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Unfriendly Audio Visual Supplier advisory
EAV Tech re-define media relationships CX is a friendly place. We enjoy positive relationships, and rise to overcome challenges. And sometimes we just move on, unable to rewire the lights on the planet for people who only see darkness. Jimmy Den Ouden’s job is to seek out new and useful devices, and bring them to…
Read MoreTuesday night at SAE
I’m a Tom Misner fan. The elusive, charismatic and decidedly weird Misner is definitely larger than life, moreso since he and his creepy cabal of European henchmen trousered 280 million from Navitas after flogging off the global chain of SAE audio schools in 2010. We had a good thing going on, he would call to…
Read MoreVolunteers and Risk – UPDATED!
Here is what started this topic: Trevor Beck wants to build network of contacts where trusted people are available on gigs to let one or two people come along to observe and learn. But: “I have been told recently that the laws have changed, and that now, me for example, even inviting somebody along to…
Read MoreBad Sound Review: rebuttal
Angus Davidson is the FOH Engineer for Kimbra and one of the ‘sloppy technicians’ described by Rachel Olding in a Sydney Morning Herald review of Homebake 2011. Quote: …’ARIA single-of-the-year co-star Kimbra, whose big-band, soul-driven set was watered down by sloppy technicians but still delivered the hits just the way we like them.’ Now Tim Freedman’s show…
Read MoreRichard Priddle
Cancer takes lives before time, acoustician Richard Priddle made 60 years before departing prematurely at the end of January. He had featured in the very first issue of Channels, the precursor to this magazine, almost 20 years ago. CX knew him for a decade prior and ran into him in unlikely places. One was Hamilton…
Read MorePhil Eastick
Phil Eastick died in Adelaide aged 55 in February, after a very long battle against kidney disease. He had a transplant last year. He fought for around 20 years, but not too many people knew he was ill. CX first knew Phil from the road. Phil attended (very occasionally!) Adelaide University Law School in the…
Read More4 Months in 1979
As the FOH sound operator for Mi-sex, I probably spent more time with Jeff Merryweather than just about Anyone for a brief but incredibly hectic 4 months in 1979. At the time I didn’t Realise that Jeff was the most complete roadie that I would ever witness. Jeff was one of those fortunate people who…
Read MoreIt was 35 years ago today
Expelled from school and having worked briefly as a copy boy for the defunct Sydney Mirror, I took my only $12 and registered my first business on March 1st, 1973. The Certificate of Registration for Zapco Lightshow was framed and hung above my old desk at home. I was 15. Blame Led Zeppelin; whose…
Read MoreI was a roadie
When former Chisel roadie Gerry Georgettis took his life in dramatic style early last year, media from around the world picked up the story. How could a seemingly placid, stable theatre manager go suddenly crazy and burn down a car dealership in Miami; then hang himself in a cramped airplane toilet? What darkness exists in…
Read MoreGary Glitter
Gary Glitter is today better known as inmate Paul Gadd and is doing hard time in a Vietnamese jail for child sexual abuse. But in the early 80’s he was on the revival trail and became the first significant overseas act for a local promoter, who scheduled a run of the east coast of Australia.…
Read MoreGerry Georgettis takes own life
In a tragic tale, ex-pat Australian sound engineer Gerry Georgettis took his own life on board a United Airlines flight from Washington to Los Angeles in early February. The flight was diverted to Denver, after crew discovered Gerry in the lavatory, where he had somehow killed himself. People who knew the 56 year old theatre…
Read MoreSwampie tribute, Little Goose
Dear People, I first met Swampy (Wayne Jarvis) when I was playing drums in the ‘Wild Cherries” in Melbourne and worked with him many times as he was so good at keeping everyone together. The thing that made Swamps stand out from the other guys was his incredible energy and from 1968 to the LWTTT…
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