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“The decision to host the G20 Summit in Brisbane highlights the dilemma faced by the exhibition and event industry which is still waiting for a government decision on interim facilities while new conference and exhibition facilities are built at Sydney’s Darling Harbour”. says Spice News. The G20 decision was slammed by the NSW Government, who…

We’ve never had so many seminars, training sessions, and trade events to attend! So now CX brings you the master guide to what’s on, and where, all the way to spring time. Best of all, some of these are not only free but you also get catering! First off the rank is ROSS VIDEO, holding…

Yahoo Google and most Silicon Valley firms face a skills shortage not unlike the technical production industry. But with profits per worker as high as $2.2 million per worker (Apple) and averaging $208,000 across the board, the comparison is not financial. Most tech production workers account for as little as a few thousand in net…

In the absence of any agreed standards, let’s start right NOW and assemble best practice into one simple set of guidelines. Start with the rule in place at some of the better concert production firms: 1. Crosscheck before flying. Notice how flight crew ‘arm doors and crosscheck’? That’s so they don’t blow the safety slide…

The next course of action is already cast. Before the Radiohead collapse the industry in Australia arranged a summit, which will be held on July 19 in Melbourne. This follows a national series of Seminars hosted by CX in February. The theme that emerged from those seminars was that promoters and production professionals are often…

With 1,900 jobs to go, and broadsheet (huge) to become tabloid (like Herald-Sun) the board at Fairfax have been spooked by the raid on their stock by mining magnate Gina. She now holds one-fifth of the stock. Great analysis here. Imagine CX had a buy-in board. Presently this is a family firm, kinda had been…

Peter Robins writes: I enjoyed reading your piece on Hard Core Collection very much, but would like to pose another scenario to you.Our Church was in need of a new data projector lamp. Expensive beasties, so I went looking on the web.Found a Victorian company, Buffalo Technology Systems, trading as 66 North Pty Ltd Unit…

More on the existential pressure on Qantas – China Southern just started flying Australia – London via Guangzhou. While the current inflight experience is slightly north of hideous, they have plans to ‘own’ the route.

Fat Harrys Productions is in liquidation. The Melbourne based firm somehow managed to owe almost everyone in the lighting and concert production industry, plus the Victorian and Federal Government more than half a million dollars, but surprisingly lists only three debtors. And these are the notorious Playground Touring – itself somehow associated with notorious Playground…

This week CX saw the new Yamaha CL console at the Sydney launch. A cold grey morning gave way to some lunchtime showers, but the view up the harbour from the Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House was sanguine. Jason Allen from Yamaha knows his product inside out, but we were first struck by…

Reports today have most Australian newspaper journalists concerned, as News Limited are rumoured to have 400 reporters facing the chop. Fairfax’s board last week actually discussed terminating the Monday to Friday editions of all their print newspapers; although they officially denied it will happen anytime soon. Facebook is not such a turn on either, according…

GREAT live sound – for Jon English. Read the mag, link below.   We invite Secret Listener reports at CX Mag, and wow – we get a lot of them! Very rarely do we directly run negative audio reports in the pages of CX. A recent report surrounded the live sound of Rod Stewart. Read…