Posts Tagged ‘cxmagblog’
Fat Harry – hopes of quiet funeral dashed
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…
Read MoreLighter. Faster, Cheaper. Technical Production Forecast
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…
Read MoreIndustry Safety Summit at ENTECH Melbourne July 19th 2pm
Live Performance Australia, CX and ETF, owners of ENTECH have called a National Summit to discuss safety issues relating to theatre and live events. This essential, bipartisan and free-to-attend meeting will bring together the live performance and events industry stakeholders, including venues, production suppliers, associations and service providers to discuss and ratify an agreeable pathway…
Read MoreLED screens and RF Interference
Re : Richard Cadena’s blurb on RF interference from LED screens (read post HERE) is timely. Australia, and in particular Sydney is having lots of problems with this lately. Only a few weeks ago, we had a routine visit from the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) technical guys at one of the transmitter sites…
Read MoreSafety is now cool
We were shellacked relentlessly in previous years whenever CX wrote of stage safety and associated dark arts. So the risky passing of a 12 page forensic report on the Indiana disaster of August 2011 in the May CX mag was eagerly monitored by the Facebook and CX Mail Monitor. Amazingly we received only direct praise…
Read MorePrince Lighting errors – defined
This month’s CX carries a tale of lights done wrong, at least according to the writer. Unsure whether the lighting states we complained of were in the script, we emailed the lighting designer a draft, hoping to put the correct inflection. The show has been seen by a hundred thousand of us in Australia, and…
Read MoreMedia upheaval accelerates
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…
Read MoreCUA13: Some good, Some bad
MELBOURNE: Monday 28th May 2012 The proposed new entertainment training package (see previous blog) has some interesting components. Thankfully the Certificate IV has an ELECTIVE in soldering, but it is our informed guess no TAFE or college will put this unit into the qualification. Sadly the Certificate II and Certificate III remain in the province…
Read MoreCUA13 is firming up. New training package in formulation
MELBOURNE, MONDAY 28 MAY 2012 What is now the Entertainment Training Package CUE03 is headed towards CUA13, as the IBSA (Innovation and Skills Australia) review winds through a NPRG (national project reference group) meeting today in Melbourne. The training package dictates the composition of industry training for some years to come, and sometimes these packages…
Read MoreAt CX the biggest complaint: BAD LIVE SOUND!
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…
Read MoreInsecure. Who me?
By John Maizels Most people who work in the gigging industry are freelance. That’s a polite way of saying not-employed-by-anyone-permanently. Is this you? Read on. There are other terms, like “casual”, “part-time”, “itinerant”, “on-demand”, “self-employed” and sometimes “consultant” which can be a way of saying you’re not sure if you’re employed or not. At their…
Read MoreBig Co Management, Big balls?
CX is a sucker for disaster tales, and the theatre of the daily business news is always fertile. Exit the guy in charge of Boral, the building conglomerate in Australia. He (Mark Selway, lawyers please direct communications to our new law firm, Sue Grabbit and Runn) was slayed in the media today for ‘micro managing’…
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