TPi September 2020 - #253

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GREEN GREY’S VERTICAL GIGS Robe MegaPointe fixtures go vertical in Kiev, Ukraine.

In Kiev, Ukraine, ‘vertical concerts’ were initiated by rock band Green Grey, who performed on the rooftop of a building opposite the city’s Bratislava Hotel – where fans occupied nine storeys of rooms with separate balconies, each with a fantastic socially distanced view of the gig. Ukrainian rental and technical production company Alight was called upon to provide lighting for the rooftop stage – on top of Hotel Bratislava’s separate restaurant building – with a production lighting design created by Eugene Kostyra, which featured 10 Robe MegaPointe lighting fixtures. The equipment was craned up to the rooftop, rock ’n’ roll style – where Green Grey played the first vertical set, followed a couple of weeks later by hip hop act TNMK (Tanok na Maidani Kongo) and rock band, O’Torvald.

Robe MegaPointe fixtures were deployed behind the stage, creating powerful backlight shooting up into the night skies, illuminating the architecture of the stage and highlighting the unique urban landscape during Green Grey’s set. During the O’Torvald’s performance, MegaPointes were placed on the stage floor and in front of the main lighting gantry upstage. Kostyra – who works full time for Alight and is a prolific LD with The Voice Ukraine among his recent projects – specified MegaPointes as his ‘goto’ lighting fixtures. “They are just so versatile that I use them on virtually every project I design,” he stated. He believed that “as one of the brightest beam / spot luminaires on the market” MegaPointes are perfect for spectacular and spontaneous 14