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Germany - GLP German Light Products have launched a new iPad app for their impression X4 fixture.

One of the versatile features of the impression X4 is that users can create their own pixel designs on the fly and store them directly into their control console. The new iPad app makes the process fast and easy by bringing up a mimic of the fixtures front lens layout. Users can tap individual lenses on and off to design the output that they would like. Simultaneously the app displays the corresponding DMX channels and values to be input to the controller for the physical fixture.

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UK - This year the teams from Avolites and Avolites Media were not only blessed with the sunniest festival in years but also the joy of witnessing the proliferation of new Avolites consoles around the site.

Taking pride of place at most front of house positions was either an Avolites ultrafast Sapphire Touch, Tiger Touch, Tiger Touch Pro or Expert Pro. Meanwhile quietly operating backstage Avolites T4 Dimmers kept lighting control running smoothly.

In addition, and increasingly present year on year, Avolites Media's Ai Media consoles, Infinity 8 and T8 Media Servers delivered stunni

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France - The historic Indochine tour, which will take place over two years, debuted at mid-sized venues in France in March. It has gradually become more and more impressive in size occupying ever more important concert locations and triumphing at the Stade de France.

It is an original event lit by the staff of Concept-K, whose young lighting designer Thomas Déchandon put together an unusual lighting design with a special place for Clay Paky's A.Leda Wash K20s. Their LED rings are arranged in a circular array, which is a clear reference to the tour's visual impact and recalls th

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Nigeria - Although only one year old, Mark Osho's Megavision Lighting was contracted to deliver a spectacular set for this year's Miss Nigeria pageant in Lagos - the 38th edition of this annual event.

Held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, in front of 2,400 of the country's leading A-list VIPs, celebrities and socialities, Osho himself based much of his lighting design around PR Lighting effects - using six each of the XR200 Beam and XLED 1037 to create the impact, along with four XLED 336 and 12 PR348.

Working within a set designed by Bolaji Durojaiye of Equally Diver

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USA - Barco Lighting Systems and Creative Stage Lighting Co have announced a new partnership that will enable Creative Stage Lighting to serve as a major Hog controls reseller of High End Systems' console products throughout the United States of America. Effective immediately, this agreement enables Creative Stage Lighting to make HES' console products available to their extensive network of local resellers.

George Studnicky III, president of Creative Stage Lighting comments, The Hog 4 Series is the end result of a very attentive and industrious High End Systems. While Creative Stage

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USA - Mumford & Sons, continue their action packed touring schedule, having just finished a string of Canadian and US shows - where Robe LEDWash moving lights were once again a prominent feature on the lighting rig designed by New York based LD, Ed Warren of Next Level Lights.

Warren has been working with the band for the last four and a half years and the starting point for this instalment of the on-going tour was "Let's kick some serious festival ass with true tungsten power".

For at least the past 12 months, Warren's lighting rig for the band has contained continual evo

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China - Visual Productions has confirmed a distribution partnership with Advance Communication Equipment (ACE) for the Chinese market.

This new partnership began during the Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt earlier this year, when senior vice president Bingo Tso and business manager Dicky Ling visited the Visual Productions' stand. Seeing the range of innovative and smart lighting control solutions available from Visual Productions, a product demonstration was arranged for all the ACE team available at the show.

Director of Visual Productions, Maarten Engels, talked them through the

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South Africa - South Africa - Philips Entertainment's four premier brands - Selecon, Showline, Strand Lighting and Vari-Lite - are powering up to exhibit their latest luminaires and lighting control products ideal for theatre and staging applications at this year's Mediatech advanced technology show Africa (The Coca-Cola Dome, Northgate, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17-19 July 2013.)

Taking pride of place and following its popular debut earlier in the year at Frankfurt ProLight and Sound, Philips Showline will be promoting the SL NITRO 510 LED strobe.

