Adlib's Ian Tomlinson designed the lightshow for Goulding, which was developed in close collaboration with Goulding's drummer and musical director Joe Clegg, who produced all of the show's video content through his design agency Artclub.
Taking these visuals as an overall creative starting point, he and Tomlinson looked at the options on screens, which resulted in Adlib's purchase of the Pixled F30, which is configured for the tour as an 8m wide by 4m deep back wall upstage of the band.
Lighting fixtures are hung on two mini-beam trusses. The back truss has six MAC 250 Beam moving lights and six Ikea balls - a customised Tomlinson & Clegg created scenic element consisting of Ikea paper lampshades covering 40 Watt incandescent bulbs.
On the floor below the screen are another five MAC 250 Beams, and on the front truss, seven MAC 700 Washes. There are four floor pars across the front of the stage to warm Goulding's face up and contrast to the starkness of the MAC 700s.
On the sound side, Adlib supplied Steve 'Patto' Pattison who mixed monitors using an Allen & Heath iLive R72 console, and the Midas Pro 6 FOH console spec'd by engineer Rick Geduld, plus the stage IEM system for which the standard set up was 8 stereo mixes of Sennheiser G2 and 8 effects sends.
For Hammersmith, they sent James Neale to rig and systems tech the main PA, which was a V-DOSC system, consisting of nine V-DOSC cabinets per side, each with three dv downs, six SB28 subs a side and four ARCs a side on the stage for in-fills and a tight focus.
(Jim Evans)
