery version, Pinewood MBS is home to the largest Digital Sputnik rental stock in the world!

Used extensively by cinematographer Greig Fraser ACS/ASC during filming of the Pinewood MBS supported Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the fixtures have been well received by filmmakers and have become a key part of lighting lists on a variety of film and television productions. Supplied by Pinewood MBS in exclusively cased kits, the modular systems are exceeding the expectations of filmmakers of all genres.

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Dosanjh is the world's biggest Punjabi superstar, with anthems heard on dancefloors across the globe and a fan base to rival that of Justin Bieber. DMX Productions continued their relationship with Dosanjh and promoter Moxiebox by handling the complete production supply on their second tour with Dosanjh. The show was designed by SJ Grevett, owner of DMX Productions, who created a large 8m x 8m LED video screen as the centrepiece of the design with a surrounding lighting rig that included a large number of Elation moving heads and eff

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When it launched in 1992, the ATG had a mere two theatres - the Duke of York's in the West End and the New Victoria Theatre in Woking. Twenty-four years later, the company now oversees an additional 43 venues, from the 250-seat Donmar Warehouse to the 2000-seat Sunderland Empire. With such a huge range of theatres, not to mention more than 11,000 performances each year, ATG needs to ensure that

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"I have never purchased Robert Juliat followspots before but, like most lighting professionals, I've used them on locations for many years and always been impressed with the quality of their build and ease of operation. This year we had more than 30 awards shows lined up not to mention a long list of dry hires to service so it was a case of making a purchase or continuing to rent in.

'Thor from Ambersphere came over to our office and did a demo with them. I was so impressed with the light output and the optics, we placed the order straight

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The move was instigated by the band's bass player Marco Gomes who is involved in all aspects of their production, and was supplied by MA's South African distributor DWR, with whom Prime Circle has a long working relationship.

Founded in 2001, with six studio albums to date, several chart-topping singles and numerous awards, Prime Circle have toured increasingly in Europe in recent years. Their mid-2016 single 'Ghosts' reached the top 150 in Germany's weekly airplay charts and their European popularity was boosted further by several performances at high profile German events like Rock im Revier, Rockavaria, Rock auf d

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The drapes and rigging expert, led by project director Kevin Monks, worked with the London venue to supply all the stage rigging and a series of auxiliary structures for 11 pop concerts, including performances from Laura Mvula, Everything Everything and James Morisson. Two wings flanked either side of the stage, from which event branding was attached, designed to have minimal visual impact on the iconic building, drawing in crowds of over 3,000 to the open-air grounds.

The team worked successfully within tight time restraints to transform the historic venue f

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Andrew Voller will be also be on the stand demonstrating Moving Light Assistant Software.

City Theatrical is launching a new group of uniquely featured, high quality, constant voltage B-Series Dimmers in a variety of capacities and configurations. All partner perfectly with City Theatrical QolorFlex professional quality LED tapes.

The B5 Dimmer is a five-channel x 8A constant voltage dimmer in a rugged steel case. The five outputs give users the ability to run a full 40A of load such as RGB (three channels) plus bicolour tape (two channels), or RGBA (four channels) plus WW (one channel).

Three types of DMX conn

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Spiider is a brand new LED Wash luminaire. It builds on the extreme success of Robe's best-selling 'industry standard' LEDWash series with a completely new concept and "incredible optics".

It has one super bright 60W RGBW LED multichip in the centre which is surrounded by 18 x 30W RGBW LED multichips, and it is this optical design that resembles the spider's web that gave rise to the name. It is also so much more than 'just' a wash!

It can be used as a beam, and - a first for LED wash light stage luminaires - i

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Lighting designer Seth Jackson reunited with the Toby team last winter to transform the look of the design, centring less on a specific tour theme and instead focusing on the operation.

"Toby wanted to shake his schedule up and play more of the festivals and fairs this year, rather than the standard amphitheatre run that had become the norm for him," explained Jackson. "In order to accomplish this, we had to design the show in such a way that it could always fit and look like the show we created, rather than have to make drastic compromises from day to day."

To achieve that goal, Jackson used several Bandit Pods

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The app serves as a one-stop hub for KOI Awards' shortlisted designers, guests, sponsors and interested parties to engage with the event and its celebration of lighting and video content design across theatre, television and concert touring and events.

With a clean, intuitive interface and branding for the Awards' valued Headline, Spotlight and Table sponsors, the free-to-download app offers users all the information about the event they could need in the palm of their hand, from shortlists to social media links.

Content creation, communications and events agency The Fifth Estate, that produces the event, worked alongside developer eStage Digital to introduce the new digital tool. The app is available

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Says Haydn Cruickshank, "We were very excited to be offered the chance to contribute to both of these amazing and popular events that are mainstays on the festival calendar."

For the Slam Tent at T In The Park, the Colour Sound team worked with regular Slam Tent LD Scott McDonald to provide the kit to his specification, while for V, two very different and dynamic designs were developed by Colour Sound's Fletch.

The V North stage was crew chiefed for Colour Sound by Alex McCoy and V South by Frankie McDade, while Sam Campbell led the te

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Ethan Mills joins Bandit as the equipment coordinator where he directs and coordinates Bandit's extensive inventory for preparation and distribution among Bandit's production jobs. Prior to Bandit, Mills was the director of media and productions for Immanuel Baptist in Lexington, Kentucky, one of the nation's fastest growing churches.

Bandit's Technical Service Department has also expanded with the hiring of Sombath Inthavong as electronics technician and Sylvain Thonethongthip as assistant electronics technician, where they troubleshoot and repair equipment and correlative cables in addition to assisting with show preps, repairs and cable builds.

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On debut is the Scenius, the new beam shaper at the top of the Clay Paky moving head range. Its advanced optical unit and the 1400W OSRAM discharge lamp provide very high light output and an excellent CRI. Its framing system consists of four independent overlapping blades which create shapes of all sizes and proportions by working simultaneously on four different focal planes

The Hepikos is a 700W washlight that combines low power consumption with color quality, without compromise. Thanks to its PC front lens (° 185mm) and narrow 5° beam angle, the fixture can also produce a sharp, thic

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The festival has grown in size each year, with the Cream organisation constantly raising the bar in terms of line-up and production values. Technical event producer LarMac Live was once again called in by promoters Cream and Live Nation to liaise with the artists and deliver the premium technical production and high quality visitor experience that Creamfields audiences have come to expect.

To help LarMac Live deliver the largest Creamfields to date, PRG XL Video were brought in to supply video, lighting and rigging across the two main stages - Arc, and Horizon, together with video across six more stages around the 900-acre site.

PRG XL Video's head of rigging services, Q Willis, oversaw a team s

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"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."

Internation

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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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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