UK / USA - ETC's award-winning Eos lighting control family is expanding with the addition of the compact new Gio - a high functionality desk in a smaller footprint. "Gio puts together the control-surface depth required to do large shows in a mid-ranged, ergonomically engineered package," says Matt Kerr, ETC's associate entertainment market manager. "We designed it to be the professional solution for space compromised productions and touring."

Positioned in the middle of the popular Eos range, between the Eos and the Ion desks, Gio features the family's powerful hardware and software for sophisticated effects - like pixel mapping and media server control - as well as the instantly recognisable ETC syntax. Programmers familiar with other Eos family members will immediately settle in with Gio; novice users will quickly master the direct, intuitive operational st

UK / Czech Republic - Showlight 2013 takes place in ?eský Krumlov in the Czech Republic and the town's 13th century Gothic castle, with its connected theatre and conference centre which will be the main venue for the presentations and exhibition.

The organisers are beginning their search for speakers for Showlight 2013 and will be at at PLASA 2011 on stand 1-C25.

"If you're a manufacturer, installation or rental company, Showlight offers the perfect environment in which to network with lighting designers from all disciplines. As an exhibitor, you'll have three days in which to talk about your products and ideas in a relaxed, informal atmosphere," says a spokesman.

(Jim Evans)

Sweden - LumenRadio has cancelled the commercial launch of its dual-band 2.4/5.8 GHz 'White' platform as recent ETSI regulations have rendered the 5.8GHz band useless for professional wireless DMX and RDM systems, says the company.

A company statement says: "The regulatory environment for radio technology is a fast changing and complex matter. It requires considerable know-how to understand and significant engineering and test resources to ensure compliance. LumenRadio's engineering staff has worked with government entities such as OFCOM in the UK and The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) to reach clarity on compliance issues relevant to our industry.

"Recent developments within the European regulatory framework overseen by The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) and the European Communication Office (ECO), and embodied in

Sweden - Astrid Lindgren's character, Pippi Longstocking, took to the ice on a large scale production that toured across Sweden prior to the summer. Pippi - An Adventure on Ice mixed melody with skating and featured a spectacular set and lighting design.

Lighting designer for the tour was Palle Palmé who used a large Martin rig made up of 100-plus MAC luminaires to highlight the production, the first time a Swedish producer, PJP, has staged an ice show of this magnitude.

Palmé, who has worked with PJP for nearly 10 years on various productions, chose the Martin lighting both because of the reliability of the fixtures and because the rental company, Starlight, had a lot of Martin equipment in its inventory.

"I used MAC 2000 Profiles with custom gobos to toplight the ice in different patterns," Palmé explains. "The show included a lot

UK - A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) will attend PLASA 2011 (Stand 1-D32, Hall 1) to showcase and discuss examples of the many performance lighting, audio and AV system installations provided by the company.

ACSP design, supply and install lighting, sound and AV systems - as well as track and curtains, intercom and show relay. The company's previous installations range from a basic six circuit lighting bar, with a dimmer pack and lighting desk, to full blown theatre systems.

Working alongside designers and architects or directly for the performance venue, the company's fully qualified team of engineers will provide a first class finished system installation, on time and on budget.

ACSP has access to over 200 quality brands, including popular performance ranges from Chroma-Q, Jands, Spotlight, ETC, Philips Selecon, Pulsar, Sennheiser, Shure, Soundcraft, Allen & Heath, JBL, Andol

Spain - Martin Professional A/S has agreed with Ecler to end its longtime exclusive distributor relationship in Spain and to start a new distribution model. Effective 10 September, Martin will serve selected Spanish customers directly via a strong local presence administered by Martin Professional's headquarter office.

Martin Professional vice president distributor sales, Bruno Garros, commented on the change, "Ecler has been an extremely dedicated and reliable partner for Martin Professional for many years. The economic challenges in Spain have been great and Ecler's business reorientation towards AV systems integration required a sales reorganization for Martin products.

"Therefore, Martin will take care of selected top accounts, mainly rental companies, and Ecler will continue supplying to installers and system integrators. We believe this new structure will reinf

UK - London- based production specialists LarMac LIVE co-ordinated all technical production aspects Creamfields 2011, with a team led by production manager Ian 'Lar' Greenway, assisted by Anthony Norris.

