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UK - With just three weeks to go until the doors open at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2013, taking place on Tuesday 30 April and Wednesday 1 May at the Royal Armouries, organisers PLASA Events are predicting the best show yet, with a sold-out floor plan, a stronger-than-ever pre-show registration and an exciting free-to-attend seminar programme.

Confirming that PLASA Focus: Leeds 2013 is the place to see the latest pro audio, lighting, video and stage technology, exhibitors have been busy releasing details about the new products they will be unveiling at the premier event for entertainment technology in the north of England.

Martin Professional will present the UK launch of the newest members of the award-winning MAC Viper family, and will also unveil the first fixtures of RUSH; an all-new Martin Professional product range. A host of other new Martin Professional products will al

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Norway - Artistic Licence Multichrome Tube LED fixtures have played a central part in the visual presentation of Isslottet at Den Norske Opera in Oslo where local distributor, Rubicon, supplied over 100 units to faciliate Øyvind Wangensteen's highly imaginative lighting and video design.

Isslottet ('The Ice Castle') is a modern ballet based on Tarjei Vesaas' book of the same name. Set to Terje Isungset's musical arrangement with choreography by Kristian Støvind, it tells the story of Siss and Unn, two teenage girls that find each other in an unlikely friendship. The story deals with issues of life and death, and how what once was light and delightful can turn dark and dangerous.

Wangensteen's design called for the creation of dripping 'ice taps' which could incorporate a 3D movement that was reflected in the high shine stage floor and formed a vital

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Germany - Philips is continuing the Showline LED revolution with the worldwide debut of a game-changing LED strobe luminaire at Prolight + Sound 2013. Showing in Hall 11, Stand D73, Philips will unveil the SL NITRO 510, a cutting-edge, LED- based strobe that provides intense bursts of light and dynamic effects with over 1300 high-powered LEDs that ensure maximum output and even distribution of light.

"The SL NITRO 510 is extremely unique and more versatile than any other strobe currently on the market," began Brad Schiller, Showline product marketing manager. "It uses less power than traditional strobes, yet is extremely bright at over 68,000 lumens and it has six programmable zones allowing designers to create a multitude of looks. The luminaire can also be used as an intense light source as it possesses the exceptional ability of a continuous duty cycle where th

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Germany - At ProLight+Sound, Panasonic are presenting a host of new display and projector innovations which answer specifically needs of the exhibition rental market and professional staging and events specialists. Visitors to the Panasonic stand will be able to meet Panasonic technical experts who will demonstrate applications, discuss solutions and answer questions.

Jan Markus Jahn, director of visual systems solutions business unit of Panasonic Systems Communication Company, explains "Panasonic will show display solutions that are at the very forefront of new technology and show our focus on meeting the needs of exhibition rental and staging markets. With everything from our hugely successful and award winning PT-DZ21K projector which lit up the London 2012 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies to our new display technology, we offer a massive range of innovative AV sol

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Germany - ProLight+Sound 2013 sees console manufacturer DiGiCo significantly raise the sonic capabilities of its SD9 and SD11 digital mixing consoles.

"In 2012, to celebrate 40 years of console manufacturing, we unleashed some more Stealth Digital Processing FPGA power to our SD Range of consoles," says DiGiCo managing director James Gordon. "This saw the SD9 become Supercharged, increasing facilities and processing power at no additional cost to new or existing customers."

To mark this significant achievement, DiGiCo also created a special package, which includes 72 mic inputs with two stage racks, known as the 'Rack Pack'. This package offered a complete system at an incredible price, and future proofing like no other console can achieve.

"For 2013 DiGiCo has gone further," Gordon continues, "increasing the SD9 and SD11's sonic possibilit

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UK - With a range from 6.5° to 50° the Sharpy Wash is designed by the Clay Paky optical lab to be the flip-side to the Sharpy coin. The 330W lamp equals the output of a 1000W luminaire and weighing in at only 18.5 Kg it is the ideal tourable unit.

Ambersphere Solutions' MD, Glyn O'Donoghue is in no doubt about the level of interest generated by this little weapon, "As Clay Paky's exclusive distributor we know that one of their strengths is that they consult with real lighting designers to specify the feature set of their new fixtures; the Sharpy, and now the Sharpy Wash, are the result of that policy. We have been showing one prototype for a few weeks and have been blown away by the reaction from LDs and rental companies alike. It seems like the Sharpy Wash fills a void for rental companies as they have been placing orders without waiting for designers to specify th

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UK - Chauvet is a platinum sponsor for the PLASA Focus Leeds show, scheduled 30 April 1May. Chauvet Professional will display an assortment of fixtures in stand N-B12, such as Legend 230SR Beam moving yoke, Ovation series of theatrical luminaires, Q-Wash 436Z-LED zooming LED wash light, PVP S5 and S7 high-definition video panels and more.

