He designed four upstage/downstage 'claw' trusses as the key architectural elements of the lighting rig, and these moved constantly during the show into different positions, adding depth and dynamics to the overhead stage rig.
Each claw truss - two at 40ft long and two at 38ft - was suspended by five motors - two static Lodestar hoists downstage and three Kinesys vari-speed Liftkets on the upstage hinges, which moved them in and out via a Kinesys Vector control system.
Hung on the claws was the majority of Legg's lighting rig - including five High End Studio Command 1200 fixtures, four X-Spot Xtremes, four Studio Beam PCs, one Zap Technology 4.5K BigLite xenon (used for key lighting the band), a 9-lite with scroller and three Martin Atomic strobes. Kinesys was originally recommended to Leggy by the tour's lighting contractors Neg Earth.
Basement Jaxx is a high-energy show, and moving the lighting rig into different positions throughout the set was a vital element of Leggy's creative vision. He "needed different parts of the rig to be moving different distances and speeds but all arriving at the same point at the same time to make the different stage and lighting looks," he says.
The system was operated by Craig Lewis who had used the system only once previously on a one off. He visited Kinesys in south London for one of their standard training sessions, and picked it up very quickly.
"As soon as I realised how versatile and easy to use it was during rehearsals," says Leggy, "I just started introducing more and more moves and cues into the show - that's the beauty of it's vari-speed capabilities - it just flows from one position to the other - at the press of a button."
He is also impressed that it's run from a laptop controller, which takes up virtually no space and can be easily accommodated either onstage or FOH - wherever the preferred operating position may be.
(Chris Henry)
