It was the concert that rock fans the world over were willing to smother their mothers to get a ticket. The website alone received 120 million hits, and with over 20 million ticket applications for the 20,000 tickets, there were bound to be a lot of unhappy fans missing out on Led Zeppelin’s first concert together for 20 years, held at London’s O2 Arena on 10th December. One person, who did get to see the gig, was Pod Film’s director Steve Scott. In November, Scott’s London based production company, Not To Scale, was exclusively approached by Mark Norton, the concert’s creative director to create A FILM that the band would play in front of for the pre-encore finale to their 16 song set, the epic 8 minute 29 second, ‘Kashmir’.
The brief was simple; if the stage is the altar, create a backdrop that is fitting. Steve Scott set about creating beautiful sets of amazingly intricate designs that grow organically, building throughout the song to crescendo. The designs evoked complex kaleidoscopic stained-glass windows forming the semblance of an abstract chimerical cathedral. The monolithic pillars from the Presence album cover supplied an Oscar Niemeyer like support and with further Art Deco and Islamic influence in the film the psychedelic result was guaranteed.
On first sight of Steve’s initial designs, the band’s response was classic rock n’ roll lexicon, “ Yeah Man, it’s like, the Temple of Rock and we’re the High Priests, Love it!�? claimed the discerning clientele.
And so cut to four weeks later, standing in an audience that contained amongst other luminaries; Paul McCartney, Liam & Noel Gallagher, Kevin Shields, Bobby Gillespie, Kate Moss, Richard Ashcroft, the Arctic Monkeys and Marilyn Manson, Pod Film’s Steve Scott and his Not to Scale Producer Gin Godden watched Led Zeppelin play Kashmir live in front of one of the worlds largest monitor’s a 28 x 12 metre giant and 20,000 screaming fans.
As NME wrote:
"The four-piece, dressed almost entirely in black except for Page's 
white shirt, played in front of a massive video screen, which featured 
straight shots of the band at first, but then exploded into 
psychedelic colours for 'Kashmir', the best received song of the 
evening."
Nice work, if you can get it.

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