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By Julius Grafton A powerful Blog by Robert Gosford (pictured left) talks about his departed crew mates – Sam Marini (pic, right), Tony Norton, Andy “The Hat” Crosby and Declan Cooney. Robert wrote on Crikey after viewing the ABC TV report on Australian Road Crew earlier this week. This morning a tired crew member called to tell how a ‘mate’ had…

Benevolent Fund helps distressed crew By Julius Grafton The Australian Road Crew Association (ARCA) added board members on Monday 21 November in Melbourne and resolved to fight harder to help current and former crew facing difficulties. ARCA has called on promoters and industry to donate 5c a ticket sold directly into the Roadie Fund administered…

By Cat Strom One of Australia’s finest bands The Jezabels, have completed their long-awaited national album tour for their third album SYNTHIA. Lighting designer Tim Beeston of Flash Bang Productions has lit the band for quite a few years and managed to achieve some pretty impressive looks out of his rig at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre.…

The Artistry Events Pty Ltd failed last month, as we reported last week. Now it seems Peter Pengly – a former director of Artistry – has launched his own company modelled almost entirely on the failed firm. This gets interesting. The new firm was registered as The Artistry Life Pty Ltd (ACN 614 862 378)…

This year the Australian Road Crew Association has secured a valuable agreement with Support Act Limited establishing a Road Crew benevolent account. Now funds can be made directly available to needy current and former Australian Road Crew with emergency medical, dental, mental and other needs. To raise funds ARCA sells and auctions entertainment memorabilia, such…

By Julius Grafton Sydney Opera House has an expansive forecourt with views to die for and a glorious sea breeze, utterly perfect for concerts. Of which there have been many, but as a result of crazy noise laws, these have been recently problematic. These laws have scaled up from zero in the glorious seventies to…

By Julius Grafton Here we go again. The Artistry Events Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) A.B.N. 31 142 742 149 – and the creditor list is a who’s who of Sydney suppliers. Fronted by technical director Arian Yeganeh, along with directors Peter Pengly (pictured) and Philip Barker, the firm ran dance parties and corporate events. Most recently…

On the week starting 29th of August the Cloud servers for RentalPoint were taken offline due to a reported co-ordinated attack by Russian hackers. Rental firms across the world using the Australian based system could not log on. “Over a period of days, our various Cloud servers in different countries were on and offline. Late…

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…