Danish electro rockers Carpark North are on the road most of the year and have
just finished a recent stint playing German clubs, taking their unique fusion of the
raw edgy rock and cerebral electro beats to their many fans.
Creating an ever interesting, evolving and innovative lightshow is LD Johnny
Thinggaard Lydiksen from CMY, based in Arhuus, who has worked with the band
since 2013. He loves Robe’s Pointes and BMFLs – among other fixtures.
Both types of fixture have been at the heart of the various versions of the lighting
design to stem from Johnny’s central concept, which was created to be flexible and
scalable in all directions.
Underpinning the aesthetic was the goal to make the band look powerful and
dramatic … for which “Darkness and timing is a key’ explained Johnny.
Pointes first appeared on the Carpark North lighting rig in summer 2014 when
Johnny specified 40 to make a large matrix of lights upstage that allowed him to
present new, fresh and different looks throughout the set. He thinks the zoom and
the prisms are particularly cool.
These Robe units were purchased specially for the tour by leading Danish rental
company Comtech, based in Copenhagen.
Moving forward, combined with some LED video elements and strobes, Pointes
became the work-horses of Johnny’s floor package for gigs where their “specials’
were installed “underneath’ house overhead rigs.
For this year’s summer shows, Johnny up-scaled again, adding eight Robe BMFL
Spots to their touring floor rig, with 16 – 20 more requested via to the locally
supplied “in air rig’ rider. These were arranged into four groups across the rig,
effectively giving each band member their own micro-rig.
He instantly loved the BMFLs, specifically the brightness and the colours, which
were perfect for the show, especially with around 100 bright LED panels onstage,
where he needed the high BMFL Spot output to punch through without having to
tweak the video screens down.
He also likes the movement stabilization of the BMFL over long distances, and BMFL
Spots are now on the band’s lighting rider for larger shows as part of the (house
provided) flown rig.
For the smaller German club tour that they have just completed, Pointes were again
perfect, with eight as the principal floor package moving lights. The fixture’s small
size also meant that they could be fitted – somewhere – in every venue.
Johnny currently specifies Robe Pointes every time he needs a beam fixture on a
design project. Before Pointes, he had used other Robe products including MMX
Spots and the older “classic’ ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200 and 700 AT series which
helped Robe build its reputation for producing some of the best and most reliable
moving lights on the market today.
“The Robe current range fixtures are really top quality’ Johnny comments, “The
colour systems, output and optics are all excellent’.
