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New Pearl for Natasha Beddingfield |
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Tuesday, 08 March 2005 07:34 |
Lighting designer Dave Gibbon has purchased an Avolites Pearl 2004 for the
current Natasha Beddingfield tour. This is his second Pearl. His first
Pearl was bought two years ago, and is currently out on the 4 month
Hadley vs ABC tour, being operated by Andy Emmerson. “I love the Pearl
for all those elements that everyone else does” declares Gibbon, “It’s
the best console for live operation, the most buskable, reliable and
easy to programme. You just can’t beat it for small to medium shows of
all types”.
It’s
Natasha Beddingfield’s first production tour, building on the huge
success of her first album, “Unwritten”, and sees her vivacious, ballsy
show visiting a wide variety of different UK venues. The decision to
buy the second desk was taken when Gibbon found himself in the middle
of designing and specifying lighting for both the Beddingfield and
Hadley tours which were due to run concurrently. In addition to knowing
the desk inside out, it was an obvious move to get another console and
have it as a constant production element taken everywhere. So even if
fixtures and rigs change around as they move to different territories
or use house systems – with the Pearls onboard, Gibbon and Emmerson are
always running the show from familiar consoles.
Lighting
equipment for the Natasha Beddingfield tour is being supplied by Entec. ColorSpot 1200 ATs, 6 Robe 250 XT’s,6 MAC 600s, 6
James Thomas Pixellines, 8 bars of 6 PARs, four 4-cell Moles and 7
Source Four profiles. The tour also features Avolites ART 2000 dimmers,
and is tech’d by Entec’s Simon “Boff” Howarth.
Lighting
and PA all had to fit into one truck, so the rig had to pack tidily
into its own small area in the trailer, as well as being adaptable for
anything between student union and club venues and theatres. The
creative brief within these parameters was to make it look as big and
go as far as he could.
Beddingfield
herself has taken a keen interest in the visuals and how the show looks
from the audience’s perspective. “We discussed colours and looks
extensively for the first few shows” says Gibbon, as the show was fine
tuned during its first week. Sound equipment is supplied by Britannia
Row – featuring the first Turbosound ‘Aspect’ system to be toured. FOH
engineer is Anthony King and John Lewis mixes monitors. Tour and
production manager is Craig Duffy.
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