Posts Tagged ‘cxmagblog’
Finally, an offer we can understand!
This one got through the CX Network spam filter, and we thought it could be good for someone. I am Paul Howard Prince. I have been a close friend and lawyer to Muammar Gaddafi the former president of Libya for 15 years, Gaddafi’s death have caused pains. He refused to heed my advice to vacate…
Read MoreAustralia’s Multi-Millionaire Roadie
This is a story about a back room operator who is one of the most successful and respected guys in the global music industry. Yet most people don’t know who he is. Right now his act is the biggest selling female performer in terms of live concerts in Australia, and that of course is Alecia…
Read MoreENTECH at crossroads
19 years on, what follows? Founding ENTECH in 1994 we followed the best model at the time and mimicked the PLASA show in London. Sure enough our inaugural one hall show at Darling Harbour was heavy on moving light displays and short on pro audio. You could almost see the same thing last month in…
Read MoreWorst and Best of CX-TV! Our new showreel!
Glebe Island Expo and how it already has failed
UPDATED: WATCH CX-TV NEWS HERE. The White Bay Cruise Terminal in Sydney is causing passengers distress due to no public vehicle access. This is on the same long winding two lane road as the mooted Glebe Island Expo, a temporary replacement for the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre which will be demolished after Christmas. This…
Read MoreWe are not LAME, says EEAA boss
Not long after CXtra went to air on CX-TV (HERE) with our editorializing about the forthcoming shift of all Sydney tradeshows to Glebe Island next year, we had a rocket call from Joyce DiMascio, CEO of the Exhibition & Event Association of Australasia (EEAA). (The item in contention is at 14.00 in the June edition…
Read MoreWhat have they done to The Basement??
Periodically, some of the editorial team from CX hangs out in a social context. Funny, since you’d think that after a week of hurling mutual abuse around we’d have seen enough of each other. Thing is that we all like good music played by good musicians in a good venue where the sound is good. …
Read MoreBob’s Sound Rant fires up
Guitar legend Bob Spencer (Finch, Skyhooks, Angels and more) fired off about Live Sound engineers on Facebook, here. “You go to the gig and put your trust and the safety of your ears (and the audiences) in a sound engineer you don’t know, hoping that when the publican says the sound engineer is ‘great’, he…
Read MoreIt’s a NEW Orleans
Before the storm almost wiped The Big Easy off the map, it was a gritty place. We felt unsafe there, and didn’t plan a return. Until the opportunity arose to share the 61st birthday of Gino Vannelli coincided with our flight home from the Infocomm convention in Orlando. From the air it is impossible not…
Read MoreOrlando where the Oranges are fakes
As enticing as a vividly coloured firm and perfectly round Florida orange, the jumbo shrimps hung clustered around the cocktail glass. Both disappoint when required to taste like they look. The Shrimps probably had provenance in some turgid pond of steroids in a nearby third world slaveyard. The grinning server had an air of desperation…
Read MoreNew York and the 911 memorial
When the twin towers crashed to ground New Yorker’s ran frantically away, and then gathered in Union Square with blank faces. A vigil was maintained, flowers and pictures of the missing. The smell from the fire that burned a month ebbed through the city and many wore masks. ‘A lady who survived Auschwitz said she…
Read MoreVocational Training and the Entertainment Industry
By John Grimshaw Looking at the news out of the world of “vocational training”, and its lack of desire to support the live entertainment industry, I wonder if it isn’t time for the industry to walk away from the system altogether. Look at just two of the compromises and outcomes that have been made: 1)…
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