Liteup Events invests in Robe
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The company was founded in 2006 and is headed and run by Marc Callaghan and Kris Box who met whilst studying at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. It was initially started to support Marc and Kris’s freelance lighting and visual design careers but they have since focused to growing the company and specialising in the supply of creative production equipment and designs.
Gordon Torrington, well known and respected to anyone in the world of international lighting production and concert touring, has recently joined the team as senior account handler.
The recent Robe order comprised 26 x MegaPointes and 26 x Spiiders, 28 x LEDBeam 150s and four RoboSpot systems, complete with MotionCameras.
These join the existing Liteup Robe luminaires - Pointes, BMFL Wash Beams, LEDBeam 100s and 600E Spots plus other lights and a fully equipped rigging department.
Recently, the new Robe kit was used on Spotify’s Who We Be live - their hip hop, grime and R&B playlist event staged at London’s Alexandra Palace venue.
Liteup was contacted by Spotify Live’s production director Samuel Rogers to supply all lighting, rigging and video services. Gordon and Marc asked Matthew Pitman of Bryte Design onboard as show and visuals designer.
Matt used MegaPointes and Spiiders as the backbone of the rig, as “they offered the largest and strongest range of effects and looks”.
Twelve Mega Pointes were lined up along the upstage edge of the stage, and the other 12 were on four columns of three fixtures each on a lighting back wall that was behind the video chevrons making up the set, plus another 12 spread out over the top trusses.
Sixteen Spiiders were on the overhead trusses and four each side along the edge of the stage, and Matt used them “in nearly every which way [he] could!”
Two grandMA2 consoles were used to run the show with lighting programmed and operated by Dom Adams and video and media by Joe Lott, both on behalf of Bryte Design.
(Jim Evans)
