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Website is miles better
Trussing manufacturer, Milos, has launched its new website at www.milosgroup.com, which includes information about the company, its products and services, and latest project news.
Girls are looking bold and bright
Bandit Lites is working again with Leeds-based Production North, this time on the Girls Aloud UK arena tour.
And the winner is…
PLASA Events, the organisers of the PLASA Show at Earls Court in London in September has announced the official launch of the 2008 PLASA Awards for Innovation.
Monsters of rock
HSL supplied lighting production and crew to the main and Clash tent stages at Last month’s 2008 Rockness Festival, staged on the shores of Loch Ness.
Ol’ Blue Eyes on the road
Summit Steel specified and supplied production rigging and a Kinesys automation system to the Sinatra tour which has finished an extensive national leg, following its West End run.
Lighting up a special show
Bandit Lites supplied all onstage lighting for Westlife’s recent Croke Park Stadium show in Dublin, which attracted an audience of some 85,000.
Rounded sound
When the Cottesloe Theatre was ready to retire its dated d&b sound system after more than a decade, Rich Walsh, sound supervisor for the Cottesloe decided to specify a system that could be remotely set-up, monitored and health checked over ethernet.
All set for the Dome
Gearhouse In2Structures - the design, set and structure solutions providers - has launched a new, fully portable Dome temporary venue which can be transformed and configured according to the show or event and client’s requirements.
Pooling talent
Adlib Lighting provided equipment and crew for the Wombats’ first full UK production tour.
Showcasing solutions
Trantec, the wireless mic systems designer and manufacturer, has launched its new 2008 catalogue featuring more than 250 products.
Palace improvements
The Victoria Palace, home of the long-running, successful Billy Elliot production, has submitted an application to Westminster City Council for permission to make “significant” improvements within the existing theatre, to build a new and extended stage house, incorporating a six-metre strip of land at the rear of the stage, and to provide two lifts adjacent to the FOH facilities.
Frogge leaps to the challenge
The lighting supply for the UK Arena tour of the Osmonds’ 50th anniversary tour is being handled by Bandit Lites, the rig having been designed by Mike Frogge, who has worked with Donny Osmond for many years.
ABTT show hailed a success
The Association of British Theatre Technicians has hailed the 30th anniversary ABTT Theatre Show, staged in London’s Royal Horticultural Halls last week, a success. According to the association, the show has expanded year on year recently both in terms of exhibitor and visitor perspectives.
Spot of colour
Lighting designer Martin Dudley used Robe ColorSpot 700E AT moving lights at the core of his lighting rig for the Guillemots most recent UK tour, for which his company, Reading-based Martin’s Lights, purchased new units from Robe UK.
The life of Lockwood
Litestructures has expanded its UK design force with the appointment of sales design engineer Patrick Lockwood.
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