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UK - Relationships that have had a big influence on Gary Barlow's latest tour. Barlow is a master of his genre, as he has amply demonstrated by selling out all 17venues around the UK. His first solo outing onto the arena circuit, show director Kim Gavin along with designer Tim Routledge and production director Chris Vaughan, elected for a minimalist approach to staging, but with an emphatic widescreen approach to video.

Tim Routledge comments, "Gary wanted to keep as close to his audience as he had on last year's theatre outing. At the same time we needed a bigger show to suit th

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USA - Alternative rock band The Pixies have made quite the comeback after their revival 10 years ago, and are now on a worldwide tour with a full lighting rig from Martin Professional.

Full service lighting, sound and rigging rental company based in New York, See Factor, worked with Myles Mangino, lighting designer for The Pixies, to create a rig featuring 15 MAC Viper Profiles, 12 MAC Auras, four RUSH MH3s and three Jem K1 Hazers.

The Pixies, who recently stopped at the renowned Coachella Music Festival after their reunion tour began nearly 10 years ago, needed a versatile lighting

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UK - The stars of ETC's stand (number 53) at this year's ABTT show, 11-12 June in London, will be ETC's newest lighting system, Cobalt, along with the Source Four® LED Series 2 luminaire. Stand visitors will also be able to take the opportunity to see a range of other new and improved products that have been designed with theatre users in mind.

The new Cobalt system that will be on display has an all new operating style that allows operators to keep their eyes on the stage and not on the controls. The Cobalt line - which includes Cobalt 20 and its smaller, but no less powerful sib

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Sweden - Over 150 Clay Paky fixtures were used on this year's popular Melodifestivalen tour with the Sharpy Wash 330 being singled out as a 'mind-blowing' fixture by lighting designer Fredrik Jönsson.

The Melodifestivalen tour is part of Sweden's national competition to find out who will be representing the country in Europe's annual Eurovision Song Contest. Jönsson had to create a high-spec touring lighting design that captured the imaginations of the contest's live and at-home audiences.

"The brief for the show was to create a visually stunning environment for the performan

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Denmark - When Austrian drag act Conchita Wurst was crowned the winner of the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, it brought to the end a spectacular show, in which SGM's pioneering LED lighting was a clear highlight of the rig.

In a groundbreaking design, the show's creative director, Per Zachariassen and lighting designer Kasper Lange (with whom he has worked for ten years) ensured that content throughout the 26 artistes performing could be delivered to four different surfaces, allowing the stage to be transformed from act to act. This inc

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Denmark - 46,320 parameters, 138 universes 1,380 moving lights, 1,500 spot (conventional, LED, effect), 10kms of data cable, 12kms of power multicore cable, 6kms of power cable - numbers like these hint ... that it was Eurovision Song Contest time again.

The 2014 event took place in an old shipyard at Refshaleøen, Copenhagen, Denmark and once again set new standards for production technology and as an eye opener.

Danish lighting designer Kasper Lange relied on seven grandMA2 full-size and two grandMA2 light consoles, 19 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) and 9 x MA 8Port Node

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Ivor Novello Awards - Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie has been honoured with a lifetime achievement at this year's Ivor Novello songwriting awards. McVie played with Fleetwood Mac for 28 years and wrote some of their most famous songs, including Don't Stop and Little Lies. Other winners at the ceremony in London included London Grammar, The Chemical Brothers and Nile Rodgers. The annual awards, now in their 59th year, are voted for by songwriters.

Picking up her award, McVie confirmed she had rejoined Fleetwood Mac after a more than 15-year absence and would join them on

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UK - As part of their support for education and training in the field of entertainment lighting, the Worshipful Company of Lightmongers (WCL) in conjunction with the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) are offering an annual award for those who are at the start of their career.

The Worshipful Company of Lightmongers is one of the modern Livery companies and number 96 in order of precedence within the City of London. Being a modern company, it has all of its members involved in the lighting industry through engineering / manufacture, design, architecture, electrical installation an

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Italy - Multi-talented Italian superstar Luciano Ligabue - a prolific singer-songwriter, film director and award winning author - played a series of intimate concerts at the start of his 2014 Mondovisione tour which builds up to stadium shows in the summer, with lighting designer Jo Campana including 20 x Robe Robin Pointe moving lights on his rig.

