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Published Monday 23 June 2008 at 17:35

Adlib Lighting provided equipment and crew for the Wombats’ first full UK production tour.

Lighting designer Ali Pike has worked for the Liverpool band for three years. The design starting point for the tour was based on elements that have been used in their live visuals for some time. A lot of the initial concept ideas also came from the Backfire at the Disco promo video, featuring a series of DJ and disco lighting effects.

The back truss was rigged with four bars of six PARs, three Martin Professional MAC 700 Spots and six two-lite blinders which were zig-zagged along the front of it. The front truss featured six Source Fours and four High End Systems Studio Beams. Upstage on the floor were five, eight-foot vertical truss towers on special bases with a MAC 700 Spot on top of the four outer ones. A pink gelled lightbox with the Wombats’ logo, decked out with Christmas tree lights, topped the central tower. Also, 10 JTE PixelLines were attached to the towers at angles with frost filters over the top to create a disco-style, zigzag streak right across the stage.

Pike ran the show from an Avolites Pearl Expert console.