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Thrice on tour with Chauvet fixtures

California-based Thrice were tapped to provide direct support for Bring Me The Horizon on the US leg of the UK band’s tour, which stopped at larger live music venues and small arenas and ended in February 2019. Thrice’s lighting designer Lenny Sasso selected Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B and Rogue R2 Wash fixtures, supplied by Squeek Lights.

Sasso included 12 Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures and 10 Rogue R2 Washes in his rig. Most of these fixtures were arranged on four rolling carts, two on either side of the drum riser. Each cart had one R1 FX-B unit and two R2 Washes. An additional R2 Wash fixture and two R1 FX-B units were positioned between two carts. There were also four R1 FX-B fixtures over the drum riser in the middle of this configuration. All fixtures were staggered at different heights.

“I always tend to stagger my fixtures, because I feel this gives me better depth than having just an even line of the same fixture,” says Sasso. “The way I mounted the R2 Washes in the carts made it easier and faster for me to program, which is why the carts ended up with two R2 Washes, while the poles splitting the carts just got one. The top R2s in the carts were under hung from the cart, and the bottom R2s were bolted to the base of the cart. The R2s on the poles were side hung.”

Sasso created 20-40 cues per song. Adding to the depth of the design was his use of the Rogue R1 FX-B to send multi-colored diagonal beams of light in shifting directions. “I really experimented with several ways of grouping colors and splitting the FX-B beams on this tour, because I felt this fit Thrice’s music,” he says.

“I programmed the entire show at home and was lucky enough to find a really good FX-B model. I got to spend a pretty good amount of time dialing in these color effects chases. At times I grabbed every FX-B and had them pan over in the same direction during some exaggerated guitar slides.”

Sasso also accented the music by saturating the entire stage in monochromatic colors. “There were moments when Thrice would do something like launch into a very heavy bridge after a super mellow verse or chorus. At those points, I would just plunge the whole band into a single color, like maybe a dark red, while accenting the drum hits with white flashes,” he explains.

Lenny Sasso was inspired by Bring Me The Horizon’s lighting designer Sam Tozer. “He really set the bar high on this tour and shared a lot of insights, which definitely pushed me to up my game on this run,” says Sasso.

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