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Goboland's Vicky Fairall, who began heading the Belgian company's London branch last year, said the company was having a "brilliant" show. "I just can't tell you how good it's been," she said, "It seems that every visitor to the stand is a new customer." As usual, the company was also offering some traditional Belgian hospitality, in the form of very strong beer, and very nice chocolates.

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PLASA Show launches from Griven included the LED Dazzler and Shaper products. The Dazzler is a powerful 6-way unit offering six clusters of 18 LEDs complete with independent pan and tilt operation for each cluster - ideal for studio and live applications. The Shaper is a linear RGB colour changer also offering six clusters and independent pan and tilt control. It uses 24 DMC channels when full pan/tilt control are required over each cluster, and four when all clusters are operated as one.
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Traxon UK displayed its new professional LED lighting range, including the successful 64PXL DMX series, available in Matrix, Wash and Mirror formats. Also on display were Traxon's new wall washers, spotlights and accent lighting.

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Italian moving light manufacturer SGM (represented in the UK by Lightfactor Sales) launched the Pilot 3000 lighting console - an expediently-sized but powerful control surface with many features you'd expect to find on larger lighting desks. They also had the new 2.5 release of their own media server - the Imago Mediasynth (badged by Brash Technologies and recently featured on the Eros Ramazzotti tour). Also new was the latest in the Palco range of LED fixtures, the Palco 5, utilising the new K2 LEDs.

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Xenon spotlight manufacturer the San Ei Electric Co from Japan had their XPS Series prominent on the stand. These are very highly engineered, fabricated from sheet steel and cast aluminium and finished in light and dark textured brown. The Xenon lightsources have a reverse polarity setting and magnetic controls to ensure flicker-free operation, and the current ripple is no more than 10% on full or standby.

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Breaking with convention, Lycian was actually highlighting an older product rather than their latest and newest! The Superstar 2.5 - a 2500W HMI spotlight has been in production for some years, and has always done well. However, the company has now decided that it's the most "European looking" of the range, and therefore are boosting the marketing campaign in this territory. It's also one of the brightest spotlights in its class. Lycian also brought three other spotlights to the show - from their range of over 25 models.

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New from Ayrton (distributed in the UK by Lighting Effects Distribution) was a prototype of the DreamPanel outdoor video screen, based on the same PCB as their renowned flooring panels, IP rated and with a rugged build. Brand new was a selection of baffles for Ayrton's ModuLED three-cell LED fixtures, which clip on the front and vary the beam angle from 12 - 42°, increasing the unit's versatility. Very useful for rental companies and multi-purpose applications.

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It was crowded as usual on the Anytronics stand where new products included the Quad ProDim 2.5 - a 4 x 10A portable dimming pack featuring circuit breaker protection on both Cee Form inlet and outlet sockets. Control is via either analogue or DMX. Also on show was Anycove - a T 5 fluorescent cove lighting system available in either a switching or dimming version.

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Beadlight launched an impressive seven new ice*lighting fixtures based on the technologies incorporated within its award-winning Super Batten. Driven by customer demand, new designs to complement the Super Batten include the Linear Batten, the Tube, the Stik, the Bar, the Blok and the Hexagon. These will open up a whole new range of design possibilities for this eye-catching effect - as demonstrated by the stylish bar-themed display at PLASA. All the units utilise Bead*light diffusion technology, eliminating LED pixelization. Video and animations can be played across any combination of the product range.

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PLASA regulars Lite-Puterrom Taiwan were back again with a new range of products including the DP-E450 and the DP-E4000 lighting control Ethernet interfaces. The E4000 can remotely control up to 4,096 channels of DMX via Ethernet to a PC controller.

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Based in Blackburn, Lancashire, rental specialists HSL announce a fair expansion of their inventory with the addition of 350 units of Robe moving heads, and are also expanding their range of LED products, which already include Color Kinetics, Chroma-Q Color Block, and PixelLine. They currently have equipment out with Massive Attack and Snow Patrol, as well as with several TV shows, not least X Factor and earlier with Dancing on Ice.

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Sunlite showed their USB interfaced PC lighting controllers, including the Easy Stand Alone range plus a new stand-alone Ethernet DMX512 interface (IP version) - through which the programmer can work locally or via the Internet. They have two ranges using two different variations on the software - one for clubs and live control, and the other for architectural and installed schemes . . .

