It’s the first time in Dubai for James and Basic Monkey, accompanying Leftfield for their set at the Sandance Festival, Palm Jumeirah. There aren’t many festivals in such unique locations as this one; at the tip of the man-made peninsula, shaped like a palm tree. The stage is set on the beach with the main hotel in the background and the Dubai skyline in ...

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Following on from a successful show at Sziget festival, Leftfield asked Basic Monkey to supply video playback for their set at Freeform Festival in Warsaw. The show was in a warehouse building with windows that were close to shattering with the incredible bass produced by the sound system. Using our laptop Catalyst system, James fed the festival provided screens, ...

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James has been at Creamfields near Warrington this weekend, providing media server support for XL Video. XL provide LED screens for the many dance tents on site, and also provide PPU, cameras and LED screens for the two main stages. This year, to add flexibility, each of the main stages had a Catalyst media server for advertisements. These were fed in to Barco ...

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Basic Monkey is very proud to supply Leftfield with our laptop Catalyst system for their set at Sziget festival in Budapest. The band has previously used Hippotiser media servers which were taking up valuable vehicle space and rather costly. Tom Woodcraft introduced Basic Monkey to the band’s management and we offered our lightweight and cost effective ...

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Basic Monkey are back with Seal to kick off his North American tour, covering dates across Canada and the US. This time round the moving LED panels will constructed from BasicTech’s 11mm product and moved using FTSI Navigator and drum winches as opposed to the Kinesys chain motors used Australia. This allows faster speeds and smoother motion. Navigator can send ...

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Basic Monkey is proud to be managing Seal’s video requirements for his tour of Australia this April. The tour will visit Melbourne (2 dates), Adelaide, Gold Coast and Sydney over two weeks. After a successful European tour in 2011, Theo Cox created a new visual and stage design for the show which includes 7x vertically moving LED ‘pods’ with a ...

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Basic Monkey has been asked to supply our new dual touring Catalyst system for Seal’s Summer European tour starting tomorrow. James will be accompanying the tour, looking after the system and interfacing with locally provided LED screens and projectors. The tour starts in Estonia, working back across Europe down towards Portugal with a few ...

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For two days this week, James has been in Wakefield at Litestructures’ “LS-Live” venue to set-up and help program the Catalyst systems that will be touring with McFly for the next 3 weeks. XL Video are providing the systems along with the F11 back and riser screens and MiSTRIP stage. James has been working closely with Dan from ...

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The last of the festivals this summer for Basic Monkey and it turned out to be a tough one for all involved. XL Video had a lot of LED at Creamfields. Even by Steve G’s (Project Manager) own admission, he’d never seen or heard of so many LED techs on site! James was principally based with Chris Isaacson in the Chibuku/Swedish House ...

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Following on from the success in Edinburgh, The Doves asked Basic Monkey to provide a Catalyst media server for their show at The Green Man Festival in South Wales. Arriving on site to find ‘video world’ in a pop-up tent by stage was a humorous start to the day although a little nerve racking when the rains hit hard! The character of ...

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