Home nightclub upgrades with Martin and MA
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Incorporating innovative creative design and with four venue areas, including a luxurious rooftop terrace, featuring both indoor and outdoor areas, Home lends itself to all aspects of entertaining.
The club owners recently decided it was time for a renovation of the venue’s lighting and turned to Show Technology for advice.
Darcy Cook, production designer at the club, worked closely with Show Technology’s business development manager Stephen Dallimore who said, “The design of Home lends itself more to a New York warehouse vibe, incorporating some fantastic street art work by local artist Lister, rather than a modern nightclub. So it was important to look at suitable options that would complement the space and allow the team to work across different clients, from clubbers to corporate functions, who are attracted to its location on Sydney’s famous Darling Harbour.”
The decision was made to go with Martin and MA Lighting. Darcy was keen for all the lighting to be LED for cost effectiveness, low maintenance and ecological reasons.
“I put the idea to the Susanah Page, the owner, and Ash Kollmorgan, the licensee, and after several meetings and consultations, including Rob Hardy the venue’s production manager, they decided to go for it,” commented Darcy. “I replaced the rig, more or less, one for one with a few new additions. We had 18 old profile movers in there and I thought that amount gave us good coverage, so I stuck with that configuration.”
First choice was the Martin MAC Quantum Profile. “I was impressed by the MAC Quantum Profile’s optics, the sharpness of the gobos, the brightness and the colour rendering index,” said Darcy. “The way the colour system works is very impressive; you get a really nice blue, green and red out of them plus ultra-sharp gobos across the very wide zoom range that they have.”
Six Martin RUSH MH6 were installed primarily to act as stage light for the dancers onstage and live acts.
“As a stage wash, they put out a really nice CTO,” remarked Darcy. “We also use them to light up the venue when we want a nice room wash and they’re good at that too because of the enormous zoom range that they have. We can paint the room in pretty much any colour.” Four Martin Atomic 3000 LED strobes were also chosen.
Ten ShowPro LED Sunstrips were supplied as moveable eye-candy and are currently ‘outlining’ the room’s central screen adding a theatrical element to the venue. Four ShowPro X-Blinders were selected as a substitute for the standard DWE Blinder and Darcy reports that they have been well received.
For control, Darcy recommended a MA Lighting MA2 light saying it is the standard console amongst the electronic dance music industry.
“Just over three years ago, Sydney introduced the “lock out law” that saw venues not allow entry after 1:30am nor the serving of drinks past 3am, which has seen a number of venues sadly close their doors,” Stephen Dallimore said. “This was a sizeable investment by the team at Home in uncertain times but they are already seeing the results of the upgrade and using industry specified fixtures is great. To be working with them on their new chapter has been awesome.”
(Jim Evans)
