Lights move in their own way

Published Monday 12 May 2008 at 13:40

Kooks’ lighting designer Pete Hosier chose an Avolites Diamond 4 Vision console to control all lighting on the Kooks tour.

The band’s latest album Konk reached the UK number one slot just as they played the first date.

The set is constructed around seven 20ft vertical scaffolding pipes, each rigged with three LED PARs, a Martin Professional Atomic strobe with scroller and a GLP Impression moving LED wash fixture. The back wall neatly combines the basics of that slightly ‘old school’ look with new LED technology. The rest of the lights are spread across three trusses and floor. The back truss contains eight Robe ColorSpot 700E AT fixtures, the mid truss has five Robe ColorSpot 575E ATs, while the front has five Robe ColorSpot 575E ATs, five ColorWash 700E ATs and Source Four profiles for key lighting.

On the deck are 10 JTE PixelLine LED battens, used for washing across the cyc at the back and also for up-lighting from underneath the risers. There’s another nine Atomic strobes scattered around the general floor area which are gelled, plus another six GLP Impressions. Lighting equipment for the Kooks’ UK and European tours is being supplied by London-based Colour Sound Experiment. Hosier worked alongside crew members Martin Dudley (of Martin’s Lights) and Richard Gilson on this most recent section, and were joined by Andy Melleney for the Brixton shows.