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14 March 2016

Baldwin joined fellow students and leading figures from the College, the board of Governors, architects BFLS, project managers Davis Langdon and construction team Willmott Dixon to celebrate this symbolic moment in the building project. Work will begin shortly on the roof structure, the final construction phase of what will be an important new gateway to Cardiff.

"It'll make such a difference to us as students to have everything all together in one building at last, and on this scale, and not to have to travel to other venues to do our work,' said Baldwin. 'I can't wait to get in there and start s

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During the week thousands of delegates, presenters, exhibitors and visitors descend on the Harrogate International Centre. To facilitate the audio-visual aspects of the conference, R&B provided a team of 30 engineers who work closely with the event organisers, Ocean Media Group and the venue technical staff. 2010 was the 9th year that R&B have provided support for this event, which is always a highlight of the year.

As well as AV support in five conference rooms, R&B Group also supplied numerous plasma screens to exhibition stands and produced a daily in-house/web TV program

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14 March 2016

The Sector Skills Council for creative and cultural industries has named Gateshead College as the only college in the North East and one of only a few in the country to lead on new training opportunities.

This will mean that the college, in partnership with international music venue, The Sage Gateshead, will now work as the founder college of the National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural Skills (NSA) to ensure it continues to provide the best possible learning opportunities by bringing together education and industry.

The NSA, along with the national network of 20 founder Further Education colleges, is also working in partnership with over 200 theatre and live music employers. Gateshe

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14 March 2016

Investors in People is a national standard which helps organisations transform their business performance. Preparing for the IIP assessment (which took over a year) has involved all of the Black Light team and has led to a business-wide rebranding, improvements in its business systems and a number of changes in staff roles and responsibilities. Together, these have streamlined the company's operations and improved customer service.

"IIP has helped me, as the business owner, focus on what is important for Black Light and start rolling that out," says Gavin Stewart, Black Light's managing director. "I hope tha

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14 March 2016

Stage Electrics is one of the biggest suppliers of technical equipment to the Edinburgh International Festival and Festival Fringe.

This year, Stage Electrics will be celebrating its 25th anniversary of successfully supplying the prestigious Assembly Rooms.

Along side this, the company is supplying more venues than ever before, with over 55 performance spaces in total including the Gilded Balloon, Underbelly, Universal Arts, The World Festival and many other shows and venues around the city.

Adrian Searle head of technical and hire comments, "This year sees the Assembly Rooms cele

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14 March 2016

In the five years since the company's creation, i-Pix's products have proved popular with lighting designers for concerts and live events - including forming the core of the design for Radiohead's 2008 world tour, and more recently as a key element of the Kick Off Celebration Concert for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa.

The current i-Pix product line-up includes the BB1 'building block' modular LED light-source, the BB4 LED washlight, the BB7 beamlight/washlight fixture, and the versatile Satellite.

"In our five year history, we have doubled our revenues year on year, and both our product range and expertise have increased," notes i-Pix founder Chris Ewington. "We have worked directly with l

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14 March 2016

The Fabulous Feasts menu, designed specifically to suit the family-oriented Oxfordshire audience, was freshly prepared on site from their newly built bespoke temporary catering facility.

Hugh Phillimore, director of Cornbury Festival, comments, "Cornbury is thrilled to welcome Jamie's Fabulous Feasts to their first summer festival. Cornbury is famous for its family audience, its great music and wide range of international food; so it's a perfect fit for Jamie's new events catering company.The Fabulous Feasts team have shown that it is possible to bring fresh, tasty, responsibly sourced food to the public at large scale events like this one."

(Jim Evans)

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The events which took place over a two-week period in June, saw some of the UK music scene's hottest and developing talent take centre stage at Regents Park- London, Stanley Park-Liverpool, Castle Park- Bristol and the Vale, Birmingham.

The four events were project managed by Stage Electrics' Andrew Siddon who used EAW KF965 loudspeakers and a Yamaha M7CL console to mix the live bands. Stage Electrics also provided all

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14 March 2016

Gulf Crewing Company was launched in November 2008 by Jo Marshall, Nigel Beaton and Shane Manning - all of whom have considerable experience working in various aspects of the live events industry.

