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USA - With numerous Grammy, Dove and Billboard awards and nominations, Newsboys have proven to be some of Christian rock's most enduring performers. Since the band's founding in Australia in 1985, Newsboys have released 14 studio albums and have been one of the most popular Christian music artists of the past two decades. Newsboys have now chosen to partner with microphones and wireless systems from Audio-Technica.

Newsboys FOH mixer John O'Neal comments: "We are pretty particular about sound, right down to the microphones in our workbox. [Monitor engineer] Jeff Nolte and I began discussing our desire for some new microphones. Primarily, we wanted to go in a different direction with our drum kit - we had been using the same cardioid dynamic instrument mics on our toms and sna

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UK - The 2011 festival season kicked off for Sennheiser UK with a huge amount of equipment and the company's technical support team heading to Carlisle for the BBC's One Big Weekend. With the two days headlined by the contrasting styles of the Foo Fighters no-nonsense rock and Lady Gaga's theatrics, it also saw the debut of the company's latest Channel 38 equipment.

One Big Weekend saw 51 live bands and 25 DJ sets play across four stages to 40,000 people on each day. Sennheiser UK's support team of Andy Lillywhite and Mark Saunders - a familiar sight at festivals through

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Spain - The new d&b audiotechnik office in Barcelona is the centre for the Spanish distribution of their sound reinforcement systems, and which oversees the carefully chosen partner network throughout the country. This move to a fresh location in the city will allow the d&b team to address a higher level of activity to satisfy current and future requirements as well as offering a greater capacity for logistics, says the company.

It will become a meeting place where educational and training programs can be held on a regular basis, complementing the existing workshops, seminars and trai

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UK - PLASA Events has announced half-price visitor registration is now available online for this year's PLASA 2011, which is already 90% sold out, three months ahead of the show opening at Earls Court on 11-14 September 2011.

Half-price online registration offers visitors the chance to not only save money but to avoid the registration queues and receive regular updates from PLASA Events about new product launches, the expanding seminar programme and new show features.

With 50% of all PLASA 2011 exhibitors based internationally, it's the best opportunity to see all the industry's big

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USA / Low Earth Orbit - Tait Towers scenic and motion control solutions are often praised for being "out of this World," - but this was literally the case this summer when they helped U2's 360 Tour achieve universal appeal.

When Willie Williams, lighting designer for U2's 360 Tour, wanted to incorporate the space shuttle Endeavour's Mission Commander Mark Kelly singing "A Beautiful Day" lyrics into U2 concert footage for their show in Seattle, Washington on 5 June, he called James 'Winky' Fairorth at Tait Towers, in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Tait Towers, who provided t

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