Chauvet Professional Legend 230SR Beam is a compact, lightweight, intensely bright moving head beam, built for touring, live events, television sets or clubs. Legend™ 230SR Beam has a tight 2.25- degree beam angle and houses a 230-watt Osram Sirius lamp, which makes this fixture strikingly bright at 96,000 lux at 15m. The incorporated high-quality glass optics and 8-facet rotating prism with zoom capabilities and motorized focus contribute to flawless hard-edged beams and energizing aerial effects accentuated by haze or fog. Operating at

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd's Rigging division recently supplied a substantial quantity of Litec QX30S truss to London-based production service company, Lightwave Productions.

Servicing a large range of events from concerts to club nights and corporate functions, Lightwave Productions are committed to investing in the latest entertainment technology equipment for their production stock - ensuring they can offer the highest standards possible for their varied customer base.

Looking for an affordable, versatile, strong and durable trussing solution - Lightwave's Henry Clarke contacted A.C. Rigging, who recommended Italian truss manufacturer Litec's range of high quality, QX30S truss.

A.C. Rigging's Matthew Millward, who coordinated the sale comments, "The Litec QX30S truss range is very popular and is found in many rental stocks across Britain."<

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UK - Manchester based lighting and rigging company dbn designed and installed lighting to illuminate Manchester Town Hall for the Virgin Media event No Likey, No Lighty, where football fans tweeted in their support for the outcome of the local derby match between Manchester City and Manchester United.

The building was lit proportionately in red (Man U) and blue (Man City) the evening before the match reflecting these results.

dbn's project manager Andy Kennett and his team worked with Roy Fernley of Event Technical Support who co-ordinated all the technical elements for creative communications agency, Bray Leino.

Kennett designed the lighting scheme, for which even coverage was the most important factor as it was essentially a press photo opportunity.

He chose 20 x Studio Due CityColor floods, 22 x SGM Palco LEDWashes, 16 x Clay Paky Alpha Beam 700s and two CP 1200

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USA - Elation Professional has introduced the EZ6, a high-resolution 6mm indoor LED video display panel whose affordable price, light weight and modular quick assembly make it suitable for visual displays at nightclubs, concert venues, live stages, exhibit halls and public spaces "who want the excitement of a video screen without overstepping their budgets or getting bogged down by complicated installations".

Powered by high-quality Tri-Color 3528 SMD LEDs, the EZ6 features 6mm pixel pitch, 1,800-nit brightness and 960 Hz refresh rate, producing high-definition graphics, text, logos or images. The 22.7" x 22.7" (576mm x 576mm) square panel is constructed of a very high-precision die-cast aluminium frame, so that when linked together it forms an extremely flat, seamless video wall. Its slim lightweight body (24 lbs./ 11 kg.), also makes it easier to hang in ar

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. will be showcasing products from a selection of the leading brands which it distributes including Chroma-Q, Jands, High End Systems, LedGo, Green Hippo, Christie Nitro, BroadWeigh, Columbus McKinnon and many more - at the 2013 PLASA Focus show (stand N-E2).

Product highlights include Chroma-Q's new Inspire high output, RGBW colour-changing LED house light and AutoLED II ultra bright (16,430 lumens) daylight white LED moving head fixture; LedGo's range of high-quality modular LED video panels; High End Systems' new flagship lighting console, the Road Hog 4; Jands' renowned Vista lighting console range and innovative new Stage CL console "made for LEDs"; and Columbus McKinnon's range of durable, reliable electric chain hoists. Other brands represented at the show on AC-ET's stand include Green Hippo, Spotlight, SGM and Se

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China - Barco Lighting Systems and EZPro International (HK) Limited have announced a new partnership that will enable EZPro to serve as exclusive distributor of High End Systems' products throughout China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Effective immediately, this agreement enables EZPro to make HES' products available to their extensive network of local distributors and resellers. They will also have direct access to product knowledge, support as well as local stock.

Jun Zhu, president of the EZPRO group, comments, "High End Systems is the creator and industry leader of professional lighting products and lighting control systems. It is an inspiring event that EZpro becomes the exclusive distributor for the High End Systems brand in China. We are looking forward to creating a brand new development for High End Systems in China."

