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Josef Zenisek selects Robe for Colours of Ostrava

With 20 performance stages offering over 350 live music acts and plenty of other creative engagement across four days, Colours of Ostrava (COO/Colours) 2018, the largest music festival in the Czech Republic, attracted a population of 50,000 fans.

Site-wide technical production was co-ordinated and delivered by Josef ‘Pepa’ Zenisek and his team from Smart Production, a massive logistical exercise which involved several rental partners for sound, lighting and video, more for rigging and staging, plus numerous dry hires, many from other countries. Smart also provided site management and stage management for all the main performance spaces.

The main stage for Robe this time - in terms of numbers and concentration of fixtures - was the ArcelorMittal Stage, where the production lighting design was completed by Kamil Kruzik. The lights were supplied by Rental Pro, part of the OneAVteam group which also includes Yventech, the LED screen provider for Colours.

Around 160 Robe fixtures were incorporated into the design, which broke down to 24 x BMFL Blades, 12 x MegaPointes, 24 x Pointes, 62 x Spiiders, 32 x LEDBeam 150s and three BMFL WashBeams which were on the FOH tower.

The Spiiders were spread out all over the overhead trusses with 12 on the floor. The back truss was also loaded with LEDBeam 150s and BMFL Blades; the two mid trusses were rigged with MegaPointes and BMFL Blades, while the front truss featured 13 of the Pointes in addition to 16 x Spiiders.

The floor package included LEDBeam 150s, Spiiders, MegaPointes and BMFL Blades which could be re-positioned for each act. Kamil Kruzik and his FOH colleague Jan Suskleb lit all the bands who didn’t have an operator. Lighting on ArcelorMittal was controlled via a Road Hog 4 run by Kruzik and a GrandMA2 light run by Suskleb. These consoles were available for guests.

While ArcelorMittal was the main showcase for Robe products this time, there were lights in plenty more areas. The Main Stage featured 11 x MegaPointes on the rig, together with seven BMFL WashBeams and 22 x ColorStrobes LED/wash strobes. The Electro stage lighting crew used 16 x Pointes, 16 x LEDWash 600s, 24 x LEDBeam 100s and 42 x PixelPatts, while the Fresh Stage was lit by 16 Spiiders, among other fixtures.

In addition to all the stages, the overall environment and industrial relics of Ostrava’s Dolní Vítkovice ironworks at night were also illuminated by Josef Zenisek and his team who used more Robe in the form of 8 x Pointes rigged on top of the Bolt Tower and above the entrance structure, plus 38 x CitySkape Xtremes and four CitySource 96s LED floods.

The CitySkape Xtremes and CitySource 96s were dotted around in safe places and used to imaginatively highlight vast silos, long runs of pipework, blast furnaces, ore chambers and other features from the plant’s former life.

The multiple rental sound and light and video companies Josef Zenisek dealt with in 2018 included High Lite Touring who supplied technical services for Main and Drive Stages, and the ArcelorMittal Stage construction. Rental Pro took care of lighting and audio for ArcelorMittal Stage and T-Servis did the complete tech production for the Fresh and Kofola Czech stages. Edward-Sound & Light Agency from Prague ensured the Electronic and Europe stages had all the required production elements. For the second year, StageCo was contracted to build the main stage.

(Photos: Petr Klapper)

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