festivals

by Basic Monkey|09 November 201223 November 2024|Live Music

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,...

Leftfield @ Freeform Festival, Warsaw

by Basic Monkey|12 October 201223 November 2024|Live Music

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...

Leftfield @ Sziget Festival, Budapest

by Basic Monkey|11 August 201223 November 2024|Live Music

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...

The Doves @ Green Man Festival

by Basic Monkey|20 August 201023 November 2022|Live Music

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...

Faithless European Summer Tour

by Basic Monkey|31 March 201023 November 2022|Live Music

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...

Pendulum Summer Festivals 2009 – Photos

by Basic Monkey|28 August 200923 November 2024|Live Music

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

Pendulum European Summer Festivals Tour

by Basic Monkey|26 May 200923 November 2024|Live Music

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...