It was the second year that LML has worked in this capacity for event producers Loudsound, for whom they also facilitate production on several other major UK festivals, including Rockness and Bestival.

The site featured nine main arenas and a substantial hospitality area including - for the first time - two outdoor stages - North and South, with a line-up headlined by The Chemical Brothers, Armin van Buren, Tiesto and David Guetta.

(Jim Evans)

USA - The University of California, Davis, School of Law has procured Barco's FSN presentation system to improve the production capabilities of its audio visual platform, enabling the law school to produce broadcast-quality events for viewing throughout its classrooms, the larger education community and via its website.

To date, the law school has used the FSN to produce and disseminate programming of high-profile events, including a 2010 debate between candidates for California Attorney General, a hearing of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a panel discussion regarding a 2010 gubernatorial debate on the UC Davis campus, and the school's own Law Review panel.

"With the FSN, we can broadcast our events 'live' to all of our trial practice and appellate class courtrooms and lecture halls, beam content to on-campus digital signage, and stream programs 'live' over the in

UK - MilTec (UK) is expanding the product catalogue for their MT Professional Audio and MT Lighting ranges. Technical director Graham Gosden has been using his years of industry experience to design and develop new products for the increasingly demanding professional audio and lighting markets.

The Pro Audio catalogue sees the introduction of a new medium throw PA system, the HLP1, which includes a 700W, three-way mid/top cabinet and the new DNP26 network processor.

Also on display will be the MZ31 installation mixer. This 1U high mixer has three switchable inputs and one stereo output.

The lighting section will be utilising the latest developments in LED technology for both wash and spot applications. High output combined with low power consumption mean that these units can now be used for large professional applications that would have been impossible only a year ago. The

UK - Back by popular demand and in the new location of Ward Park in Bangor, Northern Ireland, the Tennents Vital Festival made a spectacular resurgence after a four year hiatus, with a star studded two-day line up headlined by The Script and Eminem.

Production Services Ireland, was asked by promoters MCD to take care of all lighting and production rigging needs for the main stage. PSI's Sean Pagel states, "It was great to see the return of Tennents Vital and a huge amount of enthusiasm and energy from all involved went into ensuring that it had the best production values and a fantastic vibe."

Pagel's lighting crew included Darragh McAuliffe, Richie Flanagan and Rob Meyer.

The lighting had to match Eminem's rig - designed by Dan Boland - as fixture perfectly as possible. PSI rigorously adhered to the specification, requesting very few substitutions. The Script (LD

UK - The UK's largest light festival returns to Durham this winter with 30-plus installations including works by Tracey Emin and David Batchelor.

Event producers Artichoke have announced the first details of Lumiere 2011, the biennial festival that celebrates artists working with light in all its forms. It will be staged over four nights, 17-20 November 2011. Artichoke has been commissioned to deliver the festival by Durham County Council, with funds from Arts Council England and a panoply of other funding bodies and sponsors.

In 2009, the inaugural Lumiere festival drew an estimated 75,000 people into the city, and generated some £1.5m for the local economy. For Lumiere 2011, festival producers Artichoke will bring together a mix of international, national and local artists and designers, all using the medium of light to create artworks "to delight, surprise, and s

UK - Chauvet reports that its COLORado Batten 72 Tour linear wash lights have been installed in Theatr Brycheiniog , the first solar-powered theatre in Wales. The fixtures were specified by Stage Electrics.

Twenty COLORado Batten 72 Tour fixtures were added to the theatre's lighting rig for a multitude of applications, such as front, side, cyc and overhead lighting. The LED-fitted fixtures joined the existing rig of half LED, half-incandescent lighting sources.

"The challenge has been for lighting designers to adopt different fixtures," Geraint Thomas, technical manager for Theatr Brycheiniog, said of the use of LEDs in a theatrical setting. "As new lighting designers come here, we first go over the equipment to prepare them to go from incandescent to LEDs."

The use of LEDs has made a marked improvement in regards to power consumption and heat generation.

UK - Lightfactor will feature the latest products from its raft of high profile international brands on an action-packed stand - including DTS, LDR, Integrated Technologies and VXCO.

