Roxette
- Room Service Tour 2001
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| Per
Gessle and Marie Fredriksson in Roxette on the Room Service
tour 2001. Lighting design by Pontus "Bullen" Lagerbilke.
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| Photo:
Roger Malmer. |
Lighting
Concert Published: 4 March, 2002.
After the success of their last album Room Service, Roxette
embarked on a European tour in the fall of 2001. They visit
Germany, the Czech republic, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Austria,
Russia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden. Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson
were met by an excited audience on the first Roxette tour in
six years.
Roxette's longtime LD Pontus "Bullen" Lagerbilke
was in charge of the lighting for the Room Service tour. He
designed the large lighting rig - with some 124 moving lights
- and operated everything on a AVAB Pronto!. A lighting console
that Bullen is one of the developers for at AVAB Scandinavia
AB.
Bullen talks about Roxette and the tour.
It's
been six years since Roxette was on the road last time. What
was it like to work with Roxette again?
I have done other things with both Per and Marie during the
time, like "Återtåget" (with Per's band Gyllene Tider) and Marie´s
tour last summer. Working with them after six years is not a
big difference, I have done so much with them that it feels
like it was yesterday :-)
What
ideas did you have for this tour? Is it different than the other
Roxette tours you have been on?
No, it was not so different from the others. I always try to
work with the big picture, whatever I work on.
Can
you tell us about your lighting design for the Roxette concert?
The design is based on the big screen we had. So I tried to
do an airier design around it and spread out my lamps in all
directions as much as possible. I also tried to keep the design
as simple as possible, as I knew that I had a very short time
to programme the show. I ended up having three days.
Tell
us about your choice of lamps?
From the beginning I decided on having as few kinds of lamps
as possible and I wanted Spots and Washes. So when it was decided
that Starlight was the supplier the choice was quite simple.
I have always like the Live Pro 1200 as a spot lamp, not because
it is the best lamp in the world because it has some character.
Coemar's it was because I have never used them and they seemed
fun (and they were too). 2-lites was probably the funniest and
coolest conventional lamp I have had, so small, so strong.
Can
you tell us about the AVAB Pronto! console you used for the
show? I heard it was a special version with up to 4000 DMX channels
output.
What I used is not a special Pronto! but a Pronto! with a rack
computer on the side to get a more powerful computer, this because
we have done a test that gets 3072 DMX channels out of it. We
didn't believe that the original computer in a Pronto! would
cope. But I did run an alpha version on what is going to be
version 3.0 to Pronto!, that worked over all expectations. What
we also did was to use Ethernet from FOH to the stage, to avoid
having 6-12 DMX cables, that also worked very well.
Roger
Malmer
Roxette
- Room Sevice tour 2001
Lighting
Designer
Pontus
"Bullen" Lagerbilke
Tour
Production
EMA
Telstar AB
Lighting
& Sound Supplier
Starlight
AB
