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Novelty, which is already established in three European capital cities, Paris, London and Brussels and also in Bordeaux, Nice and Toulouse, is carrying on its growth. With the added benefit of Magnum’s teams and expertise, Novelty is to accelerate its development and will be able to meet the demanding needs of international events.

Since its inception 40 years ago, ETC has come a long way. Now a global leader in the manufacturing of lighting and rigging technology, ETC employs over 1000 people, across 10 countries, in facilities totalling more than 10 football pitches in size. In recent years, the company’s growth has been particularly remarkable; to keep pace and to allow for future developments, a global office expansion programme is underway.

With a work roster ranging from pure theatre to lighting the dreamy, ethereal post-rock music of Icelandic cult band Sigur Rós, Bruno Poet’s skill-set embraces many disciplines. And in GLP’s award-winning impression X4 Bars he has found an led batten with a versatility for all occasions that gives him far more than a conventional light curtain.

In the series of Ayrton videos, this one of AlienPix-RS is original and spectacular. Creating a cancan with the beams of a group of AlienPix-RS fixtures is the enchanting idea of lighting designer Stéphane Migné and quite a feat performed by console operator Arnaud Pierrel. “Only” 15 fixtures were enough to recreate the Eiffel Tower, while the beams fill the entire space.

Planet J, located at the Sands Cotai Central in Macau, has taken revolutionary steps, putting together trendsetting interactive elements and a sophisticated lighting-control system, including ETC Selador® Desire® luminaires, Source Four® LED fixtures, and Unison Mosaic® and Paradigm architectural systems, to provide visitors the world’s first live-action role-play theme park.

No German band can be compared to the Scorpions in terms of history, success and international popularity. The group, formed in 1965, made history during the decades that followed: 18 albums, an almost infinite list of awards and innumerable tours. Today the group has embarked upon its latest world tour.

Boomtown is a pop music festival which takes place in Ghent (Belgium) every year during the “Gentse Feesten”. With MLA they’re not only using a great sound system, the MLA system is also an asset in sound control. It’s a winning solution at city festivals where noise pollution is an important topic.

Leading Netherlands based production and rental company Ampco Flashlight Rental BV (AFR) has made a another substantial investment in Robe moving lights with the purchase of 80 x DL7S Profile LED fixtures and 80 x LEDBeam 1000s, delivered via Robe’s Benelux distributor, Controllux.

UrbanVoices has been held in the French city of Nantes each July for the past six years and features a 1000-strong choir of Nantes singers from seven to 89 years old. This is spectacular in itself, but this year the audience experience was further enhanced with the use of L-ISA Live, the latest sound reinforcement concept introduced by L-Acoustics founder Christian Heil.

Mandylights were responsible for the production design, production management, stage management, lighting design and operation. Lighting gear came from Crystal Productions, Resolution X and Mandylights themselves.

The most powerful RGBW wash fixture, designed for spreading magnificent colours over the long throw distances is presented in this new Ayrton video. WildSun™-S25 is the colour-mixing cousin of Ayrton’s WildSun™K25 wash light. The new full colour model packs 217 highly efficient single RGBW LED emitters into a compact moving head and punches out 60,000 lumens of light.

UK Lighting Designer, Tim Routledge, is the mastermind behind the lighting design of one of the biggest stadium-touring shows in 2016; Beyoncé’s Formation World Tour. After a ‘Summer Shootout’ held in London, using SGM units at Carfest and The White Rose at London's O2 Arena, Tim literally saw the light in SGM’s fixtures and consequently specified 602 Q-7s and 22 G-Spots for his design for the upcoming Formation World Tour.

INFOSPORT+, a themed TV channel offered by the CANAL+ Group, France’s leading pay-TV Group, recently installed 50 neutral white LED Robert Juliat Tibo profiles in its brand new broadcasting studio where they are in daily use on sports live news broadcasts. Due to the re-orientation of the INFOSPORT+ editorial line, a new studio was created by French designer, Philippe Désert, which led to new lighting requirements. Engineering project manager, Jean-Marc Delage, decided on Robert Juliat Tibo neutral white LED profiles, on the advice of French lighting director, Frédéric Dorieux.

105 arena shows, multiple nights in virtually every venue (including six at Madison Square Garden, London’s O2 and the Los Angeles Staples Center) and every show sold out far in advance - Adele’s Live 2016 tour is big on both numbers and positive critical reviews. In order to achieve that focus, sound provider Black Box Music provided an L-Acoustics K2 system.

Eighth Day Sound, headquartered in Highland Heights, Ohio, with offices in London, Sydney and Los Angeles, has taken delivery of an additional 120 Adamson E-Series and 72 S-Series loudspeakers. The purchase is designed to meet the growing demand for Adamson sound reinforcement systems world-wide.