Aktuelle News & Schlagzeilen

HSL provides lighting kit for Prodigy arena tour

Lighting and visuals rental company HSL supplied lighting kit - over 300 fixtures - and crew to the UK arena leg of Prodigy's ‘The Day Is My Enemy’ tour, working in close collaboration with lighting and show designer Andy Hurst, and also with live video specialists Video Illusions who supplied cameras and LED screens.

Visual elements included seven floor-based scenic 'transmission' towers upstage - commissioned by HSL from Alpha Fabrications - with dishes on top resembling satellite apparatus, and a large red fox backdrop. The dishes were made by Perry Scenic and painted in a distressed white finish to match other set pieces which were also given the same distressed paint finish.

They were complimented by a 10 metre diameter trussing circle, made up from a number of interconnecting components and several custom pieces, which was inspired by some huge metal radio transmission antenna structures that Andy Hurst had encountered in Latin America. The spherical truss structure brought an additional architectural dimension to the stage and performance space as well as providing air based lighting positions for numerous fixtures.

The list of luminaires included 64 x Philips Snowline E-Strip 10 LED battens used to outline the structural pieces, 54 x Ayrton Magic Blades which were located on the 7 towers and flown rig, 47 x Robe Pointe multi-purpose moving lights dotted all over the circle and the towers, 46 x Philips Showline Beam 30 FX moving lights, 54 x Martin Atomic strobes, 23 x 2-cell and 16 4-cell Moles, 18 Robe LEDBeam 100s, 14 Martin MAC Aura XBs, 16 x Robe CycFX 8s, 6 x MAC III Profiles, 6 x VariLite VL4000 WashBeams and 20 x Robe Patt 2013s. Fixtures were also hung on a front truss and two side trusses.

Much of the kit was purchased by HSL for the arena tour, part of a larger £4 million investment in kit by the Blackburn based company in the last two quarters of 2015. Hurst operated the show on his own Hog Full Boar 4 system, with 24 x DMX universes running over fibre via two of the new DP8000 FOH racks and a Luminex 16XT switcher.

Hurst also triggered and routed the IMAG video fed via a Catalyst media server into the console and out to the two 10 mm LED side screens. The band action was captured by three Sony XC-100 broadcast cameras and three bulletcams dotted around the stage - all from Video Illusions - with a mix cut by Bas Logan, the band’s videographer, using a Panasonic AVH4100 mixer. These TX feeds were treated by Hurst in the Catalyst. During the song “Death Ray” Hurst introduced some special LED effects supplied by Simon Dearie.

Joining Andy Hurst on the road for the UK arenas was an HSL team crew of Ray Whelan (crew chief), Matt Brown (dimmers), Johnny Harper and Jake Jevons, and co-ordinating everything from the office was HSL project manager Jordan Hanson.

www.hslgroup.com

© 1999 - 2024 Entertainment Technology Press Limited News Stories