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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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"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

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"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

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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

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"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

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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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The Aura's ground-breaking optical system combines two illumination systems in one luminaire - multicolour beam LEDs and a backlight LED lens array - to produce an all new visual palette that "takes the synthetic look out of LED wash lights for truly unique lighting design possibilities," says the company.

Use the fixture as a powerful single-lens wash or employ a separate set of individually controllable multicolour LEDs for "radical to subtle eye-candy looks". For the ultimate in easy-to-produce visuals, use the Aura's bu

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Officially launching at PLASA, the ETC Gio is designed to fill the mid-range position in the Eos family, between Eos and Ion. It offers the power of full Eos functionality, but in a smaller footprint. Features include integrated, articulating multi-touch displays and helpful backlit keys. The look of the desk itself is elegantly polished and minimalist.

ETC controls product manager Anne Valentino says: "We first showed Gio to customers at our end user conference, Cue, in Wisconsin in July, and it had an extremely positive response. We'd had a lot of demand for a desk to fill the space between the full-size Eos and the highly compact Ion.

"We're revealing full details of the desk to visitors on the stand; we'll then

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During the show's opening two days, 48 products were judged 'live' in front of a crowd of show visitors and camera crew by an independent panel of expert judges who toured the show floor to view each product presentation. The winning entries are replayed throughout the show on large screens in the Innovation Gallery, where all the nominated products are showcased.

Terry Clarke of amplifier manufacturer MC2 was honoured with this year's Gottelier Award in recognition of his work on a host of standard-setting products at Klark Teknik, Midas, XTA Electronics and MC2.

Eight Awards for Innovation were presented - including a

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Teams from all of AC-ET's specialist product divisions will be there to discuss the massive multi-million pound stockholding of over 200 leading brands available from AC-ET's High Wycombe and Leeds offices for worldwide dispatch to over 80 countries - as well as in-house filter and cable manufacturing facilities and wide range of consumables - backed up by an emergency evening and weekend delivery service.

The A.C. Lighting division will showcase the new GLP Impression Wash One and Spot One high powered LED spot and washlight moving heads. The latest moving lights available fr

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The Aura's ground-breaking optical system combines two illumination systems in one luminaire - multicolor beam LEDs and a backlight LED lens array - to produce an all-new visual palette that, says Martin, takes the synthetic look out of LED wash lights for truly unique lighting design possibilities.

The fixture can be used as a powerful single-lens wash or to employ a separate set of individually controllable multicolor LEDs for radical to subtle eye-candy looks, allowing the designer to mix, match, and create new effects that take the unnatural LED look out of LED lighting. For the ultimate in easy-to-produce visuals,

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The exceptional light output, colour blending and dimming qualities of Chroma-Q LED range, which utilises the latest cutting-edge technologies, will be fully showcased in the stand's demo theatre and TV broadcast studio areas.

Products featured include the new Studio Force™ daylight white (6,100K CCT) and Studio Force variable white (3,000K - 6,100K CCT) LED fixtures, producing an extreme output of up to 28,000 lumens. Both models are available in 300mm / 12", 1.2m / 48" and 1.8m / 72" lengths.

The Studio Force range complements the popular Color Force™ RGBA