"Sport brought some elements from the lighting rig we used last year for Prince: 21 Nights in London. I cloned the information from the London show (for which we had several weeks of rehearsals) into what we had at Coachella," says Fyssicopulos. "Once on site, we used an ESP Pre-Visualization system to massage the show and adapt it to the festival. Attempting to do that without the grandMA's cloning capabilities would have been close to impossible." In addition, during the performance the two grandMA consoles supplied by PRG were networked.
The grandMAs controlled a lighting complement which included besides others 30 x Vari*Lite VL3000 Profiles and 12 x VL5 Arcs. "With the grandMA we could change over fixtures from our last rig with Prince - which was in the round - to this rig very easily," says Waldie. "We were able to do a ton of work before we arrived at the show; it was great to have the ability to retool the London production to accommodate Coachella."
(Jim Evans)
