Elliot Baines utilises CHAUVET Professional fixtures for Sainté at All Points East

Sainté’s lighting design was taken on by Elliot Baines where his Still Local tour kicked off at All Points East festival in the summer of 2024. 

Representing a city-street basketball court with custom-made controllable streetlamps, a brick-and-fence facia, and a graffiti wall backdrop, the distinctive set evoked images of an urban landscape. Baines, owner of Spiralstage Lighting, intensified this mood with a lighting design that featured ample amounts of atmospherics.

Helping Baines achieve these looks were 24 Color STRIKE M motorised strobe-blinders and an equal number of Maverick Storm 4 Profiles. Part of the house rig, the CHAUVET Professional fixtures were supplied by Colour Sound Experiment whereas the touring rig and set was from Liteup.)

“We planned to take the All Points East design on tour after the festival, so we knew we had to make it flexible enough to work well in a wide variety of stages,” said Baines. “Some of those stages can be quite large.  We wanted to try fill the stages with the set as much as possible, whilst thinking of this logistically. Colour Sound Experiment and All Points East were very welcoming for this show, whilst Liteup did a great job as did Bob Kingdom, the operator on this tour.”

The Color STRIKE M fixtures played a variety of roles in Baines’ design. Half the units were flown along the highest downstage row of truss and were used to colourise the entire area, in addition to animating the crowd with audience lighting. The remaining fixtures were flown on mid-stage truss and contributed to the washes that transformed the moods of the stage. Baines made the white backdrop graffiti stand out all the more starkly, underscoring the mood of the show.

Also endowing the stage with greater depth and texture were the house rig’s Maverick Storm 4 Profiles. “They were great to add more colour to the set,” said Baines. “The units on the floor were used to strike through the set’s fencing to create shadows and silhouettes. This was especially so when we had chopped gobos shine through. This also looked great above, adding light to the lampposts, even though the lampposts were functional and had a LED light in them already, it added different layers, giving the show a theatrical element.”

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