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Lighting rental house Siyan – headed by Bryan Leitch and Nick Valdez - has been using Robe Show Lighting ColorSpot 1200s moving lights on several recent high profile shows and events.

These have included The Thrills at Brixton Academy, the NME Brats tour at Brixton Academy, the NME Awards at Hammersmith Palais and a special SJM/Solo promoted show starring N-E-R-D featuring Justin Timberlake, which was recorded by MTV at Hammersmith Apollo.

Siyan has also just bought a further 20 Robe ColorWash 250 XTs form Robe UK to add to existing hire stock - bringing their total to over 60.

Vince Foster was the lighting designer for this exciting, high impact show, working with MTV director Russell Thomas, Solo’s Mark Ward and MTV Europe Production Manager Andy Derbyshire.

It was the first time Foster had worked with Siyan. They supplied the rig to his spec, and he was extremely pleased with the results and the attention to detail. The ColorSpot 1200s were rigged on the downstage truss and used as powerful, all-important key lights.

The rig also featured 20 Robe ColourWash 250 XTs, several other moving lights, a host of generics including PARs and Molefeys plus some James Thomas Pixelline battens. Foster controlled all lighting with his WholeHog II console.

This hot-ticket-in-town event honours the best music talent of the moment. This year’s NME Awards were staged at Hammersmith Palais with lighting equipment supplied for the first time by Siyan. Bryan Leitch designed the show, which again featured Robe ColorSpot 1200s.

The 1200s were the only fixtures used on the over-stage rig. The brightness and power was such that no others were needed, and the intensity so great that they were wound back to 20 per cent to avoid retinal burn of seated guests in the relatively intimate venue!

Siyan also supplied included a substantial amount of audience lighting. All of it was programmed by Nick Whitehouse using two Avolites Sapphire 2000 consoles. The stage lightshow was operated by Whitehouse using one desk, and the audience lighting by Matt Arthur using the other.

A dozen Robe ColorWash 250 XTs were also used – “

they’re such an ideal and handy size for this type of venue

This years NME Award winners included : Kings Of Leon (Best New Band and Best International Band); Radiohead – Best Video for &apos;There There&apos; and Best Album for 'Hail To The Thief'; The White Stripes – Best single for '7 Nation Army'; The Libertines (Best UK Band); Franz Ferdinand (Philip Hall Radar Award) and Dizzee Rascal (The Fuck Me! Award For Innovation).

LD for this tour de force of new UK talent was Tom James, who’s also Funeral For A Friend’s lighting designer, one of the bands on the joint headline bill along with Franz Ferdinand, The Rapture, the Von Bondies and others.

James designed six ColorSpot 1200s into his rig. He used them to great effect for beam technology, eye-popping colour chases and effects and general brightness and eye candy.

They were also used to light the backdrop – a feat achieved effortlessly with six fixtures, stationed just 2 feet away.

Thrills’ LD Geoff Hall used the Spot 1200s encased in huge muslin clad trussing towers. The units were so bright – even in dark blue – that when the fixtures were tilted down to shoot across the audience, the towers became invisible! The 1200’s zoom facility came into its own here, as it is so wide, even from a short throw, that they were able to get the full impact of the fixture all the way up the tower.

Using the 1200s on such wide variety of shows enabled the Siyan team to put them through their paces thoroughly. Before this, they’d conducted a shoot out with other fixtures at Somerset House when they supplied kit to illuminate the Ice Rink. Here they discovered several things including the “

incredibly long throw and the accuracy of the focus and flat field

” stated Leitch. This spurred him on to want to use them in other gig situations.

Leitch was impressed with the speed of movement and internal functions like gobo changing, and the robustness of the build. Other neat feature include the on-fixture menu which he thinks is brilliant, allowing the changing of addresses from the ground and any single parameter to be re-set individually without extinguishing the lamp.

“They’re just incredible live show fixtures”

For more press info on Robe UK, please contact Louise Stickland on +44 (9)1865 202679 or +44 (0)7831 329888 or E-mail louise@loosplat.com.

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