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SGM for the BBC Electric Proms
UK lighting rental company Siyan designed and supplied a spectacular lighting rig based on SGM moving lights for the BBC’s ground-breaking BBC Electric Proms shows. These were staged at the newly restored Camden Roundhouse.
The rig was a co-design by Bryan Leitch and Nick Whitehouse, with Siyan in the demanding position of working for the BBC Electric Proms team and promoters Metropolis Music, the latter bringing in the High Wycombe based company in to light the series of pioneering shows.
Up to three artists were featured per night including music from The Good The Bad and The Queen (one of Damon Albarn’s new projects), The Who, Paul Weller, Young Tiger, The Zutons, James Brown, The Magic Numbers and many more artists and musicians who performed new, unique work and collaborations.
Leitch and Whitehouse utilised 126 SGM fixtures of various different types including Giotto 400 series washes, spots and CMYs. “SGM was an obvious choice for us; we use them all the time on our major tours and events,” said Leitch. Siyan’s substantial inventory of SGM kit has been supplied through exclusive UK distributors Lightfactor.
The stage was built at one ‘end’ of the circular venue, and the lights were hung onto a variety of trussing sections, the two main outer ones being semi-circular in shape, tracking the curvature of the room. These were joined by a tighter radiused ‘mid’ truss covering approximately 130 degrees of the circular space. There was a conventional (straight) front truss hung high in front of the stage. Onstage were eight vertical 8ft truss sections. Another 10 were placed on the upper balcony in between the venue’s striking structural iron pillars.
The SGM fixtures were the essence of the shows, responsible for the main part of the - apart from incidental illumination of the beautiful atmospheric venue there was the wide diversity of acts to be lit and they met the dual challenge of lighting for both live audience and television. Leitch comments that they found the linear CTO blue and orange of the Giotto 400 CMYs a huge advantage for TV shows.
BBC Electric Proms is being broadcast across several BBC television and radio networks including BBC 1, BBC 2, BBC 3, BBC 4, Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, 1Xtra, 6 Music, BBC Asian Network and BBC World Service.
2nd November 2006
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