20 Years Ago . . . LSi May 1993

"In the news this issue: The Icon moving light from Light & Sound Design had been given its first public showing at the Showlight event in Bradford, UK. Dave Smith of LSD was pictured with Mike Jefferies of the STLD. This issue also noted that an engineer by the name of Colin James had been remanded in custody accused of the murder of David Martin, founder of Martin Audio. Martin had disappeared from his home the previous December."

10 Years Ago . . . LSi May 2003

"Lead news this issue was the launch of Robe UK, following the closure of Robe's former UK representative Coe-Tech, which had gone into administration in April. Robe UK Ltd was to be a direct sales operation supplying the UK and Ireland, and followed the setting up of both Robe Italia srl and Robe America."

This month: Optima Antequam Pessima

"LMC Audio Systems, the award-winning London-based dealer with a new desire to enrich its offer with a distributed line, has just signed some fresh talent from up north. Inspired Audio is young, with fresh legs, but has been nursed through the Academy of Chris Scott"

This month: The Stroboscope

"I have a very clear memory of the first time I noticed performance lighting: an aerialist at an old-school circus somewhere, spinning on a rope but seemingly frozen in motion by flash after staccato flash of white light."

This month: FOH engineer Ricky Fernandez

" I grew up playing in bands and eventually realised I wasn't meant to be on stage but I was always drawn into the music scene. I worked for an arena on my college campus and remember watching Death Cab for Cutie play and knowing right there that I wanted to mix bands for an audience. So I interned at big production companies but never got a chance to touch a console. One night, I had a panic attack about my life and decided to just get out there and start touring."

This month: The Ascension of Old Faithful

"I've always loved the XL4 - it's like an old friend you randomly bump into down the seafront and promise to go out for a few drinks, and then embarrassingly bump into again later in a bar, without having made that phone call."

This month: Kickstarter

"Calling itself ‘a funding platform for creative projects’, it’s a place where people with an idea can come and find money to help make that dream a reality."

This month: What does future-proofing mean?

"Digital audio really only got out of the lab and into products in the early 1980s. The effect of its bite was only felt in the last ten years, but it still isn't ubiquitous, even after 30 years."

This month: Adding Fibre to Your Video Diet

"If you are in video production and you want to have a more secure future in the business, learning how to terminate fibre will give you a skill that will be in increasing demand as video formats and networks become more bandwidth hungry.""

This month: Paul Watson talks to Keith Wood, tour and production manager for AEG.

"A tour today can literally be half a dozen shows if that, but also, tour schedules are becoming a lot tighter now. You don’t have half as many days off, as the nature of the business and the economics that surround it mean when you’re not working, you’re not earning money."

We've added over 175 photos of the PLASA Show in London from the LSi archives dating back to 1993.

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