On 3 November, American pop duo Capital Cities played a pair of shows at the venue as part of their fall 2016 tour. Capital Cities production designer Noah Sharp, who also runs lighting for the band, had eight Satura Spot CMY Pro LED moving head spot luminaires, eight Platinum Wash ZFX Pro LED moving head wash lights, and six ACL 360 Bar LED battens at his disposal for the shows, supplied for the Bowery Ballroom install by Christie Lites.
"I was very excited when I saw that the lighting rig was all colour mixing fixtures," said Sharp, who collaborates with the band to design production packages, including video content tailored to each of their shows.
"I spent some extra time during programming to make some really cool colour effects with the Elation fixtures. I also made some awesome effects for the pixels on the ACL Bars."
All of the fixtures were flown in the air with four each of the Platinum Wash ZFX and Satura Spot fixtures upstage and a further four of each fixture downstage. "I really like the smooth and rich colour mixing on the Satura Spots," Sharp commented. "The ACL Bars are always a great eye catcher and they are fun to program, and the ZFX is also really nice because of its zoom range."
Sharp concludes, "It has been a blast working with Capital Cities and I am very happy to be a part of the team. I'd like to acknowledge Kieran Blake, general manager at the venue, for helping us out with everything we needed for our Bowery Ballroom shows. He made the experience very enjoyable."
(Jim Evans)
