Landon Bloss goes Rogue on Currington tour
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“I was on a load out when I received a call from Gene Jung, Billy’s PM, saying that they needed a LD to fly out the next day to start running his show immediately,” recalls Bloss. “They booked me a flight and off I went. Of course, I knew Billy’s music, but I really wanted to get deep into it, so on went my headphones.”
Bloss proved to be a quick study. Taking over the rig originally designed by Ian Saunders, he supported Currington’s 90-minute set on the star’s Stay Up Til Sun tour with an intense, fast-moving lightshow that showered a rainbow of colours on the stage. Helping him in this endeavour was a collection of Rogue R2 Wash fixtures supplied by 4Wall Nashville.
Featuring six truss fingers that splayed over the width of the stage, the lighting design not only covered a wide area, it also afforded a lot of opportunities to change up the looks of the show by emphasizing different sections of the set. The Rogue R2 Wash fixtures were hung two apiece on each of the truss fingers.
“I had used Chauvet Professional Mavericks before and was impressed with their output,” says Bloss. “On this tour, the Rogues impressed me too. They did an amazing job at being multi-faceted, which helped a lot on this tour. They excelled as a wash for painting colour on the band members. They also looked great when zoomed in for some tight beam looks - and the pixel rings created some astonishing eye candy. As I said, we wanted to create excitement while still being subtle, so a dynamic wash effect like this was perfect.”
(Jim Evans)
