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14 March 2016

Sims brings with him over 25 years of lighting industry experience, his early years spent running his own lighting consultancy firm. After a 10 year run with Strand Lighting where he worked as architectural product manager, he became the regional specification sales manager for the Juno Lighting Group.

When not on the road, Sims, who started in the new position on 16 July, will work from a home office near Orange County, California while also spending time at Martin's West Coast office in Simi Valley.

(Jim Evans)

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"The show is the centrepiece of a huge music festival that draws fans from all over the world," says lighting director/programmer Mark Butts. "When ABC started to broadcast it a few years ago it really upped the ante in terms of design and production. For us, the show is an interesting hybrid of on-the-fly, festival-style lighting and tightly-cued, precise television lighting. It's difficult trying to work in both worlds simultaneously, but it sure keeps

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The transparent (82%), lightweight and modular grid structure is video compatible. Because of its flexibility, tarmLED 4x4 can be bent in different shapes, such as cylinders or waves. With its all-metal construction and integrated quick fasteners, the tarmLED 4x4 is built to withstand the rigours of life on the road.

Typical applications, due to its low wind stresses and a viewing angle of 140° x 140°, include large screen backdrops for concert touring, trade shows and integration into architectural designs.

The complete system is fully IP65 rated. All electronics are integrated in each tile (417mm x 417mm) and the

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When not in use, the unit appears to be just another huge 34ft trailer, but at the push of a button, it unfolds Transformers-style to reveal a professional stage. The complete sound and lighting rig is set up in minutes. Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil observed: "The stage is an awesome portable stage with top notch sound and lights. I look forward to playing on it again."

All power for the stage comes from a built-in generator, and with a sound system designed for an audience of 10,000, power constraints were a prime consideration when the lighting system was planned. Designers found a solutio

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With a recent purchase of Martin moving head and LED lighting gear, Di and Di has now expanded into other rental areas such as the touring market. "With the recent purchase of Martin moving heads and LED lighting gear, Di and Di is a new reality in dry rental for the international market," comments Di and Di head David Biancifiori.

Di and Di has expanded its stock of lighting equipment through the purchase of a large, two million euro Martin lighting package. Added to its existing stock are 100 MAC 700 Profiles, 50 MAC 700 Washes, 100 MAC TW1 tungsten washlights, 50 MAC 2000 Washes, 50 Stagebar 54L and 50 Stagebar 54S LED luminaires and 50 LC 2140 LED panels.

Among

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Lighting designers Michael Creason and Seth Rapaport of Visionary Light & Media in Montverde, Florida, were charged with illuminating the iconic bottle and creating lighting effects for the attention-getting signage. Within the bottle are 216 Color Kinetics ColorCast 14 fixtures, 10 Flutes, 96 Birkett Strobes and one Coemar PAR. Each six-foot high level of two-ply glass panels forming the glass cylinder, which goes from opaque to translucent to give the illusion of ice, is outfitted with 104 x Color Kinetics Color Blast 12s.

"The client came to us with the fixtures already specified and pu

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Production designer Marc Brickman chose to use six Lycian M2 under hung truss spots, 52 Vari*Lite 3500 spots, 37 VL 3000 washes, seven VL 3000 spots and 36 Martin Atomic Strobes with Atomic Colors.

Additionally, Brickman puts great emphasis on smoke machine styles and effects as well as placement to enhance the show's looks. Specifically, the Martin ZR33 smoke machines provide an added effect by bering hung up in the upstage truss.

The most substantial element in the production design is a 29ft tall by 56ft wide LED display from Barco.

(Jim Evans)

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The show is staged at the iconic Carlton Hotel in downtown Johannesburg. The 119m high building with its distinct bell-bottomed base has been mothballed since 1997. Once a week, its deserted but still highly atmospheric ballroom is reinvented beyond its former glory days.

The essential lighting requirement for the series was to make the dancefloor into 'an ocean of gobos'. Working with original LD Hugh Turner, rental company Gearhouse SA achieved this with a little Robe power - buying the fixtures off Robe SA's distributor DWR Distribution for the show.

