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Sam Parry chooses Ayrton for “Busted vs McFly Tour”
Pop rock adversaries Busted and McFly showcased their playful brand of rivalry on tour this autumn with a 35-date “Busted vs McFly Tour” of UK and Ireland. The two bands challenged each other musically and verbally in two energy-fuelled sets before uniting for some numbers together.
The show took place under a kinetic display conceived and designed by production and lighting designer Sam Parry of The Owl Creative Design. Key to his design was an Ayrton-heavy rig comprising Veloce Profiles, Perseo Profiles and Zonda 9 FX fixtures, supplied by the tour’s lighting supplier PRG UK.
A major focal point of the set, which needed to work equally for both bands, was a large overhead grid of four square lighting pods, each of which housed 25 Ayrton Zonda 9 FX fixtures in a 5x5 matrix. Each pod was independently rigged on 4-point hoists and capable of positioning at any angle, to allow Parry to change the performance space in many dimensions: at various points extending the area with a wide expansive roof, or hanging at haphazard angles or at times closely enveloping the bands, whilst Parry employed the pan/tilt features and colour capabilities of Zonda 9 FX for effects.
“Having Zonda 9 FX’s LiquidEffects was a little extra added value which I could use to enhance the depth of field created as the automated ceiling descended, and also create a glow during the quiet moments of the show”, says Parry. “For example, we could use the liquid effect without the full output to give a nice dimensionality - like an arch cloistered around the band - which was still visible, but with elements of darkness that could hide the band or backlight them until they were ready to launch forward into their next song.”
Parry also employed 52 Ayrton Veloce Profiles as his workhorses, rigging twelve on an upstage walkway, sixteen on a front-of-house V-truss and six each on four PRG ladder systems that flanked the large central LED wall. Completing the Ayrton line up were fourteen Ayrton Perseo Profiles located on the pyro shelf outlining the downstage edge. “The Perseos hold up well against the Veloce despite the difference in size”, says Parry. The lighting was controlled using two MA3 Full Size consoles, running the latest software. One MA3 Light console provided backup at stage end.
“(Ayrton and MA distributor) Ambersphere Solutions were instrumental in sourcing a rig that featured this much Ayrton in collaboration with PRG UK”, Parry concludes. “Their efforts helped me to create the show the artists deserved without compromise or substitution.”
(Photos: Fran Parry/PRG UK/Anthony Smith/Robyn Sully/Dylan Swann)
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