UK - Tower Productions has recently added a number of machines to its highly-spec'd generator stock based in Edinburgh. The new machines are all FG Wilson XD series with super-hushed canopies and long-running fuel tanks, ideal for event work.

New control panels are being fitted to allow on-board; AMF, sequencing and synchronised load-sharing, on all machines from 60kva - 275kva. This negates the need for any separate remote AMF/Synch panels and makes for very quick and very simple deployment on site, says the company.

The new machines complement the existing stock of similarly specified machines all of which have on-board synch panels and have proved popular in the event power market, particularly where 100% redundancy is required for power-critical applications.

(Jim Evans)

UK - A.C. Audio has recently supplied a sound and control system to Blackpool Pleasure Beach for their latest outdoor display, the Spectacular Dancing Water Show. The new high energy, interactive water display is situated at the heart of the beach complex, providing various theatrical showers of shooting fountains over 100ft high. It is choreographed to a wide repertoire of music including classical, pop and even rugby anthems.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach approached A.C. to specify and supply a powerful, durable sound system for the water show. The system needed to be able to withstand both the wet environment and high ambient noise levels emanating from the surrounding restaurant district. Knowing KV2 Audio had previously manufactured loudspeakers to such high levels of durability, A.C. Audio sales manager Peter Butler turned to KV2 with the brief.

"The reliability o

UK - Wonderworks has created a ghostly hologram within the new £1m permanent exhibition, Uncovering Origins, at Charles Darwin's Down House In Kent. Forming part of the bicentennial celebrations of the great scientist's birth, it was created in conjunction with Paradigm AV.

Wonderworks was contracted by design consultancy, Designmap, who created the exhibition for English Heritage. The Darwin hologram is set in faithful recreation of his cabin on the Beagle. MDM Props (Designmap's build partner on the project) realised the cabin interior. Having partnered Wonderworks many times in the past, Paradigm AV was brought in to work on the elaborate fabrication.

It was at Down House that Darwin lived with his devoted family for 40 years, and it was here that he researched and wrote his most famous and seminal work, On the Origin of Species.

The new exhibition cha

USA - Rosco Laboratories and The ESTA Foundation have announced the presentation by Mark Engel, president of Rosco, of a cheque for the first annual royalty payment to Behind the Scenes from sales of the colour Roscolux 359 Medium Violet. Engel presented the cheque for $2,876 in front of a large gathering on the show floor at USITT in Cincinnati just prior to the annual Behind the Scenes / Long Reach Long Rider raffle.

Engel stated, "These challenging economic times require both imaginative solutions -- and compassion for those in need. That's one of the reasons Rosco is so pleased to be involved in The ESTA Foundation's Behind The Scenes programme. We contribute a part of the proceeds from sales of one of the most popular colours in Roscolux, 359 Medium Violet, to Behind The Scenes. More and more people throughout the industries we serve are choosing this colour both for m

Germany - This week's Frankfurt Pro Light + Sound show marks the launch of Adamson's Point Series that includes five new models complete with EASE Data; the Point 8, Point 12 and Point 15 two-way enclosures, with companion single and double 15" subwoofers; the Point115 Sub and Point 215 Sub. A new 4 x 8 DSP, The Point Control, is also available for optimal speaker management.

The Point Series incorporates Adamson's Advanced Cone Architecture in all 12" and 15"cabinets. These low-mid transducers have Kevlar cone geometries that reduce modal behaviour, providing an improved and linearised pass-band.

The Point 8, Point 12 and Point 15 are all available in both, active and passive versions. The Point 15 and Point 12 are equipped with either a 40 x 20, 60 x 40 or 90 x 60 rotatable Waveguide, for maximum flexibility. The smaller Point 8 is available with a 90 x 60 rot

UK - With less than one month to go until PLASA Focus: Leeds 2009 opens its doors, PLASA Events are delighted to announce two high profile seminars to open, and close the show.

The BBC will open the PLASA Focus seminar programme at 10.30am on Tuesday 28 April with a look at the UK's first Media City, opening in 2010 at Salford Quays.

