GLP battens fit the bill for Niall Horan
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On the Irish singer’s current Flicker World Tour, Lee has been touring with 38 of GLP’s X4 Bar 20s, supplied by rental partner LCR. He found these helped extend a stage set originally conceived last year, depicting an acoustic studio look, with lots of sound proof acoustic foam set pieces, tungsten lighting and big rugs as a floor covering.
He switched his original spec to GLP’s versatile battens after seeing them on a car launch for the Jaguar F-PACE car (on which he was running lasers). “There were two lines of around 100 Bars each and I thought ‘hell they move fast - What are they?’ I was blown away!”
He says that Mike Oates at LCR, the designer’s regular supply source, was able to meet the full lighting spec with no substitutions for the UK and European legs.
The GLP inventory is used in two blocks, there are 10 fixtures on the floor in a straight line behind the band “to give that lovely thin line that gets broken up by the band”. The remaining 28 battens are set as a ‘wall of lights’, arranged in four rows of seven. “I curved my back truss at the point where they hang from so I can get a focus onto stage; the band plays within 30ft on a 60ft stage, so the curving helps me get the beams right into the band.”
Running the fixtures in 88ch single pixel mode has added further creativity, showing off their versatility. “I have them pixel mapped from the [Roadhog] Full Boar 4. I get most of my effect from the Hog’s effects engine messing with their Buddying & Group Select. But to get some more randomised effects the Pixel Mapper is the only way.”
(Jim Evans)
