Throughout the month of July, the tour visited open-air venues in no less than 30 cities around Sweden, sometimes on consecutive nights, with each concert attracting crowds of up to 10,000 people. This is the second year running that Massteknik has provided Ledin¹s entire video solution and, to make such a gruelling schedule possible, the stage, provided by Starlight Staging of Sweden, is built on the chassis of a truck so that it can be more easily moved from place to place. This truck has a built-in stage roof on top of a truss structure, with the screens being hung from the truss. To enable them to track from side to side with the necessary precision, Massteknik helped to design custom-built motors, with movement accurate to within 10mm, to provide a seamless screen when the three became one.
Video production, also provided by Massteknik, was from an OB truck located behind the stage. Three separate video feeds, each with its own content, were supplied to the individual screens and also provided the trigger for on-stage sound, with the drummer receiving a click track from the Massteknik engineer.
Image processing was via a Dataton unit using a Golden DaVE picture switcher from Snell & Wilcox, with four Doremi hard disk recorders. Seven cameras, four fixed and three hand-held, provided live I-mag feeds of the band and audience to mix with pre-recorded video footage.Massteknik¹s Kenneth Paterson commented: "This is an extremely prestigious tour for us to be involved with, because of Thomas Ledin’s status in Sweden, and we are very proud to have been asked back for a second year. The Lighthouse LVP1010D is an ideal screen for this type of event, because of the combination of high resolution, image quality and relatively light weight which enabled us to hang and track it from side to side on this unusual type of mobile stage."
(Lee Baldock)
