Bon Jovi's This House Is Not For Sale Tour tours with grandMA2 posted: 23/05/2017
Bon Jovi rocked the house with the band's This House Is Not For Sale Tour . The tour's complex staging featured a grandMA2 full-size console provided by PRG and was in support of Bon Jovi's eponymous thirteenth studio album released last fall
It was the first to feature Hugh McDonald and Phil X as full-time band members. The tour picked up the album's theme with a set featuring a stylized house under construction. The tour represented the next chapter of Bon Jovi, says Spike Brant, the show's creative producer and designer and CEO of Nimblist. It was a dynamic show - a nod to old fashioned Rock 'n Roll with a fine art, metaphorical abstractness. Nothing about the design was fake, and with no fascia, the machines became the tools to tell the story.
Not many shows use this much motion to create a sense of structure, notes Joe Bay, lighting director and programmer. The show kicks off by building a house from truss and towers - very powerful and expressive - and throughout the show, we construct various abstract versions of the house. With this amount of automation driven from a console, we needed to use grandMA2. And with the incredible power of Stage Markers, it expanded our creative possibilities.
Bon Jovi has been using MA for almost ten years now, says Brant. The last tour really tested grandMA2's ability to talk to the TAIT Navigator system for motion control. On this tour grandMA2 acted as the show controller, working with Navigator and video playback, not just as the lighting desk. We really pushed the limits of Stage Markers!
One grandMA2 with three active MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) drove the show's automation, lighting and video. The lighting rig's moving pieces included 12 hex towers surrounding the stage that telescoped up to 30 feet in the air to give a raw steel look to the set pieces while also carrying lighting, says Bay. Fifteen yoyo winches bordered the stage for lighting fixtures; six automated trusses were overhead. Five roll-drop, front-projection screens displayed video content while several LED walls supplied IMAG for the rear seating.
The rig was very complex, and each song would have a unique shape, Bay explains. Previously, we would need to create a specific focus per configuration. But using Stage Markers and XYZ positions on the desk meant that I could reuse tracking focuses and they would work throughout the show - regardless of the configuration of the rig. It saved hours of programming and enabled us to create never-before-seen looks. And all this happened in the background for a seamless audience experience.
The show used amongst others Claypaky Scenius Spots on the moving trusses. They were definitely the superstars, says Brant. They were in three rows in two pieces to form the peaked roof of the house.
A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting in the US and Canada.
Company Profile
As master distributor MA Lighting International is responsible for worldwide sales and marketing of the renowned MA control systems, digital dimming systems, networking tools and media servers. The product range offers cutting-edge solutions for control and dimming, including the award-winning grandMA2 consoles, the MA onPC command wing and MA onPC fader wing, the extremely intuitive and compact dot2 range and reliable digital dimmer racks and packs. With its innovative MA VPU (Video Processing Unit) MA bridges the lighting and video worlds.
Today, MA Lighting is respected for its technical knowledge and has achieved a unique international reputation for its operational philosophy. The company offers several decades of experience and strictly follows a professional user-centric approach, getting as close as possible to the market via its own international offices and support centres in the UK, North America, Latin America, the Middle East/India, Asia Pacific and Scandinavia/Eastern Europe/Russia - supported by a world-wide distribution and service network.
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Bon Jovi's This House Is Not For Sale Tour tours with grandMA2 posted: 23/05/2017 
