This summer, for the Euro 2012 football tournament, Castrol have requested something special to entertain their VIP guests and Flourish are planning to achieve that with some real flair! I’m writing this on the plane, returning from my first visit to Ukraine having met with some old and new faces to discuss the technicalities of producing such an event in a ...

Chris Saunders, of Ogle Hog Limited, called upon Basic Monkey to provide Catalyst playback facilities for this years Brit awards at the O2. Ogle Hog supply and manage creative LED and relay screens for the event. Basic Monkey’s dual touring Catalyst system was used to play back content for the 7x different LED surfaces. 3x F11 closedown screens on automated ...

James has been at Riverside studios for the past three days to program the Catalyst media servers for XL Video on “Open the Other End” which is to run at the venue for the next few weeks. The show uses projection on a variety of staggered surfaces including black gauze, a sliding flat panel, a wood veneer wall and white cyc. Using two Panasonic projectors ...

This year’s Clothes Show theme was “Department Store” with lighting designed by Nigel Catmur and video content designed by Colin Rozee. As ever, the dancers and models performed an amazing show to up-beat music, re-enforced with lots of lights and video. There was also a live performance from Kimberly Wyatt. The show was broken into sections as ...

Tonight’s show was in the smart, new, purpose built theatre at Crokus City on the outskirts on Moscow. The traffic in Moscow is of epic proportions, with even the artist himself falling foul of the jams. With a full house of energetic fans, the show was one of the best yet. James ...

Of all the train trips I thought I’d take in my life, St. Petersburg to Moscow wasn’t one of them. The view from the window on the trip was such a vastly varied one. Leaving St. Petersburg with it’s many stonework buildings, the view quickly turning into builders’ yards and sheds ending up with vast forests and fields with a scattering of ...

Basic Monkey is back in St. Petersburg after a year of absence, this time indoors at the city’s arena with Seal. After a lively night in the hotel, serenaded by Markus, Ben and Holly from the band and a night of little sleep due to the 24 hour daylight, we loaded into the ice arena to interface with local suppliers. The show went smoothly as ever and a last ...

After a few days down in Brussels, band and crew rolled into the Couleur Cafe festival, located right in the heart of Brussels city. The main stage took the form of a giant boom box with circular screens flanking the stage. No LED screen at the back of the stage for this show, content was cut with cameras to the side screens which was tough work considering the ...

After a day off in Vilnius, Lithuania we had our second show of the tour at the city’s ice rink. The venue was the first opportunity lighting operator Theo Cox has had to program the show in complete darkness which was a welcome bonus. Seal went down a treat with the crowd who seemed to love the classics and welcome his more recent material. Next stop is ...

Tonight was the first show of Seal’s Summer 2011 European tour in Parnu, Estonia. With a packed crowd under the late evening sun, his performance was full of energy and the band played with true finesse. Basic Monkey’s new touring Catalyst system integrated seamlessly with the LED screen provided by Eventech and was triggered by the lighting console, ...