WWritten by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Back to Christchurch and the real start of my vacation. Annie keeps asking me what I want to do. To be honest, I was just so happy to be able to devote my full attention to not having to “do” anything. We went out to Trish’s […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional For the weekend, we are tourists. John and Julie are my wife’s brother and sister-in-law. John is Annie’s oldest brother and they were good enough to show us around Wellington for two days. We went to the New Zealand Parliament and the Museum of New Zealand […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional After a long day of presentations and setting up, we are back the next day at Audio Progress tearing down. I finally have a chance to speak with Malcolm and learn what he likes about CHAUVET. He has invested heavily in the COLORado 2 and COLORado […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Get up early and drive to work. It’s almost like being at home, except I am driving on the other side of the road through some of the most dangerous roads on the North Island. There is a safer way, but apparently the GPS I am […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Off to Wellington. A quick 45-minute flight on Air New Zealand, but still enough time for them to roll the drink cart up and down the aisle a few times. No problems with any of the arrangements and off to Annie’s other brother John’s house for […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I was back in Christchurch. Annie and Connor were in Sydney for another day and I have meetings to get to. My first was with New Zealand Rockshop. The Rockshop is one of three music store chains in NZ. This one is exclusively serviced by MDR […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Three thirty in the morning is early. I don’t care what time zone you think your head is in, it’s early. We got to the airport and I dropped Annie and Connor off at the international terminal. I then went to the domestic terminal to catch […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional After getting settled in the hotel and getting a good night’s rest we are off to breakfast. It is also Waitangi Day. Waitangi Day is the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between the Maori and the settlers. Depending on which side you […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional For anyone who has traveled extensively, you know when you are traveling with a small child, everyone in the gate area is hoping that they are on the opposite end of the plane from you. The truth is Connor is a really good flyer. As […]
Mike Graham, product manger for CHAUVET Professional, recently took a 14-day trip to New Zealand. The indigenous Māori name for New Zealand is Aotearoa, commonly translated as land of the long white cloud. Mike primarily went for a family vacation, his wife being a native New Zealander, but he also visited a CHAUVET dealer, MDR […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional We all prefer to walk into a show that is totally programmed and ready to rock. We love it when there is actually time to program a show during the rehearsal stage of the production and have a clear and concise cue list. It’s even better […]