On tour with The Orb

Tempted live - Duran Duran

As promised, onstage video for Tempted shot by Nick Rhodes, Nefer Suvio and yours truly..

Apocalypse Now

Sailing the dutch barge narrowboat Adelente down the Shropshire Union Canal can get a little like a Francis Ford Coppola Movie at times.
There are some very unusual people here on the canals, and I might be one of them.

Devil's

A day well spent, filming My Bad Sister for Duran Duran live.
As usual, a spiffing time was had by all..

Canary Wharf

A late night light test for a big mapping project next year.
Client EMF

Day off? No chance

Most kids want to borrow the car, or need a new iPhone.
This one wants visuals for a show in Vegas.

Ibibio Sound Machine

Very excited to be working with this super cool band

Winter Lights - Canary Wharf

A cold wet and very smelly day spent in a river bed at Canary Wharf installing the projection system for Winter Lights.. A 5 projector blend in resolume with 5.1 surround sound from Qlab and a dollop of timecode for good measure.
It was fine, but of course you can't have a job that involves a 'Video Artist' without something going wrong.  Oh hum..

client EMF

Berlin - Promo shoot

Much drama on set as the 10m circumference screen ends up as a 10m diameter screen.
We got there in the end, but it was a bumpy ride.

Dublin NYE 2019

Two big waterscreens in the middle of the river for New Year's Eve in Dublin.
Best part of the week was some young chap diving off the bridge into the bitterly cold river during the show.

Client EMF

2018

GMB

Breakfast TV and tbh I've been awake at 2am every night this week so it wasn't such a big deal to get up and go into London to do a projection on the ITV studio for Good Morning Britain.

Client EMF

The End of The End

Finally, we come to the end of The Orb's 30th Anniversary Tour.

Melkweg Amsterdam and I am reminded of earlier times when I came here 40 years ago to another world, of late flower power freedom and psychedelia.

The gig was preceded by a showing of Lunar Orbit - the documentary where I get a 

1⁄3rd of a second walk on part and you get to see the back of my head..

The glamour of it all.

Anyway, it looked great, if I do have to say so myself.

Photo: Wouter Bessels

Orb 2018

As we head into the last few fly-in shows of The Orb tour, there's still time to nudge some more content into place to keep the show vibrant and fresh.

Photo: David Baylis

Dua Lipa - pepsi

A long day on set earlier this year, finally found the result. Still have a lump in my finger where I trapped it in a fast fold.. ouch!

Rolls Royce - Ghost

came across some projection work I did earlier this year for director fil fury

Back on set

Back on set, this time for a sunglasses advert.
Can't say it was the most exciting day of my life but made a nice change from touring.

GBOA T&C 30 years

30 years ago today, my life took a big swerve in a new direction when I found myself doing projections for Gaye Bykers On Acid at the T&C.

A few weeks later I was away on tour with them as their lighting/visuals guy. Halfway through the tour I was joined in the VW campervan by a very young Ben Sullivan. Things were never going to be the same again.

What The Floyd - Skipton

Last show of the WTF tour in a cattle market in Skipton...
It's been nice coming back to stage lighting and nudging the show into shape.
Sad to say goodbye to the band, who are my new imaginary friends.
I didn't know cow foot trimming was a thing....

Orb US Tour

I'm home while the kids are away having fun.
It's raining.