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UK - Students at Wakefield's Backstage Academy have gained hands-on experience with a variety of today's lighting technology thanks to the growing support from lighting professionals, manufacturers and rental companies.

There are 52 students currently studying the training academy's16-month Foundation Degree in Live Events Production, which was independently written in collaboration with industry practitioners, (validated by The University of Bolton) and places emphasis on practical experience.

The month-long Lighting Module teaches students about the theory and art of lighting, basic lighting design principles for different types of event, lighting equipment and systems, visualization and pre-programming, and includes WYSIWYG certification.

For the second annual degree course

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UK - Birmingham-based sound and lighting production company DMX Productions supplied their new Robe Pointe moving lights for a high-profile one off concert by popular Nepalese Himalayan folk/rock band Nepathya, at London's Wembley Arena.

SJ Grevett of DMX Productions managed the show's production and the lighting/video design was overseen by Tom Grant, working on behalf of rental company Siyan Ltd. Siyan provided the rest of the lighting and rigging equipment, including Robe LEDWash 600s and MMX Spot fixtures.

Formed by three students studying in Kathmandu, Nepal in the early 1990s, Nepathya fuses folk melodies with new and exciting pop and rock tunes and formats and have consistently gained popularity and acclaim.

The starting point for the lighting designs was Nepathya's 2012 Australian tour. Some elements of this were replicated for this show, including three upstage/down

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USA - Following the success of their 2012 World Tour, the multi-award winning rock band Train once again hit the road in 2013 with Mermaids of Alcatraz. As their largest tour to date, the three-piece band wanted to have a completely new look. To complete this task, they once again entrusted lighting designer Brock Hogan to create a design that would push the boundaries of creativity and Hogan turned to long-time tour provider LMG Touring who supplied him with 16 Philips Vari-Lite VL3015LT Spot luminaires and 15 Showline SL BAR 640 LED luminaires.

"This tour is completely different from those of years past and it's a spinoff of their origins in San Francisco and their latest studio album California 37," began Hogan. "Since this was our largest tour to date, hitting all the major markets, we added a few new features such as video wall automation and a new set

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UK - West Midlands based technical solutions specialist Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) has launched a new broadcast division - CPL Broadcast - which is dedicated to supplying film and TV crews with equipment and technical packages specially tailored to a variety of studio, OB and location work.

CPL Broadcast is headed by Lee Gruszeckyj (Lee G) who joined the company last year with the new division in mind. Gruszeckyj has a wealth of experience in the world of broadcast and video, is highly respected in this area and has numerous contacts.

CPL's business has been steadily expanding over the last three years. CPL Broadcast is a related diversification specifically designed to fill and grow a healthy demand in the Midlands area for the appropriate camera, audio, lighting and grip equipment by those working on news shoots, promos and commercials.

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Finland - The Finnish equivalent of 'roll up, roll up', doesn't really translate into English, but that aside the language of circus is nothing if not international; even the horses seem to understand. "Good point," said BonBon the clown, or Lasse NØrager as he's known to his family. "Communicating with animals is one of the most important things that happen under the big top. That's why we paid it so much attention when we considered purchasing a PA system for Sirkus Finlandia." NØrager, besides his talent for visual humour, doubles as technical advisor.

"I have been with the circus for 30 years. In Finland circus began to engage with modern lighting about 20 years ago, sound about 10 years later. I've been looking after the Sirkus audio system for the last four or five years. By profession I'm a performer, but I've worked with sound since

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Germany - Respected Berlin-based lighting designer Martin Kuhn has harnessed the punch and power of Clay Paky's bright, pure beam Sharpys, intense sparkling Alpha Spot QWO 800 STs, and Alpha Beam 700s for Berlin's Summer Rave 2013.

This is the fourth successful annual A&P Summer Rave, hosted by A&P Kaiser's Tengelmann and featuring some of Germany's biggest techno stars, including Westbam, AKA AKA Feat. Thalstroem, and Vitalic. Not only that it attracted 20,000 people who danced the night away until sunrise.

