“The 888 LED panels move apart from their neighbors in a very organic way as the screen expands and starts to grow, and audience tries to figure out what’s happening,” explains Matt Davis...More
Nobody has ever seen anything quite like it: one of the most exciting, innovative elements of the U2 360° tour design is the expanding video screen based on a Hoberman sphere* and his patented “Iris Structure”...More
Vital statistics for the superstructure for U2’s 360˚ Tour. Keep in mind, there are three of these on tour. The flown production load, which is normally loaded in during the 24 hours preceding the show, weighs almost as much as the superstructure from which it is hanging...More
London-based architect Mark Fisher has established a reputation for his “architecture of entertainment” by designing really big shows, and U2’s 360º is no different...More
“The goal always for me is when the fans come into the stadium they see something the like of which they have never seen before,” explains U2’s show designer & director Willie Williams....More
Over the next few weeks, we will be looking at show director/designer Willie Williams’ lighting design as well as his work with stage designer Mark Fisher and his team at Stufish Studios, in more details...More
The group of individuals involved in this tour below clocks in at over 200, but that doesn’t include all of the various vendors involved on the tour...More
Stay tuned later this week for our microsite dedicated to U2 360 tour, complete with blogs, interviews, video, photos, and more. Our own David Johnson was there for rehearsals...More
Willie Williams designs and directs multimedia events. His work has included tours with REM, U2, George Michael, Laurie Anderson, and The Rolling Stones;...More
Willie Williams discusses his latest designs on U2's Vertigo Tour. The album it supports, How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, is an exploration of birth and death, God, war, peace, and, as with them all, love...More
Automation specialists Kinesys designed the motion control system for the Barco MiSphere low-resolution screens developed for U2’s Vertigo tour. The screens are part of unique LED effects devised by show director Willie Williams for the tour. Conceived ......More
Barco, Innovative Designs, and XL Video (all based in Belgium) worked together to stage Willie Williams’ spectacular design for U2’s Vertigo tour, which kicked off in San Diego, CA March 28. The tour, with lighting design directed by Bruce Rahmus and ......More
U2 walks onto the stage with all of the house lights on--with every light in the building on--and plays the first song, explains the band's longtime show designer Willie Williams. And it absolutely brings the house down....More
U2 has returned to the concert scene after a hiatus of several years, and it is a decidedly different production. The name of the tour may be Elevation,...More
Forsaking the mirror balls and pop imagery associated with U2 these days, director Jake Scott of Portfolio/Black Dog Films and director of photography...More
Faith has been said to move mountains, but you don't see much tangible evidence of it in everyday life. Yet right now, in a stadium somewhere, U2's faith...More