The inspirational new Media City will cover two hundred acres and establish a new state-of-the-art media enterprise zone for the North. The new iconic building will hold a custom-built recording studio for the BBC Philharmonic, floating stages for theatre and concert venues, studio and technical facilities and a number of other offerings for media industries

During the seminar, Jim Brown (Portfolio Director, Production Studio and Technical Facilities in BBC Workplace) will explain what will be in Phase 1 of the project, what first attracted the

UK -The Association of British Theatre Technician's ABTT Theatre Show reports that its new on-line pre-registration system has revealed that figures are up by 15% compared to the same time last year.

Opting to offer an exclusively on-line registration service for the first time, the organisers are highlighting their commitment to the show's on-going investment, despite these 'credit crunch' times.

Providing quick and streamlined registration on the day, pre-registered visitors will simply be able to scan their bar-coded email confirmation at designated 'badge stations' to receive their pass, cutting down on queuing time.

The QRS system being used will also reduce the show's carbon footprint. Without the need to print flyers and visitor promotional literature, the show will save a number of trees by switching to on-line registration.

The ABTT Theatre Show is looking forward

UK - With just two weeks to go until PLASA Focus - Leeds organiser PLASA Events Ltd reports that over 1800 visitors have now pre-registered for the event. With research showing that 70% of these visitors tend not to visit other trade shows, this promises to deliver a promising new audience to the show's 100 exhibitors.

PLASA Events Ltd also reports that response to the Seminar programme has been "fantastic", with some seminars currently nearing capacity. All the seminars are free, and include sessions presented by the ABTT, ISCE, PLASA and The Theatres Trust. Subjects covered will include the BBC - Media City UK, Advice for Freelancers, the BS8901 standard for sustainable events management and information which will demystify some of the myths for the use of PPE for working at height.

To register for the event, please visit the website address given below. Reg

UK - PR Lighting will be exhibiting at the PLASA Focus exhibition at the Royal Armouries in Leeds (28-29 April). On show will be the XL250 and XLED590 automated lighting units.

The XL250 moving head features motorised zoom lens and iris along with interchangeable gobos and colours. The MSD250 lamp coupled with exceptional optics make this one of the brightest 250W units on the market. Also featured are interchangeable gobos and interchangeable colour filters.

XLED 590 uses Osram's Diamond Dragon LED, one of the world's brightest single-chip SMT LEDs (offering up to 250 lumens). Each head contains 90 high power 5W LED's (30 x Red, 30 x Green, 30 x Blue). The average lamp life is 100,000 hours.

The light output closely resembles that of a conventional wash light containing a 1200W discharge lamp, with the advantage of excellent colour mixing and a uniform white beam. The stand

UK - Entertainment lighting supplier White Light has announced the release of the White Light Green Guide, available now from the company's website.

Intended as a starter guide for those wanting to make their work in lighting shows have as little impact on the environment as possible, the Green Guide offers suggestions for each phase of the process of show lighting, from initial meetings and planning through rig design, set-up and focus, show running, touring and final load-out.

"Many of the suggestions in our Green Guide are largely common sense," comments White Light's managing director, Bryan Raven, "but it's often the obvious things that get overlooked when it comes to putting a show together, particularly in the final hectic days of tech when the old mantra of 'the show must go on' tends to win out over everything else. We hope that by

Czech Republic - The twelfth edition of the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) will take place in June 2011. The PQ 2011 organisers hope to attract a large number of performance disciplines from theatre and visual arts. In 2007 almost 30.000 visitors and 5.000 active participants visited the PQ 07.

After more than 40 years of existence, the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture is changing its name to the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, with the goal of breaking down the often imaginary differences between the performance fields. "In the next edition we want to include a wider range of disciplines and genres connected to performance design and to observe current trends in contemporary performance," explains Sodja Lotker, artistic director of the PQ. This is also the reason for widening the international team of cur

UK - Lightfactor Sales is taking two stands - RA-D6 and RA-D12 - at the 2009 PLASA Focus Show, in prime positions either side of the bar, a move anticipating that this should be a strategic meeting point for all visitors.

Both Lightfactor's stands will be replete with a wide selection of products aimed at core theatre and live performance orientated applications from high profile manufacturers like SGM, LDR and Novalight from Italy; SFAT from France and LightProcessor from the UK. Lightfactor is the exclusive UK distributor for all these products.

