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Messy ‘He says’, ‘She says’ matter Sydney based video guy Ben Alcott lost a high court case in London late September after claiming his former partner, BBC star Katy Ashworth abducted their son. Ashworth met Alcott in Africa in 2011 and they started a long distance relationship. The child was born several years later. The…

By Cat Strom British electro metal band Bring Me The Horizon toured their lively show around Australia although unfortunately their sold-out Adelaide show and two Melbourne shows were postponed due to lead singer Oli Sykes’ acute laryngitis and medical advice to rest. Ben Inskip designed one of the year’s most stunning light shows at Sydney’s…

We will die young or kill ourselves, says study At 196 pages it can be daunting, but the Entertainment Assist report ‘Working in the Australian Entertainment Industry’ should be mandatory reading before anyone works on or off a stage. The study was run by academics at Victoria University and tested a sample of over 2,000…

Hills Focus on House Brand. By Julius Grafton Australian Monitor has been around since 1986 but the story of this iconic audio brand really started in 1973. Back then, Rod Craig, Roy Morgan and Alan Clarke saw an opportunity to become the distributor for Telex products in Australia. Audio Telex Communications began with two small…

High-profile lighting designers, Rob Sinclair and Chris Reade have been nominated in the prestigious 2016 Parnelli Awards ‘Lighting Designer of the Year’ category, for their leading edge Peter Gabriel and Dierks Bentley concert tour designs utilizing show lighting and media control by Jands Vista. The Parnelli Awards recognize pioneering, influential professionals and their contributions, honoring…

Baptism of fire for the balsa wood P.A. By Duncan Fry The story so far: In order to stave off the rigours of imminent middle age (Yeah right, Dunk. Ed) our man has decided to put together the lightest, compactest and affordablest PA possible within his meagre budget. Now read on: As luck would have…

Pictured: LtoR- Alfonso Zarate Takano, Giulia Sabeva and Emmanuel Ziino Show Technology kicked off their Clay Paky launch tour at Melbourne’s Docklands October 11, hosting the cream of Victoria’s lighting community at Central Piers’ Alumbra. On hand were Clay Paky’s own Giulia Sabeva, Sales Support Engineer, Italy and Alfonso Zarate Takano, Regional Sales Manager, Asia-Pacific.…

ATO and Adelaide set to suffer. By Julius Grafton The magnificent new Adelaide Hospital has formed before our very eyes as we come and go through the lovely Adelaide Convention Centre. We were there last month with ICTECH, our third visit this year. From the loading dock at the center you look straight over to…

Melbourne-based Indie musical duo Big Scary are touring Australia in support of their new album Animal. Lighting design is by Mike MacDonald (below) of Twenty Twenty Creative Productions, a newly formed creative design team working in live performance and concert touring. Mike has recently picked up a handful of emerging local artists including Big Scary,…

Allen & Heath has launched two new installation mixers, the GR3 and GR4, designed to provide simple yet comprehensive control of programme audio and announcements for multiple zones in bars, restaurants, stores and other leisure and retail environments. Highly configurable, the GR3 and GR4 are ideally suited to applications requiring multiple input sources and specific…

Gearhouse Broadcasts’ powerhouse Event Communications division has covered comms requirements for some of Australia’s biggest live events in 2016, and they’re relying on Clear-Com products to get the job done quickly and reliably. Their FreeSpeak II wireless, HelixNet partyline and Eclipse digital matrix systems have formed the backbone of mega-events like Hillsong Conference and the…

CX Network are honoured to interview leading UK lighting designer Richard Pilbrow in the latest edition of Light Tonight, the world’s leading lighting show on YouTube. Also in Edition 11 of Light Tonight: Guy Pavelo’s design for Drake has to be one of the standout productions of the year! The wow factor comes from 788…