Robe lights up Paul McCartney's tour, Out There, in Brazil

The tour Out There, that Paul McCartney performed at the beginning of May in Brazil, It had Robe's ColorWash and ColorSpot lights for its staging..

Paul McCartney's world tour called Out There began in Brazil with three shows and an amazing lighting design created by Roy Bennett, included luminaires Robe ColorSpot y ColorWash.

The shows were supervised by Roy Benett and operated by Lighting Director Wally Lees. The lighting equipment was provided by the Brazilian company LPL Professional Lighting and included Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash luminaires., along with other moving and generic lights.

Erich Berti, LPL designer, was present at all three shows providing support to the foreign technicians, to make the first presentation of Paul tMcCartney both in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) like in Goiânia (Goiás) and strength (Ceará).

For production, 12x Robe ColorWash 2500E AT were used for the floor, 09x ColorSpot 2500E AT for the trusses located on the stage and 20x ColorWash 1200E AT that were distributed on the side trusses and the followspots.

Creative lighting

The Front of House technician for the lighting show has been Thomas Walls who has worked in the industry for the last few 26 years with bands like Metallica, The Killers y Luis Miguel. “In the United States and Europe we work with a larger lighting system, with some 20 from 30 moving lights more, but the setup had to be adapted for the Brazilian tour depending on what could be transported. Per se, the show programming is already done, so Wally, who in addition to being the lighting director is the programmer, Just make sure everything is okay for when Roy gets to the stadium.”, explica Thomas Walls.

The lighting designer, Roy Bennett, began creating the lights project in February of this year. This design includes several classic elements from the show they have been running over the past few years., along with some new ones, including much more video than before.

Roy stressed that due to the trips they must make, They can't run their own entire system., only some specific devices such as grandMA2 consoles, so many things are rented locally.

Guillermo Traverso, Regional Sales Manager for Latin America at Robe, highlights how creative Roy is with lighting: “The devices were taken to an extreme level where they had to perform with high resolution LED screens at the back of the stage… and even without smoke you could see the projections and the colors they produced”.