The Stage

Massive tour

Published Monday 9 November 2009 at 16:00

HSL Is supplying lighting and crew to the current UK and European tour by Bristol-based, electronic/trip-hop band, Massive Attack, working with lighting designer Robin Haddow, who worked closely with the band’s video and show designers, United Visual Artists, on developing the look and feel of the show. A week’s technical production rehearsals at HSL’s new space next door to their warehouse facility in Blackburn preceded the tour, creative input also coming from Massive Attack founder 3D. They are again touring 15 custom modules of Barco O-Lite 510 video screen upstage, making a 15 metre wide by three metre high back wall. Attached to the base of each O-Lite frame is a Robe ColorWash 250E AT moving light. Upstage of the screen is a truss, rigged about a metre high off the ground on special tank traps, on which is mounted 15 Vari*Lite 3500 Washes. For side and front lighting, eight Robe ColorSpot 700E ATs are used, four on stands for the downstage edge of the stage and another four further upstage on flightcases. The show is run via three control systems - a Hog 3 set up which also drives a PixelMAD system that supplies content to the REDWashes, which are also programmed as conventional lightsources, being operated by Haddow. The tour is currently scheduled to run until the end of November.

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