Lighting Co
LMG Touring
Venue
Various (Tour)
Crew
Lighting Designer/Director: Robb Jibson
Crew Chief: Brooks Gotham
Production Manager: Rocko
Tour Manager: Joshua Scott
Video Co: LMG Touring
LMG Rep: Craig Mitchell
Stage/Set Co: Gallagher Staging
Trucking Co: Artisan Transport
Gear
1 Jands Vista L5 console
32 Clay Paky Sharpys
24 Martin MAC Auras
8 Vari*Lite VL2500 Spots
4 Clay Paky Sharpys
16 Eurolite COB LED matrix fixtures
3 LMG LED walls (11mm, 6’ x 18’)
Radiance hazers
More photos at www.plsn.me/FallOutBoyExtras
Designer Insights by Steve Jennings
FALL OUT BOY 2013 Tour
LMG Touring went on the road with Lighting Designer Robb Jibson on Fall Out Boy’s summer tour. The band has performed dates across the US in more intimate venues before heading to such places as Germany, Russia, and Japan to name just a few. Then it’s back to the States on an arena tour with Panic At The Disco, another band Jibson designs for.
Robb Jibson (Lighting Designer/Director) –
“I’m running the show with a Jands Vista L5. I enjoy the ease in which the desk allows the manipulation of timing and the ease in which so many “events” can be created quickly and easily. The way the desk handles multi element fixtures is so unique that there really would not be any other choice for the show and my brain work flow. This show, with all the pixel mapping and art*net merging had 17 active universes, not that many by todays standards, but the system handled it with no problems!
A fixture I’ve been introduced to earlier in the year is the Euro Lite COB Matrixes and I was blown away with how visual they are. The COB technology really stands by itself because they can be on at full intensity and your eye’s iris muscle does not want to divorce you…. They way the light emits is very smooth and even. It’s not looking through a LED that is being collected in a lens, it is many smaller chips mounted close together and it works wonderfully… The technology is exciting and there are so many great ways to use the fixtures! The dimming curve is also very nice, there is no jumpiness in the lower levels and this means that anything your program, at any level will work amazing! One of the favorite things that I like doing with it is to have a low level random intensity ramp of say, 3% to 10% and then make hits and freezes over the top, either with color or just intensity. This carries well with these fixtures and makes the look have a small amount of motion and then, boom, hit the accent.
LMG Touring is a company that prior to 2012 never had entered into my world. They came into the fold bidding on the Incubus stuff in 2011 and were very competitive then. On this go around they were very keen to work with us on FOB and wanted to be a partner in creating an awesome show! After touring their facilities and getting a general understanding that, while very personable & approachable, they are a very large operation in other segments of our business. The owner, Les Goldberg – to think that he started with almost nothing and grew that into this level is amazing! That said they have the resources to pull off just about anything. These resources carry into the touring segment giving them the ability to equip and support touring rock shows. Craig Mitchell (National Sales Manager, LMG Touring) pulled me into his facility in Florida in early March and showed me the COB units that they had made a large investment in earlier in the year. I should also mention that their shop has AC. I have no idea why this strikes me so much, but after prepping many a system in the Vegas heat it is sort of unbelievable. I don’t even think our whole tour probably covered the AC bill for a month. They excel in the humanomics department as well!
Working with a new lighting company always carries with it a certain amount of learning and communicating, almost like dating a new girl. I would have been lost had I not brought my good pal Brooks Gotham into the fold! No matter what vendor we are working with I know that he will deliver a working system day in and day out. I sort of don’t want people to find out about him because I can never have him back! Also new to me is Joshua Scott, our Tour Manager. He is amazing and a joy to tour with. The back line crew, all great musicians in their own day are a blast to be with, you should hear Roadie sound check!
Since there are so many different festivals & one-offs for this quick one month run before our US arena tour I have a version of the system that is a little easier to construct from standard stock items. This again is where Vista really shines, the OS is amazing at merging show data and clone/expanding fixture types and counts. I will be able to have 25 way jarags one day and then back to a 6 bar of dimming to a COB unit and still keep rocking! I will be flying with a Catalyst mobile system to feed screens on these local events!”
