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Green Grey
GREEN GREY’S VERTICAL GIGS
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 b elieved that “as one of the brightest beam / spot luminaires on the market” MegaPointes are perfect for spectacular and spontaneous
high-impact effects. On these shows, although initially hidden behind to the artists and like it was a regular arena show, rather than on another the line-of-sight, he could simply blast them in with different colour / building. “Vertical concerts have created a massive buzz of excitement and gobo combinations boosting the energy and been hugely popular, selling out fast,” Kostyra excitement of the performance. said. Instead of buying tickets, fans booked
Alight has been investing steadily in Robe hotel rooms with up to four people from products for the past six years and now has families and household bubbles per room. over 200 units in rental stock. The company For Kostyra, who has lit shows in some considers Robe “one of the best” brands to interesting places before, the most enjoyable work with for reliability and quality, and since aspect of working on the Vertical Concerts they purchased their first fixture, Robe has was “the incredible teamwork.” This included been prominent on the many shows they with Alight Lighting Crew Chief, Katunin Vitalii design and supply. and Green Grey’s frontman and guitarist,
There were several other lights on the Andrii ‘Diezel’ Yatsenko. Sound and staging vertical concert’s rig, including small beam “Robe MegaPointes are just infrastructure was supplied by Zinteco with lights and matrix panels, together with the MegaPointes, all programmed and run by so versatile that I use them on LED screens from ScreenPro. The news came as the Ukrainian national lockdown measures Eugene from an MA Lighting grandMA3. virtually every project I design.” were extended until 31 August. The team’s biggest challenge was to make the show amazing and throw the energy across Eugene Kostyra, TPi Photos: Anton Shykunov the void to the audience, so they felt close Lighting Designer www.robe.cz
