Earlier this summer, PRG supplied production for Fleetwood Mac's LIVE 2013 48-city Stateside arena tour - and this time Guthrie requisitioned 36 of the new generation LED moving heads.
The association between Paul Guthrie' (of Toss Film & Design) and Fleetwood Mac dates back to 1999 when he worked with lead singer Stevie Nicks, before co-designing the band's 2003 tour with their veteran LD Curry Grant and Bruce Rodgers (of Tribe Design). He then took over the reins entirely for their 2009 and 2013 tours.
Curry's own history with the band dates back to 1974, and since he had always used PRG as his preferred service provider Guthrie saw no reason to break with tradition. "I love their attention to equipment, service and crew," he says.
The two and a half hour show itself, which resumes in Europe in the fall, is built very much around greatest hits - but the band is also promoting its current four-track EP Extended Play - their first new recordings in over a decade.
Overall, Paul Guthrie says he has been "extremely happy" with the performance of the impression X4's on the road. "Now that the marketplace is flooded with choices for LED lighting it is difficult to criticise a light that is well designed and well built with feature sets catering to users that want good colour rendering and smooth transitions," he says.
(Jim Evans)
