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Wall of light

Published Monday 26 October 2009 at 16:35 by Derek Smith

Adlib Lighting is supplying lighting equipment and crew for English post-hardcore band Enter Shikari’s current UK tour.

The project is being managed by John Hughes and the lighting design is by Steve Bewley, who has been working with the group since March.

Bewley’s creative starting point was to devise a rig that matched the highly animated performance style of the band. He also wanted something that looked completely different to their last tour, reflecting the innovative style of the latest album, Common Dreads.

He decided on a back wall of light effect, configured slightly differently from a conventional rock’n’roll wall of death. He came up with a horseshoe-shaped truss, supported by four trussing legs including two side arms, giving it the horseshoe shape when viewed from the top.

This gives all the lighting positions he needs for the heavily back-lit show, along with the chance to rig all the fixtures in slightly off-kilter configurations. It has to be tailored to 80 per cent of the venues on the itinerary as they vary in stage size, so the structure also had to be flexible.

On the horseshoe are 16 Martin MAC 250 Wash and 10 High End Studio Beam moving lights, eight Atomic strobes with colour changers and nine Showtech Active Sun Strips, the latter being rigged vertically at different heights in a gentle curve across the structure. Bewley controls everything via a Hog iPC console and a wing.

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