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Cat West selects Ayrton Intellipix for current New Kids On The Block tour

Lighting designer Cat West of Flash and Trash Works, Inc. selected 108 Ayrton Intellipix R Creative Solutions for pop group New Kids On The Block’s “MixTape Tour 2022”, which featured Salt-N-Pepa, Rick Astley and En Vogue as special guests. The Intellipix fixtures were a central part of the show’s party look.

The new arena-based “MixTape Tour” is scheduled to play more than fifty dates across the US from its kick-off in Cincinnati in May to its finale in Hawaii in August. Cat West had programmed the band’s “MixTape Tour 2019” and their Fenway Park and Merriweather Post Pavillion events in 2021. This year, she was promoted to Lighting Designer building all the lighting looks for New Kids On The Block and the guest acts.

Production Designer Butch Allen of Blame Funnel Creative designed a set with six giant monoliths that run upstage forming a dynamic, ever-changing backdrop for all of the artists. “The Intellipix fixtures are built into the monoliths, which are on rotators, so they spin to allow for entrances and to give us some different looks throughout the night”, explains West.

The monoliths feature in almost every song, for instance in “Block Party” which marks the first time in the show that New Kids On The Block appear to the audience. “We had a creative request to make a bright, strobey look that would accent the artists’ entrance”, says West. Solotech, the lighting vendor for the gear and crew, provided the Intellipix Rs for the tour.

(Photo: Paris Visone)

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