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Classical Record - A record 114,000 tickets for the BBC Proms 2013 have sold since booking opened on Saturday, a 17% rise on 2012. More than 100,000 tickets sold online, while the rest were bought by phone, post or in person from the Albert Hall. BBC Proms director Roger Wright described the "record-breaking" sales as a "thrill".

The most popular Proms in terms of ticket sales included the First Night of the Proms, conducted by Sakari Oramo in his inaugural performance as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, on 12 July, plus two Doctor Who Proms on 13 and

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USA - grandMA2 consoles proved to be country strong when they turned out in force for the 2013 CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Lighting designer Tom Kenny used six grandMA2 full-size for the gala special, which was hosted by Kristen Bell and Jason Aldean.

"The CMT Music Awards is a huge event on the music calendar and gets bigger and bigger every year. It outshines every other awards show," says Kenny.

Kenny partnered with production designer Ann Brahic, who marked her fifth year with the show. "She designed a set that was a very modern scape.

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When ETC began developing a lighting product for cycloramas, they didn't want to introduce just another cyc light on the market. It had to meet several requirements to be deserving of the ETC brand: the light would be bright, easy to use, provide seamless coverage, and comply with the high standards ETC sets for its products. The result is the Source Four LED CYC, an adapter that affixes to any Source Four LED luminaire, transforming it into a powerful tool to illuminate cycloramas.

Using the x7 Color System, which combines up to seven LED colours in one unit, Source Four LED luminaires can

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UK - Hastings-based Wilson Process Systems (WPS) is squarely addressing the fast growing LED lighting market with the installation of the first assembly line in the UK that can assemble boards up to 1.3m long fully automatically. WPS has invested £500,000 to set up the line.

The upgraded WPS line can manufacture boards up to 1.3m long x 0.6m wide, for the growing opportunity in LED lighting, retail displays and digital signage. It is the first line in the country that can manufacture such long boards fully automatically, including the critical screen printing stage. According to

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UK - The first music festival to be promoted by an industry technical production company - Chilfest by Universal Event Productions (UEP) - was "a resounding success".

Music fans enjoyed two days of entertainment. The pop themed Friday night was headlined by Little Mix, The Lovable Rogues, Heather Small and others, followed by the best of the eighties on the Saturday - Tony Hadley, Rick Astley, Howard Jones, Midge Ure, Hazel O'Connor and Carol Decker.

All of this was delivered complete with the very highest in production values by UEP who supplied sound, lighting and video

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Australia - Indie pop duo/couple Matt & Kim who hail from Brooklyn, New York, have just toured Australia as part of the Groovin' The Moo festival. Lighting designer Ian Lyles uses a Jands Vista L5 console for the arena, club and theatre shows that the band play in America and so when he found out that he would be visiting Australia, Lyles made calling into Jands HQ a priority. He was particularly keen to see the Vista M1 and S1 consoles.

"We were interested in trying out the Vista S1 as we're thinking of buying an M1 or S1 for our small Catalyst rig in the US," said Lyles. &

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Turkey - Istanbul-based event engineering company Phantom has supplied a team of Clay Paky Alpha, A.Leda, and Sharpy fixtures to light the 2013 Mediterranean Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

Eighteen months of preparation culminated in the Opening Ceremony of the 17th Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey on Thursday 20 June. Lighting designer Jean-François Bonnement from Paris-based visual arts company Concept K, specified more than 400 Clay Paky fixtures to realise his dramatic design, included Alpha Profile 1500, Alpha Spot HPE 1500, Alpha Wash 1500, Alpha Profile 700, Alpha

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New Zealand - Dream Solutions has announced the release of its highly successful LightFactory controls software.

Version 2.12 expands LightFactory into the mobile space with the addition of an all new iPad remote. This latest version also brings more exciting new features like a visual timecode editor designed to make programming shows faster and more streamlined, says the company.

This release is a free upgrade for existing version 2 users and "continues the reputation that LightFactory is the most versatile software based lighting control system on the market".

