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Colour Sound supplies lighting and rigging for Rudimental tour

Colour Sound supplies lighting and rigging for Rudimental tour
Colour Sound supplies lighting and rigging for Rudimental tour

Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting and rigging for the most recent Rudimental UK tour renewing their long term working relationship with designer Jonny Gaskell. The stage set was designed to be scaled to fit into various different spaces, however, only the largest venues - including a Saturday headliner on Glastonbury's Other Stage also supplied by Colour Sound - saw the full production.

 

The show opened quite sedately to reveal a massive, authentic scenic piece replicating Hackney High Street’s central railway bridge, with a double sided upstage drape - lit from both directions - depicting the skyline. Built by True Staging on a trussing superstructure, this bridge/pros arch also provided some positions for side lighting.

 

The bulk of the lighting rig - comprising 130 moving lights - was based on three overhead trusses and another one upstage on the floor, plus three circular trusses at the back - a surprise element revealed when the Hackney cloth opened. A 4-metre diameter circle in the centre was flanked by two at 3 metres, all rigged with more lights. Upstage of that was an LED screen.

 

The moving lights were predominantly Robe, including 26 x BMFL Spots. These were dotted around the upstage truss, with six on the floor, two downstage at the front for firing low-level beams across the singers and blasting into the audience, with four at the back on the floor truss.

 

Twenty-four Robe LEDWash 600s and 24 x LEDWash 1200s, together with 32 x Clay Paky Sharpies were dotted around the various trusses. The LEDWash 1200s were spread across multiple locations covering side washes including downstage on the floor and on the upright side trusses supporting the bridge. The floor units front lit the scenic speaker fascias and up-lit the bridge legs and surrounding drapes. The Sharpies were used for all the beam effects.

 

Ten Robe MMX Spots on the front truss provided the key lighting. The lamp count continued with 40 x 2-lites, 18 x Atomics and 12 x i-Pix Satellites used to architecturally light six real street lights, customised by Colour Sound with Chauvet Mini Colorband Pix fitted in the heads. Other assets included a London phone box that was also lit with Satellites and a couple of SGM XC-5 LED strobes inside.

 

Eight ColorForce 72 LED battens grazed casually up the front of the scenic cloth, which was lit from behind by eight Studio Due CityColor floods. Upstage on the floor was Gaskell’s floor truss, four pieces of 10 ft A-type trussing on wheels that were part of the summer festival rig. Each of the four sections was loaded with a Novalight Super-Nova big beam effect, two LEDWash 1200s, a BMFL and a Sharpy.

 

The bridge and its support pillars were covered with LED tape also hooked into the lighting desk – Gaskell’s own ChamSys MaxiWing and ExtraWing. He was supported on the road by Colour Sound crew chief Andy Melleney plus techs Simon Robertson and James Hind.

 

www.coloursound.co.uk

 

Colour Sound supplies lighting and rigging for Rudimental tourColour Sound supplies lighting and rigging for Rudimental tour

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