Colour Sound is supplying all lighting and LED screen for the tour where Waterfield is working closely with laser designer and camera mixer Matt Buttons to produce a spectacular visuality for the tour which has helped win them sand the band plenty of rave reviews!.
Waterfield wanted to introduce some architecture into the design and also have the flexibility of the rig being as floor based as possible, so he started with five upstage trussing towers, which Colour Sound designed and had specially fabricated by James Thomas Engineering.
These measure 1.2 by 1.2m wide / deep and are 3.6m high in full-height mode, but designed to break down into two sections at 1.2 and 2.4m high respectively ... giving A and B options and huge adaptability to fit into almost any venue.
They also pack two-wide on the truck and are on wheels for easy deployment. A 3m deep by 1m wide column of Colour Sound's BT18 LED screen panel is attached via Robe Media Spinners to each tower once in position, with the Spinners rigged below a cross bar at the top.
Attached to the front of each tower are four of the Robe CycFX 8s, three Showtec Sunstrips, one Atomic strobe and a Clay Paky Sharpy. There's a Robe MMX Spot in the base of three towers and on the top of the other two all of which combines to provide several different layers of lighting to contrast with the effect of the screens
Positioned around the deck are four Robe LEDWash 1200 and six LEDWash 300 moving lights.
Waterfield is running all the lights from a ChamSys Maxi wing and a touch screen PC which is also triggering a catalyst media server storing all the playback video content, which was made under his direction by Brendon Clark of insight Lighting, and is loosely based on a spacey theme and the retro 16 mm filmic look that the band wanted for the performance space.
Matt Buttons is using a ChamSys MQ60 to run the two 10 Watt lasers and he's also mixing outputs from four Mini-cams onstage that are fed into the Catalyst and output to the screen by Waterfield.
(Jim Evans)
