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Simple Minds on tour with Robe BMFL Spots

Robe BMFL Spot moving lights were used for the arena section of Simple Minds’ ‘Big Music’ tour for which lighting designer Stephen Pollard expanded and scaled up the stage set and lighting rig he used in theatre venues last year. UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL invested in 50 x new Robe BMFL Spots just before the tour went out, 24 of which were used by Pollard.

Much of the show was about beam-work so the BMFL Spots were used for creating beam ‘structures’ and frameworks as well as for gobo sweeps, for which they were fitted with custom gobos tailored to Pollard’s design. The rig comprised three curved trusses. 20 x BMFLs were positioned on the main truss which also had 8 video ‘drops’. This main truss also supported six vertical sub-hung trusses fitted with various scaffolding and accessories that enabled Pollard to hang the fixtures at different levels.

Six BMFLs were out rigged from the top of the main truss, another 12 were positioned on the sub hung trusses between the video drops with four BMFL Spots upstage of the stage set on the floor. Positioned like this, they enabled Pollard to create symmetrical layers of light which could change into random lighting chaos at the press of a button. The video product was positioned between the lighting drops.

A strong curved element ran through the set and lighting design making it suggestively feminine to celebrate the two women - Sarah Brown and Catharine A.D. - in the band line-up. “I wanted the whole design to have a feminine aura," explains Pollard, "but with attitude, not fluffy or clichéd.” Pollard ran the show from a GrandMA Full Size.

(Photos: Edward Fielding)

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