BYRON BAY, Australia — In a recent posting on their Facebook page, Rock-It Cargo noted the passing of Alan “Esco” Escombe. Escombe, who joined Rock-It Cargo in 1985, joined the company after touring as a bass player with The Shake Spears in the mid-1960s and Fynn McCool in the late 1960s-early 1970s. A recent photo of crew members during load-out after a Paul McCartney concert in Hamburg, Germany shows Escombe at far right.
Read More »MILWAUKEE, WI — Clearwing Productions, which formerly called its transport and logistics division “Big Event Specialists,” has renamed it “Big Event Logistics.” The expanded division provides transport of live event equipment, freight coordination, dedicated trade show deliveries and third-party logistics. Big Event Logistics will be run out of Clearwing’s Milwaukee office.
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VIENNA, VA — McLean Bible Church, a non-denominational, evangelical Christian church with multiple locations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, recently became the first house of worship to install L-Acoustics’ K2 system. Bauder Audio Systems provided the systems and supervised their installation at the church’s largest location.
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DALLAS — Dallas’ First Baptist Church, which purchased a DiGiCo SD7 for use at FOH within its new 3,000-seat worship center, recently added a second SD7 console for use at monitors within the worship space. Both SD7 consoles were specified by Idibri, the Dallas-based AV design and consultancy for the church, with integration done through the Dallas office of Clair Solutions.
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HERTFORDSHIRE, U.K. — Old Barn Audio (OBA) installed Martin Audio CDD speakers and supplied an MLA Compact system for the recent ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships at the White Water Center in Lee Valley, Hertfordshire.
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PORTSMOUTH, NH — When 3S Artspace built its location from the remnants of an old warehouse in early 2015, it required a sound system capable of catering to the 10,000-square-foot building’s variety of activities. 3S Artspace management called in audio consultants Swell Sound to apply their acoustical expertise, which in turn commissioned a full set of VUE Audiotechnik products for the space.
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BEAVERTON, OR — Biamp Systems hired technical support specialists Andrew Verburg and Matt Dichirico. Both are based in Beaverton and report to Scott Wieser, applications engineering manager for North America at Biamp Systems.
Read More »CHICAGO — IATSE Local 2 took aim at JAM Productions on Oct. 22, saying that “just as Local Two was about to file its petition” to the NRLB on behalf of stagehands hoping to organize, the local promoter/music venue operator “fired the entire stage crew at the Riviera, totaling over 30 employees.”
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NEW YORK CITY — The annual Audio Engineering Society show comes to New York’s City’s Javits Convention Center from October 29 through Nov. 1, with three days of technology exhibits (Oct 30-31 and Nov 1st) featuring hundreds of exhibitors, and more. Best of all, FRONT of HOUSE offers you a free VIP Exhibits-Plus badge to get in to check out the action, but the absolute final deadline for the FREE online registration is midnight, Monday, October 26.
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Read More »NEW YORK — The audio setup for the Immersive Theater at AES will include a JBL 7 Series Master Reference Monitor system from Harman.
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