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Clearwing Productions adds MAC Aura

All Time Low played the Millikin University Big Event (photo: Michael Hionis)

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Milwaukee-based Clearwing Productions added 48 Martin MAC Aura LED fixtures to its inventory and promptly debuted the award-winning fixture on an All Time Low concert before hiring them out for work on a number of other events including Chris de Burgh's US tour, the Macy's Glamorama multi-city summer tour, and Tiesto's Summerfest concert at the Marcus Amphitheater in Milwaukee.

All Time Low played the Millikin University Big Event at the Kirkland Fine Arts Centre in Decatur, Illinois earlier in the year with lighting designer Jeff Maker placing the compact LED wash lights each side of the drum riser for colorful beam looks. Winner of the PLASA Award for Innovation, the MAC Aura is the first LED fixture to combine multicolor LEDs with a backlight colour mixing system to produ

Nominations have been announced for the 2012 Gottelier Award, won last year by Terry Clarke

2012 Gottelier Award nominees announced

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - PLASA has announced the shortlist of nominees for this year's prestigious Gottelier Award.

Named in honour of Tony Gottelier, the designer, innovator and industry commentator who died in 2006, this prestigious annual presentation aims to recognise "the product designers and developers who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the development of the equipment and tools that enable our entertainment technology practitioners to continually push the boundaries of event production, presentation and installation".

This year, a panel of 20 people, all with li

Daddy Cool finishes in Spain in September and then transfers to the UK for a tour of 12 major theatres

Painting with Light on Daddy Cool

Details: 14 March 2016

Spain - Luc Peumans from Belgium based lighting and visual design practice Painting With Light has designed the set, lighting and video for a completely new production of the popular musical Daddy Cool which has opened at the Trui Theatre in Palma, Mallorca.

The colourful, action-packed show with a 30-strong cast produced by Robert Mackintosh and Frank Farian for Albert Verlinde Entertainment stars special guest Sheila Ferguson from The Three Degrees and features 25 hits from Boney M, Milli Vanilli, La Bouche, No Mercy and others.

Peumans had designed the original Dutch touri

The Week in Lighting & Sound

Details: 14 March 2016

Olympic Countdown - Spectators who attended a preview of the Olympic Games opening ceremony have been urged to keep the details secret and not spoil the surprise for others. Thousands of people who attended a rehearsal on Monday were asked not to circulate images or videos. Danny Boyle, the ceremony's artistic director, reportedly addressed the audience to "save the surprise".

About 62,000 are set to attend the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, east London, on Friday. The event is expected to be watched by an audience of billions worldwide. Olympic organi

The 22-programme series is shot in front of a studio audience in Hamadi, close to Algiers City

PR Lighting stars on Algerian TV game show

Details: 14 March 2016

Algeria - PR Lighting effects are being used heavily on the latest series of Algerian TV game show Takdar Tarbah (which translates as You Can Win).

Neosun Algerie, PR Lighting's Algerian distributors, delivered 38 projectors, including 20 XS 1200 Spot, 10 XS 1200 Wash and eight XLED 590 moving LED heads, to meet the set design of Thierry Rollin, who is also responsible for the lighting design of many TV game shows for the TF1 French channel.

Working directly with production company SD-BOX, the biggest independent producer of fiction and TV game programmes, the PR light

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