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U2’s 360 Tour

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U2’s 360° Tour ran from 2009-2011

Lighting Co

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Crew

Show Director/Designer: Willie Williams

Production Architect/Designer: Mark Fisher/Stufish

Production Director: Jake Berry

Lighting Director: Ethan Weber

Lighting Crew Chief: Nick Barton

Systems Crew Chief: Craig Hancock

Associate Lighting Designer: Alex Murphy

Video Directors: Stefaan “Smasher” Desmedt, Tom Krueger

Assistant Video Director: Stefaan Venbesien

360° Video Screen System: Willie Williams, Mark Fisher, Frederic Opsomer (Innovative Designs), Matt Davis (Hoberman Associates)

XL Video Management: Chris Mounsor, Managing Director; Paul Wood, Project Manager; Richard Burford, Technical Director; Alan Drake, Installations Engineer; Patrick Vansteelant, Crew Chief

XL Video Engineers/LED Techs: Bob Larkin, Jan Bonny, Jeroen “Myway” Marain

Camera Operators: Mark Cruikshank, Gordon Davies, Luke Levitt, Eoin McLoughlin, Oliver Clybouw, Tobias Kokemper, Jan Paulsen, Frederik Goemaere (Barco)

Video Content: Sam Pattinson, Catherine Owens, Hiroshi Sugimoto

 

Gear

Lighting Consoles: 2 MA Lighting grandMA consoles, 3 grandMA Light consoles

196 PRG Bad Boy 1400 Spots

154 Martin Atomic 3000 strobes

154 Martin Atomic scrollers

12 Lycian M2 followspots

9 4.5K BigLites

8 4K Xenon Gladiator followspots

8 2K Nova flower effect searchlights

5 6K MSR ripple effect beacons

2 ETC Source Four fixtures

1 Transformable LED Video Screen (888 LED panels w/ close to 500,000 Barco FLX 24 pixels appearing on a transformable funnel-shaped structure)

2 Barco DX-700 multi-window video processors w/ 8 fiber optic links

12 Sony DXC-D55WSPL cameras

2 UVA d3 Media Servers

1 Medialon Manager V5

1 Grass Valley Kayak 200c SD/HD Vision Mixer w/200 & 100 Panels

1 Abekas Deveous MX SD/HD DVE

36 Kinesys chain hoists for video screen w/ control system

Photo by Steve Jennings