One of the highlights from SGM is the new Giotto Digital 1500 fixture. Using a special patented application of DLP technology, the Giotto Digital 1500 combines digital effects generation with a fully-featured moving head fixture. It offers the features of a moving light with an innovative all-digital system for generating graphic eff

UK - There is a long historical association between the theatre and education. Most schools stage plays and have some kind of auditorium. Then there are the colleges and institutions that specialise in training the next generation of actors and theatre technicians.

This year The ABTT Theatre Show (Association of British Theatre Technicians) reflects the link and features many exhibitors who have supplied equipment for major school and college theatre installations over the last couple of years.

Sound and lighting equipment will feature heavily at The ABTT Theatre Show, but also on show is a whole range of products and services - from staging to floors to rigging and electro-mechanical hoists - that are as important in creating a theatre or performance space as loudspeakers and lights.

Among this year's exhibitors is Centre Stage Engineering, which has supplied and installed

UK - If you're an established freelancer or just starting out in the industry, you can take advantage of a free advice session being run as part of the programme of seminars at next week's PLASA Focus event in Leeds (28-29 April).

This one-hour session, which takes place at 12pm on Wednesday 29 April at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, will provide freelancers with an overview of a wide range of areas relevant to their working lives, including an examination of key legal requirements and responsibilities.

Its main focus will be an introduction to Health & Safety law for freelancers, including a review of risk management, individual levels of responsibility and risk assessment practices. It will also provide an understanding of financial issues such as IR35 and what it means for an individual's self employment status, outlining the measures that can be taken to protect it. There w

UK - MilTec (UK) Ltd will be exhibiting a wide range of LED products at the PLASA Focus exhibition in Leeds.

Featured on the stand will be the StageWash range of LED pars. With a massive 108 Watts of LED power in a compact housing, these units give unmatched light output in their price range, says the company. The StageWash 108 has 36x 3W LEDs with a 25 degree beam and the 108T tricolour unit gives a beam angle of 38 degrees. Both units are suitable for professional and school stage applications.

Also on display will be the PixStrip LED screen and PixFloor video dance floor. These units are designed for club installations and corporate rental work, being easy to install and strike after a show. The PixStrip screen uses ultra-bright 3mm LEDs, ideal for use in bright foyer and atrium situations.

MilTec will also be showing from the ranges of followspots and high-load wind-up t

UK - The A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. stand (S-D2) at the PLASA Focus show in Leeds will feature new innovations from leading brands including Chroma-Q & GLP and product highlights from the ranges exclusively distributed by the company in the UK.

The A.C. Lighting division will be displaying a selection of products from the Chroma-Q LED range. Following the success of the Chroma-Q Color Block LED fixture with rental companies and end users alike, the manufacturer has combined the product's core elements of modularity and versatility with new single colour RGBA optics, 530 lumens output (almost double the original model) and theatrical grade dimming to create the exceptional feature set of the Color Block 2 fixture.

Other Chroma-Q LED products featured include the Color Punch fixture for a 'punchy' light output from an extremely compact unit. In addition, the stand feat

UK - Audio will have a strong presence at this year's ABTT Theatre Show, with first-time exhibitors L Acoustics, the SSE Group and distributor Red Square Audio, Cuk-Audio, Loh Humm Audio, Midas alongside Sound Technology, d&b audiotechnik, Cadac, Allen & Heath and Polar Audio, Duran Audio and Martin Audio among those exhibitors already confirmed.

The exhibition, which takes place at the Royal Horticultural Halls in Westminster, London from 10-11 June, sold out at the end of April, with pre-registrations 20 percent up on the same time last year, say the organisers.

The ABTT Theatre Show director, Roger Fox, commented, "We're very pleased to see how the audio contingent of the show has grown over the years. It highlights the value that audio can add to modern productions, enhancing the experience through special sound effects and immersive sound reinforcement. The companies

UK - Searchlight rental specialist A&O UK will be exhibiting at PLASA Focus this week (28-29 April, Leeds, UK). Highlighted on the stand will be A&O's popular Falcon range of searchlight products, which is manufactured in Germany by Alpha One, and includes their latest 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8kW Falcon Beam Colour luminaires - a Xenon indoor and outdoor searchlight with full colour changing capabilities.

A&O UK's Simon Stuart told L&SI: "There's a real buzz about PLASA Focus. We think it'll be a highly social event with a great industry networking opportunity, so it's important to be there illustrating A&O UK's unique products and services."

