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PixelLines for Prodigy

Prodigy lighting designer Ian MacEwan used James Thomas Engineering PixelLine battens for the UK section of techno ‘rock’ gurus Prodigy’s incendiary ‘You Better Wake Up’ tour. This was a rich and raucous live experience of theatrics and pumping hi-energy dance music.

He wanted fixtures to match the energy and excitement of the performance, and the hi-impact PixelLines were an obvious choice. He first used PixelLines – approx 140 of them – on Party In The Park this summer, working with LD Vince Foster – on a show that also utilised PixelDrive software for control.

The eight fixtures on Prodigy were a few less than Party In The Park, but such is the power and intensity that this was enough to make a real impression during the show!

The onstage four PixelLines were attached to Y-braced scaffolding bars behind the drum kit, while the four offstage ones were clamped to two elements of a ‘double V’ shaped upstage truss, angled from floor to ceiling behind the band. The PixelLines were always used in primary colours, and snaked across the stage in pulsing and rippling chases, or were blasted into the audience as part of Prodigy’s fully immersive visual and sonic dance assault.

“I really like them,” declares MacEwan. “And I’m looking forward to the chance to using a lot more in the future.”. He says that with 20 or 30 PixelLines in the rig his imagination would really start to run wild, but also comments that it’s amazing what you can do with just eight fixtures.

All equipment was supplied by PRG. Sound was from Canegeen, with Jon Burton mixing FOH and Joe Campbell on monitors.

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21st December 2004

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