The Pointes, supplied by satis&fy AG, were part of the specification provided for his headline slot enjoyed by 17,000 fans who packed the venue.
Guetta's lighting designer is Leggy (Jonathan Armstrong), and lighting is looked after on the road by lighting director Junior (Alex Cerio) from Smash Productions.
Armstrong is a big Robe fan and has used various Robe products in his work for some time. He was delighted to get the chance to run 20 x Robin Pointes - making their worldwide concert debut - in Hannover.
These were supplied, together with the rest of the lighting rig, including another 74 Robe fixtures by the leading German lighting rental house which has over 800 Robe units in its hire stock.
For the Hannover gig, Armstrong used 12 of the Pointes - among other lights - positioned on six moving 'fan' trusses above the stage for blasting at the areas down below and out and around into the audience.
The other eight were on stands directly on Guetta's riser, two each rigged at 90 degrees upstage right and left and four under-hung from the riser. The idea was to give the impression of Guetta floating in air, and together with Robe ColorWash 2500E ATs upstage behind the riser, this enabled them to achieve this effect.
In addition to the 20 x Pointes, the Hannover rig contained 20 Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs, 30 x ColorWash 2500E ATs, 18 LEDWash 600s and four Robe ColorSpot 700E ATs, plus strobes and 8-lites and 2-lites, all driven by Junior using a grandMA2 light console.
David Guetta's FOH sound is mixed by Hassane Es Siahi, Louis Walters is the video content creator and operator and production manager Alan Green is at the hub of the global production operation.
(Jim Evans)
