Recently, his #FillUpTheDome concert on 31 October featured over 130 Robe lighting fixtures and played to an ecstatic sold-out audience of 20,000 in the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, making history as the first 'local' artist to ever sell out the venue.
Nyovest himself approached Cape Town based design agency Formative to provide creative direction and technical production, including video content design, for the epic show. The pressure was on to do something awesome production-wise, and the realisation was led by Formative Creative Director Grant Orchard, whose lighting was a co-design with Technical Project Manager Thomas Peters.
The #FillUpTheDome achievement was also a defining moment on the country's vibrant music scene. A host of celebrities and VIPs joined the enthusiastic crowds and Nyovest was even congratulated by South African President, Jacob Zuma.
Grant, Thomas and Formative first met Nyovest during the 2015 MTV Africa Awards where they were producing video content and providing playback. For #FillUpTheDome, they turned to Gearhouse South Africa, the country's largest rental company, to provide all elements of the technical production - sound, lighting, video, staging and rigging.
"Gearhouse was the only company that could deliver comprehensively all the disciplines and resources needed to stage a show of this profile," comments Thomas.
Robe was right at the hub of Formative's production lighting design, for which they utilized 60 x Robe Points, 38 x LEDWash 600s, 12 x PATT 2013s, 11 x CycFX 8s and eight CitySkape Xtremes, all of which were integrated into the slick and edgy visual design.
Nyovest entrusted the production aesthetics entirely to Grant and his team with the instruction to reproduce an iconic show on a par with live performances that had inspired him over the years including by Jay Z and Kanye West.
(Jim Evans)
