#strobes

"We are back from the dead!"

Strobe, magazine, Picture Magazine, Inc., November 1969

[Video description: a clip of the beginning of It's A Sin by the Pet Shop Boys at the Hydro in Glasgow showing the elaborate light show. There is a large stage with two large screens on either side, one huge one behind the band and another above the stage which is almost as long as the stage itself. Also behind the band are portrait orientated rectangular screens that tilt. For this song the predominant colour of the lighting is red with bits of white and yellow. The screen above the stage shows what looks a bit like a stylised audio wave in red. The ones to the side and behind show white concentric rectangles and parallel lines that often surround a yellowish circle that looks like a sun. The lines change and sweep partway around the circle then back again. When the main melody starts there are red searchlight like beams that move around the audience in front of the stage. Every so often, in time with a clash of cymbals, the entire rig lights up red, bathing the audience in an eerie apocalyptic red glow. After each cymbal crash flash the searchlights turn white then go back to red. Towards the end of the chorus all the screens, apart from the top one, show what looks like yellow orange fire as searchlights beam into the audience. End description]

remember when disney made a kingdom hearts version of Mambo #5?????

it's imperative that i schedule in a few minutes a day to think about this performance.