graftonjulius’ photostream

graftonjulius’ photostream on Flickr. On 21 July 2013, a gathering of veteran road crew was held in Sydney at the Bald Faced Stag Hotel. These are the pictures.

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New GM to take Framelock Barriers™ to the world

Matthew Kenny

A veteran of the Australian event industry is set to take an exciting innovation in crowd control to the world. Sydney-based Matthew Kenny is the newly appointed General Manager for Framelock Barriers™, a business distributing one of the safest and most effective crowd control barrier systems in Australia. Invented and designed by Northern Territory innovator…

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CX TV NEWS: Roadshow Report

CX-TV NEWS February – on tour with CX-Roadshow. Vale Pat Reilly, champion of Chatswood Concourse Performing Arts Centre. Boo hiss O’Mara Auctions – inside the bungled sale of AV gear from Sydney Convention Centre. Who really screwed up? The truth behind the Wet and Wild gig cancellation. Telstra trail 4G and want to see if…

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Audio Brands Australia snags Jeff Shoesmith

Hills SVL retrenched its two senior audio guys by making their positions redundant last year – and now they have joined together to do for themselves what they did for the publicly listed company. Jeff Shoesmith (pictured) has joined Audio Brands Australia founder Don McConnell. They will be together again, this time on CX Roadshow…

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CX Lawyer Ross McGlynn taken by Prostate Cancer

CX Network mourns the passing of our favorite lawyer Ross McGlynn today in Sydney. Ross practiced in commercial and financial law since 1973. He was uncommon in his diligence, commitment and care and also didn’t ascribe the common legal practice of the six minute block. His invoices were realistic and occasionally CX would inquire as…

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New Product rolls out for Roadshow

CX Roadshow is more than the Industry Networking Day – it’s where ALL the hot new products for the year are previewed! See the ROBE Minime on the ULA stand. Audio and lighting are nicely balanced at Roadshow – roughly 50/50 – the closest we’ve seen in all our years running ENTECH and ROADSHOW. Here…

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First SGM G-SPOT Arrives in Australia

The first G-SPOT from the assembly line at the SGM factory has been dispatched to Australia. The R&D and production teams have done an incredible job to get this innovative new fixture finished and ready for the Australian launch at the CX Roadshow traveling to all capital cities in February. Like all new products, final…

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Lighting girl killed at Vic festival

Katie Louise Broadbent went to a private festival in Rochester on Australia Day to meet a local guy she knew. She was looking for love, in the nicest way, and instead found her own demise when a man drove over her tent. It appears he was intoxicated. Katie worked at  The Clock Tower Theatre and the Monash…

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Lighting girl killed at Vic festival

Katie Louise Broadbent went to a private festival in Rochester on Australia Day to meet a local guy she knew. She was looking for love, in the nicest way, and instead found her own demise when a man drove over her tent. It appears he was intoxicated. Katie worked at  The Clock Tower Theatre and the Monash…

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Inside the new Sydney Exhibition Centre @ Glebe Island

We’ve spent a year bagging it out, now it is built. CX went inside for a tour, and found a perfectly suitable temporary exhibition centre, with some nice touches and reassuringly some old faces from SCEC. So what have they got right, and what is not right here? Read more at CXMAGBLOG

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Inside the NEW Sydney Exhibition Centre @ Glebe Island

SYDNEY: CX today toured the completed Sydney Exhibition Centre at Glebe Island, (SEC@GI), a temporary venue intended to provide trade show space until the new International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney), Exhibition Centre and Theatre open in late 2016. The exhibition industry are sweating on the temporary facility delivering the goods. Joyce DiMascio, Chief Executive,…

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The Eternity Playhouse – History reborn with high-tech digital PA for Darlinghurst Theatre Company.

Since the 1990s, Sydney’s Darlinghurst Theatre Company have provided a forum for actors, writers and producers to express themselves on the professional stage.  Proud champions of independent, sustainable theatre practice, they were chosen by the City of Sydney to be the managing company of the newly established Eternity Playhouse in Darlinghurst. The Eternity Playhouse is…

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