Tripping The Light Fantastic

Jonathan Smeeton, aka Liquid Len, talks about how the groundbreaking lightshow for the Space Ritual tour was created.

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“When I joined Mike Hart and Alan Day, I had an up-and-running light show complete with artwork, animated slides, projectors, liquids, things like that… I just had to adapt the artwork. We used lots of spacey backgrounds which I had bought from the Planetarium gift shop in London! “We did stuff in certain sequences. It got very sophisticated. And the band had a good dynamic through the show; it had a beginning, a middle and an end. There were places where you drifted off and places where you paid attention… It never really stopped, either, or paused for people to applaud. It just went on and on! It was a long show, but very hypnotic in its own way. “We had an array of five slide projectors; they had a…

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