Elation recreates the iconic band Pink Floyd with light on Brit Floyd World Tour 2021

The biggest British rock band tribute show: Brit Floyd World Tour 2021 has been celebrated again, with a lighting design featuring technology from Elation.

After having to leave the road at the beginning of 2020 due to the pandemic, Brit Floyd – The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Tribute Show, is celebrated again with a world tour in tribute to the British rock band Pink Floyd, that began the past 29 July at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado (EU) with a spectacular lighting system Elation.

Brit Floyd World Tour 2021 includes in the show the highlights of The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals y The Division Bell, and also presents an interpretation, note by note, of the song of the band that marked an era: Echoes.

With its avant-garde lighting designs, graphics, props and sound effects, Pink Floyd has provided some of the most memorable stage moments in history. rock ‘n’ roll. For this reason, No other group recreates the sound and look of the British band's live shows like Brit Floyd.

The tour is produced and promoted by the British company CMP Entertainment, owner and supplier of all Elation lighting equipment.

Collective design and faithful to the band

There are many who have participated in the configuration of Brit Floyd over the years; a design that echoes the originals and classics of Pink Floyd of Marc Brickman.

Since the tour of 2019, Mark Jacobson has designed the lighting for this show and points out that “there is no single designer for the show, but it has been the work of several for many years. That would include Dave Hill y Jake Whittingham, along with Mark Jones Roberts, who is out with the current tour, and myself”.

The lighting of the show also pays tribute to Pink Floyd. “It has to look like a band show, "That's the general guideline and that's what people come to see," says Jacobson.. No matter how good a new look is, fans don't want to see something that looks like another band. It has to look like something I would have done Pink Floyd, but we do it using this new technology”.

However, there are things that have changed. In December 2019 the decision was made to abandon the iconic arch truss design, but keep the iconic circle, that come from the tour Division Bell from the beginning of the 90 and were part of the designs of Pink Floyd for years.

He truss circular dates back to the shows of Pink Floyd of the years 70. “The guideline was to change it to be more like what David Gilmour has done in recent years: a large circular structure with more accessories, but without the bow - Jacobson points out -. Therefore we fill the circle with 32 Elation Dartz 360 and we add Smarty Hybrids y estroboscopios Led Protron 3K Color to the team”.

With its 3º opening, gobo set and full 360 degree rotation, Dartz allow to achieve notable effects in the armor circle. By Jacobson, The iconic circular truss is part of their history and creating those circular designs has become their favorite part of Brit Floyd.

The lighting design for the show, mostly timecoded, is consistent with that of the reduced output of 2020, with some adjustments made before starting the tour.

In addition to the Dartz circular truss, Smarty Hybrid spot/beam/wash units populate the rear and side trusses, with more units in ground position.

Elation Platinum 5R Beams work from straight trusses in the air, while the Platinum 5R Beam Extremes provide great aerial spin from ground positions. Platinum FLX in front trusses offer profile designs, and the ACL Bar 360s work from towers on the ground.

ZW19 Beam/Wash Effects and Chorus Line Pixel Bar Washes 16 add color and effect. Protron stroboscopes, both in white and colored light versions, and the Cuepix Blinder WW2s, provide flashes of light that constrict the pupil.

Performance Lighting, based in Chicago, is in charge from 2011 support of the US tour, with twenty-four motors with distro and wiring, along with professional labor support for tours.

Russell Armentrout, presidente de Performance Lighting, explains that “we outsourced their original lighting requirements and supplied the tour with forty Elation Platinum 5R Beams for the iconic circle truss and fourteen Design 1200C. Thereafter, CMP decided to buy the lighting”.

Brit Floyd World Tour 2021 once again celebrates one of the most significant acts in rock and has obtained an excellent response from the public at each stop. The tour continues through the Eastern and Midwestern United States until mid-September, with a European stage scheduled for the autumn.