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May 2013 l 03
welcome EDITOR’S COMMENT
“By all that is Twitter, Alison Moyet was practically the Second Coming that night”
I WENT TO see Alison Moyet at the Bush Hall in London last month. Her one-off gig was billed as an ‘intimate preview of her new album’, a daring concept these days, I would suggest. I mean: when you’ve had a string of hits in the 1980s, the first thing your audience of middle-aged fans wants to hear is an hour of unfamiliar material, isn’t it? Right. Anyway, the venue was sold out. And the new album, the minutes, is not bad. It’s coolly electronic, more than a nod to the Yazoo days, and it’s co-produced by one of my programming heroes, the incredible Guy Sigsworth. But, having read Twitter and other reviews of the night, I seem to be the only person who was critical of Alf. Her banter and rapport with the crowd was witty and smart, and her molasses voice has lost none of its power. But the facts are these: she was on stage for just 80 minutes, which included only four old hits. She missed her cue four times, including during Don’t Go(you’d think...!). There was no support act, and no encore. Tickets cost over £30. What we saw was only worth half that. Maybe Moyet knows some subliminal hypnotic technique, because, by all that is Twitter, she was practically the Second Coming that night. So, what did I miss? Am I just too cynical? Why all the wallpapering over the cracks? I’m at a loss to explain. I receive a number of invites to gigs and shows in this job, but sometimes, buying a ticket brings me to earth with quite a bump. This I know: concert-goers deserve the best, not just from the equipment, the venue and the engineers, but from the artists too.
Dave Robinson Twitter: @psneurope IN THIS ISSUE...
NEWS 4 AFMG launches FIRmaker sound optimisation tool 5 Capital Sound to tackle Hyde Park with MLA 6 New names sign up to support Pro Sound Awards 8 Industry appointments 10 Key pro-audio events and expos
TECHNOLOGY 12 New products
Show review Prolight + Sound
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STUDIO 20 Avid announces Pro Tools 11 21 Loudness awareness improving, says DRD man 24 ADAM monitors at Studio Sledge 27 Event preview: AES 134 in Rome
BROADCAST 28 Shure launches into DSLR accessory market 32 Calrec Apollo for 4k truck launch 33 New task force to tackle network unification 34 Busy winter season for pro audio 36 Feature: Intercoms
LIVE 40 Adlib’s new deal with Midas 42 SSE acquires Wigwam Acoustics 45 Outline GTO for Andrea Bocelli 48 Feature: Sweden
INSTALL 52 Fresh brand identity for TC Group 53 Dublin NCH invests in Axient 54 Adamson’s Point Concentric speakers debut at Brussels’ Grand-Place
BACK PAGES 57 Hither & Dither 58 Interview: Tim Chapman, TC Group
Photo: Jake Young
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