PHIL COLLINS:
NOT DEAD YET, LIVE!
Matrix provides a complete video package for the singer’s European tour.
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Following the success of the North America, Australia and New Zealand
legs of the Not Dead Yet, Live! tour, Matrix successfully delivered a video
solution for the European segment of Phil Collins’ ongoing world tour.
Joined by his acclaimed 14-strong band, Collins was also accompanied
by a range of Matrix equipment – most notably the PPU, camera systems
and LED inventor y. The European shows saw the introduction of the
company’s recently acquired disguise media ser vers, packaged in custom
configured racks, providing a vast enhancement to the visual impact of the
show due to the flexibility of the graphics output.
The Matrix PPU with Ross Carbonite mixer controlled a seven-camerapackage, comprising four Sony HSC-100 EFP cameras – one FOH, two pit-
cameras on track and on spider dollies, and one handheld on stage – in
addition to a Q-ball and two 4k BM Micro Studio Cameras, also on stage.
Matrix’s Unilumin 5.9mm was the LED of choice for the European tour, used
as the main 12m x 7m up-stage screen, two 7m x 5m IMAG screens at the
stage wings, and LED riser screens. These LED elements were controlled by
NovaStar’s impressive 4k processors.
Matrix’s Ruar y Macphie, who is the Technical Director for camera
and video elements on the tour, collaborated closely with the relevant
departments within Matrix and Anna Valley, Phil Collins’ production team