ADJ illuminates stage for Dutch liberation celebration
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The day is now commemorated by celebrations across the country, including music festivals held in one of the major cities of each of the Netherland’s 12 provinces. In Limburg, the festival is hosted in the city of Roermond and ADJ lighting was used to provide eye candy effects and illumination for one of the principle stages.
A historic city, that was established over 700 years ago, Roermond has a large, and architecturally-impressive, market square which provided the location for the festivities. A number of stages were erected around the square to allow a continuous program of musical performances to run from early afternoon right through until just before midnight. The line-up included a variety of high-profile Dutch pop stars, rock bands, and hip-hop performers, including Jett Rebel, The State, Stavast, Mr. Polska, Lotte Walda, Lil MG, and Gallowstreet.
For the SENA Stage, which featured a predominantly rock-focused line-up, production company Xymio decided to use 10 of ADJ’s Inno Color Beam Quad7 LED-powered moving head beam fixtures. Six of these units were arranged evenly spaced out along a truss running across the back of the stage’s roof and were used to backlight performers with richly-saturated colour washes.
The remaining four fixtures were rigged to metal pipes mounted to two truss totems. Each totem had two pipes, one positioned at the top and another located half way down, and one fixture was mounted to each of the four pipes. The totems were positioned at the back of the stage, at either side of the drum riser, allowing the beams from the Inno Color Beam Quad7s to sweep across the stage behind the acts on stage.
The other side of the totem pipes were then used to mount four of ADJ’s Dotz Matrix panels, while a further four panels were rigged from a truss hanging above. These innovative fixtures feature a 4 x 4 arrangement of potent 30W tri-colour COB LEDs that can be used as a wash or blinder effect.
A number of Martin Professional Rush MH3 Beam fixtures were also used as part of the stage’s lighting rig.
The headlining act for the SENA Stage was Dutch rock outfit The Ten Bells who draw influence from English rockers The Arctic Monkeys and American rock band Eagles of Death Metal.
(Jim Evans)
