The German singer-songwriter Herbert Grönemeyer is touring trough Germany and a few other European countries during 2015 and 2016. Grönemeyer’s big break true was in 1984 and his success in Germany kept on growing ever since.
With 28 shows in 2015, almost all of them sold out and 8 more in 2016 this isn’t a small tour.
Following the architect’s design impressions we created 6 huge video pods which also contain 16 Robin Point moving heads each. All of the R&D and fabrication was done in an extremely short period of only 4 weeks time. The led video continues around the corners of the pod, making them extraordinary touring video items! Because of the limited space, the cornered video panels have remotely mounted controllers installed in the main pod construction.
Each completed frame (450cm x 450cm x 66cm) has a total weight of 1200kg and is moving, using 4 motion controlled chain hoists. The hoist pick points were cleverly positioned in the main frames to allow virtually any possible show positon of the pods.
It speaks for itself the pods were designed to be easy tourable, keeping load in and load out times to the absolute minimum. Each of the screens splits in half, with each part having it’s own dedicated touring dolly. The total weight of a loaded dolly comes in at around 800kg, which is perfectly manageable by a standard forklift or even by man power.
