Charged with the impossible, Lighting Designer, Paul Kelle, needed something subtle yet dramatic and certainly not to brash as to take anything away from Chris Rea's music for the forthcoming tour. He conceived of a backdrop of guitars, some distressed, some flown, some floor mounted and turned to Specialz to give some of them a different look. After discussions with Specialz Technical Director Keith Owen, electro-illuminescent cable was deemed the way forward and Paul was pleased with the highly effective, but not too overstated final look.

Kelle remarked' "The final look was great as it also linked neatly into some of Chris's paintings, so there was a neat continuity of his work as a painter and a musician"