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Radiohead Disaster – site report
CX pic, above. Witnesses say a cracking noise like pyro preceded the collapse, which they estimated took 5 seconds. The stage failed just prior to sound-check, at 4pm. Thousands of fans were outside the gates. The band were in the prep room. UPDATED: CX visited Downsview Park in Toronto on Saturday June 16th and saw…
Read MoreInfocomm Delivers
(FRIDAY, LV) Today is the final day of Infocomm at Las Vegas Convention Centre, and CX can report it is a highly successful and sustainable trade show. Over 900 exhibitors and 34,000 (est) visitors give this show international pull, with approximately 100 Australians attending. (Jman and Maiz on the dancefloor) Infocomm slowly consumed AES and…
Read MoreRipoff report
Peter Robins writes: I enjoyed reading your piece on Hard Core Collection very much, but would like to pose another scenario to you.Our Church was in need of a new data projector lamp. Expensive beasties, so I went looking on the web.Found a Victorian company, Buffalo Technology Systems, trading as 66 North Pty Ltd Unit…
Read MoreCX-TV News June
American Service Standards Slip
As CX enters day 3 of the Infocomm reconnoiter, we suspect some big problems have emerged with customer service standards. At entry to Terminal 5 on Tuesday 12 June, passengers had a longer-than-remembered queue. Four agents were assigned to 300 people. That math means a log wait, which we had. More than 70 minutes –…
Read MoreSorry girls! Not wanted in tech production
It’s like something out of 1980 – todays contemporary production has females with clipboards, staffing security checkpoints, and sometimes managing something. Blokes are men and chicks are chicks – or chooks. At the FOH desk, monitor console, rigging lights and vision, and serving up the stage or the backline, it is an ole’ boys club.…
Read MoreMore on the existential pressure on Qantas – China Southern just started flying Australia – London via Guangzhou. While the current inflight experience is slightly north of hideous, they have plans to ‘own’ the route.
Read MoreRemember Global Rewards? Qantas points may soon be worthless
Far from CX to alarm you, your mum, or startle the chooks. But a week ago it was unthinkable that Qantas would be in loss, despite the continual doom and gloom from its besieged management. Today’s Weekend Business (SMH) openly canvasses The End of the Airline as we know it. When Ansett closed down without…
Read MoreFat Harry – hopes of quiet funeral dashed
Fat Harrys Productions is in liquidation. The Melbourne based firm somehow managed to owe almost everyone in the lighting and concert production industry, plus the Victorian and Federal Government more than half a million dollars, but surprisingly lists only three debtors. And these are the notorious Playground Touring – itself somehow associated with notorious Playground…
Read MoreLighter. Faster, Cheaper. Technical Production Forecast
This week CX saw the new Yamaha CL console at the Sydney launch. A cold grey morning gave way to some lunchtime showers, but the view up the harbour from the Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House was sanguine. Jason Allen from Yamaha knows his product inside out, but we were first struck by…
Read MoreIndustry Safety Summit at ENTECH Melbourne July 19th 2pm
Live Performance Australia, CX and ETF, owners of ENTECH have called a National Summit to discuss safety issues relating to theatre and live events. This essential, bipartisan and free-to-attend meeting will bring together the live performance and events industry stakeholders, including venues, production suppliers, associations and service providers to discuss and ratify an agreeable pathway…
Read MoreLED screens and RF Interference
Re : Richard Cadena’s blurb on RF interference from LED screens (read post HERE) is timely. Australia, and in particular Sydney is having lots of problems with this lately. Only a few weeks ago, we had a routine visit from the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) technical guys at one of the transmitter sites…
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