Ed Sheeran kick-started his new Aussie tour in Perth last Friday, a tour that has just become the highest selling single concert tour in Australian history. In fact, over one million people have snapped up tickets to the singer’s stadium trek through Australia and New Zealand.
The amazing show was designed by Mark Cunniffe who had a goblet-shaped set, fondly named ‘the chalice’ by the designer who worked closely with Production Manager Chris Marsh and Jeremy Lloyd from international technical production practice, Wonder Works, in blue-printing the construction of the concept. The chalice comprises of five curved video screens that begin at stage level and run up a central stem to flare out to create a live stage ‘ceiling’ of video and light before curving upward again to form a top rim. The structure was engineered by Tait Industries.
Lighting Director for the tour is Matt Jones who has kindly agreed to conduct a tour of this amazing production for ALIA. The rig includes 134 x Claypaky Mythos 2, 16 x Claypaky Scenius Unico Spots, 12 x Martin Atomic LED, 5 x Solaris Flares, 24 x SGM P-10 Floods, 56 x SGM G-4 Beams, 2 x MA Lighting grandMA 2 Full Size, 1 x grandMA2 Light, 2 x MA Lighting NPU’s, 6 x Luminex DMX 8 nodes, 4 x Luminex GigaCore 16 Xt Switches, and 4 x Robert Juliet 4K Lancelot Follow Spots.
Media Servers are Disguise Servers, triggered by Artnet from MA’s.
When: Sunday March 11th
Time: 3pm
Where: Etihad Stadium
To attend this tour please email cat@alia.com.au. Please add if you are interested in seeing the show too. Tours costs $20 for non-members which is donated to http://supportact.org.au/ to help people in our industry who are in dire straights. Please pay the money direct to the tour leader.
Photo credits: The Ralph Larmann
