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Robe fixtures utilized for Hospitality Brixton show

Lighting designer Chris Thoms working for Zero dB Live created a lightshow for the latest live extravaganza by club brand Hospitality which was staged at London’s O2 Academy Brixton, a project on which he utilized Robe Pointes, LEDWash 600s and MMX Spots as the main moving lights.

Thoms has operated and collaborated on the Hospitality Brixton production design since 2012. For this one, he and Zero dB Live founder and production manager Rob Stanley sat around the discussed options for the look and feel of this latest show.

Essentially the design evoked an old-skool rock‘n’roll spatiality with a ceiling of lights above the artist, ticking the design brief boxes by going a bit retro and putting the emphasis firmly back on the LD rather than the VJ. There were positions for 42 moving lights, 24 strobes and 60 x LED strips over six parallel fingers - a ‘classic Queen’ aesthetic giving some large monolithic lighting looks but with the twist of being able to move.

They added the 24 x Pointes, 22 x LEDWash 600s and 12 x MMX Spots to the equation and then augmented their look with the lowest resolution screen available from rental company Colour Sound Experiment, which was 37.5 mm pitch - the whole surface measured 288 pixels wide by 72 tall.

The Pointes were the main workhorses of the show, arranged in a 6x4 grid on the main trussing fingers, with 18 of the LEDWash 600s filling up the gaps, together with strobes. The MMX Spots were split, with six rigged on the front truss and six on the deck, running along the back of the stage on 2 ft high risers, alternated with Moles. The other four LEDWash 600s were on the front truss and used for key-lighting.

Everything was grouped into columns, rows, V-shapes, etc., so programming was symmetrical. “Having the Pointes and LEDWash 600s in a grid like this made it possible to create some very nice chases and variations,” comments Chris Thoms. The MMXs punctuated the Pointes throwing in big fat beams from upstage and above.

(Photos: Greg Westwood)

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