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RUSH marks Martin's focus back onto a market they know well. Villads Thomsen, vice president of global sales at Martin, comments, "We are extremely excited about this brand new range as it again brings everything that Martin stands for to the market for installation effect lights. This is by no means new territory for us however as our roots lay in the market for effect lighting. It's a market we have great experience in.

"The response at Prolight+Sound was overwhelmingly positive. We feel the time is right to re-energize this segment and are c

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Show Statistics - Musikmesse and Prolight+Sound closed with113,000 visitors from 142 countries (2012: 109,481 visitors, 120 countries). "This visitor response has far surpassed our own expectations and that of the exhibitors", says Detlef Braun, managing director of Messe Frankfurt GmbH. "With 113,000, the visitor numbers not only exceeded last year's results by three percent, but it also surpasses the all-time record high from 2009 (112,478 visitors). This is a fantastic result for th

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The first presentation demonstrated how each of the different types of fixtures - tungsten, HID and LED - can work well either individually or together as instruments in a lighting director's tool box; while a second showed how easy it is to set up a lighting system for a gig, making use of the new Magic Sheets function on the control desks and RDM technology, and demonstrating how ETC control desks, fixtures and power control products work together.

Everyone who attended both presentations as well as a personal demonstration of any ETC product was entered into a draw to win a Source Four Mini. The winners were announced as Markus Fuchs, Jan Lemmenmeier, Marcus Schindler

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The action-packed four-day Robe schedule included the launch of six innovative new fixtures, a press event announcing the company's sponsorship of Czech MotoGP racing star Karel Abraham and a show-stopping lightshow on the booth that had people packing the aisles each day waiting in anticipation ... and receiving it with rounds of rapturous applause.

Says Robe's CEO Josef Valchar, "We said that last year's Frankfurt was the best ever trade show ... but this year's has surpassed, both in terms of the business completed, the interest in the new products and the general vibe - it has been incredible!"

The much-anticipated Pointe moving light was the focus of Robe's new technology launches this year - a small, very bright, multi-functional fixture which c

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Stand NA2 will feature products from Arkaos, Altman, Chromlech. Interactive Technologies, James Thomas, JB Lighting, Look Solutions, and LSC Lighting. Products CITC, Coemar, Core Lighting, Galaxia Electronics, PR Lighting. Robert Juliat, and Wireless Solution will appear on stand RA-C4. White Light Sales and Hire staff will be on hand throughout the show, to answer questions and offer advice about your venue, project, or production.

Two new White Light exclusives -the CORE Lighting ColourPoint and the James Thomas Engineeri

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Join Martin 30 April to 1 May 1st at the Royal Armouries in Leeds where visitors can check out these latest technologies, network with industry professionals and enjoy a relaxing chat with Martin personnel at Booth N-E16.

A host of other new Martin products will also feature: MAC III series luminaires, VC series LED video, plus smoke and haze solutions.

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To help capture the fun and energy of Red Nose Day Night of TV: Comic Relief - Funny For Money Richard Martin Lighting (RML) once again came on board to shine the light on some of Britain's best celebrity talent including Michael McIntyre, Rob Brydon, John Bishop, Lenny Henry and Claudia Winkleman.

Chris Kempton, who has designed the lighting for Red Nose Day Night of TV shows for the past 11 years used all the lighting tricks of the trade to bring the show to life, using s Robe Robin 600 LEDWash's, VL1000TS, MAC 700's, VL2000 Wash's, MAC 600's, Sharpys and VL3500's.

Chris Kempton said, 'The Red Nose Day Night of T

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This in-demand event featured the live debut of Hot Natured, the collective of Jamie Jones, Lee Foss, Luca C and Ali Love. Latest single Benediction has become one of this year's biggest dance tunes, and their debut album and live shows are set to be one of the significant stories in electronic music in 2013. DJ support came from Jamie Jones, Lee Foss, Richy Ahmed, Infinity Ink and PBR Street Gang.