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UK - It is with sadness that the Association of Lighting Designers has announced the death of Andy Collier, the editor of the Association's Focus magazine and long standing member of the Executive Committee.

Andy passed away suddenly on Friday 12th July on his way to an ALD Executive meeting, where he was due to discuss the next issue of Focus and the ALD website, both projects that Andy was intimately involved in.

Andy joined the Executive in October 1995, and filled several key positions starting as Associate Member Representative, then as Corporate Member Representative, before e

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Australia - Chart topping Australian singer/songwriter Guy Sebastian is using Robe moving lights on his 47-date Get Along Australian tour, the latest stage in his impressive career, which has been nothing less than supersonic since winning the first Australian Idol back in 2003.

The tour's lighting and visuals design has been created by Bruce Ramus, and lighting director / operator on the road is Simon 'Junior' Johnson. The lighting and video equipment is being provided by Melbourne based Powa Productions.

Ramus has worked with Sebastian for about two years. He was giv

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UK - Philips Vari-Lite's VL3500 Washes once more provided the backbone of Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage's versatile house-lighting rig.

Designed by Andy 'Fraggle' Porter and supplied by Neg Earth the rig had to accommodate a plethora of very different artists along with three headline acts, each of which played a single night of the festival, and each to record audiences.

"I knew I needed something powerful and reliable," comments Porter. "I also wanted a fixture that I knew was familiar to all the incoming LDs and that would provide the feature set for each of the very

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USA - Many times as music tours are being launched the preparation behind them gets left unnoticed. With custom design elements, these tours take months to prepare and the designers must find new and inventive ways to bring the music to life. With the Smashing Pumpkins 2013 world tour Shamrocks & Shenanigans, lighting designer Lawrence Upton had to find both a new dealer who could support his completely custom design needs, plus find a new lighting instrument to meet crucial design elements. He found his solutions in authorized Vari-Lite dealer LMG Touring, 24 Philips Vari-Lite V

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UK - Every year Lawnfest is organised by Camilla AlFayed for the AlFayed Charitable Foundation to raise funds for West Heath School. The one-day festival showcases a mixture of raw unsigned talent and name acts and was headlined this year by Billy Ocean.

SRD Group in Kent were asked to supply a unique lighting effect to add height, depth and texture to the stage. To do this they purchased 30x 1m LED tubes from MilTec (UK) Ltd. The tubes were used in two locations- 10 mounted on the curved roof of the stage, fanning out vertically to add height and 20 were hung vertically at the rear,

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Serbia - Robe moving lights were used by lighting designer Marko Malesevic from Studio Berar - also the lighting rental contractor - as part of the rig for a massive performance by Balkan superstar singer Svetlana Ceca Raznatovic which coincided with the St Vitus Day public holiday (also known as Vidovdan).

The open air concert was staged by Miligram Music on a site at Usce in Belgrade, right at the confluence of the Rivers Danube and Sava ... and attended by an enthusiastic audience of 100,000.

The pressure was on to ensure that it was a memorable and spectacular event for everyone

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UK - "It's a busy time; we've just purchased another large batch of Clay Paky Sharpys for our rental inventory and they arrive this week, yet we'll still have to sub' in a few extra lights to keep our regular clients happy." Rob Merrilees at Dry Hire Lighting is managing growth with a wise head. "We will take those extra lights, check and prepare them to our standards, then off they go.

"We don't rent to end users, we don't do production. This is plain black box rental," Merrilees confirmed. The company has grown five-fold in the 12 months since foundation in

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UK - Nick Gray of London-based creative lighting and design practice Renegade produced an impressive stage design for Kasabian's Saturday night headline performance at the 2013 Hard Rock Calling event, staged for the first time at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to a sold out audience of 45,000.

Gray wanted to ensure it was a very special show with a high impact. It was essentially a large one off preceded by a couple of festival warm ups bringing to a close the band's impressive Velociraptor! album cycle.

The whole visual concept was inspired by the stark, contrasty and quirky

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