Lighting Co
Creative BackStage
Venue
Tempe Town Lake
Tempe, AZ
Crew
Promoter/Producer: Luckyman Concerts
Production Manager: John Garberson
Lighting Designer: Various (Artist’s LDs)
Lighting Director: Chris Brodman
Programmers: Matthew Berg, James Simpson
Lighting Techs: James Simpson, Cullen Noon, Michael Morse
Riggers: Michelle Peirce, Maxine Kichler
Staging Co: Stageline
Video Directors: TJ Watson, Jamie Rivera
Video Co: Creative BackStage
Gear
Kanye West Rig:
2 High End Systems Hog 4 consoles
1 Avolites Art dimmer
10 ETC 48ch dimmer racks
360 Black PAR 64s (1K)
55 ETC Source Four PARs (575W)
17 Variable speed chain hoists
Festival Rig (pre-Kanye):
1 Avolites Pearl Expert Pro w/ wing
8 Elation Platinum Spot 35 Pro fixtures
12 Elation Platinum Beam 5Rs
16 Elation Cuepix panels
42 Martin MAC Auras
6 Philips Showline SL Nitro LED strobes
6 Vari-Lite VL3515 Spots
4 Martin MAC 700 Spots
15 Elation Opti Tri Pars
1 120K par rig
2 Elation Antari F-5D Fazers
16 Stagemaker hoists
17 CyberMotion CyberHoists (variable speed)
1 Absen AT6 LED screen (6mm, 30’x12’)
1 Elation EVLED 1024 SMD screen (20mm, 8’x12’)
1 Roland V-800HD switcher
1 Media server (for artists; Modul8)
Sony HD PX180 cameras
Festival Notes
Creative BackStage finished off the summer with a bang: Kanye West’s performance, which wrapped up the four-day (Sept. 24-27) Summers Ends Music Festival in Tempe, AZ. Creative BackStage worked months with Kanye West’s team and Stageline to make sure it all would come together on day four. The first three nights, the rig was standard festival lighting rig with PARs, movers, specials and a 30-foot-wide LED screen. The festival rig had to be 100 percent struck on Saturday night, with Kanye West’s rig installed overnight. The turnaround included a complete new rigging package.
