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Nico Riot chooses Chauvet for Skip The Use festival tour

Punk rockers Skip The Use have been touring the French and Belgian festival circuit this year. To light French rock band Skip The Use’s performances during this year’s festival season in France and Belgium, designer Nico Riot specified sixteen Chauvet Professional Color Strike M motorized strobe-washes which were supplied by MPM of Lorraine.

“I needed fixtures to match all the festivals’ packed rigs, so my shows look consistent everywhere”, says Riot. “Keeping every look as stripped-back as possible while fitting everything into the budget, I strove for a timeless, elegant aesthetic in a design that’s distinct enough to be consistent even when festival stages vary.”

Riot positioned his Color Strike Ms evenly, having eight units upstage and eight downstage. He relied on the upstage fixtures for backwashing, to saturate the stage’s red curtains with color, and to illuminate the band’s heart backdrop at the appropriate moments. The downstage units were used to “clean up key looks”, in addition to providing low-angle front lighting on the band and creating classic strobing effects.

As part of his plan to create consistent looks that instantly connect to audiences, Riot was keeping his color palette simple. “There were actually only five colors in the entire show: open white, CTO, CTB, red, and a pale red”, he explains. “I wanted to build a cohesive theme around red to mirror the album artwork and visual identity Skip the Use created for this cycle. It really was as simple and focused as that.”

Adding an extra element to Riot’s design was his use of dark space, which he describes as playing a “huge role” in setting the gripping aura on stage. To add to the power of these shadowy looks, he often accompanied them with dimly lit fog. The interplay of light and shadows was particularly effective in accenting the design’s giant heart prop, which was open and empty in the middle of the stage.

“I carried that heart concept as far as I could across the rest of the rig”, says Riot. “The band has immense stage presence, so my goal was to deliver high-impact moments, while using the lighting and not distract from their performance.”

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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