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UK - We have become accustomed to Harvey Goldsmith catching the wave; a man more finely tuned to the entertainment desires of the general public is hard to imagine. His latest venture, set within earshot of the London Television Centre on the South Bank is exactly that. Turning away from the brash vulgarity of top shelf sin, Goldsmith presents Forever Crazy, a bijou recreation of the lush, lavish flesh festival of the Crazy Horse in Paris playing to a comfortably intimate four hundred people a show.

The setting is a temporary structure. "It's a very luxurious tent with sol

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Italy - Rome recently played host to The David di Donatello Awards, presented annually for cinematic production and performances. The Taviani brothers led the night and took home awards including Best Picture, Producer and Director for their film Caesar Must Die, which also received a Golden Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.

Not only are the David de Donatello Awards a prestigious night for the film industry: the ceremony is a glamorous must-attend event for celebrities as well. Several national and international stars - including singer Cesare Cremonini,

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France - L-Acoustics has appointed David Cooper as regional sales manager for the territories of China, Japan, Korea and South-East Asia.

David Cooper has developed a strong career in sales and marketing for a number of professional audio manufacturers, notably in the Asia Pacific region. In his new role as regional sales manager he will be responsible for building solid and supportive relationships with Asian counterparts to aid in distribution as well as developing sales targets in Asia. An important part of this activity is maintaining and developing business activities with L-Acou

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UK - Allen & Heath has released the latest version of its iLive firmware, V1.9, featuring a range of enhancements including new GEQ, Dynamic EQ and Multi-Band compressor emulations, increased MIDI control options, and improvements to the functionality in the supporting iLive Editor software and MixPad app.

All 32 mix outputs now benefit from extra Graphic EQ Low Frequency bands and a choice of four GEQ emulations with accurate modelling algorithms: classic 1/3rd octave Constant-Q, industry standard Proportional-Q, Digi-Q for minimal band interaction, and a new asymmetric Hybrid - plus

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USA - Drive through the parking lot at Harrah's Philadelphia Casino and Racetrack any time, day or night, and you're likely to find it packed. With the Philadelphia area's only 5/8 mile harness racing track and a casino larger than three football fields, Harrah's draws a steady stream of customers coming to play, eat, drink, and be merry.

With the casino's close proximity to busy Philadelphia airport, selecting the right sound system took on a critical role. As Jim Esher, Harrah's technical director of entertainment, explains, "We're so close to the end of the runway, I can tell

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UK - October saw singer-songwriter Labrinth take to the road for an eight-date UK headline tour. Backed by a four piece band and with plenty of guest appearances, a Sennheiser microphone and in-ear monitoring package "ensured that all consistently sounded their best".

Labrinth is a regular Sennheiser user and played a major part in the company's Masters of Sound competition earlier this year. Designed to encourage the best original up-and-coming songwriters, the Masters of Sound winner, Claire-Louise Rossi, gained valuable experience by spending time with Labrinth in his stu

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Czech Republic - Just under a year ago, Innovason announced a significant audio system upgrade for one of the Czech Republic's most historic cultural landmarks, the J.K. Tyl theatre in the city of Plzen (Pilsen). Built in 1902, the impressive building honours the city's outstanding theatre tradition, which is second only to that of the capital, Prague.

Last year saw the installation of a new Innovason Eclipse GT digital mixing console at the heart of a sophisticated and fully scalable EtherSound digital audio network, all supplied and installed by Innovason distributor and entertainme

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Russia - Clear-Com has outfitted Russia's world-renowned Bolshoi Theatre with an expansive intercom network consisting of FreeSpeak digital wireless beltpacks and V-Series keypanels that are connected to the powerful Eclipse-Median matrix system for production communications.

The installation, facilitated by Clear-Com's local distributor, Oltbert Ltd, and system integrator, Module-T, allows the Bolshoi Theatre production crew to now enjoy greater connectivity, reliability and coverage than ever before.

