The concerts, produced by Flash Entertainment, were held at Ferrari World on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi and were open only to ticket holders for the race weekend.
The stage's back wall carried the bulk of the lighting along with a giant high-resolution screen, flanked on both sides with 45m wide LED wings with additional effect lighting. Towers placed at the front corners of the stage contained front and side lights.
Forty-four Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1200 and 42 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1200 were the mainstay of the back wall, with 20 Alpha Beam 300 fixtures placed on the wings for additional effect. Control came from three grandMA full size consoles and two grandMA media servers. Production Technology LLC delivered the lighting, rigging and staging. TechnoPro supplied the LED wings.
Luke Bonner of Production Technology LLC comments, "As I could observe working with Steve Shipman (Festival LD) on this event, the Clay Paky fixtures we used seemed to work without hesitation or trouble. In events such as this, the last thing you need are lights that do not work properly or keep constantly breaking down, thus requiring replacement. Of all Steve's concerns, the Clay Paky fixtures did not seem to be one of them."
Festival lighting designer Steve Shipman added, "I've done a lot of work with Alpha 1200 Spots and Washes over the last few years, they're great workhorse fixtures. They were the main fixtures on the back wall for the F1 show. It was big. The top truss trimmed at just under 17m, the width was 37m. I needed lights with good output and good zoom range. The Alphas were perfect. They were also very reliable, we had 86 fixtures working for eight days, about eight hours a day."
(Jim Evans)