Lightfactor's experienced and informed sales team will be on hand to demonstrate all products and talk authoritatively about projects and specifications.

New from DTS are the NICK LED colour wash fixtures and the high powered compact JACK Spot moving lights and there will also be a few new surprise products.

The DTS NICK 600 WASH ZOOM is a self-contained compact dimensioned high-output LED wash moving head with a 13.5° - 40° motorized zoom and a fast and silent Pan/Tilt. A powerful colour synthesis engine offers 16 million colours, a linear colour temperature of between 2800°K and 6500°K and two colour mixing modes - RGBW and CMY.

As Novalight's UK distributor, Lightfactor has

UK - PLASA 2011 continues a busy year for the Czech Republic based manufacturer which launches two new LED products - the Robin 1200 LEDWash, and the Robin DLX Spot, and previews the upcoming Robin 'Sniper' - a mega-bright beam fixture.

All are in line with the company's ongoing Think of the Future - Consider Nature commitment to producing genuinely more sustainable and greener technology which takes up less truck space, reduces weight loading on trusses, is quicker and simpler to rig and draws significantly less power than conventional light sources - without compromising on brightness, features or functionality.

Robe also highlights how it is streamlining its own production processes to reduce its carbon footprint and overall environmental impact.

The super-slim, mega-bright Robin 1200 LEDWash utilises the same multichip RGBW LEDs as Robe's Award-winning Robin 600 L

PLASA 2011 sees Cooper Controls show a host of new products from its leading UK brands - architectural LED manufacturer Cogent and lighting control manufacturer LightProcessor.

Among the main new architectural orientated products is the Cogent XC LED controller, which will be shown with its latest software.

This increases the number of operational modes from 12 to 20, which can be directly accessed via an RS232 port, with the colours also recalled by region via RS232.

This is one of the most straightforward and flexible 'environmental' LED control systems on the market. It is set up in 'regions' via eight compass points, each of which is assigned with its own DMX address, so regions can be activated, pre-programmed and controlled by selecting 'top' 'middle or 'bottom' buttons - in any room or space.

Also from Cogent is a new range of four-colour changing LED strip lights - in RGB

Europe - PRG is to hold a comprehensive online auction of used equipment in October in order to revise the European equipment pool. The company will sell equipment, which is rarely rented or will no longer be offered due to strategic reasons.

The material originates from the inventories of PRG Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and UK as well as EML and Showtec. In total, approximately 6000 lots of lighting, audio, video and rigging equipment will be offered for sale.

Troostwijk Auktionen GmbH & Co. KG will be responsible for the realization of the two-day online auction. The aim of this auction is to further optimize the rental pool concerning equipment quality and clearness, says the company.

The complete illustrated auction catalogue of the equipment to be auctioned will be available from the beginning of October on the following website: www.TroostwijkAuctions.com.

From the

UK - Blackburn-based rental specialist HSL has appointed UK lighting designer Andy Hurst - Prodigy, Faithless, Pendulum, Dizzee Rascal, and others - as a creative director, in a move to promote and expand the company's touring and special events division.

Hurst will be working closely with group director Mike Oates and other HSL project managers in a move that consolidates the company's massive expansion in the touring sector over the last four years.

Managing Director Simon Stuart comments, "It's great to have Andy onboard and to welcome him into our family. As with all our designers, he will have unlimited access to our extensive rental stock of lighting, digital lighting and LED products, and we are looking forward to a long and productive partnership together, and to sharing lots of positive energies and ideas."

Hurst adds, "HSL is one of the fastest growi

Belgium - Martin Professional's EMEA sales organisation has announced that Maarten Gossye has joined the company as key account manager covering the Belgian and Luxembourgian markets.

Gossye, an industrial engineer with a fascination for lighting and video products, worked for Martin Professional's former distributor in Belgium, EVDV, from 2007-2010 where he was responsible for customer service and product support.

In his new position as key account manager, he will cover both the install and rental markets for Martin in Belgium and Luxembourg. Due to his technical background, he also will handle product demonstrations and provide support on technical issues.

Gossye began in his new position in July and is based in Geraardsbergen near Brussels.

