Tonight was the Fashion Kicks event in Lancashire County Cricket Club’s semi-permanent marquee, lit by Lightech Sound and Light. James was there to help with the build in the fashion show tent, sponsored by Selfridges, and later the conversion of this area to a nightclub for the guests after their dinner. Entertainment in the dinner marquee ...

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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’ ...

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Lightech Sound and Light, one of Basic Monkey’s longest standing clients, have asked us to provide projectors, screens and control equipment for Jamie Tyrer’s 21st Birthday Party at Craxton Wood Hotel. The remit was simply that above, but we also provided our Catalyst system and Vista console to make best use of the lighting installed ...

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This week James has been at Celtic Manor for HSL to implement and operate lighting and Robe DigiSpot 7000s for Volvo’s Dealer Kick-off. The event was produced by Patrick from CWA, with lighting designed by Phil Wiffen. Phil specified the 6x DigiSpots to project custom and stock content onto the cycs down the side of the room. Used in both 3 way merge and ...

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Based on the success of the Catalyst and Barco iLite 12 combination at Paul Hogarth’s birthday party, James was asked by CSP to reproduce the spaced screen effect for Unilever’s Christmas party in a marquee at Chester Rugby Club. The event had a strong Hollywood/Oscars theme with lighting designed and implemented by James to enhance ...

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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

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