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UK - A challenging gig at Wells Cathedral turned out to be the most successful yet for Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends - with a little help from the Roland M-480 Live Digital Mixing Console!

The Fisherman's Friends are shanty singers from Port Isaac on the Cornwall coast, who have been performing their set of shanties and Cornish Folk Songs for over 15 years. The 10-man group also travels around the UK playing at a variety of venues including theatres, festivals and portside concerts, so long serving sound technician for the Fisherman's Friends, Sam Littlechild, regularly works with the 'in house' equipment and engineer to achieve the desired final mix and monitor.

For the Wells Cathedral gig, Paul Nicholson from Midas ProSound supplied the M-480 (as well as a S-4000S-3208 Digi

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UK - Sound engineer Simon Allen is set to return to the UK from Cyprus in the new year. Allen has collected a wealth of experience in his 10 years in the industry, spanning everything from studio to live sound reinforcement, including theatre productions, live concerts and music venues. He began as senior audio and events manager at High Barn - a multi-media company, recording studio and live music venue in Essex. Since moving to Cyprus with his family in 2009, he has worked as senior sound engineer for City Studios; he has also been an occasional product reviewer for LSi.

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UK - Clothes Show Live returned to the NEC, Birmingham in December for another season. Once again the centrepiece of this annual expo was a spectacular 45 minute catwalk performance featuring the latest fashion collections.

There was certainly a lot to pack in in 45 minutes - 350 outfits, eight scene changes, and dozens of models and dancers. And all this took place seven times per day for five days.

Lighting designer Nigel Catmur, now in his fifth year of lighting the show commented, "This has been the smoothest and best executed production to date. It's always a very intense

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USA - Chauvet Professional Nexus 4x4 wash lights performed next to top singers such as Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber during the two-day Jingle Ball concert produced by KIIS-FM radio station at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. As preeminent fixtures in the show, 16 Nexus 4x4 bold, eye-candy wash lights accompanied artists like OneRepublic, Ne-Yo, Ellie Goulding, Jonas Brothers, Ke$ha, Sammy Adams, Flo Rida and more.

"It was a turntable stage, which rotated back and forth," said Todd Roberts, owner of Visions Lighting, a premier lighting, staging, video and production compan

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UK - University Campus Oldham (UCO) and Oldham Coliseum Theatre are launching a Teaching Theatre Partnership that they say will "lead the way forward in offering the opportunity to study performance and technical theatre at university level, combined with experience within a professional repertory theatre".

Debbie Bridge, Head of University Campus, says: "We are very proud of the opportunity that we have created for students at University Campus Oldham. We offer 15 places on each course to generate the same experience you would have if you were part of a small theatre c

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