For the past three years the design of the event has been Kuhn's baby. 2013 saw an additional third floor increase the size of the event considerably. All in all I Kuhn took care of four floors: Planet Bass (Main Floor 1), Ostfunk (as important as the main floor), House Floor and the main hall with catering, wardrobe and chill out area.

He also created an electric atmosp

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UK - The 4th annual PLASA Rigging Conference will expand this year to focus on structures as well as rigging issues, bringing in experts from both fields to share their knowledge, experiences and advice. The PLASA Rigging Conference takes place on 7-8 October 2013 at its new home, ExCeL London, and visitors are encouraged to book their tickets before the end of August to take advantage of early booking discounts.

The keynote speech will be given by one of the rigging industry's leading and longest-serving practitioners, Robin Elias of Unusual Rigging, whose light-hearted account of his long career will act as a vehicle to illustrate the challenges and rewards of working as a rigger. Robin has worked on everything from rock and roll to installing works of art, TV stunts and the engineering for some of the largest objects moved in the name of entertainment, and his experiences are

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USA - To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Telluride Film Festival will debut a new Werner Herzog Theatre for this year's festivities in the Colorado ski town. Movie screenings at this 650-seat theatre will be heard through a cinema system from Meyer Sound, which is a festival sponsor for the third consecutive year. The 2013 Telluride Film Festival is set to run 29 August - 2 September 2013.

"The Werner Herzog Theatre is a huge achievement for Telluride Film Festival and the town of Telluride. It will be the festival's most technologically advanced, and its sound system is of the utmost importance to us," says Julie Huntsinger, executive director of the festival. "Meyer Sound is a leader in its industry; its sound quality and innovation is unparalleled. Working with Meyer Sound ensures the festival meets its goal of staying on the cutting-edge, and ultimately gi

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USA - Bandit Lites wrapped another successful festival with The Forecastle Festival, a three-day event that began on 12 July and continued through 14 July.

Founded in 2002 by Louisville native JK McKnight and named for the superstructure at the bow of the ship where the crew is housed, the Forecastle Festival draws tens of thousands of fans to relax and unwind. Artists at this year's event included The Black Keys, The String Cheese Incident, Ole Crow Medicine Show, Big Boi, The Flaming Lips, Alabama Shakes, The Avett Brothers, Robert Plant and Grace Potter & The Nocturnals.

Bandit Lites worked with Hadden Hipsley of Lambda Productions to provide a festival lighting package to three stages, including the main stage where The Black Keys finished their 16 month tour under a Bandit supplied rig.

The equipment list includes Clay Paky Sharpys, VL 3000 spots, MAC Auras, Martin Atom

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Europe - Known for his boundary-crossing repertoire that includes classical arrangements of rock, pop, and punk music, violinist David Garrett recently performed a series of open-air shows across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. German production service provider POOLgroup deployed a Meyer Sound Leo linear large-scale sound reinforcement system for the tour.

Kai Ulrich, FOH engineer for Garrett, was first attracted to Leo's headroom, which would allow him to eliminate delay loudspeakers for many shows.

"Everything sounds so effortless with LEO," says Ulrich. "You can really feel the headroom, even though the David Garrett show is not very loud. The first time I used the system I was actually completely overwhelmed by the sound, and I am not at all 'brand religious'."

David Garrett's touring Leo system featured up to 12 Leo-M line array loudspeakers per

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USA - Do you work in a lead position as a rigger or electrician in the US? Then ETCP Certification might be suitable for you. More and more venues and employers across North America are searching for ETCP Certified Technicians to fill their lead positions. ETCP has issued over 1600 certifications! Don't get left behind, submit your application today.

The ETCP Examinations will be given at LDI 2013 in Las Vegas, NV. All three ETCP examinations will be given in one session the morning of Saturday, 23 November, 2013. Candidates who wish to take more than one exam should contact ETCP. Interested applicants must submit their application, along with supporting materials and fee, to the ETCP office no later than 28 October, 2013.

