Elation lights Last Young Renegade tour
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All Time Low enjoys a growing fan base in the UK, where they played dates through March with additional shows on mainland Europe in April. Zig Zag Lighting, based in Leeds, UK, supplied the Elation fixtures for the tour.
“I was going for a versatile design that would be able to convey both bright, fast-paced, vibrate visuals as well as a darker, colour saturated, visceral mood for the new songs,” commented Maker, who has worked with the band for the past eight years. “The last time I was with All Time Low in the UK/Ireland was in February of 2016. We did all of the O2 arenas on that run so our production was obviously much bigger for those rooms.
“We did everything from moving video screens to pyro to over 500 lighting fixtures last time. So, the goal with this design was to still create big arena looks but in a tasteful way in these smaller rooms. I also wanted to make sure the rig was scalable in case we had to shrink it to fit it onto some of the stages.”
The ACL 360 Bar, a full-colour LED batten with 360-degree continuous rotation, was one of the two fixtures Maker used for multiple looks and special effects on the show. “It also helped create a balance throughout the whole design,” he says. “It was a pretty dominant fixture; front and literally centre and was definitely the main feature LED strip.”
Used to create separation between other fixtures in a pentagon-shaped truss rigged upstage centre, a total of 32 ACL 360s were used in the design. Other ACL 360s were rigged vertically on each side of the drum riser at varying heights, as well as on two finger trusses with some on the backline floor.
New to this year’s rig were Protron 3K Color strobes, a high-powered LED strobe with 240 3W RGBW LEDs and 40,000 lumens of power. “We used them for both strobing effect as well as a colour wash to help engulf the stage in bright, beautiful coluors,” Maker states, adding that he has speced the Protron Color strobe for All Time Low’s next tour in the U.S.
Touring in support of a new album, Last Young Renegade which comes out on 2 June, upcoming tour dates include New Zealand, Australia, Japan, USA, and the Philippines with more dates to be announced soon.
(Jim Evans)
