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Tom Mumby lights The Australian Pink Floyd Show with Robe

The Australian Pink Floyd Show (TAPFS), the most successful and long lasting Pink Floyd tribute bands, continues touring year-round and has just finished a European arena tour. Lighting designer Tom Mumby has worked with them since 2012, initially coming onboard as the projector tech, and then moving on to LD’ing and operating lighting in 2016.

The Grimsby-based lighting rental company Stage and Light Ltd, of which Mumby is a director, is also the lighting vendor for all the UK and European touring work, and this latest design utilised 38 Robe LED Beam 150s and 22 Spiider wash beams.

The look is dominated by a 5-metre circular truss centre stage, which, together with strategically placed drapes masks off an LED wall behind. The original Pink Floyd are acclaimed as pioneers of visual art and dramatic stagecraft, and for the TAPFS show, video still plays a central role in all the song narratives.

Twenty-four of the LEDBeam 150s are spread evenly around the trussing circle. Nine LEDBeam 150s also provide the front key lighting. As the band are largely on their positions, Mumby can dial them right down using the zoom.

Side lighting is important in this show, and integral to the design are four Spiiders downstage and another four LEDBeam 150s upstage, the latter slotted neatly in between the drums and keyboards, some on tank-traps and some on the deck.

Upstage are four wing trusses - all pre-rig - flown below the rear truss either side of the circle in higher and lower positions each side, which create the primary look of the show, and each of these truss sections is loaded with three Spiiders.

The remaining six Spiiders are on three back trusses and are predominantly used for essential backlight on the band. The Spiider’s Flower Effect is used a couple of times in the show to shift the dynamic of the space.

Mumby runs the lightshow using a ChamSys MQ500M console. Working alongside him on lighting were crew chief Sudip Shrestha, dimmer tech Luca De Lauri and video tech Tom Mann, with everything co-ordinated on the road by production manager Chris Gadd.

When TAPFS recently played shows in the Czech Republic, Mumby and his crew were invited to the Robe factory and showroom after several Robe staff attended the show. “Getting such positive feedback from the team at HQ was a great pleasure”, he states.

(Photos: David Fowler)

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