Posts Tagged ‘cxmagblog’
Knockoff Gear: Melbourne Company Named
6 MARCH 2014 (Updated 7 March 2014 at end) When Steve Devine started a Facebook Group against Knock Off Equipment, he had no idea whether anyone was interested. They sure were, and now the Group (now administered by CX) has identified a Melbourne based importer offering fake Martin Audio loudspeaker and amplifier products, under the…
Read MoreWoeful Lightshow for The Radiators
It was a night off, a trip down that lane called memory with another memory, Karen my former wife. We share a like for retro rock and beer, so we headed to Asquith Leagues Club which is confusingly located in Sydney’s north at Waitara. The other werid aspect to all this is that we don’t…
Read Moregraftonjulius’ 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.
Read MoreBad Reps. Pick the ‘A’ team!
Every February the CX team tour Australia and meet a lot of industry types, covering all corners of our exciting niche industry. Plus we get to travel with up to 70 product specialists. Some of them are ‘product reps’. Not sure why, but of late the discussion has centred on just how good most of…
Read MoreLighting 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…
Read MoreInside 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,…
Read MoreAnother gig. Another Lightie Screws it up! And about PYRO……
Disturbed at the pontoons loaded with ordinance floating near the publisher pile at Birchgrove, I took a flight as far south as possible to escape New Years Eve. Hobart was booked solid, so I settled for Launceston. Surely they’ve never heard of Foti or met any of the Howard Sons down there, I reasoned? But…
Read MoreDone an excellent gig – and they won’t pay you!
UPDATED 3 January, 2014. While CX is certain every performer and contractor associated with the amazingly bungled NYE Water Party at Village Roadshow’s new Wet’n’Wild park in Sydney was paid in full by the promoter, there’s plenty of tales of woe associated with no payment or part payment generally. No one has contacted CX to…
Read MoreCX Wayback: How we’ve changed – TAPE!
From CX 1997: Protalk ! All about tape Compiled by Dan Cole What breed of tape should you use and what to watch out for are crucial questions. Duncan Wood is from World Record Studios and Tap, Brisbane, and says that whether it’s good or bad, tape will be here for many years to come.…
Read MoreYou want DRUMS with that?
Just briefly – having a quiet few while my mate Chris Mysinski mixes for Peter Northcote at the regular Balmain Sunday Drive gig at The Bridge Hotel. The usual random lineup happens from Northcote’s crony world, which goes to the charm of the whole Sunday (before 7pm) rock gig cover song thing. This drummer, who…
Read MoreFinally a retro band worthwhile: Misex
Although gazillions drive past the old Bridge Hotel at Rozelle few know the joys within. Living in the leafy millionaire’s row at Wahroonga while lamenting the lack of a said million or three, I was too far away to explore classic venues like this. Except for one miserable night earlier in 2012 attempting to identify…
Read More1,500 Event ‘Professionals’ tested on tech knowledge…..
The Event Leadership Institute in the USA tested 1,500 Event Planners for technical knowledge with an online test and found an average score of 48 out of 100. This shouldn’t surprise any AV tech working on the nervous coalface of corporate AV, but it needs improvement, since this was a survey of PROFESSIONAL planners who…
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