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Glastonbury 2014 - Weekend tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2014 will go on sale at 9am on Sunday 6 October. It'll cost £210 to attend but festival-goers will only have to pay a deposit of £50 next month before settling their bill in April. For the first time, coach packages will be available three days before the main ticket sale on Thursday 3 October. No acts have been announced but organiser Michael Eavis says the three headliners are in place already.

Michael Eavis said next year's headliners probably wouldn't surprise people. "There aren't many left [to play here]," he said. "It's the process of elimination isn't it? I think we've got three or four really good ones lined up for next year and we're sorting out 2015 as well."

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Switzerland - Robert Juliat has confirmed the latest addition to the Robert Juliat distributor family with the appointment of Electric Claudio Merlo Lighting Equipment SA (ECM) as its new distributor for Switzerland.

From 1 September 2013, ECM will distribute the full range of Robert Juliat lighting equipment and concentrate on developing closer relations with all regions of the diverse Swiss market. In addition to its excellent product knowledge, ECM brings the benefit of its multi-lingual support team which speaks German, Italian and Spanish, as well as French and English.

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USA - Continuing its mission to present the professional audio community with a comprehensive knowledge platform, the 135th Audio Engineering Society Convention (Thursday, 17 October, through Sunday, 20 October, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City) this year will again feature an increasingly popular event focused on pro audio products. T

he Product Design Track (taking place all four days of the convention), assembled and moderated by Dan Foley, director of European sales for Audio Precision, will focus broadly on product design, with an emphasis on system-performance measure

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UK - As part of its drive to provide the best possible service to architects and lighting designers, Black Light has appointed Martin Dean to head up its Project Estimation team. Dean, who has previously worked at the company in Installations, brings his extensive practical experience and creative expertise to this new role.

"I have done a wide range of lighting design and installation work with big name clients such as Sage, Gateshead and the Arsenal Football shop in the Brent Cross Shopping Centre, London," he says. "I therefore have a proven appreciation for how proj

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South Africa - Gearhouse South Africa have invested in new lighting equipment comprising of 150 moving head fixtures and two new consoles.

The purchase was made in order for Gearhouse to fulfil their upcoming workload. As they have an initiative of going green, they opted for LED fixtures.

Gearhouse new purchase comprised of: 54x Robin Pointes; 36 x Robin 600 RGBW; 24 x Robin DLX RGBW LED Profile; 24 x Robin DLF RGBW Fresnel; 12 x Robin DLS RGBW LED Profile Framing Shutters; two grandMA 2 full size; two grandMA 2 NPU 8 out, and 32 x Philips SL Nitro 510.

(Jim Evans)

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