Nocturne Productions & Vidicon are providing Barco high-performance display technology for Paul McCartney’s World Tour, which completed its 50-date North American leg on 29 October in Phoenix, having grossed over $100 million. Nocturne and Vidicon are providing approximately 1,600sq.ft of Barco’s Daylight Display LED video displays and 16 of its high brightness ELM Series DLP projectors for McCartney’s World Tour in Japan. The displays are located on both sides of the stage, each in a spectacular 60ft (18.3m) x 40ft (12.2m) display. 16 Barco ELM R12 projectors are rear-projected, side-by-side, onto eight 15ft (4.5m) x 20ft (6.1m) projection screens left and right of the stage. The stunning configuration is used to show live image magnification and video playback during the show.

Following his successful North American tour stops, McCartney then toured to Mexico City for concerts on 2, 3 and 5 November at Palacio de los Deportes. McCartney will perform in Japan for shows at the Tokyo Dome on 11, 13 and 14 November and the Osaka Dome on 17 and 18 November. Highlights from his World Tour will air on ABC in a two-hour special entitled ‘Back in the U.S.’ on 27 November at 9pm EST. His new live concert album and DVD of the same name will hit the streets the day before.

Vidicon, Nocturne’s LED specialists, owns the world’s largest inventory of Barco DLite 7 equipment. High-profile entertainers in the music industry consistently rely on Nocturne for superior live event production including: Christina Aguilera, U2, Madonna, Aerosmith, The Who, Elton John, Billy Joel, The Eagles, Tina Turner, Gloria Estefan, KISS, Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Barenaked Ladies and many others.

(Lee Baldock)


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