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Content:
0:30 # The sound of the show: Greg Price and Chris Rushin
13:14 Creative Director / Production Design | Dan Braun
15:28 # Lighting Designer Rob Koenig
18:50 # V – Robospot Tech
19:24 # Gene Mc Auliffe about the video screen setup

The scene could have come from a thriller: Deep inside the Volksparkstadion Hamburg, some moped riders stand in front of screens in near darkness. It's almost impossible to see anything else. A figure emerges from the darkness, holding a book. An actual book! The young lady is V, responsible for the Robospots robe.

And with a 360degree stage including a Snakepit, it is by no means a routine task – after all, the musicians can disappear in any of the four directions at any time. But such challenges don't faze Rob, V, and the rest of the crew.

For Rob Koenig, most of the work is already done: He will run the concert by firing cues that he meticulously prepared during preproduction. Some effects, strobes, and such are controlled by faders. The rest of the show consists of cues precisely tailored to the band, allowing the stadium to shrink or explode at the touch of a button. That doesn't mean he can relax during the shows: He constantly keeps an eye on the four musicians.

Eight columns for the rigging points

Production Designer Dan Braun also exudes the relaxed calm of success. And this design can already be counted as a success: The eight columns are packed with lighting, sound, and audio equipment. Nevertheless, they elegantly blend into the stadium's architecture. Elegant and stable: The steel cables stretched between them provide the rigging points for the inner ring of Meyer Sound's impressive sound system. The columns themselves are equipped with two hangs of Panther modules each, as well as six 1100LFC LowFrequency Control Elements and six VLFC Very LowFrequency Control Elements inside.

"I worry every time about whether all our new ideas will work on a large scale," admits Braun, "but we have great partners like Meyer Sound whom we can rely on." Braun discussed his ideas for the stereo sound directly with company founders John and Helen Meyer, who embraced his vision and entrusted Bob McCarthy, Director of System Optimization at Meyer Sound, with the audio design for the tour.

The columns are indeed impressive. Their biggest advantage is undoubtedly the seamless integration of live show material, which is usually presented relatively carelessly as a backdrop or on video screens to the left and right of the stage in proscenium stages, in order to reduce the visual distance from the stage action.

The round video surfaces are framed at the top and bottom by nine VariLite VL3600 Profiles each.
Each VL3600 is accompanied by a Chauvet Professional Color STRIKE M. Between the round LED screens, seven Robe BMFLs are positioned in a vertical line, but here too, the number nine is not far away. Because underneath the seven BMFLs, two BMFL Washbeams hang, which are controlled via the aforementioned Robospot system.

That covers the fixtures in the columns. On stage, a total of 48 Sharpy Aqua Plus fixtures are positioned, along with 24 SGM Q7 fixtures to illuminate Metallica from below. These are complemented by around 40 Solaris Mozart One fixtures from TMB. The stage edges and steps are accentuated with SGM Touring VPL fixtures.

Last but not least, nine Proteus Excalibur fixtures are positioned at eight locations.


Crew

Creative Director / Production Design | Dan Braun
Production Manager | John "Lug" Zajonc
Production Coordinator | Vicki Huxel
Stage Management | Gino Cardelli, Dewey Evans, Eddie Rocha
Lighting Designer | Rob Koenig
Lighting Programmers | Joe Cabrera, Cat West
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Vendor | Premier Global Production
Account Rep | James Vollhoffer
Project Manager | Anthony Kordyjaka
LX Crew Chief | Mat Gass

Video Director | Gene McAuliffe
Video Programmer | Hayden Katz
Video Project Manager | David Hunkins
Video Support | 4Wall

Content Creation | Andrea Cuius | Nocte
and Dan Potter Creative Works London

FOH engineer | Greg Price

Monitor Engineer | Robert Cowan, Michael Bollella
Audio Crew Chief | Emmett Tubritt
Audio Support | Clair Global
Head Rigger | Chad Koehler

Head Carp | Michael Pettit
Head Electrician | Arturo "Tudy" Martinez
Pyro Project Manager | Reid Derne Pyrotech
Pyro Shooter | Tristan Ford

Staging | Stageco Belgium # TAIT Towers



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