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welcome DEPUTY EDITOR’S COMMENT
“Once, preening rock stars bestrode the live circuit like colossi – but now, non-musical
middle-aged men in ill-fitting suits are increasingly stealing their limelight”
IT’S OFFICIAL: comedy is the new rock and roll. While preening Robert Plant types once bestrode the live circuit like colossi, unchallenged by any other form of popular entertainment, now – and I’m generalising a bit here – pudgy, middle- aged, non-musical men in ill-fitting suits are increasingly stealing the limelight. (Mick Perrin, a live comedy promoter who took Eddie Izzard on one of his first arena tours, Sexie, in 2003, told The Guardian that he had arrived at one venue, Eddie in tow, only to find they’d been double- booked: “They thought it was ludicrous to expect that Eddie would sell. The guy said: ‘Well, he’s just a comic, isn’t he?’”) Kevin Hilton looks at the audio companies reaping the benefits of the booming live comedy market on p48. Plus, for the football-minded among you – and as I write this, a large proportion of the Intent Media London office is trying to fill the Panini World Cup sticker book – there’s apparently some kind of major international tournament on this summer. More on said kick- about, and the latest in broadcast audio technologies, on p36.
Oh, and following last month’s editorial regarding the Regional Growth Fund, Gareth Wilding has asked us to point out that the grant is only available to businesses outside London. So, Dave’s fictional PA company (he’s on holiday, by the way), Drobinson Sound of SE London, wouldn’t have qualified after all. D’oh!
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NEWS 4 The
Lab.gruppen D Series: PLM power for install 5
6 Awards: of the Pro Sound and Radio Academy persuasions
8 Industry appointments 10 Events and expos 12 PSNTraining 14 New products 16 Show preview: InfoComm 2014
STUDIO 18 Gus Dudgeon Foundation appeals for support 19 Carpark North’s Copenhagen studio: just the ticket
Eurovision 2014; Harman acquires AMX
20 La Chapelle Studios’ DAFT rebranding 22 Focusrite’s Phil Dudderidge on 25 years in the hot seat
BROADCAST 26 Ofcom consulting on upgrade to DAB+ 27 3D sound: binaural reborn 30 Anyone for tennis? Wimbledon 2014 preview 32 Feature: 2014 FIFA World Cup and immersive audio
LIVE
36 The Great Escape (to Brighton) 38 Shure strength: Distribution 2.0 and beyond 42 Oliver Voges on bringing live hip-hop to life 44 The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s past, present and future
46 EW: the charity investing in the future of UK pro audio
INSTALL 52 Polar Audio makes its mark in the National Portrait Gallery
BACK PAGES
57 Hither & Dither 58 Industry talk: Espartaco Saez, Acustica Beyma
53 Bose’s Akira Mochimaru: targeting high-end installation and live sound
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