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Orbital Exits on a High Note with Bandit
The band’s last regular UK gigs were two shows at Brixton Academy – for which Gaskell designed a lightshow that could also be taken into various festival situations – including a headline slot on Glastonbury’s Other Stage – for the band’s final UK appearances. These were undertaken prior to a farewell European festival tour, currently underway.
Gaskell wanted to ensure the band ended its groundbreaking career in a blaze of visual glory, and the use of 53 James Thomas Pixelline LED battens was integral to his design. He framed the upstage area with 12 rotating video screens, six on towers, complete with ‘radar panels’ on top, and six hanging off the rear truss. These were interwoven with 11 drops of three Pixelline battens, each positioned in-between the panels, and a further 20 Pixellines on the floor, arranged around the six floor-based screen towers.
He took various video inputs from Orbital’s vast array of playback clips (created by video artist Giles Thacker) and applied them across the entire Pixel line ‘screen’ – i.e. the whole layout of the battens. This resulted in an awesome liquid collage of moving energy and trippy patterns across the fixtures – creating a series of mesmeric natural effects.
Bandit also supplied Martin MAC 2ks, High End Studio Beam PCs, Atomic strobes, Molefays, Coemar Supercycs, and eight Parcans for the link scenes, because, as Gaskell succinctly said: “You have to have Parcans in there somewhere!”
He ran the show using a WholeHog II and wing. He worked alongside a Bandit crew of four: Steve Rusling, Matthew Jensen, Keith ‘Teff’ Harrison and Rob Starksfield and commented: “Bandit really looked after me. The crew were fantastic and the gear was meticulously prepped.”
21st July 2004
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