Backstage at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

I filmed this on the last night of the 2019 show. It's a Saturday, so we have two shows and that means the first one was bright enough to film what goes on behind the scenes.
We start by powering up the lighting desks and testing all the lights, do maintenance if needed and then at 6pm when the castle closes to the public we install the smoke machines and lighting that are in the public areas and do a final pre-show walk round of all the lighting.
Then we have tea/coffee and maintain any faulty lights we swapped out.
When the show is due to begin the 12 followspot operators man their spots and we head down to hand out the radio controlled rechargeable light batons that are used in this show.
That's where this video starts:- We used to get the dancers to shout out their number to get their LED baton, but in this instance Steve is trying to remember their numbers.
Sorry for the extreme audio. It's a VERY loud show and I had my normal microphone in at the beginning. In the later sections I was using the phones own microphone.
The sword I'm holding in the thumbnail was won by Gerry our lighting designer for the spectacular programming he does on this show. It's a Knights of Illumination sword. Basically the Oscars of the British lighting industry.
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