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LIAM GALLAGHER: AS YOU WERE Following the release of his debut solo album, As You Were, Liam Gallagher began a tour that has now reached the summer festival circuit. With a Production Design by Cassius Creative and technical aid from Really Creative Media, the singer’s show is a visual feast as TPi reports...
Liam Gallagher is bringing new music, a fresh band and some iconic festival sets to the UK this summer. The Mancunian rock ‘n’ roll star is back on the road, including a healthy dose of festival and outdoor shows before heading further afield to play indoors for European and Japanese audiences. Teaming up to help design and deliver the creative backdrop to Gallagher’s stage presence was Cassius Creative, a production design partnership between Dan Hill and Chris ‘Squib’ Swain. The production designers joined forces with Nick Dew and Jack James of digital experts, Really Creative Media. Dew outlined the history between the companies: “Having teamed up with Cassius Creative on Dua Lipa’s The Self-Titled tour and Rudimental’s
performance at V Festival 2017, we have enjoyed a great working relationship already, and complement each others’ artistic skills. “The creative process first began a few weeks before Liam’s appearance at BBC Biggest Weekend show in Coventry, with the stage vision brought to life through predominantly live camera and augmented with some textures and using Thundering Jacks software, Video Dust.” Video Director Phil Woodhead ran the Video Dust through Really Creative Media’s Catalyst V6 media server, which was then controlled via MA Lighting grandMA2 consoles. “This software gave us the opportunity to further manipulate and replicate live camera feeds to create a unique experience for live audiences, utilising the IMAG wing screens either side of the stage to full visual effect,” explained Dew. 22
