These are added to around 150 other Robe moving lights in current rental stock, confirming that Donald is a big of a fan of the brand!
CS's eclectic work schedule covers a broad spectrum of shows and events - corporate and industrials, parties, concerts, music festivals and theatre productions - so adaptability is always a key to choosing lighting products.
The BMFL Blades and DL4Ss were delivered after the 2015 Mediatech expo in Johannesburg by Robe's South African distributor, DWR.
Both types of new fixtures went straight out on a tour with Australian originated Christian rock band Newsboys, for which CS supplied lighting, sound and video for three shows via production manager Wayne Krull of Phoenix 5, also based in Cape Town who co-ordinated the technical production elements of this short SA tour.
The band played Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria over a four day period, with each show effectively run as three different but similarly set-up rigs, each utilizing around 40 lights.
After watching as much live performance content of the band as they could on the internet and agreeing to a lighting package from CS that fitted into the budget, Wayne asked Alan Muller to design a lighting scheme and join the tour specifically to adapt that design to each venue, all the time maintaining the requirements of the band's LD Matthew Brewer.
Since then the BMFL Blades have been out on a wide selection of corporates, and there are many more shows coming up as the SA summer event season starts ramping up.
(Jim Evans)
