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Foxes on tour with Robe fixtures

Singer/songwriter Foxes (Louisa Rose Allen) recently toured the UK with a lighting design based around Robe moving lights and created by Jake Vernum. Vernum has worked with the band for two years and collaborates with LD Cate Carter of Bryte Design. His creative starting point for this tour was the band’s request for a complete change in visuality and a step away from the strobe-tastic and lasery look of the previous tour to something more subtle and ephemeral.

Vernum, Cate Carter and Mike Smith from Bryte Design discussed adding some classic theatrical effects like a starcloth/voile backdrop plus more set elements and gold fronted stairs. The floor fixture layout optimised the scope for dramatic looks by firing lights through the backline.

The Robe kit included five LEDWash 1200s, 6 x Pointes and 6 x LEDBeam 100s, boosted for the London showcase gig at the Roundhouse by 42 x LEDBeam 100s, 6 x LEDWash 600s, 18 x DLF Washes and 6 x DLX Spots which are part of the house rig.

The five Robin LEDWash 1200s were located on each of the five risers, providing backlight that created ‘moments of suspense’ when the audience could not tell if the band were onstage or not, forcing all the attention onto Foxes, a technique used at the top of the show and during the moodier acoustic numbers. These fixtures enabled shafts of colour to be thrown up the 50 x 20 ft upstage voile and star cloth evoking that theatrical look which the artist specifically wanted.

The Pointes were spaced evenly along the back of the stage risers, again blasting forward through the backline. On this tour they were primarily used in open white, and for the beam and gobo shapes plus some slow moving gobo looks. The LEDBeam 100s were positioned on the drum riser steps behind the centre vocal position. Their beams were shooting out from behind the singer from a position downstage from all the other floor fixtures. For the Roundhouse show, 18 of the 42 additional LEDBeam 100s were hung on the back truss and the other 24 were used to light around the room.

The Roundhouse’s DLF Washes were used as overhead washes, and more DLF Washes on the front truss coupled with DLX Spots doubled as additional front washes and key lighting. The touring lighting package and stage set, risers and extra lights for the Roundhouse show were supplied by Pearce Hire.

(Photos: Luke Dyson/Greg Westwood)

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