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Colour Sound supports Manic Street Preachers

Colour Sound Experiment supplied LED screens and processing to the recent UK leg of the Manic Street Preachers “Resistance is Futile” tour. The 5 mm Roe LED on the tour was part of a massive investment by the company - totalling over £1 million - in new LED screen earlier in the year.

This purchase added 230 square metres of LED to Colour Sound’s existing screen stock which means they can offer a variety of pitches for all occasions, including 2.6, 6, 7 12, 20 and 30 mm as well as the new 5 mm. The screen was specified onto the Manics’ tour by Toby Vogel who co-ordinates and manages all-things-video for the band on the road.

The band’s creative director is film director and screenwriter Kieran Evans. He produces all their show video content. Toby Vogel provided all the front end control and media servers himself - comprising Mac Pro towers running Resolume software and Blackmagic capture devices - together with a robo-cam system. He worked from FOH and output everything to screen, including an IMAG camera mix cut by Phil Woodhead backstage in video world.

One operated camera was positioned at FOH, fitted with a long-throw lens, with two more in the pit on a track-and-dolly system, and these were augmented with two Panasonic AW-HE60 and three AW-HE2 robo cams. A 14.4 metre wide by 4.2 m high video screen upstage was supported by two side IMAG surfaces each measuring 3.6 metres wide by 4.8 high. All of these were made out of the Roe 5 mm.

(Photos: Lindsay Cave)

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