Pawel Pajak (AKA Spider) from Fish Eye was the tour’s creative visual director – creating the lighting, video and set designs – in 2012 and 2013. This year, the organisers asked him to take on this same role again plus co-ordinate the budget and suppliers needed to realise the various stage concepts, so he became the project’s creative producer. For the main moving lights, he specified over 100...
Lawrence utilised Robe BMFL Spots for the first time, 16 of which were provided by Leeds based Zig Zag Lighting, together with another 52 Robe moving lights - 20 x Pointes, 22 x LEDWash 600s and 10 x 600E Spots. Zig Zag, was one of the first rental companies to invest in the fixtures. Lawrence’s show is full of big, bold, loud, hard-edged rock-out looks, for which BMFLs are absolutely bang-on to...
Lighting for the three Brazilian dates in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre was supplied by leading Latam rental company LPL who are based in Sao Paolo … and featured a total of 137 Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 2500E ATs. This was a continuation of the ongoing 2014-15 world tour which had visited North America, Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The band wanted their hugely...
The tour runs for five weekends in the U.S. over October and is based on the concept of playing smaller and more intimate spaces on the touring circuit, allowing Lambert – known as a great communicator – to be close to her already loyal audience and reach out to potential new fans. Chris has worked with the prolific and successful star since she opened on a section of Keith Urban’s 2005 world tour...
Lighting designer Nick van Balen ensured that the spectacular lightshow fitted the sense of achievement after 15 years at the sharp end of the music business, and as a confirmed Robe advocate, included 99 x Robe fixtures on his rig – 46 x LEDWash 300s, 44 x Pointes and nine PATT 2013s – a fabulous looking vintage style fixture designed by Tim Routledge, and now being manufactured by Robe. Nick had...
Jon chose 48 x PATT 2013 luminaires as part of a highly distinctive upstage wall of lights aesthetic. The fabulous looking PATT 2013 luminaire – a cool fusion of retro styling and contemporary technology – designed by leading UK lighting designer Tim Routledge ... is now being manufactured in the Czech Republic by Robe. At Creamfields, the 48 units were rigged on twelve 25ft high upright pre...
These are added to around 150 other Robe moving lights in current rental stock, confirming that Donald is a big of a fan of the brand! Donald is certain the BMFL is a game-changer in terms of brightness and features, a versatile all-in-one luminaire with a long shelf-life he states, adding that the “awesome” framing shutter module was also important, as theatrical detail and finesse is very...
Rob immediately knew the solution – Robe Cyclones – having used them very successfully on the Kaiser Chiefs’ tour last year. Greg, who is out on the road LD’ing the tour, has been working with the innovative and interesting Charli XCX since 2014, and Rob came on board in early 2015 as show designer. Some elements of the show look were already in place, including a set of false scenic Orange amps...
Sublime With Rome is a musical collaboration between bassist Eric Wilson formerly of the band Sublime, and singer / guitarist Rome Ramirez, presenting an eclectic mix of Sublime’s distinctive ska punk and their own original material. Sublime recorded three studio and one live album before abruptly disbanding in 1996 following the untimely death of lead vocalist / guitarist and inspirator, Bradley...
The BMFLs were the company’s first Robe purchase. However via Danor Rental, they have regularly used different Robe products over the last two years, all of which helped in making the decision to choose BMFLs when seeking a powerful and versatile multi-purpose light source. KolOr Eli was founded as a lighting and sound specialist in 1988 by Linda and Eli and with business booming, a few years...