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USA - Founded by senior pastor Perry Noble in 2000, NewSpring Church of Anderson, South Carolina has experienced tremendous growth over the past 13 years. Following the completion of its main worship center in 2006, the church began to establish satellite campuses throughout the region to accommodate its increasing number of attendees, which has now reached nearly 30,000 each week across NewSpring's eight locations.

With an ultimate goal to reach over 100,000 people every Sunday, NewSpring Church puts temphasis not only on the spoken word - which is streamed live from Anderson - but a

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World - Singer-songwriter Bruno Mars has been getting top reviews for his Moonshine Jungle tour, which will continue to play dates around the world through March 2014 and takes two grandMA2 full-size consoles on the road.

"We were tasked with creating a world for Bruno and his band to inhabit," says lighting designer Cory FitzGerald who co-designed the tour with Roy Bennett. "Bruno has a lot of sounds and pushes past a lot of genres, so he needed an environment that would accommodate all his music. The lighting fixtures help a lot with that. We have 276 panels of

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USA - After winning the 2013 Grammy Song of the Year and Best New Artist awards, indie pop band Fun.'s Most Nights tour has been packing music venues across 34 North American cities throughout the summer. Montreal-based Solotech is providing the tour with a Meyer Sound Leo linear large-scale sound reinforcement system.

"I'd heard Leo last year at Outside Lands festival in San Francisco, and I was tickled pink when I had the opportunity to take a rig out this year," says Gordon Reddy, FOH engineer for Fun. "It's a great kit, with a wonderfully smooth high end. If

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USA - Superstar Selena Gomez is appeasing her millions of fans worldwide with the Stars Dance Tour, which will cover the US, Canada and Europe and promote her number one selling album Stars Dance. Having worked with Bandit before, the pop's reining princess and her team are trusting Seth Jackson and Bandit Lites' again to light the colossal tour.

Lighting designer Nathan W. Scheuer worked with Seth Jackson, who serves as the creative director and production designer, to create a dramatic lighting design for the tour. Since her breakout role on Disney Channel's Wizards of Wav

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USA - Living Colour is on the road with the Behringer X32 as they celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of their debut recording Vivid. To ensure consistent performances and great sound, they chose to deploy the X32 for both front-of-house (FOH) and monitor duties.

Behringer's X32 is designed to provide seamless integration for the performers and sound engineer, resulting in consistent, high-quality mixes at FOH - and the musician's in-ear and floor-wedge monitors. With full recall, motorized faders and 8 Stereo FX slots, the console ensures that the band is up and runn

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UK - With an estimated 70,000 fans screaming and hoping to catch a glimpse of One Direction, the five-member band walked the red carpet outside the Empire Cinema in London's Leicester Square for the world premier of 1D: This Is Us. Lighting design and production was handled by premiere veterans Limited Edition Events who utilized Martin RUSH Series Strobe 5x5's to add some eye-candy to the daylight event. Emitting an intense but diffused cool light the units produced a myriad of pixel mapped effects which looked fabulous on the global live broadcast.

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UK - Wednesday 18 September saw the third edition of the ever popular PLASA Golf Day where teams from the technical and live event industry met to battle it out on the course in order to raise money for theatre and lighting based charity, Light Relief. Held once again at the beautiful Drift Golf Club in Surrey, the competition offers players an opportunity to meet fellow industry professionals, show off their skills and perhaps most importantly, settle old scores on the green.

Following on from the hugely successful competition in March earlier this year, the event saw returning teams

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UK - Robe's Robin MMX WashBeam moving lights were used for the first time at a London Fashion Week show by fashion lighting designer Nick Gray of creative practice Renegade.

Gray lit two high profile off-site shows - Jasper Conran at the Saatchi Gallery and Roksanda at The Place, London Bridge - for London Fashion Week SS14 last week using MMX WashBeams.

It was the first time Gray has used Robe moving lights in his fashion work - he is also the LD for rockers Kasabian, comedian Eddie Izzard and is an internationally exhibited video and light artist.

Gray has been wanting to incorp

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China - BVCAM, APG's exclusive distributor in China has recently made its first Uniline rental sale in China. Shenzhen Shengshi Jiayi Culture Media Ltd owned by Mr Yan Wong is a major supplier to both the corporate and festival markets, catering mainly for large scale events, both indoors and outdoors. The company has invested in a very big Uniline configuration complete with subs, amplifiers and processing as well as a number of multipurpose DX15 monitor speakers for in-fills and monitoring.

According to BVCAM's Danny Huen, the Shenzhen rental specialists were attracted by the modula

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UK - Over a couple of summer evenings way back in 1989 a small group of friends performed Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to raise funds for the care and support of children suffering from life-limiting or terminal illnesses. Today, The Pepper Foundation is a registered charity which raises funds for The Pepper Children's Nurses who provide care 24/7 for children throughout the Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire area. The Pepper Rock Event Show is performed each year over two weeks in the Centenary Theatre within Berkhamsted School in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

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UK - PLASA London 2013, which takes place at ExCeL London from 6-9 October 2013, has announced specialist asset finance company Medialease as the sponsor for the AudioLab Arena, while eight new partners will also share their technology and expertise in the AudioLab Arena.

The AudioLab Arena, AudioLab Theatre and AudioLab Interactive, unveiled earlier this year, offer free educational sessions, demonstrations and interactive experiments giving visitors a glimpse of the technology behind the world's most spectacular live shows and venues.

"The PLASA show is a great opportunity to

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UK - When the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series visited Wales for the UK leg of their global cliff diving championship, XL Events was on hand to ensure all the action was captured for the crowds of excited spectators.