The concept is to provide a European style crewing operation to supply skilled, qualified efficient crew and technicians for all types of events.

Beaton had been working in the Middle East as a freelancer and realised that there was a real need for a professionally run and organised crew service on these lines. He and Marshall - a show technical director/production manager and now heading Al Laith Events Services, formed GCC along with Manning, an experienced rigger, to fill that vacuum.

"The idea

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14 March 2016

Gearhouse SA ordered a total of 14 SES 19" 400A rack distros which were used during the rounds and also at the opening concert and the closing ceremony.

Andrew Sackstien from Gearhouse commented, " The racks we received from SES were exactly what we required and they had understood my requirements precisely. They arrived in good time and worked flat out for the duration of the WCF. They were built very well and I will certainly use SES in the future for my power requirements.

SES were "very pleased with the products and the comments, and as always, pleased to add another tick in the customer satisfaction box".

(Jim Evans)

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The main presentation concerned the requirements for dance floors and their different fields of application. The lectures were closed by a 'journey' with Gerriets through 60 years of theatre history presenting the fascinating history of art curtains.

Gerriets reports the brunch was a great success and was met with an excellent response from the 120 participants.The programme concluded with a guided tour through the Semperoper.

"We would like to express our gratitude to the team of the Semperoper Dresden and especially to their technical director, M

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14 March 2016

Supplied by Terry Tew Sound & Light to the show's broadcast sound supervisor Andy Tapley, the four Shure SM63 mics in pink have been in use since 2001.

"Andy and I discussed what would be the best mic for the 4 Poofs," says Terry Tew, "and I advised him that the SM63s would be the right product to cope with their microphone technique. The fact that they've used the same ones for the last nine years is testament to the fact that we got it right."

Now the four mics are to find four new homes via four separate e-bay auctions, which will start at 9am on Wednesday 14 July following the recording of Ross's last show, which will air on F

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14 March 2016

John Robinson, aged 18 from Felling in Gateshead, joins the Graphics department as the company's first real apprentice. He will work closely with Zak Hussain, graphics manager in the areas of set design, 3D animation and managing web-site content.

Ben Middleton was welcomed back to R&B Group Yorkshire recently, having previously worked with the company on freelance and short-term contracts. Middleton was selected to join the team in order to support the continued growth of R&B Group in the Yorkshire region. His role will involve the preparation, load and installation of equipment, along with the operation of equipment during live events for clients such as RICS, The Royal College of Nursing and York Racecourse.

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14 March 2016

In a bid to increase networking at its awards event the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards commissioned Cinimod Studio to create an effective and visually stimulating solution. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology was used to identify key visitors on the two 'networking pods' during the evening's proceedings.

The tags embedded in shortlisted designers and sponsors' name badges used radio signals to send their identity to antenna receivers. Projections then highlighted guests' key professional characteristics (projects designed, sponsor brands) as they moved around the pods.

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Hawthorn provided all technical and site services for the event including power, lighting, sound, staging and site services. During the event and licensing stages of the project, the team worked closely with the Venue and the Licensing Authority on both health and safety and noise restrictions.

Hawthorn's project manager, Chris Knight, commented, "It's great to be involved in this important Centenary event and see so many people have such a great time."

A total of eight acts performed, combined with a birthday address from the head of the organisation. Between the acts members of the organisation performed on the front of the stage whilst the rear was set for the next a

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Maurice co-founded Stage Electrics with David Whitehead in 1979, and the company has grown into an internationally trading business with a turnover of £27.5 million. Recently, with the onset of illness, Maurice has helped create the current management structure to ensure that the company continues to thrive without his guidance.

His lon

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Pollstar magazine said an average of 6,951 tickets per show were sold, down 9% from the same period in 2009. The information comes just after it was announced that two weeks have been cut from the American Idol tour. Promoters Live Nation said eight shows by the Idol finalists, including winner Lee DeWyze and runner-up Crystal Bowersox, have been dropped. The Jonas Brothers, The Eagles, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, John Mayer and Limp Bizkit have all pulled summer dates in the US.

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