China - Pilot Records' Inter City Music Festival recently took place at the Golden Sands Beach in the Huangdao district of Qingdao, China. Many of the record label's acts performed including Reflector, Zheng Jun, CMCB, Twisted Machine and headliner Miserable Faith.

Real Music Acoustics & Lighting Technology Co. Ltd., Adamson System Engineering's distributor in China and Hong Kong, supplied an Energia E15 line array system for the two-day festival.

"The record labels artists represent many different genres of music," explains Richie Wang, GM for Real Music Acoustics & Lighting. "We provided a substantial Adamson E15 PA in order to accommodate their heavy metals bands as well as pop and folk music acts."

The E15 line arrays - 12 enclosures per array - were hu

USA - Harman Professional has announced the appointment of Brian Friborg to lead US sales, group-wide as USA vice president of sales, Harman Professional. Friborg, who previously held the position of president, Americas for Martin Professional, immediately assumes responsibility for sales and support of Harman Professional audio and lighting technologies in the United States. He will report directly to Scott Robbins, Harman Professional Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales.

"Empowering dealers with not simply the best technologies and systems but also the best programmes and

Denmark - Martin Professional MAC III Quadray is an all-new, multi-beam effect offering a whole new dimension to the lighting designer toolbox. The MAC III Quadray is tour-tested, having been deployed on Paul McCartney's latest tour Out There! with lighting design by Roy Bennett, among others. The MAC III Quadray allows designers to create a wide variety of looks that would otherwise be difficult to program solely via a lighting console.

The MAC III Quadray allows for projection of up to four individually controllable rays of light from a single luminaire, providing new possibi

UK - Pop rockers McFly celebrated 10 years at the forefront of the music industry with panache and some help from Robe's latest technology ... in four sold-out shows at London's Royal Albert Hall.

The RAH's Lighting department were appointed as lighting contractors and senior technical manager Ollie Jeffery contacted award winning international lighting designer Tim Routledge to create a design using their own extensive house rig - featuring 130 moving lights - plus a large quantity of 'specials' including 24 x Robe Robin Pointes and 40 x Robe Robin LEDBeam 100s.

These were supplied

The Netherlands / USA - Networking specialists ELC Lighting and Green-GO Communications will be presenting developments to their product ranges at LDI, in conjunction with StageLight, on booth 321 from the 22-24 November at the Las Vegas Convention Centre, Las Vegas, Nevada.

New software from ELC, derived from continuing experience gained through working on live events, is now available as dmXLAN v4. This completely revised freeware programme for Windows and OSX recognizes that managing the Ethernet network on live events has become a specialist role within the technical team in recen

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