With competitors diving from a height of 27m from the top of the Pembrokeshire cliffs, XL Events needed to ensure that spectators in both of the cliff viewing areas had an excellent view of the 14 divers from nine different countries.

To achieve this, XL Events installed two Lighthouse R7 LED screens, one at the top and one at the bottom of the cliffs, and each measur

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UK - Martin Audio's MLA system changed the sonic landscape around the globe this summer - providing an acoustic experience and uniting the audience at premier festivals, concerts and other outdoor events as never before.

For promoters and production teams MLA enabled them to meet traditional challenges head on for the first time. The multi award-winning system's ability to provide uniform coverage right across the soundfield was matched by its scientifically proven reduction of offsite spillage and noise pollution to well within local authority thresholds.

With MLA's ability to soni

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Spain - D.A.S. Audio celebrated its DASnet Seminar in early July, opening the event to professionals from across Europe. Sound professionals from across the continent made the trip to D.A.S. Audio's facilities in Valencia for the two-day seminar on D.A.S. Audio's audio management software. Coordinated from the company's Export Department, the technical aspects of the seminar were handled by D.A.S. Audio engineer Inmaculada Herrera.

Professionals from countries as diverse as Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, the Netherlands and Poland kicked off the two-day seminar with a tour of t

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Brazil - For the 12th time in Rio de Janeiro, a tradition dating back nearly 30 years came to life once again when Brazil's most important music festival Rock in Rio took place in September. While the concept has spread to Spain and Portugal, Rio maintains a melting pot of different musical styles and genres.

Lighting designer Valmor Neves from Zuluz Iluminicao utilised the effects of the SGM P-5 LED wash light to create beautiful designs for the largest telecommunications company in Brazil, Oi Telefonia, postal service company Correios and global leader in the beverage industry, Coca

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UK - London Light has been appointed a distributor for Capture Sweden's lighting design and documentation software Capture Polar.

Sam Crook, technical director at London Light said,"We are very keen to work with Capture. We have always been a fan of the software, with our designers using it almost daily for in-house productions. We have the first hand knowledge and experience that makes us ideally placed to offer support in the UK."

Capture, available for Windows and Mac OS X, allows you to work in real-time with all elements of your design including lighting, laser, video

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Australia - Lighting designer Peter Mumford is using Clay Paky's powerful Sharpy luminaires to deliver ingenious lighting effects on Global Creatures' ambitious multi-million dollar production of King Kong in Melbourne.

With a scenic backdrop that primarily comprises video and lighting effects, Mumford has applied the bright, pure beams of 46 Sharpys in a unique way to create an almost architectural grid effects across the stage. He has also used the Sharpys to convey stunningly realistic gunfire effects as King Kong is shot down from the Empire State Building.

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UK - James Thomas Engineering has realigned its distribution network to maximise the efficiency with which its customers are served and supported across Europe. To this end, A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd (AC-ET) has been appointed as the new exclusive European Master Distributor for the James Thomas Engineering lighting product range in Europe.

With immediate effect, the legendary James Thomas Par 64, and all other parcans from the Par 56 down to the PAR16, JTE SpotBanks, CycLites, 8-, 4- and 2-Lites and lighting bars will be exclusively distributed and supported in Europe by AC

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Germany - Nexo is to commence direct distribution of its sound reinforcement products in Germany, following the mutually-agreed termination of its long-standing distributor agreement with audiovation GmbH.

The new direct sales channel will use a network of dealers to offer a wide range of benefits to German customers, ranging from the logistical aspects of sales and marketing, to an effective and binding communication with all relevant departments of Nexo, including training and seminars at the company's offices.

Denis Baudier, Nexo's sales director, details the changes. "We wi

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UK - Chromlech Elidy LED panels have toured the world with Mumford & Sons in the largest installation of these LED matrix fixtures to date. Lighting designer, Ed Warren, employed 12 Elidy-Big, 12 Elidy-S and 64 Elidy-Wall panels in spectacular style to create unique lighting effects in his latest tour with the blockbuster band.

Warren has worked with Mumford & Sons for five years, 'ever since they needed a lighting designer', favouring tungsten-based lighting in his designs which, he feels, best suits the band.

"I have used Chromlech's Jarag tungsten fixtures since Mumford & So

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UK - When lighting designer Neil Austin was looking to light Liolà at the Lyttelton Theatre, he wanted to try something new - something which would provide the same smooth dimming he is used to with traditional tungsten, but providing vibrant, full colour.

In a European exclusive, Liolà became the first show outside of the US to be lit with ETC's new Source Four LED CYC fixtures, powered by the ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ engine.

"The ETC Source Four LED CYC is a game-changer," says Austin. "At last there's a high quality, low-energy alterna

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Scandal - Andrew Lloyd Webber has launched his new West End musical, saying it would show how the man involved in the 1960s Profumo Affair was made a "scapegoat" by the establishment. The musical, Stephen Ward, opens at London's Aldwych Theatre in December. Lord Lloyd-Webber said Ward's life was a "wonderful subject" for a composer. Ward, an osteopath and socialite, was instrumental in the Profumo sex scandal, which threatened to topple the Conservative government in 1963.

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Australia - With a major upgrade now complete, the community of users at Wyndham Cultural Centre are already feeling the benefits of a new Tannoy sound system for the Centre's auditorium performance space, based around the popular VX Series.

The City of Wyndham is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, in the outer south-western suburbs of Melbourne. With a population of over 160,000, this is a thriving community that has Wyndham Cultural Centre as its heart.

This important building - which houses the Tattersall's Theatre, two exhibition galleries, the CBD library, Visitor

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