Claypaky on tour with Queen + Adam Lambert
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The Queen + Adam Lambert Tour 2017-2018 will play a total of 62 dates worldwide. The North American leg kicked off in Arizona in June and wrapped in Texas in August. The tour will hit continental Europe, the UK and Ireland in the fall and Oceania next year.
For their latest outing lighting designer Rob Sinclair created the kind of big look that Queen fans have come to expect from the band. “It’s a pretty big show; Queen shows kind of need to be,” he says. “We wanted to do something with a large kinetic overhead centrepiece.
“The real challenge of lighting Queen + Adam Lambert is always having a bigger look up your sleeve. The songs start huge and get bigger. There always needs to be more of something available.”
Sinclair mounted 92 Sharpy Washes in a custom central “halo,” which he describes as “a bespoke 9-ton kinetic piece made by Tait, which moved to a variety of positions. We wanted something that could read as a single huge lighting instrument, and to populate it I needed small, bright and affordable colour-mixing arc lights. Sharpy Washes were my only real choice.”
He also placed 76 Mythos on the floor and in a grid behind the blow-through rear screen to create a wall of light.
Additionally, 56 Scenius Unico fixtures were used as automated followspots integrated into the BlackTrax system. “I chose Unicos to be my automated keylights because I needed something bright with an even field, good colours and no green in the source,” Sinclair explains. “They exceeded my expectations.”
A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky products in North America. Francesco Romagnoli, Claypaky area manager for North and Latin America, added, “Queen is an iconic band and Adam Lambert is a great artist. It’s great to see these artists partnered and it’s an honor that our lights are so prevalent on the tour.”
(Jim Evans)
