Spot of colour

Published Tuesday 17 June 2008 at 11:30

Lighting designer Martin Dudley used Robe ColorSpot 700E AT moving lights at the core of his lighting rig for the Guillemots most recent UK tour, for which his company, Reading-based Martin’s Lights, purchased new units from Robe UK.

Dudley has worked with the band for two years, this being his fourth full tour. Robe states that he used just six ColorSpot 700E ATs - these give him more than enough creative scope and range to light the full set without repetition. For the London show, at the Forum, he also added in four house Robe ColorSpot 700E ATs and six ColorSpot 250E ATs, which were part of a recent technical upgrade and refurbishment for the London venue. Dudley toured his six ColorSpot 700E ATs along with four 575 moving wash lights on the floor, a series of LED PARs on scaff pipes upstage, several other LED PARs which were dotted around the stage, Diversitronic strobes, eight-lites, lots of PAR 16 Birdies and 60 metres of red rope light, which was draped randomly around the backline. All this was controlled from an Avolites Pearl 2004 console. Wherever possible, he used the house trusses to rig the ColorSpots upstage so they could be utilised for powerful back lighting effects. Certain songs were lit simply just in single colour reds or blues and others in much more complex colour combinations. Dudley worked with lighting technician Gareth Dean on the tour, being joined by Dan Robinson for the London show.