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By Cat Strom FOH engineer Matt Landers has worked with Australian singer-songwriter Matt Corby since 2012 and is currently touring through Europe with him. Occasionally he has time to mix for other acts such as Ball Park Music, Seekae, Flight Facilities and Sarah Blasko but for the past year he has spent eight months with…

By Cat Strom There aren’t many artists who can perform for three hours and after 36 songs including four encores, have people still chanting for more. The Cure did just that at Auckland’s Vector Arena where their performance was hailed as a once in a lifetime concert for all attending. With little fanfare, they took…

By Julius Grafton Just two years after Hills acquired Audio Products Group, their stable of audio brands has again shrunk with the defection of AKG to CMI Music and Audio. Led by Ted Pretty, Hills added over 20 brands to their audio division after paying a rumoured $11 million to APG founder Ken Dywer. Two…

Hosted by Cat Strom Alex Saad is a dim sim connoisseur, lighting designer for some relatively unknown local, national and international acts, comedy through rock and roll and anything in between. What are the three best things about your job? Seeing my mates. Seeing happy punters after a gig. Watching/ listening to each act perform.…

ICT PROFILE By Jason Allen Queensland’s Moreton Bay Council is very proud of three of their favourite sons, Robin, Maurice and Barry, who went from their humble origins in Redcliffe to become one of the most successful pop acts in history. To celebrate their lives and links to the area, Council and Barry Gibb have…

The inaugural ICTech Roadshow, the only trade show of its kind in Australia addressing the convergence of AV and IT in a unique and innovative roadshow format, has today announced details of its educational program. The program will deliver hands-on product, software and issue-based seminars from leading industry practitioners in five cities across Australia in…

James ‘Oysters’ Kilpatrick is one of Australia’s most experienced FOH engineers and has mixed for a who’s who of Australian music: Midnight Oil, Eskimo Joe, Delta Goodrem, Rogue Traders, Yothu Yindi, The Living End, Slim Dusty …….. the list is endless. 1. What are the three best things about your job? The crews that work…

Roderick Van Gelder is a professional event safety consultant. Several years ago he attempted to establish Event Safety Alliance Australia, an initiative to get an Australian version of the UK Purple Guide. But the industry is not keen on associating. Over in New Zealand they have ETNZ – while Australia has not managed to get…

We are one of the only trade magazines that charges for subscriptions but from today digital access becomes free at www.cxnetwork.com.au – where (after registering free) you can read and download ALL our editions back to 2012. Soon we will have the whole archive, indexed, spanning 26 years. If you currently have a paid digital…

(Main picture: Haycom founder, Allan Hay) NW Group has expanded with the acquisition via merger of Haycom, a leading supplier of corporate audio visual services across Eastern Australia. Haycom contributes a significant corporate customer roster, and additional abilities to NW Group which started as an audio company in the early 1990’s. Haycom has three main…