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According to Robert Juliat, 'Only RJ can do better than RJ'. In the case of its new followspot projector - the Lancelot, the company might be right. This high-power spot, unveiled on the White Light stand, features 4k of whacking brightness, an extremely flat beam and is the first truly modular long-throw effects projector. A wide range of accessories including a 100% closing iris, two rotating gobo wheels, animation disk with integrated gobo holder, smooth four-blade dimming shutter and a Chromix cassette, can be manually or motor operated, locally or remotely from any DMX console.

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City Theatrical launched two new products from its award-winning WDS Wireless Data System product line. The WDS Four Port Opto-Receiver receives a universe of DMX data via wireless broadcast and converts it into four optically isolated five-pin XLR outlets - external power supply allows for either mains or battery operation. The WDS Candle Adapter allows the City Theatrical Candle Lite electronic flicker candles to be controlled or dimmed through WDS Dimmers.

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USA - The Assembly of God's Christ Chapel is housed in a 130,000sq.ft sports facility (it was once an actual professional football team's practice facility) in Macon, Georgia where it holds regular Sunday and Wednesday worship services and sports ministries. Its TV ministry, consisting of Pastor John Wood's sermon from Sunday services, airs locally on Cox Cable and CTN Cable. Entire Sunday morning and evening services are streamed live on the internet; college, youth and children's ministries will soon stream live on the Web as well.

Macon-based Total Systems Audio, Video, and Consulting have supplied vast amounts of technical equipment to the Church; no coincidence as their managing director is also the Church's technical director.

Recently the Church took delivery of a LSC Lighting Systems maXim LP console and are getting ready to purchase a maXim XXLP through LSC's USA dist

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UK - Adlib Lighting supplied equipment for Maximo Park's latest UK tour, which culminated in an incendiary performance at London's Brixton Academy. This concluded the final leg of their extensive A Certain Trigger tour.

Lighting designer Stevie Marr has worked with the band for two years, and uses Adlib as his lighting supplier because, he says: "The service is excellent, they have the right attitude and the crew are always great - it's crew that really make a tour at the end of the day!"

For this stretch of the tour, he wanted all lighting sources to be at a low level, to give an edgy look that reflected the band's increasingly raw and harsh style of playing and their relentless energy. He also wanted them to be seen at all times, and so opted for an 'almost-floor' based rig, with a front truss used solely to provide key lighting positions.

The visually dom

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USA - Speed metal band Slayer brought along four other heavy metal bands for its brand-new touring production, Slayer: The Unholy Alliance. The line-up featured Lamb of God, Mastodon, Children of Bodom, and Thine Eyes Bleed - and Clay Paky Alpha Spots to shed light on the spectacle onstage.

Lighting designer/director Jason Cain (who also handled video operation duties) specified 20 Alpha Spot HPE 1200 luminaries for his lighting rig. "I chose the Alpha Line because of their light weight and bright output," Cain explains. "It was also nice to have two rotating gobo wheels, and the fixed wheel as well. I was able to achieve multi-layering of the gobos to produce different lighting effects."

The Clay Paky Alpha Spots were put into a moving light pre-rig that was built by Xtreme Structures. Any concerns Cain had about the lights' magnetic wheels holding

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UK - Lighting rental specialists HSL supplied LD Nick Jevons and Electric Fly Productions with their new A&O Falcon Beam 3Kw searchlights, Martin MAC moving lights, LED fixtures and strobes for Mogwai's show at London's Royal Albert Hall.

HSL's production manager Mike Oates comments: "We've been looking at serious high powered search lights for some time now, and both myself and Howard Dean have watched the A&O Lighting brand develop in Europe with interest. When Nick first mentioned he wanted to use them on the tour I was straight on to Marco Niedermeier [MD of A&O] to see if the units where available, which luckily they were! It was a pleasure to work with Nick, Phil and Neil from Electric Fly on this tour - from a suppliers point of view, they makes things very simple."

