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November 2013 l 03
welcome EDITOR’S COMMENT
“We all know that if everyone set up camp in Costa Coffee, there would be no exhibition”
Cover picture: Mercury nominee Laura Mvula at Rock
en Seine, Paris, August 2013 Photo: Helen Aitchison
PLASA LONDON, then. How was it for you? “We got busier and busier, as people were staying longer,” FBT’s Mark Parkhouse told me. “I want to sell loudspeakers to small-to-medium hire companies, and there were lots of them visiting. “We loved the attention. I’m sure others like us – Shure, Martin Audio, KV2 – did too.” Unencumbered by the usual rivals, undoubtedly they did. Pioneer had a perfect opportunity to launch its club system, Avid to show off its S3L console for the first time – because there were few competing products on show. PLASA London, then: good for those who gave it a chance. And, from the conversations I was having in the café and on the terrace, a good show for the brands which could still meet clients, but were emancipated from the cost of exhibiting. Of course, all this didn’t stop people complaining: “Not enough audio!”
...Sigh. We all know that if everyone set up camp in Costa Coffee, there would be no exhibition. We should not be relying on certain brands to prop up the show for the rest of the industry. And while there’s no single solution to restoring the show to former glories, PLASA mustget the big box and big console makers into those ExCeL halls. I asked Martin Audio’s James King, still relatively new to this industry, what he’d do if he was in charge. “I’d tell potential exhibitors, ‘Take a booth, and we’ll fly over the five customers you really want to see.’” Chris Toulmin, head of events for the show, said in the PLASA summary press release, “…we have more work to do – in certain areas of the exhibition…” Perhaps put in a call to the travel agent, Chris? Dave Robinson (twitter:@psneurope)
IN THIS ISSUE...
NEWS 4 Funktion-One victorious in trademark case 5 Apex Audio NV declared bankrupt 6 Industry appointments 8 Diary of events and expos 10 New product round-up
STUDIO 14 Paul Epworth buys ‘The Church’ 15 Craig Silvey’s Toast; all new Jungle 16 SSL and API at AES NYC 18 The Loft Studios, Newcastle 19 New truck for Norway’s NRK
BROADCAST 20 Specs in place for file-based TV broadcast 22 Megahertz bought by OKNO-TV 23 Audionics in liquidation 24 Feature: Building the perfect OB truck
LIVE 29 Shure Distribution UK’s new business model 30 All hail the forthcoming L-Acoustics K2 32 Pearce Hire profiled; VUE in Europe 35 Ellie Goulding on tour 36 Music touring worth £2.2bn to UK 37 Nexo STM at the Stade de France 38 Brit Row Training out of the blocks 40 Lawo at Rock en Seine 42 Feature: Built to last! Compact speakers
INSTALL 46 Duran Audio bought by Harman 48 BPM launches PRO show for 2014 50 ETA Sound takes the double
BACK PAGES 65 Hither & Dither 66 Interview: Rusty Waite, EAW
Photo: Jake Young
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