Candidate information, including eligibility requirements, applications and study tactics, is available on the ETCP website (http://etcp.plasa.org/ldi2013.h

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Denmark - Rune Slot, live sound engineer for Danish rock band D-A-D, has turned to DPA Microphones to deliver the loud, punchy sound for which the band is famous. Slot has been on tour with D-A-D for most of this year, taking in countries such as China and the US as well as plenty of places in Europe.

To mic drummer Laust Sonne's snare drum, Slot uses a combination of a DPA d:dicate 2011C Twin Diaphragm Cardioid Microphones and DPA d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones, with the former positioned above the snare and the latter below. The d:votes are also used to mike the toms, high hat and cymbals, with reinforcement provided by a DPA d:dicate 4011 Compact Cardioid Microphone positioned underneath the cymbals. He also uses the 2011Cs to pick up Jacob Binzer's lead guitar. The musician has two cabinets that give a great combination of clean and dirty sound so Slot positioned the 201

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UK - A fundraising event in support of the restoration of the Grade II listed Unity Hall in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, helped the project pass the £100,000 investment mark, taking it further towards its target of £150,000, which is needed to buy all the audio and lighting equipment for the venue.

The event, held on 11 July at The New Inn pub in Walton, raised £3,000 towards the restoration and saw LS-Live and Backstage Academy's Adrian Brooks present a cheque for their £5,000 donation.

Said Unity Hall director Chris Hill, "The fantastic lift that Unity Hall will give to the centre of Wakefield, turning Westgate away from a heavy drinking street to a place everyone can go to enjoy themselves with galleries, cafés and retail, will make that whole area the cultural heart of a new university city.

"The fundraiser was just further proof th

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Germany - Robe's LEDWash series continues to break new ground and set more records as a best-selling product. The German market - consistently one of the strongest in Europe for Robe - sees German distributor LMP announcing orders for over 1500 units of Robe's LEDWash 800.

Three of the largest dry-hire companies in Germany - Motion Light from Fürth, Conrad Licht & Rigging Support from Bergkirchen in the Hafenstrasse and Dortmund based NicLen - have all placed their orders with LMP for LEDWash 800s.

Together they will take over 1500 units, which will be readily available for designers and production companies wanting to use them on their shows and events.

The Robin 800 LEDWash was originally manufactured as a special request and soon became an additional production model - added to the 300, 600 and 1200 models in this successful range.

The enhanced LEDWash 800 fixture util

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UK - Leeds Metropolitan University student Phil Stuttard was the 'Student of the Week' at the Gus Dudgeon Foundation & JAMES Summer Course recently held at MCI Studio Suite at The ATRiuM Campus of the University of South Wales.

Along with his award, Stuttard received a Focusrite ISA One and an sE Electronics mic of his choice donated by two of this year's sponsors. Stuttard said, "It has been an absolutely amazing experience, and to learn from professionals as talented as Greg Haver and Dan Turner (USW) has been a phenomenal opportunity."

Now in its third consecutive year, the course steered 12 selected students from JAMES accredited courses through five days of recording on both analogue and digital systems. This year's tutor Greg Haver commented, "My week with the graduates surpassed all of my expectations. Working with such enthusiastic, well trained engineer

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Brunei - Costing over £60m, the new Prime Minister's Office in Brunei is an opulent, state of the art venue which houses the central coordinating body for all of the sultanate's government ministries and agencies. With a theatre and banqueting hall that each seat 1000, a 300-seat conference hall and 13 further conference and meeting rooms, Yamaha digital mixers and amplifiers deliver the requisite optimum audio quality.

Covering 92,000m2, the complex is located in the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. Woking-based LSI Projects was invited to work with technology consultants CCW Singapore to fine-tune the plans for the sound, lighting and communications infrastructure. Once finalised LSI, under project director Bob Peill and project manager Jakub Krzeminski, supplied, installed and commissioned the equipment, as well as providing staff training.

