It’s just past 2AM and London’s Stockwell Road is quiet, except for the occasional pub and pockets of Friday night drinkers heading home to bed.
In the nearby O2 Academy Brixton however, there is a hive of activity. For the gathered men and women here, today is going to be a very long day.
In a little over 20 hours dance music superstar Eric Prydz will step onto this stage for the world premiere of his EPIC show. But before the Swedish DJ and producer can play one beat, the enormous stage and visual spectacle that will surround his special DJ booth needs to be constructed.
It will be 30 meters wide, and almost as tall. It will take this group of men and women approximately 10 hours to build. And then another group of visual artists, lighting technicians, and geniuses of the moving image, will spend another eight hours mapping every inch of the giant structure’s many surfaces so that some of the world’s most powerful projectors can transform it into something completely beyond the imagination.
And when it is finally ready, 4000 or so dance music fans will witness one of the most ambitious DJ shows ever to be conceived. It will be a wild illusion, alive with light, video, and 3D holograms, all synchronised to the heart racing rhythms of one of dance music’s greatest minds.
For now though, it is all just pieces of metal, cargo boxes, and unplugged cables.
(Apologies about the late start to the blog, we’re operating under tough blogging circumstances!)
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