Elation gets festive with Bowling for Soup
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This run was a bit different for the LD however, as his own company, JSES provided all the lighting, truss, crew, operation and special effects. “My company has only been operational for two years and I have gone from a freelancer with a desk to a large operation that’s expanding all over the world,” Jon stated. ”We’re running fast to keep up with the work load and the exciting clients we are working with.” Those clients include names such as Drake, Giggs, Gareth Malone and Zebrahead.
About to mark their 25th anniversary, Bowling for Soup are showing no signs of slowing down. For the Almost Christmas tour the LD employed DARTZ 360 beam/spot effects, Satura Spot LED Pro moving heads, Proton 3K LED strobes, Paladin hybrid effect lights and Cuepix Blinder WW2s to complement a string of high-energy numbers from a band who clearly still have what it takes. “We played cities the band doesn’t usually visit in the UK but still every show was busy,” said Jon, who also served as lighting operator and production manager on the tour.
He describes the design’s three-truss set up as fairly basic with front light and two trusses of strobes, blinders, washes and beams. “The music is very fast-paced so the design needed simple factors - speed and energy,” he says, adding that the DARTZ worked from mid- and back-truss with six on the floor to give depth to the stage. “The DARTZ were the key wow factor in the design. We used them to create different looks and they were key to the energy behind the music,” he said while naming the double overlapping prisms and dimming ability as reasons why he was sold on the fixture.
(Jim Evans)