Based in Blackburn, A&O UK was formed in late 2008 and has already established itself as a leading rental operation for Alpha One's full range of entertainment fixtures. Falcon searchlights are being used and specified extensively for

UK - Black Cat Music will once again be displaying its comprehensive range of education and performance equipment at the ABTT Theatre Show next month.

Products displayed will include music stands and lights, posture chairs, choral risers, staging equipment and theatre products and staff will be on hand to discuss and demonstrate products. Copies of Black Cat Music's new comprehensive price list and catalogue will be available from the stand.

The Black Cat Acoustics division is a professional noise control company with an experienced and friendly team offering a complete range of acoustic products. Enquiries are welcomed for the design, supply and installation of high performance acoustic equipment as a total package, or to find economic solutions to individual problem areas within existing buildings.

(Jim Evans)

UK - PLASA Focus, Leeds - the first regional trade show event from the PLASA Events portfolio - opened its doors at 10am this morning at the start of what promises to be two valuable days of business and networking opportunities. In total across the two filled halls of Leeds Royal Armouries, 100 of the industry's leading manufacturers and suppliers are exhibiting at this inaugural PLASA Focus event.

Aside from the genuinely strong exhibitor commitment to the show, organisers PLASA Events say that the response from potential visitors has also been very satisfying, with almost 2,500 online pre-registrations received prior to the closure of pre-registration facility last week. If you haven't already registered for the event but would like to visit, don't be put off - you can simply register on the door at the venue.

The show is open until 5pm today, and from 10am to 4pm tomorrow

UK - Peavey has announced that it has again been asked to provide the sound system for the main stage at the London International Music Show (LIMS) from 11-14 June 2009. A Peavey system was also used last year for the inaugural LIMS, when Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Satriani headed the list of artists performing (along with The Blockheads, who made a special appearance at the exclusive Peavey-sponsored exhibitor party).

This year's line-up includes Jan Akkerman, Albert Lee with Hogan's Heroes, and The Swans.

"This is a fantastic showcase for music, musicians and the equipment that goes with it, and Peavey is proud to be playing its part in presenting such a talented line-up - including many of my personal idols - to the visitors at LIMS", said Clive Roberts, managing director of Peavey Europe. "Last year's show was a fantastic advertisement for the UK music scene,

UK - British Harlequin's Hi-Shine floor will be to the fore when the company exhibits at the ABTT Theatre Show 2009 to be held at London's Royal Horticultural Halls next month.

Also on show will be a wide range of examples from Harlequin's extensive catalogue of floors for the performing arts. Visitors will able to examine many different floor types with expert support on hand to provide guidance and advice.

Although widely known for their floors for dance and the performing arts, Harlequin also provides special flooring for theatre stages, television studios, exhibitions and display. Harlequin manufactures a comprehensive range from portable, roll-out floors to cushioned, heavy duty permanent floors, plus permanent and touring sprung floor systems. These are complemented by a range of accessories including tapes and cleaning products, roll straps, storage bags and an extensiv

UK - Proteus Displays is running two open days to demonstrate its new Mezzanine Imaging system. Mezzanine combines a tracking system to calculate the beam and footprint positions of moving lights alongside a media player with unique image controls. The system provides a facility for integrating lighting with video enabling conventional moving lights to project digital imagery on to the reflective display surface.

Paul Silsby CTO comments, "After all the interest we received at PLASA 08 we have been keen to develop this system further. The Mezzanine effect provides lighting designers with a new canvas which enables a level of integration between lighting and display technologies that has not been possible previously."

The demonstrations are taking place at LED Screenhire in Littlehampton on 7 and 8 May.

(Jim Evans)

Singapore - Chingay is a regional festival in South East Asia celebrating the upcoming spring. Tracing its roots back to the middle of the last century, it is now a parade with floats running along major streets in various cities throughout Malaysia and Singapore. Celebrated for the 37th time in Singapore, Chingay Singapore is today Asia's grandest street parade. Two grandMA full-size consoles running in full-tracking backup mode, plus four MA NSPs (Network Signal Processor) running 16 DMX universes were placed at front of house to run the show's lighting.

Emphasising the multicultural history of Singapore and themed Project Wonderland, this year's parade featured 13 floats, with over 4,000 performers from 40 organisations from Singapore and seven other countries including Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, India, South Korea and The Philippines. An estimated 150.000 visitors j

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