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Jiri Roucek lights Krystof and Ceske Hrady with Robe

Lighting designer Jiri Roucek enjoyed a busy summer as the LD for leading Czech pop-rock band Krystof and has also created the production design for the main stage of the 2019 Ceske Hrady Festival tour, a two-day event with an identical line-up that visited eight castle and cultural locations around the Czech Republic.

Krystof headlined this year’s Ceske Hrady tour as well as playing their own shows concurrently. The Ceske Hrady format was two stages set up side-by-side and ‘flip-flopped’ both exclusively using Robe moving lights supplied by ZL Production which also supplied audio, video and staging.

At the core of the main stage lighting was 20 x Robe BMFL Spots, 37 x Spiiders (16 on the house rig and 20 for Krystof’s floor package, rigged on vertical trussing towers) and 12 x ColorWash 700E ATs on the front truss for key lighting, plus quantities of strobes and blinders. They ran two RoboSpot systems, both located FOH and running with BMFL Blades. Four of Robe’s new IP rated iPointes were positioned along the front of the stage.

Jiri Roucek has worked with Krystof since 2004 and so knows the band and their music very well. To some extent, the Main Stage lighting rig was built around their design and spec which included five upstage columns of 6 mm LED screen, but within this he also had to design a ‘universal’ lighting rig that would work for all others playing on the stage for the Ceske Hrady shows.

The lighting was additionally designed to maintain a visual harmony with the video. The BMFLs and Spiiders were on the overhead trusses and on ladders in between the LED columns. The BMFL Blades on the RoboSpot systems were used on this tour as ‘classic’ follow spots set up on the FOH area. For spot and beam fixtures on the Krystof Stage they chose BMFLs, for the smaller stage they went with Pointes of which they had 12 units.

Roucek programmed and ran all the lights on a ChamSys MQ500 console. Krystof also headlined a string of their own shows this summer, and so for continuity of design and practicality, ZL Production had another identical stage, roof, lighting system and technical crew which was servicing these as some of the dates were too close to allow it being covered with one system.

ZL supplied around 30 crew in total for the tour - with another five looking after the Krystof show’s extra lighting and video. All the kit, including two Adamson PA systems, travelled in nine trucks, two full of lights and another carrying Krystof’s set and backline.

(Photos: Louise Stickland)

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