UK - London based lighting rental and visuals company, Colour Sound Experiment (CSE), has invested in a batch of new Robe moving lights, JTE trussing and Chauvet LED battens to help service its busy summer schedule of festivals.

This kicked off by supplying lighting production and crew to all stages at the Field Day / Applecart event in east London and for the Main and Second stages at the 2012 Rockness Festival in Dores, near Inverness, Scotland.

The new purchases included 26 of Robe's new Robin 1200 LEDWash fixtures - the largest model in their current LED wash series - which are generally reckoned to be the best on the market at this moment in time! They went straight out on these two initial festivals.

Field Day is a celebration of alternative music now in its fifth year,

Croatia - Croatian classical superstars 2Cellos played an ecstatic 'homecoming' show in Zagreb Arena in front of 15,000 enthusiastic fans accompanied by the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, with lighting and set designed by Dalibor Radic.

The lighting rig included 10 Robe MMX Spots which were positioned along the front of the stage on the floor and used for spectacular aerial effects.

These were supplied by leading Croatian rental company Eldra d.o.o., from Zagreb, who also supplied sound, staging and video for the concert. The company has made a significant investment in Robe MMX Spo

USA - US sales of the newly launched digiLED MC range of indoor / outdoor modular LED tiles have provided the basis for strong international growth, says global video solutions provider displayLED.

The range, including mesh and solid versions, was developed following extensive consultation with audio-visual professionals in the USA, and received healthy feedback at InfoComm this June. The product has sold over 6,000 tiles in its first four months of availability, and has already been deployed on high profile global productions including Bruce Springsteen's current world tour, the Blac

UK - Northern Light has announced the appointment of Steve Turnbull as a business development manager.

Turnbull has spent the past seven years at Stage Electric's Newcastle depot, where he was branch manager and was also responsible for sales. Prior to that, he carried out business to business sales for Telewest and Orange, after a three year stint in the Royal Marines.

In his new role at Northern Light, Turnbull will be responsible for expanding market share for the company's boxed goods and consumables division - Northern Light Direct. Based in Newcastle, he will initially cover t

UK - Altman Lighting will introduce the Spectra Cyc 200 to its family of LED Wash

Luminaires at PLASA 2012. The new fixture uses two arrays of Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs for maximum brightness and colour rendering, along with its patented LED blending lens and asymmetrical reflector.

"This unique combination gives you fantastic light output and colour with the smoothest,

most even field available on the market," says the company. "Using this combination of technologies we are able to space our fixtures at an industry leading 2.5m - 3m apart, at 1.2m off the cyc or wa

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