The Australian DJ and producer needed a VJ for two European shows and I was happy to cover these on behalf of MoreEyes. First was a trip to Gothenburg’s Port Du Soleil, a pop-up summer club in one of the cities oldest venues in a central park location. The screen set-up sounded great on paper, almost complete immersion in LED, from large ceiling strips to wrap around panels on all the walls.

I was provided with all of the details and prepared my output mapping in advance only to find it almost completely wrong when I arrived at the venue. Virtually pointless preparation, panels had been removed, lefts and rights had been mixed up, different resolution panels in various areas, strips where sections were jumbled up. It was a real pain in the proverbial, the house tech was a church service lighting op and was friendly but very little help.

Strafwerk festival in Amsterdam was almost a complete waste of electricity for the visuals during the daytime in my opinion, five long thin strips of panels placed at a 45º angle rising up and out above the crowd in a semi-circle. FOH was too far away to have a good view, the FOH structure had a transparent roof, it was a very hot summers day and the sun on the screens and the heat made everything harder than it should have been. I passed the baton to the house VJ who did an adequate job of flashing the panels now and again using the Chaser plugin which was pretty much all that was visible, the supplied content was not suited to the set-up at all.