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HSL supports Simple Minds tour

The latest Simple Minds tour featured another creation by long term Lighting Designer Steve Pollard, whose working relationship with the Scottish rock band dates back to 1981. Blackburn based lighting and visual rental specialist HSL supplied the lighting kit.

Pollard created a new design for this tour based around 60 moving lights, for which he chose two types of profile, beam and wash luminaires. A combination of Martin MAC 3 and Robe 600E Spots made up the profile fixture quota; Robe ColorBeam 700E ATs and Clay Paky Sharpys were the beamers and the washes were a mix of Robe LEDWash 600s and Philips 350 SL LED washes.

In addition to these, Pollard had a selection of ETC Source Fours for key lighting and specials, Molefeys, picked for their soft tungsten influence which he also likes as a contrast to the precision of the LED outputs, and there were 10 x Philips Nitro strobes on the rig, together with a serious amount of fog and haze.

Pollard designed a series of custom frames - fabricated by HSL - which were sub-hung from the upstage truss to provide staggered lighting positions at various depths and angles. The tour also featured a new set, part of Pollard’s overall show design with a geometrically patterned backdrop evoking an eastern flavour.

This was also sourced by HSL and graced the back wall, augmented with three matching decorated fabric cloth drops swoosh down from the roof a metre or so in front. The riser fronts were decorated with similar shapes repeating themselves.

On the floor were twelve bespoke Sharpy stands enabling an array of different heights for the singly placed beamers. All the lighting fixtures were used extensively throughout the show. Pollard was joined on the road by two of HSL’s crew - Andy “Paris” Hilton and David “The Colonel” Sulch.

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