Brothers Gow glow with Rogues
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Lighting designer Matt Collier is capturing the pure joy and live-for-music spirit of Brothers Gow on their Fall Tour with a compact, but punchy and fast-moving lightshow that is built around 10 Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
Collier, who the band describes as “the sixth member of Brothers Gow”, has loaded six Rogue R1 Washes and four Rogue R1 Spots into the band’s well-travelled trailer for the tour that started in San Diego’s Music Box and has been working its way around the West Coast with stops at LA’s Teragram Ballroom and Portland’s Analog Theatre.
“I got my first Rogues almost two years ago and since then have tripled the number in our floor package,” said Collier. “The band goes in a lot of different directions, always with enthusiasm and very high energy. There are features in the Rogues that allow me to create a lot of different good looks so the lights match the music. Plus the intensity level of the Rogues matches the band and, of course, something very important to us, the Rogues travel well.”
Collier’s go-to floor package for the Fall Tour includes six Rogue R1 Spot and four Rogue R1 Wash fixtures. At most venues, he positions the washes on top of ladder truss and has the spots arranged on lower truss stands and on the stage deck.
Also adding colour to the band’s performances are the 14 Chauvet DJ SlimPAR 64 RGB fixtures that Collier positions at various points in his rig. “I use the SlimPARs as static accent lights and to add another cool layer to complement my design,” he said. “Their slim housing allows them to be mounted in tight spots - plus they fit nicely in the trailer.”
(Jim Evans)
