Production designers Daniel Slezinger and Justin Roddick have spec'd nearly 180 Robe fixtures for their current Emotional Roadshow tour.
Daniel and Justin's Nashville-based creative production company Concert Investor is coordinating lighting, sound and video for the tour together with special FX, fabrication, content creation and programming. The hyperactive pair also run Glow Motion, devoted to the development of esoteric tech projects and fun wizardry.
T°P's Tyler Joseph has always taken a creative lead in the shows explained Daniel, with the team around him interpreting this vision. Lighting director Tyler Shapard - who is on the road with the tour - and video director Chris Schoenmen from Tantrum who creates the show visuals, all evolved the aesthetic for Emotional Roadshow under the creative direction of Mark C. Eshleman.
At the start of Emotional Roadshow in May, Daniel and Tyler decided to spec the Robes, adding 56 x BMFL Spots and 12 x BMFL Blades, 68 Pointes, 14 LEDWash 1200s and 28 LEDWash 600s to the plot.
The BMFL Blades are used for the downstage wash and were selected because of the extra control offered with the shutter module.
The Spots are in the air above stage and audience and help achieve those sumptuous big arena looks because they can blast right across to the opposite sides of the venue. The Pointes are dotted around everywhere.
The LEDWash 600s are used on the B-stage, where they emulate intimate, underground ambience for this section of the show when T°P play some of their older material. This harks back to when they were trawling the clubs and LEDWash 600s were the main fixtures used. "They recreate some of our favourite retro looks," said Daniel.
For the US legs of the tour, the Robe fixtures are being supplied to Concert Investor by VER. Emotional Roadshow's production manager is Daniel Gibson. VER is also supplying video and audio, Accurate Staging and SGPS delivered the fabrication, Tantrum Content was commissioned to produce the playback video and Image Engineering takes care of the special effects.
(Jim Evans)
