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Bandit Supplies The Osmonds' 50th Anniversary Tour
Bandit Lites' busy summer continues with lighting supply for the UK Arena tour of the Osmonds' 50th anniversary tour. Bandit Lites has serviced many other of the Osmonds' live shows and Donny Osmond tours in the past, and were a logical choice of supplier when the tour kicked off in the UK.
Lester Cobrin, Bandit Lites UK Chief Executive, commented: "It is a pleasure to work with artists that are as experienced and talented as the Osmond family."
The lighting rig was designed by Mike Frogge, who's worked with Donny Osmond for many years.
The main focus was to highlight the family. They needed a rig that was relatively straightforward, and that could also be reduced in size easily when needed.
Based on eight trusses, there were six over the stage and two as a front truss. Each of the over-stage truss structures were rigged with four Vari*Lite 3000 Spots. The two furthest upstage were rigged with two Vari*Lite 3500 Washes and the four mid-stage trusses each had four Vari*Lite 3500s, which were used as wash lights for the Osmonds. The front two trusses contained 12 V*L 3500 Washes between them.
There were another eight Vari*Lite 3000 Spots on the floor, two per side and four in front of the central video screen. Each of the band risers were trimmed with Color Kinetics ColorBlaze 48 LED strip lights.
The rig also featured 16 Martin Professional Atomic strobes, eight on the floor and eight in the air, plus a selection of generics including 16 4-lite Moles and PAR 64s to tone all the trusses in Lee 202. The followspots were four 2.5kW Robert Juliat Ivanhoe.
All lighting was controlled from a WholeHog II console, chosen specifically because of its availability when the tour goes on to visit Asia, after Australia.
The challenges on the UK leg involved covering the seven Osmonds with four followspots and ensuring that they were evenly lit at all times. They are perfectionists when it comes to the show, so plenty of attention to detail is needed from all departments at all times.
The show also featured 20 songs in the two-part set, encompassing over 30 Osmonds classics including the medleys. Some of the lighting was triggered by timecode from the Burford video server that had been specially customised by Donny Osmond, who was actively involved in the show's video.
Bandit crew included crew chief, Andy Brown, dimmer technician, Dom Martin and lighting technician, Ben Hammett.
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