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S+H supplies LED screen to 10cc tour

S+H supplies LED screen to 10cc tour

LED screen, drapes and special FX specialist S+H Technical Services supplied their Glux 12 mm LED screen to the 2016 UK and European tour by rock band 10cc. The LED screen was specified by video and visuals designer Ian Holmes of Essex, UK based XIVIX. It was the second tour for which he has co-ordinated the video elements for 10cc, where he was again collaborating with lighting designer Russell “Tigger” Matthews.

 

The screen was arranged as five 3 metre high by 1 metre wide columns anchored to trussing towers which were spaced one metre apart and fitted to ‘skate’ bases devised by Holmes, Matthews, Andy “Jurgen” Munford (Holmes’ dep for the middle section of the tour due to pre-existing commitments with Kim Wilde’s Netherlands tour) and tour lighting supplier Neg Earth.

 

The skates allowed the screens to be moved manually into two configurations - the five columns and one single 5 x 3 metre block which was used for a Kevin Godley movie that played during “Somewhere in Hollywood”. With only 40 seconds to do the move and get all five columns lined up as one piece, the screen design needed the application of theatrical engineering in conjunction with lightweight product (to keep the centre of mass low on raked stages). The skates provided a stable movable ground-supported base so the columns could be pushed together and aligned each time.

 

Ian Holmes created and programmed the video content on his Green Hippo media servers for all but “Somewhere in Hollywood” for which visuals were designed and produced by Kevin Godley himself. In this moody piece Godley sang the lead vocal and appeared to be floating above the band on the screens - now configured as the single block surface.

 

Seven tracks of vocals plus click were also played back on the Hippotizers, along with a MIDI timecode that synced the video and audio. LoopMIDI was used to link up the midi signals internally to the server without a cable in sight, using a technique developed by Holmes and Green Hippo for the tour. Audio was provided by ESS.

 

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