In Hyde Park, Hard Rock Calling saw The Killers, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen headline, whilst Blur reformed to play two sold out dates and the Wireless Festival completed another successful year with Basement Jaxx and KanYeWest top of the bill. All three events made good use of two R7 stage wing IMAG screens, each measuring 7.11m wide by 4.57m high, with processing via a Lighthouse LIP XGA unit. Images were provided from a live camera feed supplied by XL Video.
At Glastonbury, two 23.2m2 R7 screens, mounted back-to-back on a goalpost structure, formed the Village Screen. This was funded by the Arts Council, Glastonbury and London 2012 and was used to provide non-commercial content for the enjoyment of the festival-goers. As well as the LED panels, CT also provided content control for the screens.
"Throughout the festival, the screens showed a multimedia programme that was devised by the Arts Council," says CT project manager Steve Purkess. "It supplied an interactive element - people could wave at the screen and see their image on there - as well as live action from The Queens Head, a Sky broadcast of the second Lions rugby test match against South Africa and short films collected by the Arts Council from around the UK."
Rod Stewart's tour features a 10.16m wide by 6.1m high R7 screen. Cameras are supplied by CT sister company CT Touring with screen content a combination of bespoke background footage, historical archive footage and live camera feeds.
CT's R7 has also just finished touring with Elton John, another artist the company has been working with since the mid 90s, where two 5.08m high by 5.33m wide screens were deployed.
(Jim Evans)
