Siyan lighting designer Bryan Leitch and co-designer Dom Smith decided to add an extra visual backdrop during particular songs in the band's set. This involved using White canvas drops, just above stage height, washed with vibrant colours to provide a strong contrast to the stage backlighting.
Lighting the drops required an LED batten solution that could be floor-mounted directly below each of the four 0.75m wide canvas strips. The fixture needed to be very bright to effectively up-light the full height of the drops and produce the richness of colour required. Leitch required varying lengths of batten and having heard of the modular design Chroma-Q Color Block LED fixture - which can be configured as a continuous line of blocks made up of separate battens - decided to specify it for the job.
The 20 Color Blocks were configured as two-way and three-way battens in front of each drop and operated in HSI mode on an Avolites Diamond 4 Elite console. Show lighting co-designer and console operator Smith commented: "I'm very impressed with the Color Block. Its modularity made it ideal for this job as we could configure it to just the right width and it provided a very bright, even light output. In HSI mode I got really strong, rich colours - especially the cyan blue and magenta red. All in all it's a very versatile fixture."
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
