Brings rock Polka Party with Elation
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Brings have been performing for over 25 years and the evening proved a nostalgic journey through the band’s long list of hits. Some 13,000 guests attended the four-hour concert, which took place in combination with an after-show party. Lighting design was by Dominik Schmid, head of lighting for Brings, along with Frank Schmitz, technical supervisor and owner of TSL Production.
TSL Production supports Brings as technical provider at all their concerts and developed the entire technical concept (lighting, video and sound) for the May Day Polka Party show.
The lighting rig was large and included some of Elation’s newest stage lighting luminaires, namely 20 Artiste DaVinci LED moving spots and 16 DARTZ 360 narrow-beam LED beam/spot moving heads, as well as 30 Platinum HFX moving heads, 24 ACL 360 Bar LED moving battens and 16 ACL 360 Matrix moving head effect panels.
“The DaVinci and DARTZ were solid and gave us some unique looks,” says TSL Production’s Frank Schmitz. “We used pixel mapping between the large LED screen strips and the ACL 360 Matrix and ACL 360 Bar fixtures, which made for some nice visual looks as well. We then interspersed effects from the Platinum HFX fixtures and it looked great.”
From an upstage position came colour and visual effects from Artiste DaVinci’s, as well as beam looks from more Platinum HFX’s. Additional DaVinci fixtures worked from the B-stage to surround and highlight performers in colour and effect.
(Jim Evans)
