XL worked closely with video consultant, Aubrey "Po" Powell, one of the founding members of the influential 1960's album cover design groups, Hipgnosis, which is responsible for many of the famous Pink Floyd album sleeves, as well as Led Zeppelin and Bad Company.
President of XL Touring Video, John Wiseman says: "It was exciting to hear from Robbie Williams, who I had the pleasure of working with on Pink Floyd years ago. Then to find out that Po was also involved immediately made me realize that this was going to be a first class project and I was honoured to be a part of it. From the design, all the way down to the video handoff from Freddie Mercury to Paul Rodgers, it was a class act."
Touring on behalf of XL is chief engineer Chris Mitchell, crew chief Jimmy Johnston, projectionist Dave Jacobs and technicians Mark Stutsman, Victor Victoria and Joe Melkerson. The equipment was a projection package, which included 5 SLM-R12's, 2 ELM-R18's and an SDI camera package.
The tour kicked off in Miami, Fl. beginning of March and will come to and end 13 April, in Vancouver, B.C.
(Chris Henry)
