As soon as Leitch won the design contract, his company Siyan immediately purchased two additional Diamond 4s from Avo. Siyan's three existing D4 consoles were already committed and spec'd onto other tours running during the same period.
Leitch co-designed and developed the Future Sex/Love show with programmer Nick Whitehouse. The two had worked together on Coldplay's 2003/04 Rush of Blood To The Head tour which also utilised a D4.
Fixture-wise, the D4 is controlling over 120 Vari*Lites - a mix of VL4s and VL3000 spots and washes plus 12 VL1000s; 120 ColorKinetics ColorBlasts; 20 Syncrolites - eight 1Ks and twelve 3ks; 40 Atomic 3K strobes with colour changers and forty 4-cell Moles. Leitch asked PRG to supply the rest of the tour's lighting kit other than the front-end control.
The Future Sex/Love trussing architecture was custom-made by Show Rig in Las Vegas, and is based on a series of spiralling curves and spheres, mirroring the industrial-styled, multilayered, in-the-round stage set below.
Other Siyan tours using Diamond 4s this spring include Coldplay (out in South America, LDs Bryan Leitch/Nick Whitehouse), Bloc Party (LD Dom Smith), The Killers (LD Steve Douglas) Bryan Adams (designed by Bryan Leitch, operated by Ewan McRobb) and Amy Winehouse (LD Chris Bushell).
(Jim Evans)
