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Netsky: Tour 2017

Lighting and visuals designer Andy Hurst enjoys challenges, and when that d‘n’b star Netsky announced a high profile one-off homecoming show at Belgium’s legendary Antwerp Sportpaleis, he knew he needed to pull out all the stops to ensure it was a visual adventure for all in the room. Blackburn UK based HSL was chosen by production manager Mike Clegg as the lighting equipment supplier and Andy and his crew worked closely with Dave Whiteoak of Video Illusions, who supplied and co-ordinated the screens and camera package.

Andy commented, “Jordan Hanson, in the HSL office, did a great job of project managing the lighting supply and an top crew on site was chiefed by Ian Stevens. They worked very hard ensuring the installation of a complex lighting rig ran as smoothly and efficiently as was possible in a very short space of time”. All the technical departments including staging, rigging and audio as well as lighting and video had one – very long - get-in day which was fully utilised.

Andy has worked with the Netsky for four years, and this was the largest single-headliner gig he’s performed to date. His goal was to produce something spectacular and jaw-dropping that was practical to rig in the timeframe.
Eleven ‘finger’ lighting trusses (see below) were therefore designed so the fixtures could travel in the truss to speed things up at the venue. Netsky’s new album, ‘III’, provided some initial inspiration for Andy who decided on three upstage LED screens - 180 square metres in total VI-L6 6 mm LED each one measuring 12 metres high by 7 wide - and three risers onstage was a good starting point, with multiples of three permeating the design.

The music is incredibly dynamic and full of tempo and mood changes. He performs with a full band onstage plus assorted guest vocalists and musicians, which on this occasion included some classical talent which brought a richness and completely new dimension to some of the more hardcore d’n’b sounds. Andy undertook a week of intense pre-vis which dealt with all the lighting building blocks, which allowed him to free up programming time onsite to fine-tune and add detail and finishing touches which can make all the difference between a show and an experience.

The trussing system comprised of six upstage/downstage orientated fingers above the main stage, all on Kinesys motors. A U-shaped truss curved around the front of the stage and coming off that were five more straight trusses running lengthways down the arena above the first section of audience (which were static). The stage left and right IMAG screens were also flown from their own trusses. At the end of these over-audience trusses the B stage was built in the centre, connected to the A stage by a runway, and above the B-stage was an octagonal shaped truss also on Kinesys motors, which came in and out for a big laser effect at the top of the show and again for the first number of the encore. The Kinesys operator was Andy “Paris” Hilton.

Right in the middle of the octagon was a 40 inch mirror ball, used as a highly effective bounce surface for the Laser Blades around the octagon truss, another glorious example of the renaissance of the glitter ball. The bulk of the moving lights were 68 x GLP X4 LED washes and 88 x Claypaky Sharpies for beams and these were scattered all over the trusses and aligned the bottom edge of three LED screens. X4s also lined the runway between the stages at floor level. Out of a total of 10 Martin Mac Viper Performances, four were reserved to highlight the mirror ball in the middle of the octagon, three on the front truss were the prime key lighting for the band risers, with the other three upstage behind these risers for silhouetting effects.

For low level front fill, five Robe LED Wash 1200s a side were positioned along the downstage edges and very effectively skimmed across the stage and set. The three risers were picked out with Robe CycFX 8 moving LED battens around the edges which created an interesting lightbox effect, and when pointed downwards, it looked like the artists were standing on a floating wedge of light. Forty-nine PixelLine LED battens were used too. Thirty Laser Blades – all laser equipment was supplied by ER – were positioned around the perimeter of the octagon, with another six on the ends of the over-stage trussing fingers and nine BB3 lasers were rigged along the bottom of the LED screens, three per section.

Last but certainly not least, 60 x Philips Nitro LED strobes were dotted all over the rig for some serious retina burn … Andy has a technique of utilizing strobes for drops that go into a moody section of music as well as those which precede an explosive build up.
It was Andy’s decision to run the IMAG video content primarily in black and white to make it edgier and more contrasty and new playback content was also created for this show to Netsky’s brief of being more filmic in style.
Andy operated lighting using his own fully redundant Road Hog Full Boar control system to run lighting and lasers.
Joining Ian and Paris on the HSL crew were Harrison Cooke, Andrew Whitaker, Ben Eastham and Neil Smith.

Photos: Louise Stickland


Setlist

Running Low
Intrap
Love Has Gone
Love Has Gone (Enei Remix)
New Song
Without You
High Alert (with Sara Hartman)
Puppy
We Can Only Live Today (with Billie)
Forget What You Look Like
Thunder
Bird Of Paradise
Who Knows
Go 2
Be the One (Dua Lipa, Netsky remix)
Work it Out
Detonate
Everyday (Rusko, Netsky remix)
Higher
Higher (The Prototypes Remix)
Iron Heart

Anticipate (Skream, Netsky remix)
Come Alive (Extended bridge)
Rio
Rio (Subtropics Remix)


Tour Dates

27.01.2017 PPC, A-Wien
28.01.2017 O2 Academy Bournemouth, UK-Wales
11.02.2017 Printworks, UK-London
25.02.2017 Sportpaleis, B-Antwerp
24.03.2017 Ultra Music Festival at ?Bayfront Park, US-Miami
31.03.2017 Beta Nightclub, US-Denver
13.04.2017 UKF at Motion Bristol, UK-Wales
21.04.2017 Exchange LA, US-Los Angeles
28.04.2017 Fabric, UK-London
17.06.2017 Shipsomnia, E-Barcelona
22.06.2017 Puhajarve Beach Party, EST-Otepaa
27.06.2017 Amnesia, E-Ibiza
30.06.2017 Nu Forms Festival, Ottakringer Arena, A-Wiesen
07.07.2017 Alfa Future People, Nizhny, R-Novgorod
08.07.2017 Balaton Sound, H-Zamardi
09.07.2017 Neversea Festival, RO-Constanta
14.07.2017 Circus Tokyo, J-Tokyo
22.07.2017 Tomorrowland 2017, B-De Schorre
27.07.2017 Ushuaïa, E-Ibiza
28.07.2017 Tomorrowland 2017, B-De Schorre
29.07.2017 Galapagai Festival, LIT-Zarasai City
03.08.2017 Let It Roll, CZ-Milovice
04.08.2017 Nature One, Pydna, Kastellaun
05.08. End Of The World Festival, E-Tarragona
06.08.2017 Solar Weekend Festival, NL-Roermond
08.08.2017 Amnesia, E-Ibiza
10.08.2017 Aquapark, Moosburg
11.08.2017 SMS SonneMondSterne, Jena
13.08.2017 Boardmasters, UK-Newquay
14.08.2017 Dreambeach, E-Villaricos
18.08.2017 V Festival, UK-Chelmsford
26.08.2017 SW4, UK-London
27.08.2017 Mysteryland, NL-Haarlemmermeer
01.09.2017 Ben Franklin Parkway, US-Philadelphia
02.09.2017 Ben Franklin Parkway, US-Philadelphia
03.09.2017 Made In America, US-Philadelphia
09.09.2017 Dancefestopia Music Festival, US-Sugar Creek
23.09.2017 Imagine Festival, US-Georgia

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