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Martin Lights Pendulum Winter Tour

If you didn't know who Pendulum were during summer festivals a few years ago, you could be forgiven. But if you were to make the same claim today people might well ask you where you've been hiding. In an incredibly small period of time, the spectacular rock and dance music act from down under have taken centre stage on the UK tour scene. And not just here. Their recent tour of NZ and Australia saw them break records for crowd numbers.

The man behind their lighting is LD Andy Hurst, who has been with the band from the beginning. "As the band is a dance meets rock , we wanted to do things the old fashioned way while at the same time presenting the audience with a back lit screen - both visuals and lights, but the visuals are all beat driven and very organic.

"During the first tour we used a large wall made up of a PixelLine but for this one we decided to look at options for a full LED screen. We decided on Martin's LC panels - not least because they are extremely affordable for the quality you get. They are about 15% of the price of the other leading brands, which is very substantial.

We ended up using 28 panels and made our own visuals especially for the show and to fit the size and shape of the LC panels. It looked really good. The panels are also extremely lightweight which is great

for touring. Other panels claim to be lightweight but that is not including the power pack - which is very heavy and therefore negates the lightweight claim. Being so light means you can hang more units and we were able to get the whole back wall of LC units into just seven flight cases."

Behind the wall of LC2140s were 35 pulsating Atomic strobes from Martin, which were used to power through the semi transparent LC panels when Andy faded the visuals.

"The wall of LC units really looked like it was a set piece because the bars of the LC panels run vertically and the light from behind fill them when they're dimmed and transparent. Each strobe tower behind in turn looked like a glowing set piece too. As the LC can go from solid to transparent, you have a lot of options," continued Andy.

"In front of these we had 35 MAC 2000E Profiles. On this tour I wanted hard edge beams and I also used gobos - although sparingly."

The results of the combined effects of MAC 2K hard edge light beams, an organic wall of visuals on the LC units and the shock of colourful strobe breaking through are truly breathtaking. The light show pulsates with a force that reflects the band's ceaseless presence and energy.

After their tour down under, the band and Andy are heading to the US in March and then onto a summer festival tour.

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