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Roland Systems Group on tour with Toyah

The Toyah tour needed a system which could load in and out of venues quickly and easily

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Roland Systems Group (RSG) products are currently touring the country with one of the most familiar faces in British rock - Toyah Willcox. Toyah kicked off the final leg of her autumn tour, From Sheep Farming To Anthem 2011 at the beginning of October in Southampton to rave reviews and the hotly-anticipated concerts will see Toyah perform a selection of material from her first three albums and a concentration of songs from her 1981 Platinum-selling album Anthem, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year.

Paul Nicholson who runs Salisbury based Midas ProSound and Red Square Audio has toured with Toyah for almost 20 years and is in charge of specifying, supplying, and operating the sound equipment for the Toyah band and her other project The Humans. For

The Rock Our World Awards were created to honour groundbreaking achievements by PLASA members

Rock Our World Awards for MA Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - MA Lighting received two awards at the recent fourth annual PLASA Rock Our World Awards.

The first was for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony, where a grandMA2 light played the crucial role of controlling 34 media servers, feeding multiple onstage screens via 70 video projectors.

The second award was given for Disney's World of Color, where the installation also relies on grandMA2 for lighting control.

The Rock Our World Awards were created to honour groundbreaking achievements by PLASA members in the world of entertainment technology .

"We fondly recognise our t

The show has toured to some of the largest venues in France including The Zenith

Carmina Burana sparkles under Vari-Lite 3000s

Details: 14 March 2016

France - Belgian lighting designer Francis Mannaert is currently using a raft of Philips Vari-Lite VL3000 Spot and Wash Luminaires to create a dynamic supernatural lightscape for the National Opera Ukrainia's touring ballet, set to the hauntingly evocative music of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

Conductor Grigori Penteleîtchouk originally commissioned the production for a small classical music festival - Festival des Nuits Sainte Victoire, in 2009. However, so successful was it that producer Franck Dompietrini and Maestro, Penteleïtchouk, decided to take an expanded versi

Chauvet hosts Academy seminars

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Chauvet is a sponsor of Academy of Production Technology three-day seminars dedicated to the advancement of education and safety in the live event production industry. Led by Richard Cadena, a 24-year veteran of the entertainment lighting industry with a background in electronics and electrical engineering, the classes travel the country to capture a wide-ranging audience.

November's class will be set at Chauvet headquarters in Sunrise, Fla. The class covers theory and practices of entertainment technology for the working electrician and technician.

Attendees will learn essent

The opening ceremony featured more than 2,000 volunteers and dancers in the larger performances

L-Acoustics K1 inaugurates Kiev UEFA stadium

Details: 14 March 2016

Poland - L-Acoustics' Polish rental network agent Fotis Sound has provided a K1 WST line source system for the opening of the Olympic Stadium in Kiev in preparation for UEFA Euro 2012 Football Championship.

The opening ceremony, under the guidance of director Alexey Batkovsky, was based on Ukrainian history, with more than 2,000 volunteers and dancers involved in the larger performances. At the concert's finale, Shakira appeared on stage to a backdrop of spectacular fireworks before an audience of 50,000, including Ukrainian president Victor Janukovich.

The event's technical coordin

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