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Robe fixtures selected for Bad Bunny’s largest tour to date

For Puerto Rican urban Latin trap and reggaeton star Bad Bunny’s recent tour, which played Europe in July 2018 and continued in US arenas throughout the fall, lighting designer Krizia Velez put Robe moving lights at the center of the lighting rider.

They commenced the tour with 86 fixtures on their rig, including 22 x Robe Pointes and 18 x LEDWash 800s amongst others. However as the Bad Bunny buzz exploded, shows were moved to larger venues, so they needed more lights.

Soon there was a new design, with the overhead rig including 28 x BMFL WashBeams, 22 x BMFL Spots and 40 Pointes/MegaPointes (depending on availability) which were arranged on trusses in five dynamic layers of lighting.

On the deck they had six risers, three on stage left and three on stage right, and the floor kit included six Pointes/MegaPointes, 16 x Robe Spiiders and six LED strobes - all arranged on vertical Tyler pre-rigged truss towers.

Krizia Velez worked closely on the tour with VJ Armando Pagan to ensure that video and lighting have a rhythmic harmony, and she often matched colors and textures with video cues and content onscreen, making sure that the lighting looked clean and organized working in conjunction with the video. ”It’s really important that the two medias can work together and underline the narrative of the song,” she states.

For the first leg of the tour in the US the lighting was supplied by LPS Production from Miami, and for the most recent, three different companies were involved - Audio Spectrum, Paradigm and LDGS Lighting - with Audio Spectrum providing the Robe fixtures. For the first UK and European dates, the Robe versions of the rig were supplied by Audio Visuales Canarias, part of the AVC Group and based in Gran Canaria.

(Photos: Justin Hartsaw)

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