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Moe on tour with Clay Paky fixtures

American jam band Moe wrapped its winter tour with a rig featuring Clay Paky fixtures. A lighting designer with Nashville-based Pulse Lighting, Justin Casey has been working with the band since last July. Moe tours year-round; their winter tour recently concluded in Manhattan. “The band celebrated its 25th anniversary year in 2015, and the winter tour wrapped in New York City on St. Patrick’s Day,” says Casey.  “I’ll be redesigning the winter rig for Moe’s summer festival tour.”  Main Light Industries supplied the lights and consoles for the winter tour.

Casey chose 12 Clay Paky A.leda B-Eye K20s and four Stormy CC RGBW LED strobes for the rig. The B-Eyes were the “workhorses of the rig” delivering the primary lighting for the band as well as “eye candy in their pixel-mapping mode,” Casey explains. “I liked having full control of the lights to create my own very colorful gobo effects.” He deployed the B-Eyes in a ground package or flew them depending on the size of the venue.  “Sometimes we flew half and used half on the ground,” he says. “In smaller venues they were all on the ground.”

“Programming the B-Eyes was a task at first,” says Casey who also served as lighting programmer and board operator.  “ACT Lighting (North American distributor for Clay Paky) was really helpful in getting a profile up and running for exactly how I wanted to use the B-Eyes.” Although a lot of venues have strobe lights in their house rigs, Casey selected the Stormy CC RGBW strobes to add color to conventional strobe effects. “They gave us a traditional look for some songs and a lot of color saturation for others,” he explains.

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