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SAN REMO, Italy – The televised Sanremo Music Festival, which dates back to 1951, was not only the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest, it has also, on occasion, served as the way of choosing Eurovision's Italian representatives, while also launching the careers of a long list of Italian vocalists, including Andrea Bocelli. For the 2011 edition, Ivan Pierri, the show's director of photography, used 100 moving Clay Paky fixtures to light Gaetano Castelli's set.

MEXICO CITY – Tomcat brought its truss and grid products to the Sound:Check Expo for the first time, joining fellow Vitec group plc companies Brilliant Stages and Litec at the event. It took place at the World Trade Center in Mexico City from March 20-22.

ABU DHABI, UAE – The Ferrari World F1 Grand Prix events held in 2010 on Yas Island were accompanied by a series of city-wide events known as Yasalam, and there were also three nights of after-race concerts headlined by Kanye West, Linkin Park and Prince. Fixtures from Clay Paky were included in the lighting rig.

LONDON – Entec is supplying lighting, rigging and part of the visuals package, including a new Green Hippo Grasshopper HD media server, to the current Australian Pink Floyd Show tour. Entec has supplied gear for the band, lit by LD Phil White, since 2004.

LONDON – Three of the four shows nominated for best lighting design at this year's Olivier Awards, including the winner, The White Guard, lit by Neil Austin at the Royal National Theatre's Lyttleton Theatre, relied upon ETC Eos for lighting control.

SINGAPORE – LumenRadio and Total Solution, its distributor for Singapore, are staying busy providing LumenRadio's CRMX wireless lighting control to meet various entertainment and hospitality lighting needs at the 2,561-room, $6.35 billion Marina Sands Bay Resort.