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CONCERT TOURINGS
George Michael - 25 LIVE
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day
Depeche Mode - Touring The Angel
Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
U2 - Vertigo
Robbie Williams - Close Encounters
George Michael - 25 LIVE
George Michael’s 25LIVE-tour was a show of superlatives. With this tour he looked back at 25 years in music business. GM and his team toured together with a total of 16 trucks in 28 cities in the year 2006. 25LIVE kicked-off in the Palau Sant Jordi-Arena in Barcelona. There George Michael performed a concert before 18.000 Fans. His last concerts in 2006 were five outsold shows in the Londoner Wembley-Arena.
Equipment list (lighting and video):
25 m x 9 m curved LED wall with 3000 Barco MiStrip LED modules
2 three storied 18,3 m x 2,4 m platforms
2 Barco 45 m² Ilite
12 Inner Screens
2 Lighthouse 25 m² LED screens
Martin MAC 2000 Wash
Atomic Strobes with Atomic Color Changers
Big Lites 4,4 kW Units
James Thomas Engineering PixelLines
6 Robert Juliat Ivanhoe 2kW Followspots
2 Strong Super Trouper 2,5kW Followspots
Kinesy Variable Speed Hoists
Wholehog III
9 Mole Richardson Eight-Light Units with Wybron Coloram II Scrollers
14 I-Pix Satellite Fixtures
PAR 16 Birdies
32 Martin MAC 2000 Profile
1 High End Systems Catalyst V.4 Media Server and SAMSC Designs PixelMad Software
Trusses and Standard Riggs from Neg Earth
Suppliers (video, lighting and rigging):
Neg Earth
XL Video UK Ltd.
The Rigging Partnership
ONEDOTZERO (Video Content/ Interactive Systems)
Stage for outdoor concerts: StageCo
Credits:
Production Manager: Mark Spring | Tour Director: Ken Watts | Assistant Tour Director: Lisa Johnson | Video Staging Design & Direction: Willie Williams | Set-, Lightingdesign, Operator: Vince Foster | Lighting Equipment: Dave Ridgeway/NEG EARTH | Video Equipment: Chris Mounsor, Phil Mercer/ XL Video UK Ltd | Setting: Chris Cronin, Merv Thomas/ Total Solutions Group | Rigging: Gavin Weatherall, Andy Bailey/The Rigging Partnership | Year of Production: 2006 | Locations: Copenhagen Parken, Denmark, Olympic Hall in Munich, Kölnarena in Cologne, Germany
Source of information: “George Michael – 25LIVE-Tour”. By Sonja Graminski and Ralph Larmann. Production Partner 3/2007. Pp. 46-50.
Further Information: http://www.georgemichael.com
