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January 1982 – how we did touring PA’s!
These pictures were taken by Bob King in January 1982 on a series of Road Rocker shows that my production company handled. We were called J & C Grafton, as we were a couple. Caroline and I started the business in 1980, after I’d left Barratt Lighting, which I had run for about four years.…
Read MoreThe Sound Of Light – JBL And Crown Amplify Vivid
At Sydney’s Circular Quay, amidst the restaurants, ferries and tourists, a strange structure had been erected for the Vivid Festival, drawing hundreds to queue to get into it. In effect a giant walk-in kaleidoscope, ‘Light Origami’ is a collaborative installation from Japanese artists Masakazu Shirane and Saya Miyazaki, Kiwi Reuben Young, Australian composer Inge Liljestrom…
Read MoreMungo’s Hi Fi Takes Powersoft Back To The Roots
Reggae and bass music specialists, Mungo’s Hi Fi, have become the latest company to invest in Powersoft’s K Series and X Seriestechnology. Based in Glasgow, they made the short journey over the River Clyde to the home of the manufacturer’s UK and Ireland distributor, CUK Audio to place the order — and CUK Audio General…
Read MoreBudget Boost for Production Firms
Instant Write-off Fuels Expansion From now all equipment valued at less than $20,000 can be purchased with a 100% tax writeoff by small business. This is excellent news from the Australian Government, and is a boon for the sound, lighting and vision market where the vast majority of single items are priced under 20 grand.…
Read MoreCampbelltown RSL Basks In Electric Sunshine With HedgeHog4
Phil Cullen has been lighting up stages in Sydney way back in 1966, and has helmed his company Electric Sunshine since 1977. With both production and installation strings in their bow, Electric Sunshine were recently involved in a major lighting system upgrade to the Campbelltown RSL Club, replacing all their fixtures and control with factory-fresh…
Read MoreGalactic Farewells Behringer – ‘Not the end’ says Goldsmith
Losing a six million dollar distribution deal is a massive blow, but Galactic Music will bounce back, says founder John Goldsmith. Music Group fired Galactic on the final day of the huge ProLite + Sound trade show in Frankfurt during April. John Goldsmith says the reason given was that Galactic did not meet budget, yet…
Read MoreENTECH Roadshow Expands Attractions
ENTECH has charged from a multi day trade show in one city to an expanded version of CX Roadshow, renamed ENTECH Roadshow. Extra visitors and exhibitors will take the event to another level next February across Australia. October marks 21 years since the publishers of CX ran the first ENTECH at Darling Harbour in 1994.…
Read MoreETC Source Four Revolution Takes Centre Stage On New Zealand’s X Factor
The X Factor New Zealand is based on the international X Factor production format owned by Simon Cowell’s SYCO Entertainment. Paul Collison, along with Simon Garret, design and operate the weekly show from a temporary studio fitted out in a food storage warehouse in South Auckland. Norwest Oceania Productions supplied the lighting, audio and rigging…
Read MoreAll change at OpenLive – Master Builder the key
It was the end of a short era and the start of a new one at Australian internet startup OpenLive when the board fired two of the three founders, Gary Dunn and Andy McIntire in April. The startup had raised $1.5 million late in 2014, much of it from friends, neighbours and associates of Dunn,…
Read MoreHandball To The P.A. People With Clear-Com
Handball is a fast and furious seven-a-side sport, with anyone having grown up playing the game able to point to numerous broken bones and fractures earned in the course of matches. At the elite level, nations from across Europe, South America, Asia and Africa compete for dominance at the Olympic Games and the World Championships. …
Read MoreNearly 500 Robe BMFLs Help 2015 SEA Games Opening Ceremony Rock!
Nearly 500 Robe BMFL moving lights were right at the core of an amazing lighting scheme designed by LD Mac Chan for the vibrant Opening Ceremony of the 2015 South East Asia Games in Singapore on Friday. The glittering spectacle staged in the new 55,000 capacity National Stadium was broadcast live on national TV and…
Read MoreBSS Soundweb London, Dante and The P.A. People – Networking Australia’s Biggest Sporting Venues
Sydney integrators, The P.A. People, are no strangers to Australia’s biggest audio systems. Specialists in stadia and sporting venue sound, they’ve been responsible for events as big as the Olympics and installations covering an entire precinct’s worth of locations. Given the vast sizes of their projects, The P.A. People has long been at the forefront…
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