Renaat De Wilde, VP of sales for High End syst

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Canada - Christie Lites has announced the opening of a new stage lighting and equipment sales and rental office in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The new location - its thirteenth - strengthens Christie Lites' multi-office network of full service and equipment across North America.

"Winnipeg is a great city with plenty of culture and entertainment," said Christie Lites CEO Huntly Christie. "I am very pleased that Christie Lites will be able to offer local support to the many events which use stage lighting."

The new Winnipeg office is located at 25 Terracon Place, Unit 19. Although the official opening is set for 1 May, Christie Lites is already fulfilling immediate lighting needs by servicing show productions in the area.

Ken Alexander, VP Rentals for Christie Lites: "The Winnipeg market is already welcoming the Christie Lites Rentals team and equipmen

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UK - Following extensive research and collaborative testing, Inspired Audio and LMC Audio Systems have signed an agreement for LMC Audio to sell and service Inspired Audio products in the UK and Ireland live audio market.

Inspired Audio has developed a premium quality loudspeaker system family designed, manufactured, and tested in Nottingham, by the team led by design director Chris Scott, who has a track record of over 20 years of original design success.

Scott comments, "Inspired Audio gives me a clean sheet of paper in terms of the product and, equally importantly, how that product was represented in the marketplace. It is fair to say that having been around the block a few times I had clear ideas on what does and doesn't work and I knew that I wanted a clear, simple and controlled route to market, making a well-placed distributor the obvious choice for the UK.

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Italy / Sweden - With an over 30-year heritage of designing and manufacturing leading edge products for the worldwide entertainment market, Clay Paky has now partnered with LumenRadio to bring the CRMX technology to their product line.

After extensive testing, Clay Paky approved LumenRadio thanks to its quality and reliability. The LumenRadio Coexistence technology allows smarter use of the frequencies by continuously scanning the radio spectrum and dynamically adapting its frequency-hopping pattern to the surrounding environment. This eliminates interference and maximizes performance.

Select models of the extensive product portfolio that consists of a wide range of professional fixtures and accessories for stage and studio lighting as well as architectural applications, will now be available with integrated CRMX OEM modules.

"Partnering with LumenRadio was important fo

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South Africa - For the tenth consecutive year, Johannesburg rental company MGG Productions were commissioned by csquare to provide the lighting for the rocking annual Potch Rag festivities held at Jool Plaas in Potchefestroom.

The Potchefstroom University sport grounds were alive as students built floats for a street parade which was followed by live performances from local band including Karen Zoid, Prime Circle and Die Heuwels Fantasties besides others.

It was the first time that Kevin Rieck of MGG had free rein on the design on the concert. On a permanent outdoor stage, the MGG crew built a box truss (4.5m x 10m) with three mid sections and a back truss for the Martin LC 2140 LED Wall. The show included Robin 100LEDs, Robin 600 LED Washes and Robin 300 Spots and beam work by Clay Paky Sharpys. All lighting and the LED wall were controlled on a grandMA full size and a grandM

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South Africa - Robe was the lighting choice for the 12th annual Metro FM Music Awards held recently at the Durban ICC Arena. Dream Sets were commissioned by Blue Moon Corporate Communications to provide the set and the technical elements of this prestigious event.

With an objective to deliver the best Metro FM occasion to date, Dream Sets' Robert Hoey, Eben Peltz and Sean Hoey were the technical directors. They collaborated with Gearhouse Durban who were the main technical suppliers.

Francois van der Merwe of Wizardry Group was the lighting designer and operator. "While I had free reign, Dream Sets wanted the show to be spectacular with theatrical looks and with lighting good enough for the television broadcast," he said.

Van der Merwe programmed on a grandMA2 full size and incorporated video on a MA2 server. He had some 66 Robe fixtures at his disposal. "Ther

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USA - When California-based Barten Production Service recently provided technology reinforcement for the 2013 MOD Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, the set design depended heavily on Volkslicht Zoom and Spot One LED fixtures from GLP's impression range. Barten have been providing sound, lighting, AV, and production management services for the event, which honours the best modular trade show exhibits and event designs, for several years.

Dave Barten's eponymous company has a long association with the event, as it does with GLP - having first been introduced to the German company's LED solutions as a result of being the 'trussing partner' of Cosmic Truss, for which GLP is the distributor for the Americas. Today they own 12 Volkslicht Zooms and eight Spot Ones, which are regularly out on duty.

