Colour Sound Experiment Supplies Orbital's Wonky Tour

West London-based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting equipment and crew for the latest Orbital UK tour Wonky which was designed by Jonny Gaskell from Pinnacle Productions.

Orbital showed they are still fresh and innovative 23 years after they recorded their first rave anthem "Chime" on their dad's cassette deck.

Gaskell was delighted to be working with Colour Sound again, "Their kit and the attitude is great," he enthuses, "Nice people and I get premium service every time."

His design, which be used throughout the summer, featured an intricate video set up. Gaskell chose 13 GLP Impression Spot Ones as his main profile lights and 24 Impression Zooms as the wash fixtures. As a layer of specials, he added Clay Paky Sharpies.

It was his first time using Sharpies, so to push them that bit further, he added Colour Sound's laser bounce mirrors and used these clamped to various surfaces and dotted them all over the stage. The use as refraction and reflection surfaces multiplied the Sharpies, despite only having 13 fixtures on the tour.

The lighting rig comprised three overhead trusses, the back of which was also used to hang the video wall, made up from WinVision18mm pitch surface supplied by Chaos Visuals. Four upright truss sections were stood on the floor upstage of this. The uprights at the back were rigged with 12 Impression zooms, four strobes, six two-lites and some laser mirrors, allowing Gaskell to blast through and make the screen disappear at times.

There were also two mid stage trussing towers, each rigged with a Spot One and an Impression zoom, a Sharpy, a strobe, a blinder, and mirrors, all primarily focussed across the band's backline, keyboard, and computer bank set up.

Gaskell operated the show using his own Chamsys MagicQ lighting console.

Gaskett was joined on the tour by a Colour Sound crew of Richard Gilson and Toby Lovegrove of whom he says are, "Brilliant, and right into the spirit and vibe of the tour."

Another Colour Sound regular, James Hind, was on-board as stage manager working with tour manager Ivan Kushlick.