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 ...

It can be pretty hard work on tour sometimes. You can get shows that are a real push to get ready in time, with huge problems and lots of stress. Sometimes, however, you have shows that are just an absolute pleasure… With no more than 3 hours of sleep after Werchter, everyone was a little tired to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you get used to tour buses, busy airports and crowded planes; any change is welcome. As a last minute addition to the tour, Faithless were asked to travel to St. Petersburg in Russia to perform at a VIP concert as part of a big financial event. To make the trip work, the event organisers chartered a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...