London’s Ronnie Scott’s Soho jazz club has opened Upstairs at Ronnie’s, built from the ground up to create the greatest small live music venue in the world. ‘We wanted a space where artists and audiences could feel even closer to the music, with every element of the design focused on sound quality, comfort and connection,’ says Technical Manager, Charlie Dale.
The recent Live at Chelsea concert series took place over five nights in June within the courtyard of London’s historic Royal Hospital…
A world tour that includes not just the Gorillaz live band, but guest performers at each show, The Mountain World Tour will play…
K-Pop music champion SM Entertainment has placed a new Solid State Logic Oracle mixing desk in the BigShot Studio at its facility in…
As official audio supplier to host broadcaster ORF for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Sennheiser deployed its largest Spectera…
You don’t have to be afraid to have tit.com crop up in your browser history. Against all reasonable expectation, it’s not a pornography site – although judging by the ‘Sorry, there is no adult content here’ disclaimer it carries, it probably has a very high bounce rate…
Regardless of content, a short domain name is worth money. And it’s a sweet introduction to an overlooked aspect of the internet’s creation and operation.
Feelings were running high around the table. Present were some important voices representing contrasting – and sometimes diametrically opposing – views on education in pro audio. What it was, who needed it, where they should get it, what it should cost.
That was in the early 1990s and I’m not convinced we’ve made progress on answering any of those questions.
There’s a man in Dallas who reckons that a collection of records isn’t complete without eight-track cartridge releases to sit alongside vinyl, cassette, CD, DVD, concert programmes and other music memorabilia. In fact, he’s setting up a museum specifically to celebrate the eight-track format…
And he makes a very a valid point – it’s not the best recordings that get the collectors excited, it’s the rare releases...
Some say a wedding isn’t a wedding without a fight. In some communities, it’s the highlight of the day.
I’ve never actually seen a wedding brawl myself, but I had a ringside seat at a wedding reception that saw music producers and musicians quietly alligning themselves against the ‘non musicians’ present. The tension stayed beneath the surface but it was tangible.
London, Paris, New York, Munich; everyone listen to the same pop music.
I remember a television interview with Jeff Beck from a few years ago, when he described a generation of rock guitarists who were ‘trying to play the same guitar solo’. That’s one of the problems that comes with heroes – but heroes set benchmarks and inspire achievement. In contrast, Simon Cowell’s X Factor ‘talent show’ places musical ambition low on its agenda...
Last week, in the run-up to his sixth birthday, my son asked me an awkward question – what shape is the internet? With a gift for finding the existential fault lines between the conceptual and the tangible, his questions regularly leave me dithering and exasperated. But the question is an intriguing one and deserves thought...
I absolutely love radio. The Buggles’ wry dismissal aside, radio was never going to be a casualty of the home video recording ‘star’ of the late 1970s.
We could talk about how highstreet video rental subsequently seemed poised to bring down the curtain on cinema. Or how drum machines rattled the death knell of drummers. Or any colour you like being ‘the new black’. But let’s stay tuned to the radio…
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