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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Tonight saw James in Edinburgh at very late notice to provide the Doves with our Catalyst media server for their show. Mark Wynne-Edwards is the Doves lighting designer, using his own Jands Vista T2 console which works easily with Catalyst. Once the content was uploaded to our server, it was simply a case of testing a few cues in Mark’s pre ...

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Today James acted as rigger/technician for St. Etienne’s show at Manchester’s Ritz venue. Having received sketch plans yesterday, James had 6x Robe ColorSpot 700 and 6x Robe ColorWash 700 moving lights, 2x Martin Atomic strobes, 8x James Thomas Pixellines, 6x 2lite molefays and 6x S4 19deg profiles to fit intro the notoriously tight venue. All equipment ...

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HSL have asked James to assist with the de-rig at Durham cathedral of Sting’s new show recorded for DVD. Not sounding a very glamorous role, it did involved working in the bowels and heights of one of the most beautiful buildings in the UK. 100x Robe ColorWash moving lights in both 1200 and 2500 models were used on specially built rigs strapped to columns, on ...

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The Kooks are playing tonight in an old ballroom in Blackpool, not suited to touring bands and their production requirements. To adapt for this, Ian from HSL created a ground support truss system to accommodate the band’s lighting and PA rigs. Since this installation is done overnight, Ian would be in no fit state to go climbing all day to pull the motor chains ...

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