HSL & XL Video on Kasabian at Creamfields 2008

12 September 2008

All video production for the shows – including 6 Stealth screens, 10 minicams and Catalyst media server control was supplied by XL Video.

HSL supplied lighting equipment – including 12 newly purchased i-Pix BB7s LED wash light fixtures and a myriad of custom bracketry and fixings - and crew to LD Jonny Gaskell for Kasabian’s recent shows, which culminated in a Sunday night headline slot at Creamfields 2008.

All video production for the shows – including 6 Stealth screens, 10 minicams and Catalyst media server control was supplied by XL Video. The two companies collaborated closely with Gaskell and his business partner Nick Gray to set up the Kasabian shows – Gaskell’s hectic summer schedule included working festivals with Prodigy and Groove Armada.

They ensured that their kit worked together to realise Gaskell’s seamless creative fusion of video and lighting sources that produced an epic show for the UK rockers. Gaskell worked to a loose brief to make it more psychedelic and mind bending in keeping with material from the forthcoming new album and a departure from any previous ‘standard’ rock ‘n’ roll aesthetics.

The core stage look was based around a multi-layered mix of video, digital and conventional lighting and LED sources. While Gaskell’s shows are renowned for being anything but ‘standard’, on this one he really rocked with a full-on visual spectacle that also included lasers.

HSL’s project manager Mike Oates says, “It’s always a great pleasure working with Jonny. His designs are different and challenging, with fantastic end-results – and that’s what we enjoy the most”. Video. Lighting the 6 Stealth video surfaces and 144 VersaTUBES were based around being hung from three trusses in the roof. Two vertical drops of Stealth on the downstage edge measured 8 metres high and 2 wide.

On the mid and rear trusses were 4 diagonally rigged Stealth surfaces, ranging between 6 and 10 ft wide. XL made bespoke frames for the Stealth, allowing the screens to be hung either straight or diagonally with the insertion of a corner piece. The sides of all the screens were framed by VersaTUBES, and lining the roof of the stage were another four 10 metre runs of VersaTUBES. Gaskell’s company, Renegade Lighting, commissioned cutting-edge media specialists onedotzero to produce all the screen playback content, which included black and white graphics-orientated footage and plenty of colourful psychedelic video madness!

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