Martin Colors Robbie Williams World Tour 2006

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'LD Al Gurdon chooses MAC 2000 Wash, Atomic with Colors for summer's top stadium tour

PRG Europe has supplied a large package of MAC 2000 Washes and Atomic strobes with Atomic Colors scrollers for British pop star Robbie Williams' 2006 'Close Encounters' stadium world tour. In rehearsals since early May, the tour kicked off in mid-June and runs through the end of the year.

Lighting designer is Al Gurdon (Brit Awards, MTV Europe Awards, Classical Brit Awards, Nobel Peace Prize Concert) who has been lighting top television programs and events for the past eighteen years, as well as DVD shoots for some of the top performers in the industry like U2, Phil Collins, Sting, and many more. Yet despite his vast experience in the industry, not to mention his years of experience using Martin gear, this is Al's first concert tour design.
'I was excited to have the opportunity to design the lighting for Robbie's tour,' he states. 'The brief has been evolving in a fairly organic way for over a year or so. The choice of fixtures was predicated on the shape of the set and the function of what I want to use them for. Also, being an outdoor show with no roof it's hard to keep smoke levels up so in choosing any of the lighting it had to be used in a practical way - we couldn't rely on fixture beams because we didn't know if we'd have any.

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