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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. The Pearl is controlling 6 Robe ColorSpot 1200 ATs, 6 Robe 250 XT’s (also owned by Gibbon – see separate press release), 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..
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