So, we still can’t give too much away at this stage, but for the past 2 days James has been in York again to build part 2 of the Eikon launch. This will be a feat of engineering on Stage One’s part and a tidy bit of video work from XL Video! Basic Monkey are providing the Catalyst system and control gear for this pre build. Promise to give you more when ...

James has just spent the night re-building a F-30 LED screen at the Goodwood Festival of Vintage following a power issue. The phone rang yesterday afternoon in the hunt for an LED/power technician to get to Goodwood to rebuild the screen while they day crew got some rest. James arrived on site to find the cause of the problem, one of XL’s ...

For the past two days James has been in York at Stage One to build one part of the exciting launch for Thompson Reuters’ new ‘Eikon’ product. We’d love to show you some cool photos and tell you all about it, but you’re just going to have to ...

For the past few days, James has been at Global Gathering in Stratford-upon-Avon working for XL Video who are providing video kit and support across the site. XL provided a variety of screens and projection across the site; F-30 for main stage, Bedrock and Random arenas, Martin LC for Global Arena and 4x Barco R22+ projectors for the Godskitchen tent. James was ...

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’ ...

Check out our latest demo video for Catalyst and iLite 12. Shots taken from Paul Hogarth’s 50th Birthday. Music: “Nero – Do You ...

Basic Monkey has been asked to provide Barco iLite12 screens and a Catalyst media server for Unilever’s Christmas party. Steven Williams from CSP saw the photos from Paul Hogarth’s birthday party and suggested to Unilever that they use the same system. A few design ideas were put forward but they’ve decided to go for the same layout of 5 columns of ...

Basic Monkey Limited have been asked to provide LED screens in the style of Girls Aloud’s current tour for successful developer Paul Hogarth’s 50th birthday party. Paul and Judith have enlisted Lightech Sound and Light to provide lighting and production management for the event, in a marquee at the family home near Holmes Chapel in Cheshire. They wanted ...

Check out a few of my photos from Pendulum’s European summer festival tour this year: ...

James has been invited to act as video and lighting technician for Pendulum on their European summer festivals tour. Andy 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 ...