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New Robe lighting package installed at Poppodium De Bosuil

De Bosuil, a 850-capacity live music venue in Weert, southeastern Netherlands, has recently received a new Robe moving light package - sixteen Paintes, twelve LEDBeam 350s, plus eight LEDBeam 150s - which is a substantial upgrade to their previous system of older Robe moving lights fixtures. These are all still working but needed upgrading to newer tech to satisfy the string of local and international artists and lighting designers frequenting this venue.

De Bosuil has been a music venue and on this site for many years. The current building opened in 2003 and was expanded two years ago. It is generally open Fridays through Sundays and occasionally during the week. Bands playing include classic rock and pop, all the way to EDM.

“After eleven years of solid work, the previous fixtures and lighting console needed replacing”, explains Head of lighting Bart Mesman (pictured), a freelancer who has worked at De Bosuil for over fifteen years and has an engineering degree. He and the crew researched what was available during the Covid pandemic and eventually decided on equipment from Robe. While the lighting package installed back in 2013 had comprised a number of other brands, this time only Robe was chosen.

Mesman admits that when he green-lighted the Paintes, he had not actually seen them in action - as they were that new, but he “just knew” that it was the right fixture for them. “It was seriously bright - perfect for our stage”, and through working for so long with the old Robe’s DLX’s, he knew the “Painte was perfect”. LEDBeam 350s and 150s he had already used on several occasions. Essentially here he sought “a moving PAR can type of light” and with both LEDBeam 100s and LEDWash 300s already in the house, the new LEDBeam350s and LEDBeam 150s completed the picture.

There are 59 moving lights in total in the rig. Eight of the existing Robe LEDWash 300s are still active on the “new” rig for floor and side lighting, and eight of their original LEDBeam 150s are now lighting the bar area. The seven original DLX Spots are still in the venue as well, positioned above the audience and used to create ambience during changeovers, and also for crowd lighting during club and party nights and DJ sets. The lighting refit also included delivery of a new console from Controllux, Robe’s Benelux distributor.

Around half of the incoming bands will bring their own lighting engineers, and Mesman operates for any that don’t, and in addition to him, there are six regular freelancers working as lighting operators and technicians.

(Photos: Louise Stickland/Paul Clarke/Maurice Moonen)

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