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UK - Once again this summer, entertainment lighting specialist White Light has returned to Minack Theatre on Cornwall's coast with the Shattered Windscreen Theatre Company production of Wild Oats. The show marks another successful production for the theatre company, whose members have been appearing on the Minack outdoor stage for more than a decade.

White Light has supplied lighting equipment and support for this and many other productions with Shattered Windscreen, often working with lighting designer Ken Allford to strike the balance between increasing creative demands and tightening budgets.

With Wild Oats, based on John O'Keeffe's original 1791 play, James McLure has morphed the setting forwards in time to America's Wild West and left no cliché unturned! With scenes reminiscent of Mel Brooks' film classic, Blazing Saddles, the production deligh

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USA - Bandit Lites Inc. has invested in a substantial number of Robe's newest moving lights as specified by creative director and production designer Seth Jackson and lighting designer Nathan W Scheuer for the current Selena Gomez Stars Danceworld tour, which kicked off this week in Canada.

The sale involves 16 x Pointes, 18 x LEDWash 600s, 12 x LEDWash 1200s and 36 x LEDBeam 100s - all from Robe's Robin range of 'smaller-lighter-brighter' luminaires. These were delivered to Bandit by Robe Lighting Inc., coordinated by Eastern region business development manager, Kevin Loretto.

Jackson has worked with Selena Gomez since her first We Own The Night tour in 2011. His very talented creative team for this tour includes Scheuer, video & media designer Brent Sandrock and lighting director David "Fuji" Convertino who will be out on the road with the equipment.<

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Switzerland - TC Group has announced the appointment of Show Supply as the exclusive distributor of Tannoy for Switzerland, as well as sub-distributor for TC Group's other leading install and tour brands, Lab.gruppen and Lake.

The deal will see Show Supply, located in Schöhnbühl, Switzerland, become the primary contact for all three brands in the country, with exclusive access to Tannoy professional loudspeaker products, as well as preferred access to all products from Lab.gruppen and Lake.

Chris Häfliger, Director of Show Supply, commented, "We are extremely happy to begin this new partnership with TC Group's professional install and tour brands. Tannoy is an innovative company with many leading product lines, and one which we are excited about working with. Along with Lab.gruppen and Lake, we are sure that these new additions will help us to continue to deliv

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Serbia - Making its stylish debut this summer was Serbia's latest nightlife spot, Hot Mess, in the capital of Belgrade. Hot Mess opened its doors in July to a crowd of beautiful party people, with a high powered Nexo system keeping the sounds going throughout the day and night.

The 400-capacity club is based around an open-air pool complete with swim-up bar, sun loungers and seating areas. Operating as a restaurant during the day, by nightfall the volume and pace are turned up as Hot Mess moves into club mode, with poolside dancing and drinking providing entertainment into the small hours.

The Nexo system was provided by local distributor Light and Sound Design, who designed and installed a system of six PS10-R2 high power cabinets and four LS600 sub bass units driven by NXAMP 4x4 amplifiers, plus two Yamaha MSR400 active monitors. The PS10-R2s have been positioned around the

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Australia - Criniti's has become an institution since it first launched in 2003, building up a cult following and reputation for lovingly prepared recipes that reflect authentic cuisine from their origins in Southern Italy. With four restaurants already in tow, Criniti's Manly is the latest venue to join the family.

Constant Technology were called upon to design, supply and install an audio system, and fortunately budget was not an issue!

"They wanted a system that would sound great, be well distributed and would offer control of all areas independently," commented Con Constantinou, managing director of Constant Technology. "The venue has eight audio zones, including a main restaurant, pastry area and outdoor areas, which is quite a lot for a venue of 400m²."

The pastry kitchen and reception area has fifteen JBL Control 42C in ceiling speakers plus three

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