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ON THE ROAD: AC/DC
Below L-R: Lighting director Charlie ‘Cosmo’ Wilson; video director Mike Duque.
heads a lighting crew that includes Mark Weil, the hard edge lighting, well over 100 Coemar they don’t cut as much. I think it’s a bulb
Mark Ryder, Kendra Sandoval, Brian Kasten, Inﬁnity Wash XLs were speciﬁed as the main problem. When we put brand new bulbs in they
Steve Richards, Jim Fredrikson, Josh Wagner and workhorse ﬁxtures by Woodroffe and Hill, cut better, but the Coemars are so stunningly
Phil de Boissiere. who have used them with several other artists bright by comparison.”
Along with the ﬁxtures, Upstaging supplied recently, including Genesis. Adding further punch are 48 Clay Paky Alpha
around 60 10’ sections of its specialised black “The Coemars are very bright and have Beam 300s which are positioned all around
Hud truss system, named after its creator, John certainly become a favourite,” said Cosmo, who the stage — at the front edge, on the backline
Huddlestone. “It was pre-rigged — all the has previously worked with Foreigner and The and on the upstage truss — providing big ACL
ﬁxtures stay on there,” Cosmo explained. “It’s a Scorpions. looks throughout the set. “For me, the Alphas
really sleek and effective design with couplers “They can lose a little intensity when you transformed the show,” said Dave Hill.
that give us the ability to make the curves start to put deeper colours through them but Cosmo agreed: “They are incredible — all
easily.” we have so many up in the rig that it’s not an that intensity and speed of movement from just
While 36 Vari*Lite VL3000 spots provide issue. Although the VLs never lose their focus, 300 watts a piece is just a mind-blower! We set
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