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Robe equipment selected for Jacob Dinesen's arena shows

Danish singer/guitarist Jacob Dinesen played two arena shows to kick off his 2018 summer tour, one in his home region of Aabenraa and one in Copenhagen, with Robe MegaPointes and Spiiders prominent on the rig. Lighting for these two shows was a completely new design, also programmed and operated by LD Niller Bjerregaard.

Bjerregaard had only just joined the Dinesen production team for these shows after being recommended by FOH sound engineer Mads Mikkelsen. The two also work for Danish band Volbeat, in fact four of the crew are involved on the production of both artists. Bjerregaard took on the Dinesen project with a skeleton design already in place created by Jacob Beckman. He discussed this with the band and their production manager Jonathan Koch and added in some of his own ideas.

Some of the 30 x MegaPointes and 20 x Spiiders at the centre of the rig were already specified by Jacob Beckman, however when Niller Bjerregaard took over the project, he added some extra fixtures. The initial idea had been to have PAR cans on the ladders, but this was changed to the Spiiders. They also moved some of the trussing around and added more LED products.

The Spiiders were purchased new for the tour by rental company Vigso, while the MegaPointes were supplied as a dry hire from Nordic Rentals. The MegaPointes were positioned on the four roof trusses - three of which were straight with the back one curved to accommodate a wide backdrop and add structural dynamics to the picture. Eight of the Spiiders were on the trusses with another 12 on six upstage vertical ladders which flanked a portrait LED screen in the centre.

Also on the ladders were Elidy LED panels. Bjerregaard also had a few other moving lights, some LED strobe/flood fixtures for blinding and bumping and a bunch of 2-lite Moles. He operated these shows in Aabenraa Arena and Copenhagen Forum using his own ChamSys MQ500 Stadium console. On these two Jacob Dinesen shows, he worked alongside lighting crew chief Martin Jepsen and Niels Stenger from Vigso.

(Photos: Louise Stickland)

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