Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Bringing the world of technical theatre to you.
For opening night in Soldier Field, U2 sold out all 65,000 tickets in a matter of minutes, and based on the demand, the band had to schedule an extra show on September 13th. The centrepiece of the U2 360° tour is the world’s first transformable LED screen, comprised of over 500,000 Barco FLX LED modules. [...]
Depeche Mode continue their amazing live performance career, touring their 12th studio album “Sounds of The Universe”, presenting yet another elegant visual mix of innovative aesthetics, technology and dynamics to their fans worldwide. Once again, XL Video is supplying video equipment – Custom built screen, cameras/PPU, Catalyst media servers – and crew to the production. [...]
XL Video supplied an HD camera and playback system plus assorted video extras for several acts appearing at Live Nation’s three Hyde Park summer festival events – Hard Rock Calling, Blur and Wireless – which all ran consecutively in London’s most central greenfield location. This was project managed by Chris Saunders for XL, assisted by [...]
XL Video supplied a completely integrated video package to the 2009 metal-tastic Download Festival at Donnington Park, Derby, UK. This year XL’s brief included 72 hours of live internet streaming, a broadcast spec, HD camera system and screens package for Stage 1. Other services facilitated by XL included an HD record for Live Nation TV [...]
XL Video’s history with Take That dates right back to their first touring days in the 1990′s, when Des Fallon (now a director of XL Video) worked as the video crew chief. Since then, XL has enthusiastically supported Take That and Chris Vaughan at The Production Office, and has invested substantially in new video technology [...]
