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Robe fixtures on tour with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Robe fixtures on tour with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Robe fixtures on tour with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

For the current Macklemore & Ryan Lewis world tour, lighting and visuals design is by Paul ‘Arlo’ Guthrie and the rig includes Robe BMFL Spots and Patt 2013s. Guthrie has worked with production manager Chris Fussell for some time, and was invited on-board to produce a stage design for this new album cycle, a process that started in late 2015 with discussions around ideas from Ben Haggerty (Macklemore) and Ryan Lewis who wanted to step up the production from their last tour.

 

The lighting and video design features several zig-zagged ‘finger’ trusses and a large upstage LED screen which is automated for the larger shows and splits into three columns. There are also two side stage IMAG screens. The 22 x Robe BMFL Spots are the key profile lights of the rig. They are distributed on the overhead trusses and the upstage torms, with two on the floor primarily to illuminate a scenic version of the band's flaming match logo that hangs on a center upstage truss.

 

The four Patt 2013s were used just once on the latest European tour, during the song, “Kevin”. They were positioned on four stands just behind the band. On the first US leg of the tour, they were used for a longer mid-set section, but when the set list was re-ordered for Europe, they just appeared in “Kevin”.

 

Ryan Lewis makes most of the video content himself which runs in every song, and this footage helped Guthrie choose the base color and adjust the mood of the lighting. He also mapped the LED fixtures on the rig using content that he created to match.

 

Tyler Elich is the lighting director for the tour operating all lighting using a GrandMA2 full size console which is also triggering the media servers - in this case MBoxes. Lighting and video was supplied in Europe by PRG out of the UK, and by Upstaging in North America.

 

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Robe fixtures on tour with Macklemore & Ryan LewisRobe fixtures on tour with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

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