LONDON – Entec Sound & Light is supplying LD Mark Wood with lighting and video gear for Marina & The Diamonds. The tour supports the group's debut album, The Family Jewels. Wood uses a minimal but strategic rig, starting with six Clay Paky Alpha Spot 300 HPE moving lights perched on different-height cases and on the drum riser across the back of the stage.
In front of these, Wood positions four PixelLine LED battens covered with diffusion filters onto four scaffolding poles rising about eight feet high, and four ETC Source Four profiles behind the key band members for backlighting and silhouette effects.
Two Martin MAC 300 wash fixtures sit at each upstage corner of the stage, used for low-level cross lighting, and a number of narrow-beamed fixtures aimed at four half-mirror balls form a diamond shape around where Marina Diamandis stands for the conclusion of "Guilty."
Wood's design adds theatricality, drama and texturing to Diamandis' performance, and for the two London shows – at the Roadhouse in Camden and The Forum in Kentish Town – Entec supplied a Novalight Nova Flower 2K fixture, placed upstage center. For the Forum show, Entec also provided eight Vari*Lite 2500 spots overhead.
For video, the tour uses a Christie 10K Roadrunner projector rigged at FOH, which beams onto a 14-by-9-foot upstage fast-fold screen supplied by Entec. (For the two songs without video, Wood uses the downstage MAC 300s to cast the musicians' shadows on the screen.)
Wood uses a Chamsys MagicQ console for control, and all the video content is stored on a Hippotizer V3 media server, triggered from Wood's desk.
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