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Brompton Technology delivers visuals at The Smile’s 2024 tour

Following the release of their second album “Wall of Eyes” earlier this year, English rock band The Smile - featuring Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, along with Tom Skinner - went on tour from March to June, playing 21 concerts across fourteen countries, including the UK, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Italy.

The Smile’s live shows featured an upstage LED wall supplied by long-time collaborators Universal Pixels, with Brompton Technology’s LED processing delivering the dynamic visuals. “We’ve worked with Radiohead and their various side projects since 2017, just after Universal Pixels was formed”, says Phil Mercer, Commercial Director at Universal Pixels. “It was great to continue that relationship by working with The Smile on their 2024 tour, which was split across two legs - with the first show commencing on March 7th in Dublin and the final one taking place in Rome on June 24th.”

Working closely with show designer Andi Watson, Universal Pixels supplied a compact upstage LED wall, built using ROE Visual’s latest V4ST LED panels. According to Mercer, they were the first rental company in Europe to adopt these newly released panels. The LED wall was powered by Brompton’s 4K Tessera SX40 LED processor, which was used alongside Tessera 10G data distribution units.

Additionally, a creative array of ROE LED Strip was positioned behind the band, driven by a Brompton T1 LED processor, chosen for its interpolation functionality. “Interpolated Mode in the T1 processor, which accounts for the physical size of the panel to keep the correct proportions of the image, was essential for mapping the ROE Strip LED element”, notes Mercer.

“This tour was a great example of using a newly launched LED product like the V4ST alongside something much more established such as ROE Strip”, he adds. “Both are supported by Brompton LED processing and can be run from the same physical processor.”

(Photos: Belinda Enthoven)

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