Pinna has been working with the artist - a prolific singer/songwriter, often controversial and the most popular live performer in Italy, for the last 20 years, each time coming up with a new, fresh and completely different look and feel to the stage and setting.
This time his dynamic 37m high, three-level, portrait format architectural set structure was based around the concept of 'verticality' designed by GioForma Set design studio. It included large quantities of scenic LED panels, some of which were moved on a Cyberhoist system and a large lighting rig, of which an integral element was the 24 Robe Robin LEDWash 600s.
These were rigged specifically on two staircases at stage level - one each side of the stage - which were ensconced between four 9m high side-stage lighting pods. The LEDWashes were focussed on the band and washing the stage area immediately around them.
Pinna comments, "I wanted a lightsource that was extremely bright and powerful to give a seriously punchy 'bump' effect for my accents and punctuations to the music".
It is the first time he has used Robe's new LEDWash 600, although he has used other Robe fixtures frequently since 2005 on a variety of shows and tours including Antonello Venditti, (with the Robe's supplied by RMS) and Eros Ramazzotti.
The LEDWash 600s were worked hard throughout the two and a half hour Vassi show and utilised constantly for general illumination as well as the 'power-bumps' that Pinna so specially wanted.
He controlled the LEDWashes and all the rest of the lighting - including other moving lights, Jarags, blinders, strobes, LED PARS and conventional PARs - from a grandMA full size console, working closely with Marco Denardi, who ran the video media servers via another grandMA full size. They spent 6 intense nights of programming the show in Ancona Stadium ahead of the first gig there.
The tour's main lighting contractor was Limelite from Rome, with the LEDWash 600s supplied by rental and dry hire specialist, PR Electronic, also based in Rome, which has one of the largest stocks of all the latest Robe technology in the country.
(Jim Evans)
