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Dave Grohl’s ‘Iron Throne’ powered by Ayrton MagicDot-R

Foo Fighters front man, Dave Grohl, has reclaimed the stage for the band’s ‘Sonic Highways’ tour, mounted on his own ‘Iron Throne’ after breaking his leg in a fall from the stage in Gothenburg in June. The throne is adorned with a corona of 12 Ayrton MagicDot-R LED moving lights which are used by lighting designer, Dan Hadley, both as feature lighting and for illumination of the singer.

The ‘Sonic Highways’ tour started in December 2014 with Hadley’s original specification of 60 Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures in the rig. VER’s Lighting Division provided global service to the tour with two simultaneous rigs in North America and Europe to service the ongoing tour all across the world. Hadley rigged his MagicBlade-R units upstage on custom frames, built by SGPS, alongside a series of video panels.

“The MagicBlades are used at first as mostly hidden sources,” he explains. “As the show progresses, the video screen splits apart and the MagicBlades shoot from behind it, lighting the band in profile. Once the screen strips turn around to unveil the MagicBlades we really let them loose.”

Despite the frequent changes in the Foo Fighters’ set list Hadley has created a series of looks which can be adapted easily to keep pace with the changes. “One of my favourite looks is used most often during ‘These Days’,” he says.

“I have the MagicBlades doing a slowly curving movement along with a colour fade that allows the individual sheets to blend together into gently sweeping curved shapes.” Hadley programmed the MagicBlade-R and MagicDot-R units using a GrandMA 2 but chose not to use any of the fixtures’ on-board macros.

(Photos: 2015 Todd Kaplan)

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