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Claypaky on Architects' Alexandra Palace Show is A Match Made in Heaven

17/04/2018

Claypaky on Architects Alexandra Palace Show is A Match Made in Heaven posted: 17/04/2018

The Claypaky Mythos and Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K10 in action with Architects at Alexandra Palace.

British metalcore band Architects recently played their biggest show to date at Londons 10,400 capacity Alexandra Palace as part of their current European and North American tour. Long-term lighting and show designer, Paul McAdams, designed the productions high-energy lunar lighting and set, selecting the Claypaky Mythos and Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K10 fixtures as key tools in his lighting arsenal.

McAdams has worked alongside the band for four years and for the current tour design drew inspiration from the bands latest album. All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us is the seventh studio album from Architects and features ethereal, burnt-out lunar imagery that McAdams brought to the stage through a series of clever light landscapes.

The band are really involved in the show design and we have a great relationship where were able to discuss ideas openly, says McAdams. For this tour the initial design concept all came from the bands latest album artwork. As a live show, its quite aggressive, and the lighting matches that. Its very in your face, quite rhythmical and full of staccato.

McAdams production design expands around a central circular screen onto which video content of a lunar eclipse is projected throughout the show. Six finger trusses, each holding four Mythos, draw the audiences eyes toward the central screen, whilst a number of Mythos on an angled front truss provide key light and audience beam effects.

The Claypaky Mythos and Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K10 in action with Architects at Alexandra Palace.

On this tour, lunar and space imagery led the way in realising the looks and colour palettes, says McAdams. There are a lot of cold blues and greens to create the spacey looks. The Mythos fixtures delivered these perfectly; the accurate colour system of the fixture meant we could colour match to each video palette quite easily. I needed a strong, reliable hybrid fixture to carry the lighting show, and having used the Mythos on previous designs, I knew it would deliver.

For the tours video element, McAdams worked alongside Brighton-based film maker Jeb Hardwick and content creator and editor Lanz Short, to build layered lighting looks that complemented the edgy video content, which McAdams describes as mind blowing.

There is a great range of gobo and prism effects available with the Mythos and these perfectly complement the textured looks of the shows video content, says McAdams. The fixtures linear prism effect is a personal favourite. Im a big fan of these fixtures that do more than one job on stage.

McAdams also selected the B-EYE K10 to provide further complexity to the lighting design, The B-EYE has a great colour engine and I could use the fixture to provide my key light and wash light whilst also adding extra textures.

VER supplied the lighting, video, control and rigging for the Alexandra Palace show, whilst Claypakys UK distributor, Ambersphere offered technical and showfile building support pre- tour.

David March and his team at VER offered an incredible service in terms of support for the equipment they supplied, says McAdams. The guys at Ambersphere also really helped get the show off the ground in pre-production. Chris Mantel, who was my main tech in Europe and lighting crew chief for Alexandra Palace show, continually went above and beyond on what was quite a challenging design to execute.

The Alexandra Palace gig on 3 February was the bands only UK show and followed an eight-date European tour.
LINK: https://www.live-production.tv/news/shows/claypaky-architects-alexandr...
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