The Bolshoi Theatre is home to the world-famous ballet school, Bolshoi Ballet Aca

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UK / USA - PLASA's month-long elections to determine positions on its European and North American Regional Boards, together with its central Governing Body, concluded at midnight on Wednesday 31 October.

Companies and individuals from PLASA's worldwide membership voted in the elections which were conducted via a secure online poll.

There were four positions available on the European Regional Board. Martin Hawthorn of Hawthorn's was re-elected to a second term as Treasurer and Mark Surtees of Outback Rigging successfully retained his position as Production Services Representative. No

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UK - Orbital Sound has just completed a major installation at Oval Space, East London's prestigious multi-use arts and events venue, involving a new sound reinforcement system that represents one of the first permanent UK installs for d&b audiotechnik V-Series line-array loudspeakers.

Featuring two principal performance and event spaces totalling some 7,500sq.ft , Oval Space hosts events ranging from DJ nights and live bands, to corporate functions, film screenings and fashion shows. The venue was looking for a highly flexible sound system, capable of handling the broadest range of sp

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UK / Australia - Martin Audio has appointed one of the world's leading sound engineers as its new technical support specialist for the Asia Pacific region (APAC).

Chris Pyne, a veteran on the major international touring circuit spanning three decades, will takes up his new role with immediate effect, having decided to quit touring in favour of "a more normal life" with his family back in his native Australia.

Based in Melbourne he will represent Martin Audio throughout South-east Asia, Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia as well as Australia and New Zealand.

Pyne joins the Ma

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Finland - A range of Turbosound loudspeakers has been specified to deliver total clarity on Viking Line's latest ship, the M/S Viking Grace.

According to Jouni Sironen, Viking Line's AV manager, extreme care has been taken to select the best audio systems possible in order to deliver crystal clear sound in every part of the ship.

An impressive roster of 344 Turbosound models has been specified to accommodate the wide range of sound reinforcement needs throughout M/S Viking Grace. They include 256 TCS-C50T ceiling speakers, which will ensure that not only the background music but the

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USA - Meyer Sound has announced two key promotions in the digital products team: Richard Bugg is now audio show control product manager and Jason Rauhoff takes over many of Bugg's former responsibilities as the company's new senior digital products support specialist.

In addition, Cirque du Soleil veteran Robert Mele has joined the support staff as digital products field support specialist. Mele worked in the Cirque du Soleil audio department for 14 years.

"These new appointments are a direct result of the rapidly growing acceptance of our digital products," comments John

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USA - PLASA Focus at Stamford Connecticut saw d&b audiotechnik share booth 224 with leading audio consultants and Installtion Partner SAVI. "These regionally targeted exhibitions embody the d&b democratic approach," said the company's head of marketing in the US, Roger Keim. "Every visitor has the opportunity for a direct, hands on look at elements of the d&b product range, and can spend valuable face time with our Partner. The team at SAVI has a long term relationship with d&b that is highly valued, and they have vast experience of implementing d&b systems."

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USA / UK - the Bose Professional Systems Division has expanded the flexibility of its RoomMatch array module loudspeakers with new rigging accessories that allow easy-to-assemble ground stack arrays. Now, the 20 RoomMatch full-range coverage patterns and RMS215 subwoofer can support stage- or ground-mounted front-fill applications and temporary side-stage coverage in areas that require removable seating, such as performing arts centers.

The new ground stack accessories include a base frame that attaches to the RMS215 subwoofer and enables one or two full-range RoomMatch modules to be

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UK - Noise Control Audio, a North London-based loudspeaker manufacturer and production company, have recently added two Midas PRO2 digital consoles to their hire & events stock, purchased from LMC Audio.

Bertie Hunter, technical director at Noise Control Audio (NCA), comments, "The event side of NCA has really taken off this year with lots of high profile bookings, and we knew we needed to buy a good quality mixing desk. NCA have spent 10 years making some of the purest sounding speakers in the industry. We are extremely picky about every element in the PA chain and we needed to

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UK - West Midlands based technical solutions provider Central Presentations Ltd. (CPL) delivered full technical production - including lighting, sound, cameras / PPU, AV and staging - to the high profile 2012 Gastech Conference & Exhibition at ExCeL in London.

