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PSI opens new Dublin office & warehouse

Sean Pagel, Ciaran Tallon and Brian Reilly

Details: 14 March 2016

Ireland - Production Services Ireland (PSI) has opened a new Dublin facility in Sandyford, just off the M50 to the south of the city.

This is to help service the increasing amount of work PSI is doing in southern Ireland, enabling a true 'all Ireland' operation, which will run in conjunction with the Belfast office and warehouse in Carryduff. The two locations are under two hours apart by road.

This Dublin base is being managed by Ciaran Tallon. He has been in the lighting and production industry for 24 years with active experience as a freelance technician, lighting operator and designer and as project manager working on tours, corporate events and installations, and for the last 12 years as hire manager with his previous company.

PSI's Brian Reilly states, "It's great t

Christie at the 64th Cannes Film Festival

Details: 14 March 2016

France - Christie is the sole provider for all digital projection services at this year's Cannes International Film Festival, including the Official Selection and the Marché du Film. The company is an official technical partner of the Festival, which runs from 11-22 May, 2011, for the fifth consecutive year.

As a technical partner, Christie will provide its DLP Digital Cinema projectors for the screening of major digital titles throughout the entire Festival. Of the 23 screening rooms that will use digital projection equipment at this year's Festival, 13 will be equipped with C

Prism Sound and TTi to host audio test seminar

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Prism Sound and its UK distribution partner, TTi distribution, are holding a two-day audio test and measurement training seminar from 2-3 June, 2011. This event will introduce engineers to the practical and theoretical aspects of accurately measuring audio for a wide variety of applications.

The training seminar takes place at the AirSpace Conference Centre, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, and will cost £45 per day.

The first day will be devoted to covering the basics of audio measurement and will include sessions on objective and subjective measurement correlation; audio m

Britannia Row's Pav Zakrzewski (system tech) and Warren Grimsley plus Midas XL8 FOH

Jamiroquai tours Planet Earth with Midas XL8

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - FOH engineer Rick Pope is out on the Jamiroquai tour with a Midas XL8 live performance system at FOH, supplied by Britannia Row and babysat by Britannia Row's Warren Grimsley, who is out for the first time with the system. Originally on the tour as PA tech, Grimsley was promoted to his position with little training on the XL8, but picked it up in no time.

"I had the luxury of playing with one a few times in lunch breaks at the warehouse before the tour!" he says. "I've found that the console is easy to get around, especially when using the POP(ulation) groups. Espe

Kristianstad Theatre's production of Beauty and the Beast

Wireless Beauty and the Beast

Details: 14 March 2016

Sweden - Kristianstad Theatre put LumenRadio's CRMX wireless system to good use in the recent local production of the Disney musical Beauty and the Beast. The theatre, staffed mostly by volunteers, is housed in a beautiful old building from 1906 on the fairgrounds of this southern Swedish town.

The local production management and technical staff pride themselves in using the best of new technology. They do not shy away from using equipment typically only found at larger professional theatres and hire professional designers to accomplish what they want.

Lighting designer Olof

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