Tait Rocks Metallica's Tour With Custom Lady Justice Statue, Full Video Stage & Automated LED Crucifixes

With dynamic scenes of mayhem and destruction, the show elements developed by TAIT draw the crowd right into the chaos. The band will perform eight shows in Mexico before heading to San Francisco and onward to Canada. The Vancouver shows, on August 24 and 25, will be filmed for the upcoming “Metallica 3D” movie, set for release in 2013. TAIT project details as listed below.

TAIT MAINSTAGE ELEMENTS
-Full video stage (40 metres long, 15 metres wide, 1.5 metres high) on the field of play, surrounded by the crowd.
-9 metre „Lady Justice‟ statue, which is built in in its entirety, in the course of one number via an overhead crane system, as the band blasts “Justice For All”. Statue collapses into pieces as the music fades.
-Four 10 metres hydraulic towers fitted with 12 moving lights are placed at each stage corner. Towers rise vertically during show and then crash down during destruction sequence.
-Twelve automated crosses with internal LED rise during show. TAIT

OVERHEAD ELEMENTS
-Large scenic electric chair (5 metres tall, 2 metres wide, 2 metres deep) is flown in by two winches.

-Four tesla coils, held by winches, generate lightning bolts (10 volts) that fly across stage and strike the
electric chair. This is the first time a tesla coil effect of this scale has been used in front of a live audience.
-Large scenic toilet appears from overhead on winches; a scenic hand holding a sword rises from toilet.
-10 large coffins (20 feet long, 8 feet wide) housing video tiles and moving lights fly over the crowd, powered by high speed chain motors.
-Two scenic trusses are dropped onto stage during the destruction sequence. The trusses are made from polycarbonate cores with a hard coat top and scenically painted.
-All movement (apart from the coffins) are controlled by Fisher Technical‟s „Navigator‟ automation system. SHIPPING & PACKAGING
-All of the TAIT elements travel in 15 standard 53 foot trucks (14 for scenic elements, one for staging). TAIT PRESS CONTACTS

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