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i-Vision for Brubaker’s Dundalk

i-Vision has supplied an eye-catching internal architectural lighting scheme based on its Lumos LED lightsources for Brubakers, the latest multi-purpose night venue to open in Ireland’s buzzing new party town of Dundalk.

The venue was previously incarnated as a long, narrow space that served as a pub but was totally inadequate for staging live bands. Owner and local entrepreneur Declan Muckian had the place completely gutted and re-designed from the ground up, transforming the same footprint into a classy and more functional new 650 capacity environment combining four bars, a restaurant area, dance-floor and live music facilities.

He called in Eamonn O’Neil from Vibe Sound & Lighting to supply a top quality audio, AV and lighting package, and he in turn asked i-Vision’s Geoff Jones onboard to design and supply the specialist environmental lighting requirements.

“It was one of those scenarios when as soon as you walked around, you knew exactly what would work and what it needed,” admits Jones. The décor is finished to a very high standard with lots of detail. The interior design was a collective conception by manager Kevin Carthy, Muckian and Drew Henry from Derry. With plush, heavy Victorian/Gothic overtones initially, but after a few minutes, the contemporary twists start making themselves apparent.

“It’s already a very visual and stimulating environment,” says Jones, so my aim with the lighting was primarily to compliment and enhance this by highlighting certain areas with colour and movement.” It’s a lively environment, so he knew he had scope to be vivacious with the lighting. Kevin Carthy was also very keen on being able to use the lighting as an atmospheric and mood control, and the others also had ideas already about what they wanted, which Jones combined with Jones’s own to give the space a life and a vibrancy of its own.

They chose single red Lumos 1 step lights to highlight all the stairs in the building with a lush luminous glow, some placed in the middle of the step and some at the sides – a total of 70.

Six arches containing frescoed artwork flank either side of the two staircases to the first floor, and each is lit with colour changing Lumos 1200/36 optic RGB strips to very dramatic effect – and are clearly visible from both floors.

Upstairs the exposed main roof beams straddle the ceiling space, and are emphasised with two RGB Lumos strips per beam. The pillars delineating the end bar upstairs are lit with special Lumos 3 up-and-down lighters – made so narrow shafts of light beam down, whilst softer, wide angled beams spread up the walls. I-Vision custom made these housings, and have now added them to the standard range following their success here.

There are six Lumos Pinspot LEDs inground into the floor upstairs, and the pièce de résistance is the vaulted ceiling, which is illuminated with 66 strips of colour changing Lumos Link 3. This looks most spectacular when on a medium-fast colour changing chase.

i-Vision’s product is ideal for installations like this which need robust, hard-wearing kit that’s built to last explains Jones. Downstairs the entrance hall dome is internally lit with more colour changing Lumos 3 strips, while the stage area features a leaded glass overhead feature which is also internally lit with Lumos 3 RGBs LINKS controlled by a small DMX switcher.

For control throughout the rest of Brubakers, Jones specified one of their Lumos Touch 8 button controllers that offers 8 preset patters/sequences and has been developed by i-vision for installations like this, where lighting can be controlled easily by non-technical staff.

The lighting at Brubakers has already become a great local talking point, with plenty of people checking it out for themselves – and the venue is popular throughout the week and packed every weekend. “I’m absolutely delighted with the result,” states Carthy. “The lighting is doing exactly what we wanted and playing an important role in the ambience of the place that’s drawing people in.”

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i-Vision for Brubaker’s Dundalk

22nd March 2006

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