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Martin Digital Cyclorama Impact for WrestleMania

The Georgia Dome - a vast space to fill with colour and light

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - The 27th annual WrestleMania, the Super Bowl of sports entertainment, took place on 3 April at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta and featured an immense Martin Professional package of LED video and dynamic lighting gear supplied by production company Upstaging.

With a pay-per-view broadcast to 35 countries and an in house audience of over 70,000, WrestleMania is serious sports entertainment. Produced by WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), the yearly show has become the pinnacle event in sports entertainment.

Long time production designer for WWE is Jason Robinson who taps into his years of experience to light WWE events year long. Robinson works with WWE executive producer Kevin Dunn on design and themes for WrestleMania events with this year's look less thematic and more from

Newsboys' vocalist Michael Tait on stage

Newsboys endorse Audio-Technica microphones

Details: 14 March 2016

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

Mark Saunders, Kevin Glendenning (Black Eyed Peas monitor engineer), Bryan Grant (co-owner Britannia Row), Ian Beveridge (Foo Fighters monitor engineer) and Dave Poynter (Foo Fighters monitor tech) (photo courtesy Andy Lillywhite)

Sennheiser Channel 38 system debuts in Carlisle

Details: 14 March 2016

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

d&b Spanish office on the move

Details: 14 March 2016

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

Visitors to PLASA 2011 can expect new features

PLASA 2011 - new features unveiled

Details: 14 March 2016

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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