Production company Rapid Blue have required the same spec for the last three seasons, explains lighting director Sean Rosig from Gearhouse SA, who programmes and runs each epi

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Chairman, president and CEO Larry Powers said: "We are pleased to report second quarter increases in both sales and earnings. Our focus on higher margin product lines and the price increases helped us achieve higher sales and gross margins for the second quarter.

"Our commercial lighting business grew moderately from last year, but the growth was offset by weakness in the residential sector. In addition, results for the second quarter of

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The PS 450i is RDM compatible and is modelled after Wybron's popular PS series power supply products. This new permanent power supply is compatible with Wybron's Nexera and Forerunner, as well as all of the company's InfoTrace System products, including the Coloram IT, CXI IT, Eclipse IT and Eclipse II IT.

"We are receiving more client requests for permanent installation products for theatrical and architectural applications," said Larry Turner, Wybron's CEO. "Therefore, we designed the PS 450i power supply to fill the greater need for this type of product."

The PS 450i is designed to easily mount to a wall or unistrut and has multiple convenient conduit knockouts. All connections are on terminal blocks with separate blocks for main power

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Artists featured on the main stage included Scissor Sisters, Razorlight, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, Stereophonics, Natasha Bedingfield, The View, The Fratellis, The Fray, The Twang, Jamie T and Mika.

Lite Alternative's Paul Normandale provided the creative direction for all three stages at this year's event for SJM, assisted on the main stage by lighting director Glen Johnson.

The brief was to create a dynamic, encompassing visual range which as well as achieving a big look for the live stage audience, would translate well on camera for the TV audience.

The back wall of the stage featured a 19m wide by 6m high drop of Color Web 250, with further panels turning the stage corners to provide

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This is not the first time lighting designer Andrew Bridge and associate Michael Odam have worked on Joseph, nor PRG Europe project manager Peter Marshall - all were involved with the last West End production back in 1991, which starred Jason Donovan. This time the star of the show is Lee Mead, who won the part following the BBC show Any Dream Will Do.

The rig, installed under the supervision of production electrician Fraser Hall, includes some 70 Vari-Lite luminaires, over 200 ETC Source Fours, Wybron colour scrollers, Lycian follow spots and other conventional lights, along with strobes, smoke and special effects.

The reworking involved a major desk transfer from the Artisan control console to a Wh

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Now in it's fourth year and set in the beautiful Berkshire countryside near Aldermaston, the boutique 'electronic music' mix of Glade offers a laid back funky vibe with "a strong aversion to all things corporate/mainstream and a great love of everything alternative, underground and interesting".

Lighting for the Glade (main) stage and the tented Vapour stage was supplied by west London based Colour Sound Experiment, who have serviced the Glade Festival's main venue since the inaugural event in 2004.

Colour Sound's Jasper Johns designed the Glade Stage rig based on a flexible, generic design, that could be used by all artists. The lighting was fitted to the roof

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Russell Armentrout, president of Performance Lighting, says, "When we powered up the Showguns for the first time, everyone's jaw dropped. The whole production staff, including Mr. (Gene) Simmons, were very much impressed by the fixture. And the Showguns are just as easy to hang as any automated luminaire."

Longtime Kiss LD Bryan Hartley designed the system, while lighting director Sean "Motley" Hackett programmed and operated the concerts in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, and at RockFest 2007 in Cadott, WI.

Hackett reports, "I hung the Showguns stage left and stage right of the Kiss sign to fill the gap where video screens used to be. By placing th

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After the infrastructure was installed by Northern Light, AC Lighting won the supply of loose equipment to include 48 x Selecon Rama High Performance Fresnels, 5 x Aurora 4-way Cycs and 2 x Performer Series Toru Followspots.

Matt Kingslake, technical manager at the Grove Theatre comments, "I have been very pleased with the Selecon equipment I used at my previous venue and with the equipment I have seen brought in by visiting companies. Due to my experience using Selecon equipment they were my first choice when sourcing lighting equipment for the Grove Theatre. I am es

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The Arena Hazer features true continuous output of up to 20,000cfm. To aid in diffusion and distribution, it has an integral fan and an auxiliary external squirrel cage blower to adjust the speed and orientation of the haze.

The system is housed in a wheeled road case that allows easy access to the control panel as well as easy refilling. Also included are DMX control capability (for output adjustment, fan speed, and blower speed), a wired remote control and 1.4-quart onboard fluid container.