The influential Glasgow "post rock" band have been on a world tour since the start of

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UK - Mastermind, originally ran from 1972 - 1997 with presenter Magnus Magnusson. Due to popular demand the show was brought back in 2003 and since then there have been numerous specials and celebrity editions. The latest will be shown in the middle of October, with John Humphrey's as the presenter.

Lighting designer James Campbell was given the task of lighting the new series: "The brief was to recognise and produce the traditional Mastermind look, with a suggestion of different architecture, like the different locations they used in the original series."

The Lighting rig is made up of 20 MAC 500s and one Stage Zoom 1200.

"The central image to the show is the iconic chair, where I use an intense arrangement of moving lights (the MAC 500s). The background is kept black with the multi-dimensional beams in striking shades of blue."

By Campbell's own admis

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UK - Dialight Lumidrives, the UK based LED technology provider, has appointed SimonAldred as sales manager. Aldred, 35, joins Dialight Lumidrives with over 10 years experience in the lighting and electronics industry. He joins having spent the previous five years selling high power LED technology in the UK and Europe in his role as Lumileds' UK supplier development manager. Aldred will be responsible for increasing significantly Dialight Lumidrive's sales in Europe over the next three years.

Gordon Routledge, managing director at Dialight Lumidrives says: "We areentering a period of rapid growth thanks to an increasing number of customersrecognising our wide ranging LED expertise. Simon's role is to help us managethis demand and continue to widen our customer base."

Aldred adds: "Joining Dialight Lumidrives is a fantastic opportunity for me, asthe company is wel

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USA - US-based manufacturer Lycian Stage Lighting has announced more of its followspots have received CE approval. The 1279 Superstar 2.5 and M2 are both available for use in all countries where CE standards must be met. This brings to five the total number of followspots from Lycian meeting the strict CE requirements. The M2, with either magnetic or electronic power supplies and the Superstar 2.5 join the Lycian Midget II, 1290 XLT and 1294 SuperArc 4K as CE approved.

"Lycian Stage Lighting is demonstrating its commitment to growing its international presence by submitting its products for CE. We will continue to put more product through the process," said Steve Lerman, director of sales.

"We can offer Halogen, HMI and Xenon followspots to the European entertainment industry that are brilliant, reliable, and durable. A broader choice benefits everyone. We're co

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UK - One of London's leading conference and meeting venues, The Brewery in Chiswell Street, has commissioned PSL to implement an extensive refurbishment of its sound and lighting facilities. Managing director Claire Lawson says that the £500K spend will help The Brewery to extend its advantage over rival City venues.

Having been a preferred supplier of audio-visual services to the award-winning Brewery for the past seven years, the London event services company PSL was the ideal candidate to handle the design and installation of new production facilities. "PSL is familiar with the building, and we're very comfortable with PSL," says Lawson. "They've led the design process throughout but we've been closely involved, especially when it came to the replacement of the sound system."

The Brewery has worked closely with PSL and the Corporation of London on

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USA - Production Resource Group, supplier of entertainment technology, today released the latest version of software for their Emmy award-winning Virtuoso lighting console. Software version 5.5 provides new features for the popular desk and enhances the functionality of existing features, the company reports.

Attendees at the LDI tradeshow October 20-22 can get a personal introduction to the Virtuoso console and the new software at booth 1331 in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

New features in the v5.5 software include: new add/solo and go on fader playback modes, submaster priorities, redesigned cue data and live status displays, patch improvements, data conversion between fixture types, and trackball control for pan/tilt.

"Innovation is at the heart of who we are as a company. Our R & D team is skilled at staying ahead of our customers' needs and providing high-qualit

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UK - Martin Professional's new tungsten automated wash fixture, the MAC TW1, has been chosen by the UK's National Theatre for its touring production of The History Boys after which they will be permanently installed in the National's Lyttelton Theatre in London.

The History Boys, a multi award winning play by English playwright Alan Bennett, originally opened two years ago at the Lyttelton. After touring the UK, and then internationally, it enjoyed a successful run on Broadway earlier this year. Another UK tour kicked off this past August - this time with Martin's tungsten halogen wash as an important element of the rig. The History Boys will play at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End before the TW1s settle into the Lyttelton.

Simon Fraulo, chief lighting technician at the National Theatre, reproduced the lighting for the tour, making adjustments to lightin

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