LEEDS, UK - New sessions have been added to the free program of seminars, demonstrations and tutorials April 30-May 1 at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2013, at the Royal Armouries at Clarence Dock in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

LONDON - XL Video supplied LED screens, projection, camera, PPU and screen management system for The BRIT Awards 2013 at London’s O2 Arena. It’s the eleventh consecutive year that XL (and production manager Paul Wood) have been involved as video supplier for the event.

SALVADOR, Brazil - Rental company Luzbel Iluminacao supplied more than 150 Robe moving lights for the 2013 Summer Festival de Salvador. Luzbel purchased the latest Robe fixtures to use them on the four-day event.

LONDON - UK lighting rental company Neg Earth Lights invested in five new Kinesys DigiHoist controllers and two remote handsets, which went directly out on Muse’s ‘The 2nd Law’ world tour, together with a Kinesys K2 control and Elevation 1+ automation system that they already owned.

LONDON – LD Andrew Voller used ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ luminaires to light 'Lift', a play running at the Soho Theatre, which explores the thoughts of eight strangers who happen to end up on the same elevator. Voller was first introduced to the Source Four LED spotlight by the Layers of Light presentation at ETC’s PLASA 2012 tradeshow booth in September.

TOKYO - High End Systems' new Hog 4 console debuted in February with Japan’s Kome Kome Club's arena concert tour.  Touring LD Makoto Shimizu from Lighting Big1 saw the console at LDI 2012 and was eager to specify it for the band’s 2013 tour.

LOS ANGELES –  At this year’s Sound Check Xpo, Elation Professional hosts a seminar featuring lighting legend, Jonathan Smeeton. The seminar, “Concert Lighting From Idea To Design To Reality,” will be held Monday, April 22, at Sound Check Xpo in Mexico City.

HONG KONG - Hong Kong‘s leading TV station, Television Broadcast Limited (TVB), has recently made a major investment in GLP’s impression Spot One for its studios. Under a new management initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of the company, TVB’s engineering department needed an LED solution to replace their existing discharge lamp automated lighting system.

MALTA – LD Anton Borg Olivier specified Clay Paky Sharpys, Alpha Beam 300s, Alpha Wash 1200s and Alpha Spot HPE 1200s for The Bay Music Awards in Malta. Olivier – who has worked on the Maltese concerts of artists such as Iron Maiden and Status Quo – chose the fixtures for their “rich colors and intense beams.”

JOHANNESBURG -  South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has made its first ever moving light purchase, investing in Robe Robin 300 and 600 LEDWashes plus 300E and 600E Spots. They already had a good idea of the lighting they were looking for, having seen Robe at shows and events around the country.