Vale George Young

By Grahame Harrison. The lone guitar played the intro chords before the blisteringly tortured scream tore the speakers nearly to shreds. Less than 20 seconds later, my mother roared into my bedroom, plucked the needle from the turntable and explicitly instructed me to take the pagan noise back to the store. NOW! “She’s So Fine”…

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20 Years of Placebo Tour

ROADSKILLS The enduring British band Placebo celebrated 20 years of brash rock and roll. By Cat Strom. The 20 Years of Placebo tour celebrates the band being at the forefront of the alternative rock movement and while they still appeared wild and youthful, the same could not be said for the crew at Sydney’s Qudos…

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Review: Event Lighting M7W40RGBW RGBW zoom wash

By Julius Grafton. Event Lighting are contesting the middle of the market with the M7W40RGBW – which would be better if it had a name. Like Ernie, that would be nice. This little 12 kilogram contender has 7 Osram 40 watt LED engines, and if everything is running all at once draws 265 watts at…

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Review: Midnight Oil 2017

Midnight Oil in Townsville. The Great Circle 2017 World Tour. By Cat Strom. Legendary Australian rock band Midnight Oil began their “The Great Circle 2017” World Tour with a warm up gig at Selina’s (Coogee, Sydney) in mid-April and after literally circling the world, they will end with a gig in Sydney. During the tour…

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When you fail. A personal story

By Julius Grafton In November 2010, seven years ago, I had a board meeting with myself and made the hardest decision ever. I closed down my vocational college, Julius Events College. For nine years I’d struggled, dreamed, fretted and rejoiced while surfing the turbulent waves of regulations, compliance and missing fortunes that were not mine…

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Billy Joel, the monthly neighbourhood gig

By Julius Grafton. October 20, 2017. It could have been a small venue, it sounded like silk, and the 18,666 punters were vibed like only a local crowd are. Billy Joel is in residency in New York – his town – and the monthly gig just keeps on selling out. Since 2014, every month, one…

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New Event Management Team for Helpmann Awards

NEWS New Event Management Team for Helpmann Awards – David Atkins steps up Live Performance Australia (LPA), announced its new production team for the 2018-2020 Helpmann Awards events. David Atkins OAM (pictured) has been appointed Artistic Director with Will Sheehan as Executive Producer and Dawn Martin as Production Director. LPA Chief Executive Evelyn Richardson said…

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L-ACOUSTICS SYVA COLLINEAR SOURCE SYSTEM

GEARBOX L-ACOUSTICS SYVA COLLINEAR SOURCE SYSTEM Julius Grafton. “So it’s another column system?” I say. The guys at Hills look at me like I’ve mentioned some one or some thing they don’t like. “It’s a collinear source system”, says Gerry Gavros. “A collinear source array, all in one line. This gives coherency in high frequency…

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20 Questions with Kellie McKee

Kellie McKee was born and raised in Queensland, studying at Southbank Institute of Technology where she completed a diploma of technical production. Kellie moved to Sydney in 2010 to work with JPJ Audio and she has worked full time with them ever since. Kellie has worked on a variety of different shows from tours, festivals,…

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Review: Roland XS1-HD Multi format matrix switcher

By Julius Grafton. Some time ago Roland got into the video control business as Edirol. These days they are using the Roland Professional A/V brand, and producing a growing family of professional switchers and mixers. Now the XS1-HD matrix switcher is here, a compact multi purpose 4 x 4 combo tool that does many things…

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