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Litecom puts Robe on the rig

Litecom, one of Denmark’s leading lighting, visual and rigging rental companies and a major supplier in a range of broadcast areas - music, games shows, entertainment plus multiple sports events including e-sports tournaments - has made a massive investment in new Robe moving lights.

The company is based in Copenhagen and has a branch in Stockholm, Sweden, and works extensively across the two countries and throughout Scandinavia. 2024’s purchases include fifty Forte Profile moving lights, sixty Painte Profiles and 136 Spiider LED wash beams, all delivered by Danish distributor Light Partner. This was followed by a further investment of 24 more Fortes, another fifty Paintes plus three BMFL FollowSpots.

“This decision was based on boosting our inventory with stage lighting products that are universally useful across all our projects”, says Litecom lighting designer Martin Wallin. He has been with the company for nineteen years and oversees all the major broadcast projects which have included supplying lighting to the Eurovision Song Contest four times and rigging for the 2024 event in Malmo. Andreas Christensen, project manager at Litecom, adds that they also wanted fixtures that were cross-rentable and in general circulation and therefore sourceable for shows requiring more units.

Before these latest Robe fixtures, Litecom had purchased large stocks of BMFLs and Pointes for both Danish and Swedish operations (the Pointes are still in active service), and before the Forte investment they had used older profile fixtures from another brand. “We knew we needed to upgrade, and we really needed multifunctional kit”, emphasises Wallin. Shoot-outs and comparative sessions were staged in their studio - testing aspects like mid-air effects, key lighting and general features - before deciding upon the Forte.

Wallin has designed the Danish version of “X-Factor” for the last few years. For the show’s 2024 edition, he utilised fifty Paintes positioned all over the stage area, 24 Fortes for key lighting and three BMFL Follow Spots, plus other fixtures. The Spiiders were run in Mode 3 so they could additionally be used for pixel mapping effects. Wallin found himself using a lot of gobo and colour options on the artists this year, saying that transitioning from Pointe to Painte was a “super smooth” process. 

“X-Factor” was recorded in Litecom’s own studio space, located around 500 metres from their main warehouse just outside Copenhagen. One of the largest studios in Denmark, it is an old industrial building once used as a testing facility for undersea cables, and now busy with band and production rehearsals and other TV shows. Some of the Robe pre-purchase tests they did took place in the studios.

Wallin has worked on “X-Factor” since series two (2024 was number 17 and they are now on 18). His “X-Factor” journey started as a lighting technician, progressing up to programming and running key lights before taking over as the series’ main lighting designer. Last year, he worked with graphics and video producer Katja Forup - who created all the screen content - to present a full visual picture for each contestant. The series director was Jesper Hvenegaard.

Litecom now has around 800 moving lights available in the Copenhagen warehouse including the new Robe luminaires, and all their main fixtures above a certain size are now Robe.

Pictured (left to right): Johan Kvartborg from Light Partner, with Martin Wallin and Andreas Christensen from Litecom. (Photo: Louise Stickland/Paul Clarke)

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