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Genesis is Turned On Again with grandMA
The history of Genesis reaches back into the sixties. With its progressive rock the band was a forerunner for many artists to follow. Hits like ‘Watcher of the Skies’, ‘Follow you, follow me’, ‘Mama’, ‘Land of Confusion’ or ‘No Son of Mine’ won them many fans worldwide over the last decades. After Phil Collins left the band in 1996 things have calmed down around Genesis – until last year when Collins, together with Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks, announced ‘Turn it on again – the tour’ for 2007 which is now performed worldwide. Lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe has selected two grandMA full-size as his favourite tools. They were used in Multi-User mode for preprogramming and rehearsals. During the concerts they run in full-tracking backup mode.
The consoles trigger 12 universes of DMX. Four NSPs are integrated into the network, three for running the show and one as spare. In case of a failure the spare NSP could easily keep the show going. The lighting rig consisted amongst others of 36 Vari*Lite VL5s, 14 Vari*Lite VL6Bs, 50 Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs, 74 Coemar Infinity Wash XLs, 65 High End Studio Beam PCs, 41 Martin Atomic 3000s, 20 ZAP Technology BigLite 4.5s, six ZAP Technology Little Big Lite 3.0s and six Hungaroflash T-Light 85kWs. A Barco Daylight screen of 15 metres height and 40 metres width is also used. There are low-res and high-res components.
Neg Earth supplied the lighting equipment, Adam Bassett is the associate lighting designer and Dave Hill is the programmer.
18th July 2007
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