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Today’s SMH has a great article by theatre director Julian Meyrick, on how new plans to expand the State Theatre (2,000 seats) fall well short of what is required for Sydney. Instead of a proposed rebuild to supply a proper backstage area and loading facilities, the owners (Amalgamated Holdings) will do what public companies do…

Welcome to Friday, and today’s breakfast was interrupted by unwrapping the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald. They have gone big with a promotion for their Airlink, which we just tried and can now consign to the trashcan of failure. As you probably know, CX is a media network and today we debut our…

I have continuously enjoyed the stories in your magazine, the website and your blog. Though I’m no longer working in Australia, your insights are still valuable for my work in the events industry in Europe. So thanks for that! I wanted to share with you a story that concerns Videoplus. Since I left Australia in…

Contract? What contract? The Tarago driver gossip network is pretty solid, and for years now Hip Hop performers from the USA have got a bad rap, no pub intended. If you count MC Hammer as hip hop, then the rumours started 20 years ago and have continued unabated ever since. We hear of five star…

by Richard Cadena “EMC is being enforced in Europe and it’s likely to become a bigger issue in other parts of the world, including North America. Don’t be caught with your shields down.” If you could see electromagnetic radiation, you would be surprised at just how much of it is around you. Everywhere you look,…

Who would know? And as the crew at CX will sagely nod and wink, not me. But tonight iiNet changed my home ADSL profile from ‘Safe’ to ‘Standard’, which answers the nagging problem of a sub 2Mb download speed. The new ‘Standard’ profile promises 10 to 12 Mb – which is 5 times faster! So…

Keith Clarkson from Event Sound (NSW) draws our attention to a disturbing ripoff. He noticed some unkown activity on his credit card (around $4500)  a few weeks ago from a small audio distributor in VIC, we believe they sell cable & home theatre stuff. “I have never bought anything direct from them but I purchased…

Here is the topic load from the OLD CX blog! http://julius-grafton.blogspot.com.au/ Time Machine: how about a gig with gear made before 1980? Tech Training: the skills gap Massive Screwups (when we owned ENTECH!) How we messed with the CX brand School talks – promoting college to Year 11. Ouch. Lunch with Robby and Steve. How…

22 years (almost) and I think I almost have spelling and punctuation sorted out. But the elephant in the room is always whether what you say in front of Julius is private, or published. Most times people are intelligent enough to qualify when something we talk about is not for publication. There are layers to…

The Meetings and Events Association Conference has been and gone and whilst the content of the conference was the best in years sadly the subject of Technician on Duty Fee’s seemed to be pushed aside. It appears it wasn’t such a hot topic, with only 5  people showing up at a facilitated meeting during lunch…

Greetings Julius. I doubt if you’ll remember me but we have met a number of times. (I believe I first met you in the 70’s-from memory you were mixing for Gary Glitter, but you had hair then so I may be mistaken) Last time we spoke was at a show I supplied and operated for-the…

EAV Tech re-define media relationships CX is a friendly place. We enjoy positive relationships, and rise to overcome challenges. And sometimes we just move on, unable to rewire the lights on the planet for people who only see darkness. Jimmy Den Ouden’s job is to seek out new and useful devices, and bring them to…