"When Illyria started on the open-air touring circuit, 23 years ago, it was almost exclusively Shakespeare, but as companies started offering more, people discovered that there is more that they want to see," he said.
Since then Reverb has greened over 100 major music tours, and over 1,800 concert events; kept more than 99,000 tons of CO2 from the air; fueled touring fleets with more than 500,000 gallons of biodiesel; partnered with more than 2,500 environmental groups; and reached more than 14 million music fans.
Oliver Gray, the artistic director of the Illyria Open-Air Touring Theatre company, said the popularity of outdoor productions was linked to the wider variety of shows being staged.
Is the backside grossly disproportionate compared with other open-air grand touring cars?
He flew continually, and in his later life, he began touring air shows and schools, promoting his time in the B-17.
The odd plume of dust is kicked up into the hot summer air as the touring boats round the various statues being erected on the canal's banks: Isis (the goddess of protection), a shiny silver metal globe and a 20ft-high rendering of a worker digging the soil.
From his electronica work of the early 2000s touring alongside Air, to producing his third album alongside Guy-Man of Daft Punk, he reps his nation proud through a cosmic blend of wacky multi-lingual vocals and instrumentation tracing the roads from classic French touch to hypnotic lullabies sang in Brazilian Portuguese.
Because of constant touring (and hence, air travel), many members of the dance music community are leaving a massive carbon footprint that I believe is our responsibility to offset as best we can, in this case, raising money and awareness.
So far the band have reworked and performed 24 minutes of the original performance, showing the material at the Women's Library this summer and then touring Europe before airing it again last night.