"The amazing thing was that at the MOD Awards we were able to handle

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Germany - At Prolight+Sound Martin Professional celebrated the world premiere of no less than six new MAC Viper Family moving heads, as well as a completely new range of RUSH effect lights and the response was nothing short of fantastic, says the company.

"To have more tools to work with from the same tool set is a massive advantage," stated lighting designer and show visitor Paul Collison, who got an up close look at the newest Viper fixtures. "The Vipers are clearly a replacement workhorse and a family of fixtures that will be around for a long time." Martin product manager Peter Skytte was clearly satisfied with the response from visitors. "There was great interest from the opening bell," he said.

It was a packed house Thursday evening at Martin's Prolight + Sound party at Gibson Club where lighting industry professional's partied late into the

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UK - The fund raising show has been so successful of recent years, that even if you never watched the series Glee, then you would still understand the concept of what it is about.

As part of Comic Relief or Sports Relief, CBBC's Sam and Mark, along with Naomi Wilkinson, present the all singing all dancing talent contest, in which groups performed in front of celebrity judges (vocal coaches David and Carrie Grant and choreographer Sisco Gomez) to be crowned the nation's best young Glee Club. Those select few groups were whittled down through week of previous auditions held across the country.

Long standing LD Roger Williams designed the spectacular lighting show which was provided by Richard Martin Lighting (RML). The show is filmed at BBC Glasgow and is overseen by local company TSL and Tony Kennedy.

The rig comprised of VL500s, Atomic Strobes, Alpha Beam 700s, Sharpy

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Trinidad - With 15 of the biggest Chutney Soca artists in the world taking part, the recent Chutney Soca Monarch competition, held at Skinner Park in Trinidad's San Fernando, was the biggest of its kind in the world, showcasing talent from North America, the Caribbean and the UK. This event has been taking place for the past 18 years under the organisation of George Singh's South Ex Event Management.

With 10,000 people attending, the event is a launching pad for many careers in the industry and has triggered an international awareness of this music genre overseas, creating some massive productions. Prevalent in Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and Surinam,'Chutney Soca' itself is described as a crossover style of music incorporating Soca elements and Hindi-English lyrics, with the indigenous 'Chutney' music complemented by Indian instruments like the dholak and dhantal.

This year fiv

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Denmark - Martin Professional is targeting the installation market in a big way with the launch of an all-new, cost-effective line of effect lights - RUSH by Martin. RUSH will comprise a comprehensive range of affordable effect products with the first RUSH lights launched recently at the Prolight+Sound trade show in Frankfurt.

RUSH marks Martin's focus back onto a market they know well. Villads Thomsen, vice president of global sales at Martin, comments, "We are extremely excited about this brand new range as it again brings everything that Martin stands for to the market for installation effect lights. This is by no means new territory for us however as our roots lay in the market for effect lighting. It's a market we have great experience in.

"The response at Prolight+Sound was overwhelmingly positive. We feel the time is right to re-energize this segment and are c

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Eurovision Update - Abba's Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus are set to write an anthem for this year's Eurovision Song Contest, organisers have announced. The pair will team up with Swedish DJ and producer Avicii to compose a theme track for the event in Malmo, Sweden. We Write the Story will be performed for the first time at the opening of the grand final on 18 May.

Show Statistics - Musikmesse and Prolight+Sound closed with113,000 visitors from 142 countries (2012: 109,481 visitors, 120 countries). "This visitor response has far surpassed our own expectations and that of the exhibitors", says Detlef Braun, managing director of Messe Frankfurt GmbH. "With 113,000, the visitor numbers not only exceeded last year's results by three percent, but it also surpasses the all-time record high from 2009 (112,478 visitors). This is a fantastic result for th

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Germany - ETC's Layers of Light Theatre proved once again to be a popular attraction at this year's Prolight+Sound, with visitors standing off the stand and on tip toes to see the two different presentations.

The first presentation demonstrated how each of the different types of fixtures - tungsten, HID and LED - can work well either individually or together as instruments in a lighting director's tool box; while a second showed how easy it is to set up a lighting system for a gig, making use of the new Magic Sheets function on the control desks and RDM technology, and demonstrating how ETC control desks, fixtures and power control products work together.

Everyone who attended both presentations as well as a personal demonstration of any ETC product was entered into a draw to win a Source Four Mini. The winners were announced as Markus Fuchs, Jan Lemmenmeier, Marcus Schindler

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  3. New Martin Vipers, and RUSH make UK debuts
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  5. PRG supplies Hot Natured at Brixton Academy
  6. Clay Paky adds sparkle to Gary Barlow Tour
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