LONDON – LD Rob Sinclair’s design for Adele’s international tour this year featured a distinctive back wall of 96 cone-shaped lampshades using 60-watt incandescent household bulbs to illuminate them. The rest of the show featured moving lights that didn’t move, and lots of white light, to allow Adele’s voice to be the star. Jands Vista v2 software controlled the show.
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Jands Vista v2 Lights Up Adele for 2011 International Tour
LD and long-time Jands Vista advocate, Rob Sinclair specified a Vista S1 console with two M1 wings to run lighting for Grammy Award-winning UK singer-songwriter Adele’s recent 2011 international tour.
The system ran Jands’ next generation Vista v2 software, and on some sections of the tour operating duties were taken on by John Barker while Sinclair fulfilled other design commitments on his busy schedule, including tours by Peter Gabriel and Goldfrapp also using Vista systems.
Sinclair’s design for Adele was sculpted using entirely white light, a bold aesthetic move which has won considerable acclaim. None of the moving lights were seen to move, there was minimal flashing, and was a real case of subtlety and suggestion to augment Adele’s performance and natural stage presence.
There was a distinctive back wall of 96 cone-shaped lampshades each illuminated from behind with a 60 Watt incandescent household light bulb – all individually dimmed. These had been dipped in a special rubber solution treatment to make them break-resistant.
The Matrix facilities on the Vista S1 – one of the many tools added with the Vista v2 upgrade – facilitated the mapping and programming of this arrangement.
The lighting rig echoed the simplicity of the show’s concept. Rigged across three overhead trusses were seven Robe ColorSpot 2500E AT moving lights and 20 ETC Source Four profiles, and on the deck were 16 Martin Professional MAC 2K Washes, all supplied by Neg Earth Lights.
Commenting on the Vista v2 software, Sinclair says, “I really like it. It is solid and a marked step forward from V1. It feels almost as if the console directly connects my brain to the lights.”
Jands Europe’s Neil Vann comments, “Rob’s designs are always interesting, fantastic looking and precise. Vista v2 offers the perfect balance to get the detailed control he demands, with the simplicity to get the most from the tight time frames to which today’s productions have to work.”
