Winner of Competition

Congratulations to Phil Hart for winning a ticket to one of the seminars at the Adelaide CX Summer Road show. I hope you enjoy your session in Stage Safety, it sure will be an interesting session. Don’t forget to check out the exhibitors that are supporting this event. For those that did not win there [...]

So what is Martin up to?

Well it seems that there is more gear coming out of the Martin factories to give lighting people a wet dream.  Martin are about to unleash on the world some new lighting consoles. The MartinM2GO and M2PC were released at the PLASA Focus in Austin. I have also included their youtube video of the consoles. [...]

WIN!!! WIN!! with the CX Summer Roadshow

Due to the kindness of Julius I am able to offer as a prize 1 ticket to the seminar of your choice here in the lovely city of Adelaide. The CX Summer Roadshow is one of the hottest events happening around Australia All you have to do is answer 3 simple questions and write in [...]

JANDS releases new console

Well JANDS have done it again. They have just release the new Vista L5 console running Vista V2 software. This is the flagship of the Vista consoles. It has a great look that is very intuitive for those that are familiar with Vista software.This is THe console to get from JANDS. The new console has [...]

Chinese rips off damaging the industry

As we tightens our belts where it comes to purchasing new equipment, we come across a whole bunch of chinese companies making copies of well know equipment. The prices are so cheap that we are all tempted to purchase. But is this a good idea? These exact copies are potentially poison for the industry. Many [...]

Risk Assesments

Have you ever sat down and thought about how many injuries we have and what the most common are? Our industry can be quite dangerous. We are sometimes tired from long hours, or we may be carrying other injuries. These can lead to even more injuries. We could become distract whilst performing certain tasks. What [...]

Self audits

When was the last time you wandered around your venue and actually looked closely at everything. I suggest that you do, it is amazing what little things that you might find that could become major problems in the future. I recently walked around a venue that I sometimes work at and it was amazing at [...]

Theatrical Safety

Theatrical Safety by Stephen Dean (c) 2011  This is a document that wrote a while ago for an community theatre group as a bit of a guide to OHS. Feel free to read and comment. Theatre may seem a glamorous and magical place to work, but it is probably one of the most dangerous places [...]

Even more NAMM 2012

Here we have even more good stuff. CHAUVET® DJ LAUNCHES INFECTIOUS PRODUCTS AT NAMM 2012 Chauvet have been around for a while and are producing some nice, interesting gear. It is at affordable prices and is a much better than many of those nasty chinese online LED fixtures. There are new additions to the Intimidator™ [...]