PRG's Andrew Strachan worked alongside Ben Pound, director of Futureline Events to supply lighting, media server and creative LED. Gregory Douglas was overall project manager and Chris Scott was crew chief.

Cameron Bannister worked with Strachan and Pound to design a complex array of 50 x 1500mm and 12 x 375mm

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Routledge, known for his work with Madonna, Katherine Jenkins and Sterophonics, specified 26 powerful Alpha Spot QWO 800s, supplied by Neg Earth, praising them as 'superb optic spots, perfect for cutting through LED'.

"I specifically picked the QWO800s having used them on the Queen's Jubilee Concert," says Routledge. "For the Gary Barlow tour we were playing theatres and smaller concert venues and I really wanted as bright a spot as I could find in the smallest body - I really dislike seeing big ugly fixtures spoiling the architecture of a show or a venue. The QWOs really fitted that bill - they are small, compact and extremely bright and moreover the optics on t

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"The theme of '3' - reflecting the album and tour titles - was very important, and dictated much of the layout of LED fingers and stage graphics," says Thompson. "The Ai is being used to power a mixture of live camera feeds, video and visual content onto the main back video wall, and over the three, three-dimensional LED screens, which are embedded in the stage floor and run above the stage to reach into the audience like outstretched fingers. After witnessing the power of Ai at previous events, I knew we could create a stunnin

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With 6,854 screens in 537 theatres at the time of this writing, Regal Entertainment Group is the largest and most geographically diverse theatre circuit in the country, and required a lighting design befitting the royally inspiring name.

Lighting designer Giff Swart adeptly created a massive design that imitated Regal's crown logo. Fifty-nine Chauvet colour dash accents illuminated the trussing with the red, yellow, blue and green colours surrounding the crown.

"I wanted to give them something a little more than just a utilitarian structure to

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Located in Uncasville, Connecticut, Mohegan Sun offers gaming in three casinos, fine dining, luxury accommodations, retail shopping, live entertainment and sporting events. Attractions include an indoor 55ft waterfall, electrifying water wall and the world's largest indoor planetarium dome. Entertainment venues are a 10,000-seat Arena, 350-seat Cabaret Theatre and 300-seat Wolf Den.

"We chose Clay Paky GlowUps because we do a lot of events on the fly in various locations," says Brian Horne, lead lighting technician for sports and entertainment at Mohegan Sun. "We were looking for a wireless LED that we could connect to a console. One challenge is that since we're a casino, WiFi can interfere with some of our equipment. The Gl

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The proclamation of this call for concepts also constitutes the start signal for professionals in the international art, design and architecture industry to submit their own interpretations of 'building with light'.

Curator and artistic leader of the festival, Rogier van der Heide states, "We want to demonstrate the importance of light in all its facets, to the city but to mankind as well. We want to start Building with Light, but not just in the architectural sense. Because we also want to build an experience and invite artists to explore the materiali

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The tour's lighting and video designer Steven Douglas has been working with The Killers for over eight years. Juxtaposing the band members' onstage proximity with their desire for an 'open' look - plus the fact that there are several different possible versions of each song - presents both challenges and opportunities for the lighting design.

"The lighting is quite strong, it's not very pop," says Steven. "They wanted a wide open, Springsteen-esque kind of stag

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Following its attention-grabbing world debut in Frankfurt, Philips Showline's SL NITRO 510 will be on show for the first time in the UK. An LED-based strobe, it delivers super-bright bursts of light and dynamic effects using over 1300 high-powered LEDs.

New from Philips Vari-Lite is the recently released Indy software for the VLX Wash luminaire allows for individual control of the fixture's seven 120W RGBW LED engines. This facilitates a multitude of stunning looks and original chases to be programmed on the face of the luminaire, further enhancing the creative possibilities

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A variety of rental companies from USA, Europe, Australia and South Africa quoted on technical supply for the production and the lighting equipment and staffing contract was awarded to South African theatre rental company, Gearhouse Splitbeam for the Asian and South African legs of the tour. The sound, LED, automation and rigging packages were all brought in from the USA.

