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Clouseau tour designed by Painting with Light

Belgian pop/rock band Clouseau are back on the road this summer with a new set and lighting design from Painting with Light. The production design is a collaboration between Belgium based Painting with Light’s Luc Peumans and Paco Mispelters.

The lighting brief included utilizing eight ribbon lifts (extending up to 6.5 metres high and carrying up to 100 kg in weight) that had appeared on the 2014 tour and proved a solution for facilitating a fast load in and providing upstage lighting positions in the venues they play (typically theatres and concert halls between 1000 and 3000 capacity).

The lifts were rigged with a completely different set of fixtures from before. Lighting supplier Coruna Lights from Mechelen made a large investment in Chauvet to provide new kit for the 7 month tour, with Chauvet’s Rogue R2 Wash and RH1 Hybrid Spot fixtures comprising the backbone of the rig.

Six of the eight towers are positioned in a line upstage, each loaded with 4 x Chauvet NXT-1 moving head LED tiles, orientated at 45 degrees, with one Chauvet Strike 4 blinder in the centre (of the four NXTs). All are attached by special brackets fabricated by Coruna. The other two towers are slightly further down and offstage, and all eight of them are rigged with three Rogue RH1 Hybrid Spots.

The back truss is flown upstage of the six back towers, and on this are 6 x Rogue RH1 Hybrid Spots and another six Strike 4s which double as general back lighting and specials. Directly below the back truss on the floor are another 6 Rogue R2 Spots, equally spaced and lining up with those in the air.

Downstage at the front are two fixed position side towers - made from 30 cm truss secured on floor bases - which are loaded with LED PARs and two Rogue R2 Washes each. These fixtures are supported, slightly further upstage each side, by another three R2 washes on 2 metre high scaff poles.

Clamped to the music stands on the band risers are some small Colordash Quad fixtures - also a Chauvet product - for close key lighting on the faces. Chauvet Epix Strip Tours - a 1 metre strip of 50 individually map-able LEDs - are used to delineate all the risers. Run via ArtNet, these produce fluid kinetic effects.

Paco Mispelters programmed the lights on a GrandMA2 light which he is also operating, supplied to the tour by Painting with Light together with an NPU as they are consuming a fair few DMX universes. The backdrop, a blue-toned black & white image from one of the album promotional photo shoots, split into 8 banner-style columns, with one letter of  ‘Clouseau’ added along each of the banner tops and ‘danst’ spelt out along the bottom of the five house right strips. The banners are illuminated by a row of Briteq LED PARs on the floor directly underneath each one.

FOH audio engineer is Marc Luyckx, Marcel Cortleven takes care of the monitors, and Luc Peumans is also production managing the tour.

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