As an event that has become synonymous with politically incorrect ‘car crash’ moments on stage, the 30th annual BRIT Awards did not disappoint, especially with host Peter Kay openly criticising Liam Gallagher for throwing his Oasis’ Best Album Of 30 Years award into the crowd.
Broadcast live to up to 6.3 million viewers on ITV 1 from London’s Earls Court on February 16, the BRITs again benefitted from the lighting design and direction of Al Gurdon. February was a seriously high profile month for Gurdon whose work on both the BRIT Awards and the Super Bowl (see separate news article) was screened to millions of TV viewers.
Working with PRG Lighting and crew chief Rich Gorrod, Gurdon’s BRITs design was programmed using WYSIWYG and operated on the night by Theo Cox and Alex Passmore on Full Boar and grandMA consoles.
The varied spec featured 18 PRG Bad Boys, 100 VL3000 spots, eight VL3500 spots, 16 VL3500 washes, 28 VL1000ASs, 16 VL2000 washes, 160 Martin MAC 2000 washes, 16 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 700s, 76 Atomic strobes with colour changers, four 70kW Lightning Strikes, 62 ColorBlast LED floods, 35 Pixeline LED battens and a huge amount of conventionals.
PRG’s technical crew included Gordon Torrington, Aidan McCabe, Chris Henry, John Hetherton, Simon Anderson, Lars Kristiansen, Barry Branford, James Spooner, Ben Hornshaw, Harry Forster, Mark Hollis, Alex Peters, Tom Binding and Henry Gillett.
Reproduced with kind permission from TPI Magazine, photography by John Marshall © JM Enternational
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