Taiwanese rock superstars Mayday are on the road in Asia with a large production
including 56 axes of Kinesys automation – provided by rental and technical
production specialist B’IN Live, who are headquartered in Taiwan with bases in
China and Hong Kong.

The epic lighting, visual and set design was created by Leroy Bennet and Seven
Designs from Los Angeles – well known for their imagination and style as well as
interesting and provocative designs … of which this is no exception!

B’IN Live – formed in 2014 with the amalgamation of six high level technical
specialist companies into a super-production company – provides full technical
infrastructures and services, incorporating sound, lighting, video, rigging,
automation, set and scenic plus staging and power.

Technical Director and Production Manager for this Just Rock It tour is B’IN Live’s
Jeffrey Soon and he is co-ordinating all the shows on the current tour which runs
until October.

Kinesys Elevation drives are used to move a number of lighting and video elements
which include a 25 metre wide by 6 metre tall 12 mm LED screen weighing 5 tonnes
which moves up and down on eight 1 tonne Liftket motors being driven by Kinesys
Elevation vari-speed hoist controllers.

Forty Elevation controllers alone are used to move 10 lighting pods in the roof over
the stage. Each of which is loaded with 9 x Magic Panel 5×5 LED matrix moving
lights. These pods are each suspended on four Elevation controlled half-tonne
Liftkets … they needed to be able to rotate on all axes to achieve the variation of
dynamic looks that Leroy wanted.

The final eight Kinesys Elevations are used on four straight trusses also above the
stage, which also move up and down. Each of these is loaded with 26 x Magic Blade
type fixtures … these account for just a small percentage of a total of nearly 600
Magic Blade style fixtures on the whole lighting plot!

There are around 30 automation cues in the set. These were initially programmed
onto a Kinesys K2 system by B’IN Live’s Connie Cheng during the design and
rehearsal stage and the showfile was then transferred to a Kinesys Vector computer
for the tour, where Cheng is also the operator.

B’IN Live now has over 50 Elevation units, 38 x 1 tonne and 15 x half-tonne Liftkets
and Kinesys K2 and Vector control systems.

For this tour they have also sub-hired 10 Elevation controllers from Impact Hong
Kong.

The tour producer is Ocean Chou and joining Soon on the production team are
Production Manager Jason Chang; Artistic Directors Peter Aquinde, Monster Hsieh
and Ali Chen; Lighting Programmers Jason Baeri and Brian Jenkins from Seven
Designs and operators Jimmy Shih & King Li; Media server / Video Operator and
Programmer Loren Barton and Animation specialists Spring Yang and Chris Chen.

FOH sound is mixed by Matsunaga Tetsuya, the Monitor Engineer is ohmixer
Chuang, lasers are designed by Jay Hsia … and the Assistant Director is Jasmine
Liu.