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GES residency at Cirkus Stockholm lit with Robe

Swedish pop supergroup GES - an acronym derived from the surnames of three of the country’s biggest singing stars: Anders Glenmark, Orup (Thomas Eriksson) and Niklas Strömstedt - continued a tour that started in 2021, wrapping up 2022 with a 33-date sold-out residency at Stockholm’s Cirkus venue.

The lighting and visual stage design was created by Palle Palmé, based around the architecture of this circular-shaped venue which was also where the tour had originally kicked off all those months ago after the first COVID restrictions were lifted. The design featured two truss circles - large and small - and a curved LED screen on an automation system, with an all-Robe lighting rig in the air.

The overhead rig comprised 64 Robe LEDBeam 150s, 16 MegaPointes and 17 BMFL WashBeams, with three RoboSpot systems running six of the BMFL WashBeams - two for each member of GES. The RoboSpot system had also been an important element of the touring lighting system. The Robe fixtures were supplied to the Cirkus dates by rental company Musiklagret from Borås.

The LEDBeam 150s were equidistantly spaced out around on the larger 10 metre diameter circle truss, which offered the perfect size and geometry for this set up, a format easy to programme this quantity of fixtures with as it was divisible by eight. A volley of sixteen MegaPointes rigged in the smaller 3 metre diameter truss worked in conjunction with the LEDBeam 150s.

Eleven of the BMFL WashBeams were on the front truss, used for keys and specials, with the other six upstage on the floor, shooting through from the back. The six RoboSpot controlled BMFL WashBeams were all on the front truss, with two lights dedicated to each member of GES.

All the BMFL WashBeam parameters were run through the GrandMA console, so all the RoboSpot operators had to do in this case was concentrate on following their targets. For one song, “Rain With Me” (“Regn hos mig”), a fixed breakup gobo together with the animation wheel in the BMFL WashBeam was used on Orup for a special rain-effect.

The show’s GrandMA2 lighting console operator Edvin Nyström worked on the whole tour and will also work for Palmé on pop and country singer Jill Johnson, who plays multiple dates at the same venue through the first months of 2023, also using a large Robe lighting rig.

(Photos: Louise Stickland/Paul Clarke)

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