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When dance guru David Guetta rocked Budapest’s Hungexpo in front of 8000 enthusiastic fans, the producer of rave anthems like ‘Sexy Bitch’, ‘Who’s That Chick’ and numerous others, was illuminated by a rig of Robe moving lights supplied by locally based lighting rental company, Colossal Rental.
The Robes were an integral element of the automated lighting on Guetta’s worldwide touring spec, originated by lighting designer Jonathan “Leggy” Armstrong, and were operated on the night by UK-touring lighting director, Alex “Junior” Cero.
Colossal Rental’s client was Deadcode Productions, who delivered the show’s technical package, working for show promoters Burn. They all collaborated with Guetta’s own production team led by production manager Al Green to ensure that the rider specs were met for the “Nothing But The Best” live showcase for Guetta’s fifth studio album.
The lighting rig featured 29 Robe LEDWash 600s, 18 ColorSpot 1200E ATs and 12 ColorWash 250E ATs at its core, plus strobes and blinders. Junior used a grandMA full size console, also supplied by Colossal.
Junior worked closely with Colossal Rental’s lighting designer Adam Nagy in programing and running the show, complete with lots of spectacle and many wow factors, in a tight timescale.
The Robe elements offered for this were welcomed by Junior and Leggy. The original Guetta 2011 live show design, running since the start of the year, was spec’d and programmed using Robe moving lights.
It was the first time that Junior had the chance to use Robe’s new LEDWash 600 moving light fixtures to their full potential in a live dance show like this. “I spent ages playing with them in Budapest” he says, “and really enjoyed the opportunity of using features like the zones” (individual control of the three LED rings).
He also really appreciated the many strobe effects possible with the LEDWashes, and overall describes this as “top banana.”
He says the Budapest show was “spot on” and an excellent event on which to end the 2011 run of Guetta full production live shows.
Colossal has two totally separate rental and sales divisions and the latter is also the Robe distributor for Hungary. They have enjoyed a successful year as brand representatives for Robe, and their trade director Csaba Csanádi says, “Everyone has been impressed by the great light output of the LEDWashes, their beautiful ranges of colors and the LED rings which have much impact as a special effect and to create different looking eye and camera candy.”
He adds that the compact size of the fixture, its light weight and the general reliability of the Robe brand all offer advantages to any show or installation situation.
Hungarian rental company Expert Crew has been one of the biggest investors in Robe’s latest technology including LEDWashes recently, and have used them on many high profile live events and television productions nationwide.
This was the second time that David Guetta has played Hungary within six months, following a performance as part of the Balaton Sound Festival back in the summer.
