Long-time Travis lighting designer Matt Jensen created a crisp, clean style for this show - essentially a theatrical vehicle with some contemporary twists - including lots of soft washes and iris focuses.
Lead singer Fran Healy took a relatively active role in the initial lighting brief, and then left Jensen to develop the show from there. The lighting features a slightly retro PAR can feel - a soft edged, tungsteny affair - and staying true to the design theme, Jensen did not incorporate any gobos.
With limited programming time - just one overnight session at Grimsby Auditorium the day before the first show of the tour - Jensen had his work cut out to get everything recorded into his WholeHog II console.
Bandit is supplying three trusses - front mid and back - populated with 36 Martin Professional MAC 2K Washes and Profiles, which Jensen comments, "are great workhorse units." There are also seven four lite Moles and three Dinos on floor stands complete with scrollers. Also on the floor are four vertical sections of A-type truss with MAC 2K washes on top.
Four bars of six PARs all feature Wybron scrollers, two located on the rear truss and two on the floor, and there are five Source Fours on the front truss for key lighting. Six Martin Atomic Strobes complete the lighting equipment list. Bandit's Travis crew are Dom Martin and Craig MacDonald
(Jim Evans)
