The moving lights were almost entirely sourced from the Clay Paky Alpha range, comprising 12 of Hawthorn's Alpha Profile 1200s, 32 Alpha Spot 575 HPEs, 24 Alpha Wash 1200s and 24 Alpha Wash 575s. On top of these, the rig housed the new Alpha 300 range, with 24 HPEs and 12 Wash lights.
Also featured for effect were 24 GLP Impression LED moving heads. These units were even rigged to the automated 45ft cherry pickers just to make things more interesting. The arena side walls were lit with IPIX Big Boy LED floods.
The main set piece (an eight-storey building site scaffolding) was back lit with Studio Due City Colours, while each bay of the structure was lit internally to stunning effect with a JT PixelLine 1044, controlled using Radlite's new PixelDrive2 software package. 32 Martin Atomics worked to provide welding effects during the opening sequence. The whole event was powered by eight Avolite Art2000 racks all plumbed into the new arena's hefty distribution and controlled by two Flying Pig Whole Hog IIs and Wing.
(Jim Evans)
