NEW YORK — The Swedish band Ghost, which released their Popestar EP last Sept. 15, embarked on their late 2016 tour a day later, trekking from Rochester NY to Seattle, Los Angeles and back to Brooklyn, NY before wrapping the North American leg Nov. 12. Gemini LSV provided LD Christian Wienberg Bonde and lighting director Mike Holm with 11 High End Systems SolaSpot Pro 2000 fixtures as the floor lighting package.
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The SolaSpots serve as powerful workhorses, providing massive looks and amazing special effects lighting to the band’s high energy live performances.
Bonde says, “We’ve been touring since 2014 and have had the opportunity to use many different fixtures, including a variety of LED instruments. The SolaSpots fit perfectly in our fixture sets. In this design we always have a line of floor fixtures, as a wash from the back, so we place 11 SolaSpots on the ground. This design requires a big, powerful fixture, and we surely got that in the SolaSpots. We like their LED colors, because we get a little more out of the dark colors compared to metal halide sources. We use them in all songs in the set.”
The designer originally specified the SolaSpots while Ghost was touring in Europe. “Victory, the Danish rental company used by Ghost in Europe, performed a shoot-out with fixtures from all major manufacturers. Among all the great fixtures we tested, the SolaSpots came out on top.”
