R2 Digital Productions headed by Colin Rozee, are the tour's technical co-ordinators. At the end of 2007, producer Stuart Littlewood was keen to replace some of the physical set with video and give the show - which has been on the road for 11 years - a contemporary twist.
He spoke to Rozee who advised that large projections would be a way to achieve this, by which time lighting designer Nigel Catmur had already come up with initial ideas for a projected set design containing 51 different sized projection windows mounted onto three large onstage flats
PID supplied the fully integrated Catalyst system fully flightcased. On PID, Rozee says: "Dealing with them has been brilliant! David March and Nev Bull have given us top support and their knowledge and experience has been invaluable."
Dan Tiley comments: "The system has been absolutely rock solid on tour and the line-up at each different venue is incredibly quick considering the complexity of the set. It's so much quicker, simpler and better than having to do it with the projectors."
(Jim Evans)