CPL was working directly for Swindon based Live Communications and event organiser's dmg :: events on the exhibition, which is a premier event on the gas industry calendar.

The project involved three artics worth of equipment from CPL and 50 crew deployed over the get-in/out and set-up periods as well as during the show itself

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Canada - Xantech has announced that Product Solutions Group will be the Canadian distributor of all Xantech products starting immediately.

Product Solutions Group and Product Solutions West are among Canada's leading distributors of custom installation products and have been distributing Xantech's associated CORE Brands lines including ELAN and Sunfirefor more than a decade, and began distributing Nilesproducts in 2012. According to Jim Peebles of Product Solutions West, the Product Solutions West warehouse in Calgary, Alberta and the Product Solutions Group warehouse in Guelph, Ontar

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UK - Double BRIT Award winner Ed Sheeran's differrent style of music is winning fans around the globe. His current tour has seen him on the move since the end of 2011, with sell out dates in Australia, the United States and across Europe, confirming his popularity. For Front of House engineer Chris Marsh, who has been with him since the tour began relies on a DiGiCo SD11i digital mixing console.

"I'm a big DiGiCo fan and I've been using their flagship SD7 for a long time," says Marsh. "When I started working with Ed, I had just finished working with Diana Ross, where I

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Mexico - Long time Adamson rental company 'Audio Systems Del Norte' has expanded their existing Adamson inventory of Y-Axis, SpekTrix, T21 Subs, and M Series with a 32-box E15 rig. Audio Systems has been providing high calibre tours in Mexico for more than 20 years and employs 60 full time employees. In addition to their audio department, this full service company has a staging, trussing, video and lighting departments, and also offer installation consultancy and services. The system was sold by Showco, Adamson's exclusive distributor for Mexico.

Adamson's application engineer, Ewan M

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Variety Celebration - The Royal Variety Performance has marked its 100th anniversary with a show in front of The Queen at London's Royal Albert Hall. Host David Walliams arrived on stage as James Bond, complete with jet pack. Girls Aloud, One Direction, 2012 Britain's Got Talent winners Ashleigh Butler and dog Pudsey, and Sir Bruce Forsyth were among the British artists. Kylie Minogue, Alicia Keys, Neil Diamond and Andrea Bocelli were among the international stars.

The sold-out performance is due to be broadcast on ITV1 on 3 December at 19:30 GMT. All proceeds are donated to Th

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UK - SIS LIVE, Europe's largest outside broadcaster and uplink provider, has installed a large Optocore fibre ring on a 2 Gbit network, and BroaMan Repeat48 SDI-to fibre converter at the new MediaCityUK in Salford. This major broadcast project was successfully conducted by the SIS LIVE projects and integration division, under Dave Gill.

SIS has now fully occupied three floors of the Blue Tower within the MediaCityUK complex. The eighth and ninth floors house new broadcast facilities including a master control room, production galleries, studios, voice-over booths, edit suites and data

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Denmark - The name says it all. Xtreme Mandehørm - event organizers call it Xtreme Man-stench in English - is a gruelling, male-only 12K cross-country obstacle course. The race can be run in five different cities across Denmark and is more than just a test of one's manhood: once the race is over participants are in for a night of revelling.

D.A.S. Audio systems were set up in the Nørresundby Sports Centre to help make Aalborg's post-race Oktoberfest-inspired celebration - complete with delicious food, free-flowing beer, boxing and a comedy act by famous Danish comedian F

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USA - Community Professional Loudspeakers reoorts that it has gained EN54-24 certification for its R-Series R1, R2 and R6 loudspeaker systems. EN54-24 is the harmonized EU standard for loudspeakers for use in fire detection and fire alarm systems.

R1, R2 and R6 loudspeakers are able to provide the full bandwidth and high-level music and voice reproduction required in venues such as stadia, sports facilities and convention centres. With EN54-24 certification, installations will no longer need to install a separate voice evacuation system for listening areas covered by these R-Series lo

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