Over 140 i-Pix BB4 wash lights are featuring on the stadium shows of UK rockers Oasis' current "Dig Out Your Soul" world tour, together with 17 i-Pix BB7s. This is an increase of nearly 100 BB4 units - the standard touring rig started with 42 along with 7 BB7s - and is currently the record amount of i-Pix fixtures used on a single concert touring show. Gawler's original basic over-stage … [Read more...]
i-Pix new BB7s for Orbital
LD Jonny Gaskell is using 12 of the new i-Pix BB7 LED wash lights - with the 20 degree wide angle lenses - on UK dance gurus Orbital's ongoing own shows and festival dates. Gaskell has worked with the band since 1996 - enjoying plenty of imaginative scope to evolve and re-invent their lightshow over that time. "Dynamics are always the key with lighting an Orbital show," he explains, "You have … [Read more...]
grandMA is a “Killer”!
Lighting Designer Steven Douglas is using grandMA lighting control for the first time on the current Killers “Day & Age” world tour, which has just completed it’s first US, UK and European legs. He had two grandMA full-size consoles – one in tracking backup – and four MA NSPs running over Ethernet, controlling 9 real DMX universes and 111 virtual universes for all the video content, stored on … [Read more...]
New i-Pix BB7s debuts with The Doves
The new i-Pix BB7 wide angle fixtures made their touring debut on the Doves recent UK tour, with a lighting design by Chris Bushell. These offer a 20 degree angle dispersion enabling an even wider and more comprehensive wash effect than the standard 10 degree version. Bushell has used BB7s before on both Amy Winehouse and The Hoosiers, and is a big fan of the i-Pix brand, however Doves also … [Read more...]
More BBs on the Bloc at Olympia
Lighting designer Leggy (Jonathan Armstrong) upped his count of i-Pix BB7 LED wash lights from 19 to 35 for Bloc Party's 2 sold out shows at London Olympia, the latest on a world tour that kicked off in January. Bloc Party's "Intimacy" tour is the first time that Leggy had incorporated BB7s into his rig - a move prompted by wanting a very bright, soft edged source with fabulously smooth … [Read more...]