(Jim Evans)

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One4All is the first dealer to supply Showgun to the Italian market. The company will also represent other HES products including DL.2 and the Road Hog console.

Luisa Valenti, sales and marketing director for One4All, says, "We are excited at the opportunity High End Systems is giving us and we shall do our best to make High End products popular and successful in our domestic market. Showgun is a unique product and we are confident it will be a success."

"We are thrilled about the new opportunities we'll now have in Italy because of this new relationship," says Ruediger Haeming, HES regional sales manager for Central Europe. "I look forward to working together with One4All in promoting o

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The D4 is controlling the venue's stage lighting rig plus over 800 architectural LED fixtures which are illuminating the interior walls, balconies and general auditorium architecture.

The Opera House in Boscombe originally opened in 1895 as the Boscombe Grand Theatre and has been an entertainment venue of sorts throughout its entire colourful 102 year history. Most recently the premises were leased to local rave 'Slinky'.

Now restored to its former Victorian splendour after a seven-month multi-million pound refurbishment project, spearheaded by owners Arnwood Estates, it has reopened as Bournemouth Opera House, a 3-tier 2200 capacity live entertainment venue.

Mikey Howard was brought onboard

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The lighting rig included 12 x Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1200 HPE, 18 x Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1200 and 168 x Par Cans. They were used to light the 18m x 16m stage with 16m x 11m wings.

Rick Wade, Protec's operations director, said, "I didn't receive a single complaint about the kit we provided. The Aerosmith crew was extremely happy with the venue, set-up, and of course the turn-out, which was very encouraging.

MA Lighting International recently opened its own office, MA Lighting Middle East India, in Dubai. "The idea of our global network is to getting even closer to the market", comme

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Pandemonium Productions' MD, Simon Garrett collaborated with Brunel University's event manager, Liz Thomas, from the outset. Garrett appointed Malcolm Birkett as production manager. Together they managed their team of preferred suppliers to tackle the challenge of transforming the Athletics Centre into a ceremonial auditorium environment, which complied with current DDA regulations.

Working with appointed set designer, Ian Fogden of IFD Design, Pandemonium configured a set that was sympathetic to the simplicity of the hall.

Custom built by Centre Stage, the modular stage boasted a curved fr

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There is no requirement to be working at the Fringe to attend. Sessions are being held at Assembly Universal Arts (venue number 7) between 9am and midday each day from 13-17 August and 20-22 August.

Anyone interested in attending should contact ETC on telephone: +44 (0)20 8896 1000.

(Jim Evans)

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The event is attended by over 40,000 Scouts from 160 countries around the globe. An additional 10,000 support staff and services personnel are also on-site, involved in running the Jamboree, which features full daily programmes of entertainment taking place on one main and four 'hub' stages.

Mike Oates leads the HSL team who are working closely with Jamboree technical production manager Mike Bryan and lighting designer Andy Hook of Shock Solutions. Oates comments: "It's great to be involved in this event. It has all the infrastructure and demands of a major festival with an excellent atmosphere and lots of dedicated staff all very passionate about doing the job."

Bryan and his Technical T

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Thousands of dance and electronic music fans braved the torrential rain, mud, flooding and truly abysmal weather conditions to attend one of the UK's friendliest alternative 'boutique' festivals.

London-based Colour Sound has supplied the Glade since the event started four years ago, but this year was the first time they lit both main spaces - deciding to go with Robe in both. Twelve ColorSpot and 12 ColorWash 700E ATs - newly bought for the summer - featured on the Glade stage, with six ColorSpot and ColorWash 575E ATs in the Vapour Tent.

Colour Sound's Jasper Johns and Kester McClure looked after lighting for the Glade Stage, producing a generic design with plenty of options and flexibility that would suit all

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"Helen Huang used intense colours in both her scenery and costume designs," says Schertler. "Because the scenery was basically a unit set, it was necessary that my design control the palette to create a leitmotif that would underscore both the characters and the storylines. The Selador units were an important tool in making this work."

Rebecca Fuller Jensen, lighting and video coordinator for CTC explained that Suessical was just the opportunity that CTC had been looking for, "We had seen a demo of the Selador units before, about five months ago and asked if we could try them in production. It just happened that Nancy