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Above: Perhaps the MPG should try this approach with the next Speakeasy –talk to the membership AND buy your fresh veggies ... (sign spotted in Seattle)


Left: Somewhere for FOH and monitor engineers to put their cash, we think


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PLASA product of


the year, surely? This is a genuine guitar


amp, made out of a recycled fag packet by Smokey Amps


Above: Merging Technology’s Claude Cellier enjoys a tipple of his own devising at the rejuvenated Wisseloord Studios, on a visit organised during IBC. It’s a cheeky little number, that 2012 Horus


Images from PLASA, IBC and a lift in London Hither & farmer hither&dither


K-array’s Leonardo Dani gets over- excited by the PLASA launch of the new Piccolo 2.1 home audio system


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Left: Sign spotted in the lift at the Hospital Club in London’s Soho


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