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Clay Paky Sharpy Washes on tour with AC/DC

AC/DC’s “Rock or Bust” tour thundered through Europe and the USA this summer. The grungy, buffalo horned, ‘Mad Max’ style arena spectacular was the work of Ray Winkler of Stufish Design and Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design Ltd and saw lighting and set welded together in a corrugated steel clad domed stage.

Peppering the corrugated iron façade was a large number of Clay Paky Sharpy Washes, positioned inside transparent protective domes. These fixtures were barely visible until they struck up to bring texture, colour and dimension to the set and to bathe the audience in randomly angled, acid coloured light. A number of Sharpy Washes were also used on top of the upstage wall of Marshall amps providing an array of aerial effects.

“Sometimes, I have nothing else on but the Sharpy Washes to create a background for several intros of songs. I love to programme them to sweep down to start songs”, AC/DC’s Lighting Director, Cosmo Wilson, explains. Equipment was supplied by Upstaging in the USA, and by Neg Earth for Europe.

(Photos: Ralph Larmann)

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