Charli XCX and Troye Sivan joined forces for the SWEAT tour, where both artists played a large role in the overall look and feel of the tour’s design to create an enlightening, raw and powerful show each night. The industrial-inspired stage design included two-storey scaffolding, catwalks, truss automation and video ‘billboard’ walls that all lent itself to the impactful lighting.
The tour was put together by Creative Director Imogene Strauss, Production and Lighting Designer Jonny Kingsbury of Cour Design, and the Tour Directors from Eighteentwentysix [1826]. TPi spoke with them and several other key talents about the tour’s production.
360 Production Director and Manager for the SWEAT tour was Mike Walker of 1826, who for almost 34 years has been working tours and events, projects ranging from theatres to arenas and stadiums. “This project was unique and involved us all at every level to pull this together. From the 1826 side, we were tasked with not only bringing together multiple entities, but making them come together as a unit, being on time and on budget,” he began. “Charli [XCX] had an existing team led by Tour Manager Maarten Cobbaut, with the Troye [Sivan] team newer to each other, with Laura Pease as the Tour Manager. We pulled together a production team to support both artists and execute the creative team brought about by Imogene Strauss and Jonny Kingsbury.”
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Photos and words: Steve Jennings
