GLS Supplies Magic Lighting & Automation for Mot rhead final tour posted: 10/02/2016
Southampton UK based lighting rental company GLS was very proud to have supplied lighting equipment and crew to Mot rhead's final Bad Magic tour which ended in Berlin in December.
No-one knew at the time, but that was to be the last gig for the legendary heavy metal band whose incredible 40 year career ended with the passing of its iconic leader Lemmy (Ian Fraser Kilmister) aged 70 on 28th December 2015 just two and a half weeks after he absolutely rocked Berlin at his last public show.
While Lemmy's lifestyle epitomised rock n' roll, his music inspired several generations of and genres of metal' to follow and character, his original thinking, wit and to-the-bone humour won him fans worldwide.
Going out with a bang in true Mot rhead style, the final tour featured one of the most iconic stage props - the Mot rhead bomber - flying for the first time in many years!
The fast-and-furious' Bad Magic lighting scheme - matching the dynamic of the music - was designed by Caio Bertti, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who had worked with the band for around 18 months, and the last in a long line of bomber pilots was Jamie Catt. The tour and production was managed by the unfazable Eddie Rocha also based in Brazil.
GLS - a new member of the HSL Family - MD Ian Turner stated, While we were all gutted when we heard the news, it was simply fantastic to have been involved on the road with Mot rhead again.
The lighting and the bomber looked amazing, making it arguably the best Mot rhead show yet in terms of production values, enthusiasm and sheer performance. The bomber was simply stunning to watch. It was the first and, in my opinion, still the best moving truss piece EVER!
The bomber - a completely awesome industrial-strength metal-tastic stage prop - had been completely refurbished with new lighting ahead of the tour, including moving lights for the first time, and a new certificate of airworthiness, running on Kinesys automation!
This gave it vastly more manoeuvrability plus the ability to track up and downstage by 7 metres, nosedive, pitch and roll quickly from side to side, etc. all bringing lots of extra drama and excitement combining with the full force of the music!
The bomber was also the starting point for Caio's brand new lighting design. Weight loading considerations - as the original metalwork is quite substantial - meant on-board lighting had to be chosen very carefully, so fixtures needed to be as multi-functional as possible allowing him to maximise the looks. Robe's Pointes were chosen for the task!
The four Pointes rigged on the wings were joined by four Robe LEDWash 600s, eight Showtec Sunstrips (active) outlining the 8 metre wingspan and a retro tribute that no self-respecting Mot rhead bomber could have been without - four bars of 4 ACLs, two 2-cell Moles and four single PAR 64s!
Its four propeller lights were vintage custom fixtures dating back almost as far as the 36 year old bomber itself which were fitted by GLS's technical department.
It flew twice on the tour - first during the set opener and eponymous Bomber , then in the finale Overkill which brought the full-tilt performance to an ear-shattering crescendo!
The rest of the lighting design was evolved around the basic brief for a simple, powerful, in-the-face, LOUD and uncompromising rock n' roll show.
Anyone in the industry can recognise a Mot rhead song from three chords, commented Caio, and so I wanted them to be able to do the same with the lightshow .
To that end he made it very clean, with direct, distinctive and definite colour combinations - no more than two at a time - mixed with lots of beam technology and nano-second timing as he ran the show totally live' on the flash buttons.
Another big influence on the design were the practicalities of being able to get the rig - including the bomber at all the larger gigs - in, rigged and ready on time for a 2.30 sound-check each day.
When flown into its home' position, the bomber formed an effective mid truss, with two staggered side trusses surrounding it plus an upstage and a front truss.
The front truss was rigged with four Robe LEDWash 600s and four 600E Spots for key lights along with eight 8-lite blinders for audience abuse.
Spread across all the other trusses were 16 x Pointes, 48 x LED PARs, eight Clay Paky Stormy colour changing LED strobes and a shed-load more standard PARs and ACLs.
Positioned on the floor were another 6 x Pointes, 8 x LED PARs, additional generic PARs and ACLs, 8 more Stormy colour changing strobes plus four Robe atmosphere generators - two hazers and two smoke machines atmosphere was instrumental to the visual equation with all those beams!
Caio Bertti ran the shows on an Avolites Sapphire Touch console
Caio ran the show on an Avolites Sapphire Touch console with a Titan Network Processor (TNP). Having been raised on Avo and used the brand for many years on Sepultura, and with the Mot rhead lightshow being run completely live it was his control platform of choice. The Sapphire is great, he commented, It has all the new generation lighting control features you expect, but with that fantastic old-skool hands-on ergonomics and tactility at which Avo has always excelled .
Before coming on-board with Mot rhead, Caio lit Brazilian metal heroes Sepultura for many years, so the metal aesthetic experience was already in place, and he knows Swedish LD Stefan Sjoland, who, when he had to leave the Mot rhead live creative team put Caio up for the LD job.
Caio is also a director of leading Brazilian rental company LPL, and so knows a thing or two about what to expect from the rental companies he works with when touring internationally.
L-R Ian Turner - GLS, Jurij Smirno
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GLS Supplies Magic Lighting & Automation for Mot rhead final tour posted: 10/02/2016 
