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DBN creates new lighting and visual design for Warehouse Project

Manchester based DBN Lighting has returned to the Store Street car park beneath the arches at Piccadilly station for the current Warehouse Project season, with a new lighting and visual design for a special club experience. The venue layout is essentially the same as previous seasons’, however the brief to DBN’s project manager Pete Robinson was to give it a new vibe with a fresh design.

The main room stage still has a video truss at the back, but forward of that, Robinson transformed the look and feel of the stage space by installing a 10 m diameter half circle of trussing (open ends downstage). It's raked to harmonize it with the curvature of the arch. This has replaced the previous year’s overhead trusses that were straight.

Further segments of curved trussing have been flown above the dancefloor. While the section over the stage is effectively six twelfths of a circle, over the dancefloor are another four sections (each two twelfths) - in two pairs - to cover the full area, and again following the same lines of the over-stage truss, so the defining shape of the arches is echoed down the room.

Another two similar sections of curved truss are rigged in the bar area mimicking the spherical ambience of the main room and bringing the two spaces together, along with the lighting in the bar which also mimics the dance floor to involve the whole room in the beat permeating the environment.

The main moving lights are Clay Paky - a mix of 22 x Alpha Spot 575 HPEs, 8 x Alpha Wash 300s and 8 x Sharpys for the beam effects, which are joined by 16 active Sunstrips, eight Atomic strobes, four 4-Lites and six ETC Source Four Juniors for a bit of key lighting.

New for this year are 12 x Ayrton Magic Dots rigged on the overstage truss. Additional Sunstrips have been added down the sides of the dancefloor on scaff bars, to echo the previous design and six Beamnet-10r Pro laser array units in red were installed by Andy Thomson from AC Laser. Lighting control is an Avo Pearl Expert which is being run for the season by Colm Whaley and Edwin Croft.

The screen in the main room is made up from 84 panels of DBN’s Eastar 12 mm LED configured as a single surface, with the bottom two rows detachable for fitting in front of the DJ riser. Content is supplied by a collective of VJs supplied through the venue, together with those brought in by visiting artists. Behind the stage in Room 2 are three upright sections of trussing and rigged across these is an array of 18 Chauvet Nexus 4x4 panels, 9 X Sunstrips, four Atomic strobes, four CP Alpha Beam 300s and two more Beamnet-10r Pro laser units, this time in blue.

Two further curved trusses across the room provide lighting positions above the dancefloor and further back still from the stage are two smaller pieces of curved truss facing one another. The dancefloor is lit with 12 Martin MAC 250 Entours and three Atomics. There is an Avo Tiger Touch in control, operated by Anthony Owen. Scattered around the bar areas are hundreds of PAR 16 Birdies for bar lighting and LED PARs for general ambient illumination with four Altman Shakespeare ellipsoidals projecting the sponsor logos around the venue.

DBN is also illuminating the VIP area with more birdies, LED PARs and some in-house 2 m LED strips, and for Room 3, a sponsored area, DBN have supplied LED PARs and a matrix of thirty decorative filament bulb lights in custom housings, laid out and wired so they can be individually mapped via Anthony Owen’s desk. Ramping up the atmospherics across the venue are four DF50 hazers and four ZR44 Smoke Machines.

(Photos: Decoy Media)

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