The 1975’s fifth (and ongoing) concert tour, “Still…At Their Very Best,” kicked off in mid-September, 2023, on the heels of their fourth tour, “At Their Very Best.” And although the set looks the same as the two-story house that debuted in November 2022, there are visual—and virtual—twists beyond the newly added B-stage where lead singer Matthew Healy acts out bits between the new tour’s two-act format. Act 1 also features fresh video content from Green Wall Designs, and as Green Wall’s Viktor Rundlöf notes, there are nuances that play with the audience’s perception of what is real and what is virtually enhanced. “We did a piece where we took a 3D model of the set and lit it in different ways in software. Then we captured the shadow from that lighting on a virtual screen and rendered that to the real screen,” Rundlöf says. “The 1975 are always pushing forward, unafraid to try new things, bold and clever, acting, but also reacting to an ever-changing environment. Evolving out of curiosity rather than necessity, and that is kind of how we would like to think of ourselves as well.”
From PLSN, “Production Spotlight,” by Michael S. Eddy, January 2024, page 30