Campana, who has worked with the artist since 2009, first saw the Pointes in action at this year's Sanremo Music Festival in March - where he was also working for the artist. The fixtures immediately caught her attention, so much so,

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UK - Visitor registration for PLASA London 2014 is now open and for a limited time attendees can register for free.

PLASA London is offering free four-day passes for attendees who register before Tuesday 1 July. The show, which has been a pivotal date on the international entertainment technology tradeshow calendar for more than three decades, will return to ExCeL London for the second consecutive year on Sunday 5 October until Wednesday 8 October.

Exciting developments to the show's format mean that the registration offer is just one of many visitor incentives for 2014, as PLASA's

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USA - Held at New York City's prestigious Radio City Music Hall, the 2014 NFL Draft was the highest rated ESPN Draft telecast in more than two decades. To ensure proper lighting of the players, audience and for the live television broadcast on both ESPN and NFL Network, Christie Lites and principal lighting designer, Michael Franks, deployed Martin Professional fixtures to provide light to the entire venue.

In total, more than four miles of cable were used to power 14 Martin MAC Auras, 20 MAC Viper AirFxs, 19 MAC Viper Performances and 24 MAC Viper Profiles throughout Radio City Music

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USA - Elation Professional adds to its growing range of innovative LED luminaries with launch of the Pixel Bar 40, a one-meter-long pixel-controllable LED strip light that uses 3-in-1 SMD RGB LEDs to mix a nearly limitless variety of colors.

Useful as a pixel bar for displaying imagery or as a wash luminaire for floodlighting surfaces and stages, uniform washes of color from pastels to saturates and easy-to-setup design will be appreciated by LDs, rental houses and installers alike.

Bright at 850 Nits and 0-100% dimmable for brightness adjustment and balancing, the Pixel Bar 40's fo

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Belgium - Maverick award-winning, chart-topping Belgian superstar rockers Clouseau are engaged in a 45 date tour of Belgium and the Netherlands until September reaching out to their enormous and eclectic fanbase.

The lighting and set is designed by Luc Peumans from Genk based creative practice Painting With Light, who was challenged to create a fully flexible rig that looks fabulous in a wide variety of venues, that is quick and easy to rig and de-rig ... and will fit - together with the rest of the technical production - into one truck!

His ingenious design includes eight DMX contr

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Russia - The ambitious Closing Ceremony of Sochi's Winter Olympics was a "bright and emotive" event featuring 7,000 performers under an 'LED Forest of Light'. This was made up of 204 LED tubes, each one 12-metres high with a 360-degree viewing angle, and powered by an Avolites Ai S6 Server and Tiger Touch II console.

The Ceremony started with a countdown, with the numbers appearing on the screens above the stands. When the scoreboard hit zero, the LED forest in the centre of Sochi's Fisht arena exploded into bright colours, directed by world-renowned director Daniele Finzi P

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Germany - After the huge success of the 27 Club at the St. Pauli theatre in Hamburg, the show has embarked on a tour that will stop off in Vienna and Berlin before returning to Hamburg once again. The 27 Club embodies the milestones of the history of music. Patrick Woodroffe and Roland Greil have been appointed as lighting designers, as they were at the St. Pauli theatre.

Greil, who is also in charge of programming, has chosen nine Clay Paky Sharpy Washes, a grandMA2 light console, an MA Network Processing Unit (NPU), grandMA2 onPC software as backup, and a Robert Juliat Aramis.

He

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Russia - Clay Paky and Doka will celebrate 20 years of partnership in Moscow on 4, 5 and 6 June.

"It was 1994 and Clay Paky was exhibiting at SIB in Rimini, Italy, at that time one of the most representative fairs for our industry," said Pasquale Quadri, chairman of Clay Paky. "A young man turned up and suggested the company he worked for, Doka, should become Clay Paky distributor on the Russian market. He was Alexander Fokichev, the current General Manager of Doka."

