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Galactic 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…
Read MoreTraining The Next Generation Of Healthcare Professionals With Shure, BSS And Clear-Com
Everybody who’s used Shure, BSS and Clear-Com products on live events know they can rely on them when getting the show right is ‘a matter of life or death’. But what about when– stripped of all hyperbole–things really are a matter of life or death? That’s the reality that doctors and nurses face every day…
Read MoreHills Scoops Williams Sound International Awards
Hills has been awarded the Williams Sound International Distributor of the Year Award at their recent conference in Minnesota. The award was just one of three that were showered on Hills at the event, with the other two being 2014 Territory Growth Award (Hills growth rate obliterated the competition) and the Out of the Gate…
Read MoreFashFest 2015
FashFest 2015, Canberra’s own red-carpet event celebrating fashion, arts and culture, was held in the nation’s capital a few weeks ago. An exciting mix of local talent hit the runway with more than 30 fashion designers launching their new collections for this year. Staged for the first time in the National Convention Centre, this year’s event was again bigger…
Read MoreCurrent RMS: Rental Management In The Cloud
Since launching on September the 1st 2014, over 350 hire businesses in the AV, Production, Lighting and Events sector have signed up to hire management software, Current RMS, quickly identifying the benefits of managing hire processes in the cloud. “Using cloud based rental management software means customer satisfaction. Thanks to Current we can log in…
Read MoreJands Appointed Ampetronic Distributor Of Hearing Loops For Australia
Jands Pty Ltd, is proud to announce that effective 1st June, they will take over the distribution of Ampetronic for Australia. “Ampetronic is a perfect fit for Jands” said Paul Mulholland, Jands Managing Director. “Jands is committed to providing our professional AV customers with complete end to end product and service solutions by partnering with…
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