Gearhouse South Africa supplied full technical production for the Cape Town event for their client Kilowatt AV, headed by Dillon Jearey, all working closely with international production manager and lighting designer, UK-based Simon Barrington of Production Eye and project manager Andrea Frey from Angel Music.
Kilowatt has worked on previous Godskitchen events, but this is the first time they have involved Gearhouse - whose Cape Town branch supplied staging and structure, lighting, audio and AV for the event at Bellville Velodrome, which was enjoyed by 4000 dance enthusiasts. Gearhouse's 15 site crew were led by project manager Theo van As.
At the hub of the 2009 Godskitchen show is the Boom Box, built with a latticed framework of Layher scaffolding which was then clad in white material optimised for projected visuals. All the DJ action took place in a window cut into the centre of this, flanked by two dance podiums.
The sound system featured an L'Acoustics V-DOSC PA comprising 12 V-DOSC elements a side, flown, with 16 SB28 subs ground stacked. For monitors, six dv-DOSC speakers with 2 dv-Subs were provided. Systems engineer was Nathi Ntuli from Gearhouse's Johannesburg office and Bjorn Fielding from Cape Town. The console was a Yamaha 01V digital desk. Gearhouse also supplied a full DJ set up.
The majority of the lights were rigged on and in the boom Box, with two additional trusses flown over the two VIP decks and another 2 over the dancefloor. 22 Martin Professional MAC 2K profiles adorned the Box. Other lighting in the Boom Box included 16 Atomic strobes, and 16 linear 4-lite Moles. Six i-Pix Satellite LED bricks were used to illuminate the DJ and dancer positions.
Lighting for the VIP areas was controlled by an Avolites Pearl 2008 supplied by Gearhouse, run by Willy Bothma. Everything on the Boom Box and audience trusses was hooked into Simon Barrington's Chamsys console, which he operated for the show.
For the Boom Box projections, Gearhouse supplied four Christie 16K Roadster projectors. These were double-stacked and mounted on their own 5 metre high scaffolding platform. The show visuals were run by Ed Shaw of Ne1co using customised Mac-based software from Exyzt.
Simon Barrington concludes, "The Cape Town show was an absolute blinder, and Ed and I reckon it was the best ever."
(Jim Evans)
