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than excessive bling!! Lighting designers Nick Whitehouse and Bryan Leitch from Visual Light Ltd have specified Avolites to control lighting for Justin Timberlake’s extensive Future Sex/LoveShow world tour – one of the hottest shows of 2007 - which kicked off in the US and Canada to rave reviews and much excitement. As soon as they won the design contract - Their innovative and creative approach impressed the artist and his production management team – UK-based lighting company Siyan – with whom Whitehouse works very closely - immediately purchased two additional Diamond 4s from Avo to supply to the tour. Siyan’s three existing D4 consoles were already committed and spec'd onto other tours running during the same period. "There was absolutely no question of anything other than a D4 when it came to choosing a console" states Whitehouse adamantly "It's the only desk for the job". He needed a console with the power and flexibility to run a large show and the D4 is once again proving to be the perfect creative and practical instrument Fixture wise, the D4 is controlling over 150 Vari*Lites (a mix of VL4s and VL3000 spots and washes plus 8 VL1000s; 120 ColorKinetics ColorBlasts; 20 Syncrolites – eight 1Ks and twelve 3ks; 50 Atomic 3K strobes with colour changers, fourty 4-cell Moles and 24 Led strip Lights . PRG’s Gurry Grant from the Los Angeles office was asked to supply all the tour’s lighting kit other than the front-end control. The spectacular Future Sex/Love trussing architecture was custom made by Show Rig in Los Angeles, and is based on a series of elegant spiraling curves and spheres, mirroring the industrial-styled, multi-layered, in-the-round stage set below. The tour kicked off in San Diego in January and hits the UK and Europe in April Through July. Other recent and current Siyan tours using Diamond 4s include Coldplay (LD Nick Whitehouse), Bloc Party (LD Dom Smith), The Killers (LD Steve Douglas) Bryan Adams (designed by Bryan Leitch & Nick Whitehouse, operated by Ewan McRobb) and Amy Winehouse (LD Chris Bushell) utilized a Pearl. |
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Date of issue : 8th February 2007. For more press info and photos on Avolites, please call Louise Stickland on +44 (0)1865 202679 or +44 (0)7831 329888 or Email ‘louise@loosplat.com’. Contact Avo direct on +44 (0)20 8965 8522. |
