Paul Normandale Creates Unifying Look for Oasis Live '25 Tour with CHAUVET Professional

	"The idea was to ensure everyone would see the iconic return of the band, hence a vast rear screen allowing content and IMAG to coexist in a variety of ways throughout the show," says Normandale.

"See you next year," Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher called out to some 90,000 cheering Wembley Stadium fans at the close of the band's September 28 show, on the global Live '25 Tour. Oasis hadn't performed together in the 16 years leading up to their current 41-date, five-continent tour, which began July 4 in Cardiff and concludes November 23 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It's a two-hour, 23-song journey featuring a hoodie-clad Liam performing classics like "Hello," while Noel goes to town on his guitar. As one critic noted, the show has "brought grown men in the stadium crowd to tears -- so happy were they to finally hear these songs again."

Setting an immersive mood is the show design by Paul Normandale, of Light Alternative design. Featuring distinct geometric patterns, reflective of the Oasis logo, and a broad palette of vivid color combinations, Normandale's lighting creates a crisp, contemporary look on stage that manages to be intense, while also projecting a warm, welcoming vibe. His clean design works in close harmony with the images on the show's wide (about 100m) video wall, created by Chris Curtis, of I'm Your Boss Films, and Neil ("Shop") Harris.

A collection of 200 CHAUVET Professional COLORado PXL Bar 16 accentuates the design's geometric patterns, enhancing its 3D effect. The geometric patterns of the lighting design are sometimes echoed in the video wall, which is sometimes broken into sections. Explaining the decision to divide some images with linear borders, Normandale says, "The idea was to ensure everyone would see the iconic return of the band, hence a vast rear screen allowing content and IMAG to coexist in a variety of ways throughout the show."

Also playing a key role in Normandale's rig are 80 Color STRIKE M motorized strobe-wash units, which, like the COLORado battens, were supplied by Lite Alternative, of Blackburn, UK. Flown on upstage truss and across the span of the video wall, the high-output fixtures accent special moments with intense light and strobing in addition to engaging the crowd with audience lighting.

Normandale, who works with lighting director Graham Feast, video director Jon Shrimpton, and Ant Gordon, who runs content, praises the Color STRIKE M for being a reliable, bright source of light while adding dynamism in the strobe moments for the audience, whom he notes are "a key part of the whole performance." Will Oasis really return next year? Stay tuned.