A 14-way Kinesys system - along with all rigging and crew - was supplied by Summit Steel for the UK section of The Killers tour. This was a sub-hire to lighting rental contractors Siyan. Lighting designer Steve Douglas' upstage truss featured four contemporary chandeliers - consisting of steel wire rope drops of lights - rigged onto a truss flown on two Kinesys motors. This was brought in and out at the appropriate moments.
Downstage were three box shaped lighting pods, each suspended on four Kinesys motors - all half tonne CM Lodestar JJs running at up to 21-metres-a-minute. The pods were moved into about ten different positions throughout the show, all but one move completed in the dark.
Head rigger was John 'Max' Maxwell, and the Kinesys Vector control system was operated by Erland Webb, who says, "It is great to be able to reposition and update the system so quickly when moving between different venues."
For The Feeling, LD Tom Lesh specified an 8-way Kinesys system essentially as a set element, after using it on Muse throughout Autumn 2006. His design included four giant lampshades and four mirror balls, all of which were hung individually on Kinesys converted CM ProStar motors.
Lesh comments: "The system has worked very well in the theatre and city hall sized venues we've done on this last leg of the tour." Along with all lighting and rigging, the Kinesys equipment was supplied by Neg Earth Lights and operated by Russell 'Tigger' Matthews.
For Muse, Lesh had utilised a 10-way Kinesys system operated by Andy Beller. This lifted a conically shaped MiPix 'satellite' screen effect to reveal the drummer at the top of the show. Another six points of Kinesys were used to move three 8ft sections of upstage trussing in and out of the action, each rigged with two 4.5K BigLights.
Kinesys Vector control and Liftket motors with Kinesys Elevation 1+ controllers (to make them variable speed) plus two positioning, variable speed, beam trolleys were supplied by Neg Earth for Nelly Furtado's UK and European tour. These were used to move a large Barco MiTrix screen.
(Jim Evans)
