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Robe illuminates Major Lazer at Coachella

Robe illuminates Major Lazer at Coachella

Major Lazer unleashed their new live show at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California, playing two (main) stage sets, one on each weekend of the 125,000 capacity festival. The show featured a new set, lighting and visuals design by Kyle Kegan of Voyage Productions and utilized Robe BMFL Spots, BMFL WashBeams and ColorStrobes, amongst other lights. All the Robes were newly purchased by Rainbow Production Services (RPS).

 

Major Lazer’s new stage set includes eight 3-sided Periactoi-style 13 ft high towers which are about 7 ft wide (6 were used at Coachella). The first facade is a scenic speaker cabinet design trimmed with LED tape and with LED blinders hiding in the cones. The second is an LED video surface and the third contains moving lights and the Robe ColorStrobes. A pair of ColorStrobes is positioned on each of three levels - top, mid and bottom - of the tower. The lights are all rigged on a trussing section that is also the structural backbone of the tower, and these have been custom engineered and fabricated by Rainbow for the tour.

 

Robe fixtures included 12 x BMFL WashBeams and 12 x BMFL Spots. The BMFL Spots were used six a side, on the floor and on cases to vary the height, providing cross lighting for the dancers in the choreographed show. Kyle Kegan used them at about 50-60 percent intensity. The BMFL WashBeams were located upstage on the deck, dotted in and around the set pieces onstage, used for beam and wash effects and to help light the other set pieces.

 

Joining Kegan on the Major Lazer creative team were tour director Jim Runge, lead programmer and lighting director Devon Brown (they ran the show on GrandMA2), video director Mike Burakoff and production manager Anthony Pitcher. The house lighting rig for the Coachella Stage was supplied by PRG.

 

The festival package version of the new Major Lazer design featured at Coachella, and the full touring version - with lighting, sound, video and staging provided by Rainbow Production Services - can be seen at a combination of Major Lazer’s own headline gigs and festival headline slots throughout Europe and the US this summer, with two complete duplicate systems in operation.

 

Other Robe products in action at Coachella 2016 included 66 x Pointes used by Steve Lieberman on the Yuma Stage from Felix Lighting; 90 x Pointes and 48 x BMFLs on the Sahara Stage, supplied by Felix Lighting and Zenith to AG Production Services who also created the environment with their Mega Structure Mini enclosure; Felix provided Robe ColorStrobes to Ice Cube for their main stage set and to Halsey for her performance on the Outdoor Theatre stage.

 

(Photos: Adam Kaplan/Kevin Winter)

 

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Robe illuminates Major Lazer at CoachellaRobe illuminates Major Lazer at Coachella

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