It’s a privilege to be with a band who are playing main stage at each of the biggest festivals in Europe this summer. Glastonbury, Sziget and Rock Werchter. 80,000 people are expected this year each day, with 65,000 of those doing all three days. So it’s pretty big in numbers, but having a small site means that when it’s ...

Big Glastonbury Show? Done. The crew often mark their tours by the ‘Big London Show’ (Brixton etc..) and Glastonbury, I guess really as a right of passage for the band. Faithless however are no strangers to the Pyramid Stage but I’m pretty sure this show was the best to date. For myself, there are few better feelings in ...

A view from behind the screen… Today finds us in at the Hurricane festival in Germany after a day off in Hannover. The day started nice and dry but in true German style, torrential rain hit mid afternoon without any notice. The show went off without any problems although for the first time the performance was infront of 1000s of wet, ...

So, after arriving late at night on our Boeing Business Jet (specially chartered for the band and crew), we headed over to site to check out the stage and technicals. Seeing as there is only about an hour of darkness at this time of year, we could see the magnificence of the courtyard the show was in as soon as we arrived at 2am. ...

The Swiss seem to have a knack for festival locations; Gurten Festival is on the top of a hill surrounded by the stunning, snow-capped Alps, and this weekend’s festival ‘Caribana’ is on the shores of Lake Geneva. The practicalities of these locations seem to be wholly immaterial, normally involving swapping all our ...

So, first full festival (I’m discounting Radio 1’s big weekend as there was no video involved) and we’re in Poland for Krakow’s ‘Selector Festival’. All the kit went in first thing this morning (1am), so after a good sleep I decided to get out and about and have a look round Krakow. Ignoring the ever ...

Tonight was the last show of the short UK tour, now we ditch the production lighting and stick to video and floor lighting only. Joy! All went well bar a couple of lighting desk issues but I doubt any of the crowd cared by the looks of them. Homeward bound now in preparation for ...

Welcome to your first glimpse of the world’s largest ‘Etch-a-sketch’! Tonight we were blessed with the large stage of the Wolverhampton Civic so all of the back screen went up and all of the riser video strips went out. A perfect chance to get a few photos for you. From the beginning it was planned that ...

Big London show, done. A massive hit with the crowd, the show looked and sounded amazing. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get any photos, I had to stay side of stage to look after the video kit and run the visuals. Using ‘Pilot’ (the media server chosen for the tour) for the first time was interesting. Always a little unnerving using something for ...

So after 4 days at PRG in Longbridge, the lighting and video prep is complete. I’ve had the entire 10m x 6m Martin LC screen hanging in the warehouse to build the cable looms that will allow us to rig the screen in as short time as possible (so I can get back on the bus and get some sleep!). The control rack with processors for the LC and MiTRIX screens is ...