Doka was already a well-established company in Russia at that time. Their target was almost exclu

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Czech Republic - Five times world champion deaf skier Tereza Kmochova was awarded the title of the Handicapovany Sportovec Roku 2013 (Czech Paraplegic Athlete of the Year) during a high profile event staged at the Top Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic in April.

The annual event was broadcast on CT4 Sport, Czech national TV's dedicated sports channel, attended live by 400 VIP guests and lit by Pavel Jelinek using Robe Pointes and LEDWash 600s. These were supplied, together with other lighting equipment, by Prague based rental company, TD Promo.

Jelinek worked closely with Director of P

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Germany - The Richard Wengenmeier Hall at the Bavarian Academy of Music in Marktoberdorf, Germany, recently replaced its outdated tungsten lighting system with a new lighting rig of Elation Professional TVL Series white light LED luminaires and the benefits have been exceptional as well as economic.

The Bavarian Academy of Music (Bayerische Musikakademie) is part of the Bavarian Music Council (Bayerischer Musikrat), which represents and supports musicians and musical activities across Bavaria.

The main purpose of the new lighting is to provide the Hall's orchestra with smooth even w

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UK - Lighting and visuals rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment kick started another crazy busy festival season this year supplying lighting equipment and design, LED screen, rigging and crew to We Are FSTVL which made some serious noise at Damyn's Hall Aerodrome, Upminster, east London.

It was the second event after bursting audaciously onto the EDM scene last year and this year the organisers upped the ante on several fronts, expanding the event to two days, increasing the level of production and securing an action-packed line-up with main stage headliners Richie Hawtin (Saturda

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South Africa - The spectacular Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 proved yet again why it holds a triple-award winning status as it performed fantastic light effects at the 2nd Annual South African Premier Business Awards in Johannesburg.

Attended by none other than the country's president Jacob Zuma, the awards, organized by Outlaw Events, is a lively celebration of outstanding achievement in the world of South African business and enterprise. Production director Chris Bolton of Johannesburg-based production specialists Keystone Productions designed and directed the project's impressive set,

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USA - Elation Professional invites visitors to Booth C5446 at InfoComm in Las Vegas for the debut of several new products including the world premiere of the new EMAG 4 Pro, a 4.8mm pixel pitch LED video panel optimised for the fast setup and tear down of on-the-road productions. Also featuring in Elation's growing line of LED video displays will be the EPT9IP, an ultra-bright 9mm pixel pitch LED panel that ticks all the boxes for a professional LED display.

Debuting on U.S. soil at the Las Vegas Convention Center from 18-20 June are three new luminaires in Elation's popular Platinum

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Denmark - Harman's Martin Professional has introduced the Soft Lens accessory for the MAC Quantum Wash light. This optional accessory is designed to enhance the capabilities of the MAC Quantum Wash and optimise the fixture for theatrical applications, the company says.

The Soft Lens accessory allows the MAC Quantum wash to create a more compact and dense beam. By utilising the Soft Lens accessory, the synthetic LED look of the lens is reduced for a more Fresnel-style appearance of the front lens.

"With the Soft Lens accessory, the MAC Quantum Wash is the most effective LED wash

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UK - Chauvet Professional will be showcasing the Ovation series of fixtures on stand 42 at this year's ABTT Theatre Show (The Old Truman Brewery, London - June 11-12). The company's Ovation line has been created especially for stage and theatre and includes Ovation E-190WW ellipsoidal-style luminaire, Ovation C-640FC cyc light, Ovation F-165WW and Ovation F-95WW Fresnel fixtures.

"Chauvet is committed to theatre and to the elite community of creative and technical lighting users therein. The Ovation line was created to directly address issues faced by the many theatres still usin

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South Africa - The new and recently opened 6,000-seater auditorium at the Christian Revival Church (CRC) in Silver Lakes, Pretoria, South Africa is benefitting from an all-Robe moving light rig, which was specified and installed by DWR Distribution.

DWR's Robert Izzett was contacted by CRC's Head of Media Clinton Powell, who oversaw all the technical aspects of the project which has been three years in the making and replaces CRC's previous temporary tented venue on the same site.

"The initial brief from CRC was for a lighting rig that would allow them to stage Idols wit

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