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It’s not often that an institution over 13 centuries old receives a lighting upgrade but such is the case with the Abbey of Saint Wandrille in Normandy, France, a Benedictine monastery founded in the year 648 that has installed Elation TVL 3000 II dynamic white light LED luminaires in the Abbey’s church.

Ayrton has just announced the MagicRing-R™, a new addition to its Radical Series which offers seven 15W LED RGBW sources and the continuous pan and tilt. It will receive its world premiere at PLASA London.

Robert Juliat will exhibit at PLASA 2014 with its exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions, where a new Robert Juliat followspot will be unveiled. Rumours of a new product from these masters of followspot design have been permeating the industry over the last few months.

RCF strengthens its efforts in preventing manufacturers to use copies of RCF transducers. The RCF reputation of good quality and reliable products is at risk due to the widespread copies of our transducers.

This September LumenRadio adds ACME to their growing CRMXchip family. ACME, one of the largest enterprises known worldwide for its specialization in the field of lighting, will now include CRMXchip as a standard feature for their existing and future professional product line.

The first major outing for satis&fy‘s new NEXO STM modular line array system was the Rock’n’Heim rock festival at the Hockenheimring motorsports racetrack. It was the perfect opportunity to demonstrate STM’s unrivalled sound quality and coverage to a 27,000-strong crowd watching a diverse line-up on the Revolution stage, including Outkast, DeadMau5, Jan Delay, Die Fantastischen Vier, Pretty Lights, Die Antwoord and Parov Stelar Band.

Ambersphere Solutions have been appointed the exclusive UK distributor for the Ayrton range of LED Luminaires and creative LED imaging solutions. The appointment enables Ambersphere Solutions to extend its unique sales, service, support and training facilities to cover Ayrton products in the UK.

The current building was opened in 1998 and the majority of the lighting stock is now sixteen years old. The Technical Manager Christian Wallace freely admits that, despite sustaining a rigorous maintenance programme, it was time to explore the newer, more advanced fixtures now on the market...

LD Steve Stemac puts new, one-of-a-kind effect light and laser simulator through its paces on rockers’ latest outing Elation Professional’s new high-energy Sniper multi-effect light and laser simulator, which launched recently at the PRO trade show in England, is enjoying its touring debut with the lightind Designer Steve Stemac on American rock band A Day to Remember’s (ADTR) “Parks & Devastation” U.S. tour with lighting design by Steve “Cowboy” Stemac.

In the spirit of the current Ice Bucket Challenge craze that has swept the world, SGM has handed down a challenge to its closest competitors to submit their automated lighting fixtures to the ultimate ‘soak test’ — all in aid of charity. They have invited Martin Professional, Clay Paky and Vari-Lite to participate alongside their own G-Spot, the world’s first waterproof moving head.

When the famous Rock in Rio returned to Lisbon (Portugal) this summer, and crowds of up to 350,000 swarmed to the Parque da Bela Vista, they zeroed in on the main Palco Mundo stage, the façade of which was spectacularly lit by 120 GLP impression X4 LED heads.

XL Video continued its record breaking summer streak supplying over 2000 square metres of LED screen plus control and crew across eight stages and arenas at the UK’s biggest and highest profile EDM event, Creamfields, staged on Daresbusy Estate near Warrington over the August Bank holiday weekend.

At the begining of september, one of the most beautiful event locations in Holland namely - Philharmonie Haarlem- took reception of a new Clair Brothers FOH audio system replacing another American system in the main hall.

Pasquale Quadri, Founder in 1976 and Chairman of Clay Paky SpA, the world leader in show lighting, passed away today. He was 67.

DPA is giving away 100 d:screet™ Necklace Microphones as part of an exciting competition that launches on september. All you have to do to win is be inventive about how you might wear one… As part of an exciting competition that begins on September 1 2014, DPA is giving 100 lucky people the chance to win its d:screet™ Necklace Microphones, which were launched earlier this year.