(Jim Evans)

UK - Following success at ProLight&Sound earlier this year, Christie's new-look theatre arrives at Earls Court this weekend to take up its PLASA position in Hall 1, Stand E18. The Christie stand will once again present an integrated light show with video animations using Christie Nitro Solutions. Previewed at PLASA last year, this modular series of motorised moving yokes can provide up to 22,000 ANSI lumens of video projection, with the flexibility to allow the user to deploy the yoke with either a video projector or a LED light head.

Noted lighting director Bruno Corsini is tasked with creating and choreographing the show in a convergence of video and lighting-derived patterns. Corsini has a long list of accomplishments, including last year's landmark lightshow for Mexico's Bicentennial of Independence in the Mexican capital's main square.

As in Frankfurt, the PLASA display w

Australia - ENTTEC has expanded its sales team. Lighting industry veteran Carl Spaulding joins ENTTEC as its sales manager for the Northern Region, USA and Canada after working more than 10 years as a member of the BMI Supply sales team.

"ENTTEC has an extremely versatile range of products. I'm excited by the opportunities and infinite potential of the solutions ENTTEC provides," Spaulding said. "With my experience in sales management as well as technical direction and manufacturing, I felt like ENTTEC was a natural fit."

Walter Terella was hired as the business development manager for ENTTEC, having extensive sales experience working in the world mining and construction industries, most recently for TR Pty MINECOM. Terella is a seasoned business development manager for local and international technical sales.

"The opportunity arose within ENTTEC whe

ETC's award winning Eos lighting control family is expanding - but the newest desk in the range isn't! The buzz since July (when ETC gave its end users at the company's CUE conference in Wisconsin an exclusive first look) is about the elegantly compact design of the new Gio - a high functionality desk in a smaller footprint. The desk's international launch is taking place at PLASA 2011.

"Gio puts together the control-surface depth required to do large shows in a mid-ranged, ergonomically engineered package," says Matt Kerr, ETC's associate entertainment market manager. "We designed it to be the professional solution for space compromised productions and touring."

Positioned in the middle of the popular Eos range, between the Eos and the Ion desks, Gio features the family's powerful hardware and software for sophisticated effects - like pixel mapping and media serv

UK - Specialist UK-based entertainment industry LED manufacturer i-Pix is launching two new products at PLASA 2011 and previewing upgraded and improved versions of two of its other most popular existing product lines on the stand of its UK distributor White Light (2-Q13/2-Q18).

The Satellite was the first i-Pix product designed and produced after the company's launch in 2006, and soon became a best seller and a firm favourite in all sectors of the entertainment industry. At PLASA 2011, the Satellite Mk II is launched.

This takes advantage of the massive leaps forward in LED technology in the last five years. The unit is still in the same compact package yet has four times the light output. Colours include RGB and a 5600°K daylight white. There are also improved homogenised optics.

The Satellite Mk II offers 16 bit self-contained DMX for control, or it can be run as a sta

UK - Entertainment lighting designers are increasingly looking to LED lighting solutions to take advantage of more compact luminaire designs, unparalleled energy efficiency and dramatically lower heat signatures. At the same time, they demand solutions which light the stage and people on that stage with brightness, rich colour and precision focusing. With this in mind, Philips will launch the StagePainter D60 2000 system at PLASA 2011.

"The StagePainter goes beyond existing LED stage lighting capabilities to provide superior control over colour consistency and brightness, creating drama and spectacle with simplicity and ease," says Philips. The Philips StagePainter D60 2000 system enables lighting designers to 'paint' the scene they want with rich, bright and powerful LED illumination. "This enables them to recreate the same scene flawlessly, fixture after fixture

USA - California based GLP German Light Products Inc. has announced a couple of significant changes to its staff line up.

First, Carl Wake has taken on the new role of technical services director within the company, with responsibility for the entire technical and support side of the company.

"Carl is the perfect person to have in this position. He is highly knowledgeable and passionate about making sure things just work, and he's as keen to make sure that as many people as possible share that knowledge", commented GLP's president Mark Ravenhill.

"For myself, this is a natural progression within the GLP organization and I am looking forward to strengthening our technical support for our product lines," said Wake.

Filling the vacant position of regional sales manager for the Central USA is new addition - Dusty Hudgins who has worked as a lighting designe

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