Splitbeam's managing director, Alistair Kilbee took on the role of technical director and along with Splitbeam operators, Clement Makama, Simon Mashebane and

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Imlight is a steadily growing manufacturer and distributor of professional sound, light and stage equipment with over 20 years' experience. Services include manufacturing of professional sound, light and electronic equipment, movable stage pavilions, aluminium truss constructions, stage mechanics and clothing of the stage; distribution of professional light and sound equipment; design, delivery, installation, commissioning, and technical support; and architectural illumination.

The partnership is a strategic move for Wireless Solution, having recently invested heavily in a new approval for Russia, being the first company outside Russia that has import approval to Russia as well as an import license, with Russia p

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The sessions will provide an overview of the latest features of the Titan V7 and Ai Media Server as part of the Lighting and Video - the Integration, the Benefits, the Future presented by Avolites Media.

"We will be introducing the latest cool features, including 'AVTO MAP', making mapping tourable; 'wow factor' rotational mapping; and our totally unique 'canvas editor' feature, which brings 3D content editing tools into the Ai tool set," says Avolites Media's MD Steve Warren. "We believe that fabulous productions start with the best ingredients and Ai offers the industry's best, most efficient, high resolution codec and

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The system was conceived in early December as Stewart was flying back from a client visit in Tampa. "Their directive was to 'push the design envelope' and at 30,000ft, inspiration hit," explains Davis.

As the circle on a coffee-stained napkin morphed into a turntable, Stewart then imagined placing an LED wall on the turntable and curving it. "Then we thought, what if we flanked the turntable with more LED and put it on traveller track to have even more reveal and endless walk-on opportunities

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It's the first Robe purchase for the Peterborough, Cambridgeshire based company that provides lighting, audio, power, rigging, staging and draping to numerous events embracing multiple sectors.

Pearce Hire project manager Dan Shelton explains: "We needed an LED moving wash light and tested and compared several brands . . . in the process discovering that Robe stood out above all of the rest in every aspect - brightness, beam spread, colours, speed, zoom, etc."

Apart from that, he explains, the decision to go with Robe was also in response to an ever-increasing amount of specs now requesting the brand. He reckons that the LEDWash 1200 is 'rider friendly' for the majority of Pearce Hire's production pr

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"I started working with Miranda in 2005 and the show has definitely grown over all the previous tours which has allowed me to have a great toy box with more lighting tools at my disposal," began Lisle. "Creatively my main goal is to always compliment her performance with the visuals and she is a very active

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Stage Electrics has been successfully delivering training for a wide range of technical entertainment disciplines nationwide for over 10 years.

New courses include Getting to Grips with Sound- a one day course aimed at professionals within the education sector providing an understanding of the fundamentals of sound and audio reproduction. In addition training topics include courses and workshops on lighting design, moving lights, pyrotechnic safety awareness and working at height (ladders and tallescopes) and accredited PASMA training.

Bespoke and individually tailored informal courses held at the customers venue, particularly on stage lighting, form an essent

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Playing before their largest audience to date, the show was universally acclaimed as a huge success for the band, and was also a benchmark for lighting designer Sebastian Ekeberg, who has been with Karpe Diem for the last four years.

"This was one of the largest and most important events I've been involved in so when I designed the show it was important for me to use equipment I knew in advance," Ekeberg stated, who turned to a large Martin rig that included some 225 MAC moving heads. "I've had great experience with the MAC range in the past so they were an obvious ch

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wysiwyg has been used to create lighting designs for the epic fantasy series since 2011 and the start of filming for Season Two, which saw Belfast-based Key Console Systems take over lighting duties using a specially adapted rig put together by company director, Keith Shanks. At the request of production executives, who had been impressed by his work on the first season of the show, Shanks designed a new lighting system, which saw the introduction of wysiwyg and ChamSys MagicQ consoles to the Game of Thrones set.

Prior to this, Shanks owned a stage lighting rental company, which he subsequently sold to launch Key Console Systems, with HBO as one of its first cli