A live tour based on the album took place in the UK and Ireland in April 2006. A virtual Richard Burton (a projected image of a picture of a young Richard Burton with a super-imposed actors mouth and jaw lip synced to the original Burton recordings) performed as The Journalist. Justin Hayward reprised his original role as The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist and Chris Thompson returned as The Voice Of Humanity. Also from the original recording were Chris Spedding playing lead guitar and Herbie Flowers playing bass guitar. Other guest artists who appeared were Alexis James as The Artilleryman Russell Watson as Parson Nathaniel and Tara Blaise as Beth. Daniel Boys (known from BBCs Any Dream Will Do) was understudy for all the roles sung by male artists. A model Fighting Machine featured on stage. Also presented was a short animated prequel to the story in the style of the upcoming feature-length film detailing the Martians ecological destruction of their own world (which was originally made for the 1998 computer game Jeff Waynes The War of the Worlds) and their preparations to invade Earth and including a short remix of "The Red Weed". The show was produced by Damian Collier and Jeff Wayne who also conducted the 48-piece ULLAdubULLA Strings and 10-piece Black Smoke Band.   ... >>