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Lite Alt invests in Kinesys and puts new Apex system on the road with Arctic Monkeys and Niall Horan

UK-based lighting rental company Lite Alternative has consolidated its commitment to Kinesys automation technology with the recent purchase of 15 Apex half ton hoists and a Mentor 4 controller. The new Apex system has already been used on tour with the Arctic Monkeys and Niall Horan. Both productions were designed by Lite Alt’s Paul Normandale who put automation at the heart of the show visuals.

The Arctic Monkeys set included two 4 x 8 metre pods that were filled with some specific custom car head lamps from a classic Italian sports car that lead singer Alex Turner especially likes. The pods were each lifted using five of Lite Alt’s Apex hoists, three on the upstage edge and two on the downstage, allowing them to pitch and tilt in various ways in addition to moving up and down.

The lamps were fed with video sources and used as a pixel effect synched to the music, and the pods moved up/down and pitched constantly throughout the show changing the look, feel and architecture of the performance space.

The two pods were constructed by Tait together with the rest of the set, and Normandale also used a 4 ft diameter custom mirror ball - complete with the band’s name in LED lettering - flown on a single Kinesys Apex hoist, which came in and out at strategic moments. Automation was operated on the road by Ameer El-Eryan, also the production rigger, and it was tech’d by LX crew chief Scott Owen, who also knows the Kinesys system well.

On Nial Horan’s current “The Show” tour, most of the ceiling area is filled with a set piece containing 180 LED festoon bulbs inspired by classic art deco movie house facades. Weighing 1.8 tons and flown downstage of an Austrian curtain, the light box is lifted on five Apex hoists, and it also moves into different positions as the show unfolds, all of this making the space more dynamic. The Vector control system on Niall Horan is being operated by Chris Taylor, working closely with Graham Feast who is running lights.

The next tour for Lite Alt’s Apex system will be the Kings of Leon world tour which kicks off in Nashville in June.

(Photos: Paul Normandale)

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