Elation recreates with light the iconic band Pink Floyd on Brit Floyd World Tour 2021

The biggest tribute show to the British rock band: Brit Floyd World Tour 2021 has been held again, with a lighting design starring the technology of Elation.

After having to leave the road at the beginning of 2020 due to the pandemic, Brit Floyd – The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Tribute Show, celebrated again with a world tour in tribute to the British rock band Pink Floyd, that started in the past 29 July at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre (Us.) with a spectacular lighting system of Elation.

Brit Floyd World Tour 2021 includes in the show the highlights of The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Division Bell, and also presents an interpretation, note by note, of the band's song that marked an era: Echoes.

With its avant-garde lighting designs, Graphics, props and sound effects, Pink Floyd has provided some of the most memorable scenic moments of the rock ‘n’ Roll. That's why, no other group recreates the sound and look of the British band's live shows like Brit Floyd.

The tour is produced and promoted by the British company CMP Entertainment, owner and supplier of all Elation lighting equipment.

Collective design and faithful to the band

There are many who have intervened in the configuration of Brit Floyd over the years; a design that echoes the originals and classics of Pink Floyd of Marc Brickman.

From the tour of 2019, Mark Jacobson has designed the lighting for this show and notes that “there is no single designer for the show, but it has been the work of several for many years. That would include Dave Hill and Jake Whittingham, along with Mark Jones Roberts, who is out with the current tour, and myself”.

The lighting of the show also pays homage to Pink Floyd. “It has to look like a band show, that's the general guideline and it's what people come to see," Jacobson says.. As good as it is a new look, fans don't want to see something that looks like another band. It has to look like something I would have done Pink Floyd, but we do it using this new technology”.

However, there are things that have changed. In December 2019 the decision was made to abandon the iconic arch truss design, but keep the iconic circle, that come from the tour Division Bell of principles of the 90 and were part of the designs of Pink Floyd for years.

the Truss circular goes back to the shows of Pink Floyd of the years 70. “The guideline was to change it to look more like what David Gilmour has done in recent years.: a large circular structure with more accessories, but without the bow, Jacobson points out.. That is why we fill the circle with 32 Elation Dartz 360 and add Smarty Hybrids and Led strobes Protron 3K Color to the team”.

With its 3rd opening, set of gobos and full 360º degree rotation, the Dartz allow to achieve noticeable effects in the circle of the armor. For Jacobson, the iconic circular truss is part of his story and creating those circular designs has become his favorite part of Brit Floyd..

The design of the lighting for the show, mostly timecoded, is consistent with that of the reduced output of 2020, with some adjustments made before starting the tour.

In addition to Dartz's circular truss, Smarty Hybrid spot/beam/wash units populate the rear and side trusses, with more units in ground position.

Elation Platinum 5R Beams work from straight trusses in the air, while the Platinum 5R Beam Extremes provide great aerial effects from ground positions. Platinum FLX in front trusses offer profile designs, and ACL Bar 360s work from towers on the ground.

ZW19 beam/wash effects and Chorus Line pixel bar washes 16 add color and effect. Protron strobes, both in white light and color version, and the Cuepix Blinder WW2s, provide flashes of light that restrict the pupil.

Performance Lighting, based in Chicago, is taken care of from 2011 of the support of the U.S. tour, with twenty-four motors with distro and wiring, along with the support of professional manpower for the tours.

Russell Armentrout, President of Performance Lighting, explains that “we outsource their original lighting requirements and provide the tour with forty Elation Platinum 5R Beams for the iconic circle truss and fourteen Design 1200C. After that, CMP decided to buy the lighting”.

Brit Floyd World Tour 2021 returns to celebrate one of the most significant acts of rock and has obtained an excellent response from the public at each stop. The tour continues in the East and Midwest of the United States until mid-September, with a European stage planned for the autumn.

Other articles on Brit Floyd World Tour2021, CMP Entertainment, Elation, Pink Floyd