Robert Juliat on tour with Adele and Phil Collins
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Roland Greil, associate lighting designer, lighting director and programmer for all three tours, said:
“The designs for Adele’s arena tour in 2016, for which Adam Bassett was the associate lighting designer, and her stadium tour in 2017 were completely different from each other. The former was based upon a very symmetrical lighting rig that was all about creating a good-looking picture frame with Adele as the centre of attention in the middle. We kept the colours muted with 80% of the lighting being different shades of white, with a few shades of blue and very little else.”
He continued: “For the indoor arena tour we used two Robert Juliat Victor 1800W followspots as truss spots because there was not a lot of movement on stage: Adele’s biggest move was from the main stage to the B-stage and back again, so the spot call was easy and the Victors were perfect for our needs. They were reliable and bright and easy for the operators to handle – just what you would want and expect from a followspot - and performed well for all 120 tour dates.” Woodroffe was later to receive a Knight of Illumination award for his design for Adele Live 2016.
For Adele’s 11-date international stadium run this year, the design shifted to a circular stage and in-the-round setting to give maximum viewing for the huge audiences who packed the stadiums. Woodroffe and Greil chose four of Robert Juliat’s 4kW Lancelot followspots, each of which was positioned in the middle of the four stands so the world-conquering artist could be covered from all angles. “The varying throw distances were immense but the Lancelots were able to cover them easily,” confirmed Greil.
Woodroffe and Greil continue to specify Robert Juliat with the appointment of two more Lancelot followspots operating from front-of-house positions on Phil Collins’ Not Dead Yet mini-tour.
“Robert Juliat followspots are good fixtures,” said Greil. “They are reliable, they are bright, they easy to handle, especially in the long-throw, high-power class, where they are the most modern followspot you can get.”
Robert Juliat is distributed in the UK exclusively by Ambersphere Solutions. The lighting supplier for both Adele Live tours and Phil Collins Not Dead Yet tour was UK-based lighting hire company, Neg Earth Lights.
(Jim Evans)
