Ian Kirby, who runs LED-Lites - the UK distributor for GLP - had seized the opportunity to make an impression and merged 24 of the fixtures into HSL's design for the production awards.
Coincidentally, Pete Hosier had been asked by Avolites' Steve Warren to pilot the company's Diamond 4 lighting board at the gala event - and surveyed the fixtures he had to work with.
"But when we undid [the GLP] box of tricks I fell in love with them straight away. I knew the Impressions would be perfect for the tour."
The Kooks' lighting production company Colour Sound Experiment purchased 12 fixtures and Hosier set to work designing several scalable lighting configurations, incorporating generics, conventional moving spot/wash heads and strobes for use on the three-truss rig.
Depending on stage size, the lighting production - which was also supported by Martin's Lights - has the GLP's suspended from the ceiling on seven pipes (with five floor cans), or operate as five floor-standing pipes, with a GLP Impression, other movers and strobe (with scroller) on each.
However, the LD hadn't bargained on just how useful the Impressions would be when the show arrived in Milan. "The truck arrived late, and the voltage supply was unstable - so we decided to run the entire show with just the Impressions. It worked brilliantly."
(Jim Evans)
