PLASA 2011

Check out all our coverage from the show floor at PLASA 2011 from the 11th - 14th September at Earls Court!
Brilliant Stages Build a Man For Take That’s Tour

Take That’s Progress Live 2011 Tour reunited its 5 original performers for the first time in over 15 years as they played to packed stadiums in the band’s biggest tour to date.
There's no Place like the Palladium

L. Frank Baum's novel has been adapted into a hit MGM film, three silent movies, comics, a Broadway musical and countless other stage and amateur productions, so it was only a matter of time before The Wizard of Oz hit the West End.
The future of Channel 69 - what you need to know

By now you have probably heard that in 2012 Ofcom will be clearing out the 800Mhz frequency band which includes Channel 69. If you own any radio microphones or other RF equipment such as IEMs (In Ear Monitors) that operate within this spectrum you will… [more]
The Stage Managers tool kit

Lois Dawson shares with us what every well equipped stage manager should carry with them in their kit.
News

Always a Right Time for Professor Green & ADLIB
ADLIB’s Audio division continued its touring success in the dance / dub step sector, supplying sound equipment and crew for the recent sold-out Professor Green spring UK tour – the popular UK rapper’s first carrying a full production. ADLIB and Professor Green’s paths have crossed numerous times since the MOBO, MTV Europe & NME award-winner [...]

Renegade’s Nick Gray Creates Visual work for Wool Modern
Visual and lighting designer Nick Gray of UK based design practice Renegade has created a fabulous video art work which is one of the highlights of the international Wool Modern exhibition, just aired in Sydney, Australia following successful shows in London and Berlin. Gray was commissioned to create the piece by curator Charlotte Lurot. The [...]

Robe Implements LumenRadio CRMX
Leading moving light, LED and digital luminaire manufacturer Robe lighting has implemented LumenRadio’s award-winning wireless CRMX (Cognitive Radio Multiplexer) wireless technology on all its current ROBIN series products, and this will now become a standard feature of all future Robe products. In addition to the ROBIN Series, CRMX is used in Robe’s LED Series including [...]

AC-ET Provides Lighting & Media Control Masterclass for BACKSTAGE ACADEMY® with Jands Vista
A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. provided two one-day Jands Vista v2 ‘Masterclass’ seminars to students taking the Lighting Module of BACKSTAGE ACADEMY®’s Foundation Degree in Live Events Production. The 16-month fast-track intensive course, led by Chief Operations Officer Robin Watkinson, provides students with the core practical skills needed to pursue a successful career in the [...]

Robe Announces New Mexican Distributor
Robe lighting has a new Mexican distributor – Mexico City based Vari Internacional – a high profile company established for over 25 years, renowned as one of the leading professional lighting and sound sales operations in Latin American. The announcement was made during the recent 2012 Soundcheck Expo trade show also in Mexico City, at [...]

ADLIB Controls the Chaos on Jeff Dunham tour
Liverpool based ADLIB rounded off a busy April 2012 tour supplying sound, lighting and rigging equipment plus crew to globally successful comedian Jeff Dunham on his “Controlled Chaos” Tour. In doing so, the company was renewing its penchant for working with some of the funniest people on the planet! Lighting The tour already had a [...]

HSL Enters Shikari with a Flash Flood of Colour
Leading UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL supplied equipment and crew to the latest Enter Shikari UK tour, working with lighting designer Steve Bewley. Bewley produced a hi-energy, full-on light-show to match the band’s exciting and renowned boisterous live performances which mix metal, punk, dance and loudness in a unique fusion sometimes dubbed ‘electronicore’. [...]

CPL Supplies Full Technical Production for Audi National Forum Event
West Midlands, UK, based video and production specialist Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) supplied sound, lighting, AV, cameras and co-ordinated full technical production including set and staging – plus crew – to the Audi National Forum event staged at London’s ExCel Centre. CPL was working for production company, Twofour. The event covered eight different independent areas [...]

Colour Sound Experiment supplies Orbital’s Wonky tour
West London based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting equipment and crew for the latest Orbital UK tour – Wonky - which was designed by Jonny Gaskell from Pinnacle Productions. Orbital, at the cutting-edge of the UK’s original electronic dance music scene in the heady days of acid house, showed they [...]

A.C. Special Projects Appoints New Operations Manager
A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) Ltd. is pleased to announce that William (Billy) Yeo has joined the company, taking on the new role of Operations Manager. Billy brings a wealth of experience to the role, having been involved in the technology installations market for many years. Throughout his career he has worked in various project management roles, [...]

DBN lights Megastar Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Manchester lighting and visuals rental company dbn supplied lighting equipment and crew for two major UK shows – at London’s Wembley Arena and Manchester MEN Arena – for Pakistani singer and megastar Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. dbn’s Nick Walton project managed and also designed a production lighting rig to fit the show, which was [...]

XL Video Engages in Wicked Game with Il Divo
XL Video is supplying curved LED screens and special customised touring frames, video playback control, cameras/PPU, an IMAG projection system and crew for Brit Award winning Il Divo’s current, highly successful “Wicked Game” world tour which is on its first UK /European leg. The elegant production design encompassing the three curved over-stage screens was the [...]

