Lighting Co
Brown Note Productions
Venue
Various (Tour)
Crew
Lighting Designer: Cate Carter (Bryte Design)
Lighting Director: Mark Powell
Lighting Techs: Chris Ruppel, Sean Mullen
Production Manager: Rodney Johnson
Tour Manager: Rebecca Travis
Rigging: Brown Note Productions
Trucking: Shomotion
Backdrop: Rent What?
Gear
2 grandMA2 Full Size consoles
14 Martin MAC Viper Profiles
14 Martin MAC 101 fixtures
8 Martin MAC 2000 XB Washes
2 Martin MAC Aura LED fixtures
9 Martin Atomic Strobes
6 Clay Paky Sharpys
12 Showtec Sunstrip Active DMX units
12 Martin Stagebars
2 Hazebase Base Hazers
For more Ellie Goulding 2013 tour photos by Steve Jennings, go to www.plsn.me/GouldingExtras
Designer Insights, by Steve Jennings:
Cate Carter (Lighting Designer):
“I’ve been designing set and lighting for the past 8 years in the UK. Working with my business partner Pablo Beckett, our company Bryte Design looks after show, lighting and video design for a wide range of artists, from Ellie Goulding through Nero, James Morrison and Elbow. I began working with Ellie back in December 2012 after being approached by Ellie’s tour manager Rebecca Travis. Having worked with Rebecca on previous projects I was over the moon to be asked to be involved with Ellie’s tour.
“When I first met Ellie she gave me a really clear description of how she would like her album to be perceived visually, and from that came my brief for the live show…. I wanted to keep the shapes and textures in the overall design quite clean and simple, whilst echoing the triangles referenced in Ellie’s album artwork and videos. For this tour I wanted to create a stage set using only light and fabric but also wanted to maintain plenty of layers within this set, to keep the look of the stage fresh throughout the show. It’s been a fantastic experience working on Ellie’s shows throughout the US, the atmosphere from the audience has been incredible, topped off by a brilliant lighting crew from Brown Note Productions!”
Mark Powell (Lighting Director):
“I’m lighting the Ellie Goulding tour on a grandMA 2 console. It was Cate Carter’s original choice but I’m very much an MA person so it was no problem for me at all. I’ve known Cate for a few years now and although we haven’t worked together before this tour I think we both wanted to. It’s been a real pleasure. We are carrying full production and adapting each day to suit, we have three trusses and a pretty comprehensive floor package which does change to suit. Working with Ellie and everyone else on the production has been a complete pleasure. Ellie is doing incredibly well and rightly so, she is a very talented and lovely lady.”
