Lifeline

I’ve always felt that the key to a successful performance is including the audience as a part of the picture … it keeps the energy of the show up.


A photo from the stage of the audience at a Metallica concert in Mexico City
A photo of Metallica on stage during the Snakepit Tour
A photo of Metallica performing underneath the statue of justice on the Through the Never tour stage

SLC Deseret News

A visually stunning stage show in the round

A photo of Metallica performing  on the Through the Never tour stage
A photo of Metallica performing  at the Donington Festival in the UK
A photo of Metallica performing on the Summer Sanitarium tour

Lighting and Sound International

What his self-imposed rigor has left him with is an unusual color collection: pinks, ambers, blues, and greens that you’ll rarely if ever have seen before. The colors look like a Los Angeles sunset on a bad smog day.

A photo of TIm McGraw and his band performing
A photo of Metallica performing on the Death Magnetic tour stage
A photo of Metallica and The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra performing at the Berkeley Community Center Theater in 1999
A photo of Metallica performing on the Summer Sanitarium tour

Montreal Gazette

The best opening lighting display the Bell Centre has ever seen … The ceaselessly inventive lighting.

A photo of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
performing in concert
A photo of TIm McGraw and his band performing

“The design has to fit in a variety of venues, in a variety of shapes, all around the world, and still maintain its integrity. It is an extremely complicated process, requiring relentless attention to detail so that nothing slips by. All of that is the easiest part for me, just hammering through the details to produce that look.”

The hard part, said Mr. Broderick, is coming up with the design itself. “As a designer, I have to release my subconscious mind to do what it has to do, let the idea assemble itself in my head. And then, take that idea and turn it into a produced show, and still maintain visual interest in every number.”