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Colour Sound supports Public Service Broadcasting

Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting and LED screen to a series of recent Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) concerts in the UK. Lighting designer Francis Clegg, part of creative visual design and programming collective Mirrad, produced a lighting design for the tour which followed on from summer festival work. A new live show concept was evolved for this, with production based on the Brixton Academy gig and adaptable to fit the other venues.

Visuals are fundamental to the instrumental band’s performance, and with no chat between songs and no lyrics as such, this is the main communication between band and audience. The band’s own media guru, Mr B, sits onstage running the various content and clips, effectively as a fourth PSB member. Brixton also featured a number of guest appearances including a choir, and the show was live internet streamed via the venue’s website.

Up until this tour, PSB had been using small projections screens that resembled old TV sets, but to fill the space and enlarge the idea for Brixton, Colour Sound was asked to supply two 5 metre wide LED screens made up from their proprietary 6 mm BT product, mounted in custom wooded surrounds that rounded the edges. These integrated with the original screens and were revealed by a mid-stage kabuki drop at the top of the set.

The lights were hung on seven flown trusses, all angled differently and with an assortment of drop bars - Clegg avoided anything linear. The rig included 18 x Clay Paky A.leda K20 LED wash fixtures fitted with B-Eye lenses. They were joined by 18 x SGM XC-5 strobes - part of a recent purchase by Colour Sound - and eight Robe Pointes.

Twenty-four ProLights Diamond 7 small LED wash units were arranged in two fans above the Sputnik and on top of these were various generics and blinders arranged around the floor. There was no front truss, but front side lighting included some ETC Source Fours on stands plus a few fresnels on the deck for foot-lights.

Clegg controlled everything via an Avolites Sapphire Touch supplied by Mirrad. He was joined on the tour by a crew from Colour Sound including crew chief Simon Robertson, technician Stu Barr and Dave Cattermole who tech’d the LED screens.

(Photos: Shaun Gordon)

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