"We were delighted to step in and do our bit to help with this world-famous concert," says Black Light's head of hires Calder Sibbald. "It was quite something to think that our gear was helping to add to the colour and excitement of this iconic event."
The Proms Last Night Celebrations, which took place in September at the City Halls in Glasgow, featured Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith, Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the dazzling Joanna MacGregor on piano.
"I decided to use the lamps to backlight the audience, as it would give us the ability to change the colour with the rest of the lighting," said the BBC's lighting director Allan Brown. "The Source 4s were fitted with 50 degree lenses for a good spread and we lit the audience in the City Halls using eight of them. They were punchy and even and had good rich colour. Good lamps!"
The Source Four Lustr+ LED fixtures have the same size, look, optics and beam angles as a traditional Source Four, with the efficiency and energy savings of an LED.
"These are a really green piece of kit," says Sibbald. "They produce better lumens per watt than other LED spotlights and they have already proved very effective - as the Last Night Celebrations has shown."
(Jim Evans)
