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Colour Sound illuminates Underworld

Colour Sound illuminates Underworld
Colour Sound illuminates Underworld

UK dance band Underworld delighted fans with a short UK and European tour to kick off the live campaign supporting their new album ‘Barbara Barbara We Face A Shining Future’. Lighting was designed by Haydn “H” Cruickshank from Colour Sound Experiment, with the company also supplying all lighting equipment and the LED screen.

 

“It doesn’t so much matter where the lights are positioned on the rig - it’s more about the timing and being in tune with what the band are playing,” says Cruickshank, whose rig was based on four straight trusses over the stage, and an upstage 12 metre wide by 2.9 metre high LED screen made from Colour Sound’s BT6 screen, which was a big part of the look.

 

The video playback content was created by Simon Taylor from art collective Tomato and the live camera elements were directed by Toby Vogel. Cruickshank has the video intensity control running through his ChamSys MQ300 console, allowing this aspect of both mediums to be more harmonious and when video was running, the style of the lighting changed.

 

At the core of the lighting rig were 18 x Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1500 HPEs and 24 Chauvet Rogue R2 Washes positioned overhead and on the floor, complimented with 8 x Beam 200 beam lights and Chauvet Q-Wash 260s. Added to these were Atomic strobes scattered around on the trusses and floor; Sunstrips on the floor framing the side of the video screen and Moles on the first and third trusses for accenting and blinding moments.

 

Colour Sound has recently invested in large quantities of Litec QL52 black trussing, some of which was used on this tour to facilitate the open looking design.

 

www.coloursound.co.uk

 

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