Basic Monkey Limited » festivals http://basicmonkey.net Basic Monkey Limited: Event Production, Lighting, Sound, Video Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:19:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Faithless European Summer Tour http://basicmonkey.net/2010/03/faithless-european-summer-tour/ http://basicmonkey.net/2010/03/faithless-european-summer-tour/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:29:09 +0000 Basic Monkey http://basicmonkey.net/?p=357 James has been invited by Andy Hurst to act as video technician for Faithless' summer arenas and festivals tour. The tour will involve several UK and European venue shows, along with the usual suspects of summer festivals.

Equipment will be provided by PRG, including Martin's LC series semi-transparent LED screens which will be James' responsibility. He will also be helping with the lighting rig and roll on should he have any spare time!

Keep checking back for more news. Follow James' updates here: Faithless Posts

]]> http://basicmonkey.net/2010/03/faithless-european-summer-tour/feed/ 0 Pendulum Summer Festivals 2009 – Photos http://basicmonkey.net/2009/08/pend-test/ http://basicmonkey.net/2009/08/pend-test/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:48:12 +0000 Basic Monkey http://basicmonkey.net/beta/?p=40 Check out a few of my photos from Pendulum's European summer festival tour this year:

]]> http://basicmonkey.net/2009/08/pend-test/feed/ 0 Pendulum European Summer Festivals Tour http://basicmonkey.net/2009/05/pendulum-european-summer-festivals-tour/ http://basicmonkey.net/2009/05/pendulum-european-summer-festivals-tour/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 14:17:40 +0000 Basic Monkey http://basicmonkey.net/beta/?p=96 James has been invited to act as video and lighting technician for Pendulum on their European summer festivals tour.

dsc_3557Andy Hurst is the lighting designer, who has passed his operating duties to Neil Carson of Enhance Production. HSL will be providing the lighting equiment: 16x James Thomas Pixelline 1044, 8x Martin Atomic strobes with XL Video providing 8x Martin LC panels. Video will be sourced from a MacBook pro provided by Andy running Archaos, cued by a WholeHog 3 triggered using SMTPE streamed from the band. The lighting will be controlled by Neil using a Chamsys MagiQ Pro from front of house.

dsc_3547The kit will be mounted into 4x dollys, each 2m wide and 2m high to accommodate a 2m square LC screen, with 4x Pixellines mounted horizontally above each other behind the screen, spaced with 2x Atmoics. Dollys were chosen for ease of transport and erection, since Pendulum will not be appearing at the top act at all the events and wont be blessed with an overnight rig on most, a fast stage turnaround is a must.

dsc_3483James will be looking after the maintenance of both the video and lighting aspects of the rig, also supervising the 'roll-on' to stage at the beginning of the act. This involves arranging the lift of all 4x dollys onto Litedeck to increase height and visibility of the screen, and then connecting the dolly looms to the control equipment and testing before show start.

The band will be appearing at:

  • 53 Degrees, Preston, England
  • Pinkpop Festival, Holland
  • Isle of Wight Festival, England
  • Planet Festival, Czech Republic
  • Download Festival, England
  • Sonisphere Festival, Holland
  • Wolverhampton Civic, England
  • Glastonbury Festival, England
  • Rock Werchter, Belgium
  • Heineken Opener Festival, Poland
  • Oxegen Festival, Ireland
  • T in the Park, Scotland
  • Somerset House, London, England
  • Pohoda Festival, Slovakia
  • Gurtenfestival, Switzerland
  • Global Gathering, England
  • Ibiza Rocks Hotel, Spain
  • Sziget Festival, Hungary
  • Frequency Festival, Austria
  • V Festival, Chelmsford, England
  • V Festival, Stafford, England
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