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Adlib supplies equipment and crew for James

Adlib supplies equipment and crew for James
Adlib supplies equipment and crew for James

Adlib supplied lighting equipment and crew for this year’s tour by UK rock band James who played a mix of UK arenas, academies and city hall venues. Neil Anderson was the Tour Director. He worked with Matt Johnson (Road Manager), Cally Harris (Production Co-Ordinator) and Adam Johnston (Stage Manager).

 

Lighting was designed by Chris Montrie and lighting crew chief Ben Hodgkins advanced and co-ordinated all the lighting tenders and related elements of the tour. Montrie is based in Washington DC so he and Ben liaised closely in advance and as the tour was approaching, with Hodgkins ensuring that everything was ready to go for Montrie when he arrived at Adlib for a two-day WYSIWYG programme prior to production rehearsals.

 

Montrie had a free reign in creating the design with some input from the band and the lighting rig was inspired by the ‘Girl at the End of the World’ album artwork, with a girl sitting on a bench and the sun in the background. From this, the initial idea of circular trusses evolved, which was then modified to make it more practical to scale for the different sized venues.

 

They settled on four straight trusses that were split in the middle - inverted V style, flown at different heights and raked - which gave the optical impression of a curved look. These were joined by straight 40 ft front and mid trusses and an upstage truss to support the 40 x 30 ft LED Starcloth backdrop. A custom set piece was fabricated by Metalman comprising a 12 ft wide metal disc - resembling the one on the album - with fabric stretched across the middle and flown from the lighting trusses.

 

For moving lights, Montrie chose 16 x Martin Mac Viper Profiles, with eight on the floor and eight in the air; eight Mac Viper Washes, split four and four between floor and air and 20 x Mac Quantum LED washes, 16 spread around the roof trusses to provide the base washes with the other four on the floor. Sixteen Clay Paky Mythos rigged on the overhead trusses were the primary effects fixtures. Seven Source 4 profiles provided key lighting and specials, fitted with 26 degree lenses.

 

The floor lights were on 6 ft high risers and joining them were 10 x 5K fresnels on Manfrotto stands at 6 ft and 12 ft high arranged in an M shape, bringing a retro ‘lensed’ look to the stage. They had Lee 147 (Apricot) filters fitted to replicate the orange glow of the album graphics. Twenty-two 2 x 2-cell moles were used for accents and punctuation together with four Atomic 3000 strobes and for the arenas, two Magic FX confetti blowers. Control was two of Adlib’s Avolites Pearl Expert 2015 consoles, with Avo ART dimmers - two T4 racks - and a 72-way hot power rack.

 

The whole rig pulled around 100 Amps per phase when in full arena mode. In ‘B’ rig mode, the four 16 ft raked trusses were built as two 32 ft straight trusses and rigged with exactly the same amount of lights at the same spaces, so Montrie and the band could have consistency and continuity all the time. Adlib’s team included Dave Eldridge (Lighting Manager), Jeff Bond and Jordan Willis (Lighting Technicians).

 

(Photos: Shirlaine Forrest)

 

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