ON THE ROAD: AC/DC
Below: 42”-39”-56”, so the song goes — Mark Fisher’s original drawing of ‘Rosie’ and the final inflatable result, pictured at Air Artists’ Suffolk workshop.
them up on the floor at Upstaging and were so of which 24 are used specifically to saturate the — there has to be a purpose for it,” observed
impressed that we wanted to double the order. train — and other key areas of scenery — with Cosmo.
There were going to be more Big Lites on intense uplighting. “The train speaks for itself. The band don’t
the upstage curve of the truss but a number of “There was never any good place to light the like smoke machines but they understand that
factors swayed us to get rid of the Big Lites but train from inside other than a window, which I need to give the lights an ambient quality,
one [used to light Angus Young on the scissor was used for a flame projector, so we literally and you have to get it from somewhere. So,
lift] and replace them with another 24 Alpha surrounded it with these fixtures,” said Cosmo. recognising that a real-life piston would always
Beams. “We also have some LittleBigLites on the have steam coming out of it, I put one of the
“They’re a moving ACL as far as I’m ends of the arches, plus 4-lite and 12-lite smoke machines down there and it all made
concerned and they’re really distinctive. They Molefays, [63] Martin Stagebar 54 LED battens sense to them.”
give me the opportunity to make the beams as and [45] Color Kinetics ColorBlast 12s, mainly Many of today’s leading LDs have reported to
tight as I want and having gobos in a wash light for audience lighting. Patrick originally spec’d TPi that their choice of an MA Lighting grandMA
is a massive advantage.” these LED lights as truss toners but black truss console came through their previous embracing
The Rock’n’Roll Train “flickers into life” care just doesn’t light, so we just turned them on the of the now-classic Icon desk. Dave Hill has
of Martin Atomic strobes underneath the loco, audience.” recently raved about the console and in Paris,
8.5kW Hungaroflash T-Lights which provide Four Lycian follow spots and a pair of DF-50 Cosmo was equally enthusiastic.
crackling lightning and storm effects, and more hazers round off the main fixture spec. “The “I’ve worked with pretty much every
Coemars for silhouetting. Another ‘weapon’ is band’s message to us is that whatever we use reputable console out there and, yes, I was a big
the discreet GLP Elation Impression LED fixture, on the show — lights, effects, sound, whatever fan of the Icon and Avos for years. But I’d heard
42 • TPi MARCH 09
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