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Clay Paky Mythos fixtures on Fall Out Boy summer tour

Clay Paky Mythos fixtures on Fall Out Boy summer tour
Clay Paky Mythos fixtures on Fall Out Boy summer tour

Fall Out Boy used Clay Paky fixtures on their North American tour this summer. ACT Lighting, Inc. provided the material. Robb Jibson of So Midwest, Inc. continued his relationship with the pop punk band, this time as production designer for the US amphitheater tour. He specified 68 Mythos for the tour. Upstaging was the lighting vendor.

 

Jibson wanted to present the video content in an innovative way and eliminate side IMAG screens, which Fall Out Boy dislikes. The band also wanted to enter the stage without being seen. “I came up with a guillotine, an LED wall on winches that was 60 feet wide and 12 feet tall,” he explains. “It acted like a grand drape would work in a theater and moved up and down to reveal every act.  After a short intro sequence Fall Out Boy appeared in a blast of smoke the screen flew up.”

 

“The first time George Masek had showed me the prototype Super Sharpy I knew that I had found the next iteration of the automated key light, which we had done with sharpies for smaller gigs. So it was just a natural for the Mythos. I had to fight to use them as follow spots, to rope our fixtures into the spot locations,” says Jibson. “I shoved the house spots out of the way so I could clamp Mythos to the hand rail, set them on road cases or put them on stands; two more were flown from the side trusses to cover the drummer position. Upstaging modified the fixtures to add metal handles on front.

 

“We routinely did 120-, 150-, 180-foot throws for key lighting and gobo patterns using a combination of the zoom optics and aperture gobos. Even at the farthest point - 200 feet away from the stage - we delivered never less than 150 foot-candles.” Jibson flew the remaining 60 Mythos overhead where they supplied key lighting and all the effects lighting.

 

(Photos: Jack Edinger)

 

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