High Wycombe based lighting rental company, Siyan is enjoying a ‘special’ summer supplying specials packages to a wide variety of established, ‘hot’ and emerging live acts who are playing the vibrant Euro and UK festival season.
Two Door Cinema Club’s LD Squib has been on tour with a rig from Siyan for most of the year and this is continuing for the band’s current festival run.
Lights supplied include 24 x Robe LEDBeam 100s, 12 x Clay Paky Sharpies, 72 x Barco MiStrips forming a sculptural backdrop, 11 x Chroma-Q ColorPunch LED bricks and 8 x Martin Atomic Strobes, all controlled by Squib running a Chamsys MQ100 console with playback wing. Siyan crew / technician is Ioannis Simantris.
On The Editors, LD Colin Ross has created an innovative design based around eight different height vertical truss towers on bespoke floor bases for ultimate portability and a quick festival-style set up.
His lighting fixtures are 8 x Robe LEDWash 600s and 8 x LEDWash 1200s, 8 x 4-lite blinders, 40 x short nosed PAR 64s spread across the eight towers … and 8 x Atomic strobes. He is also using a Chamsys MQ100 and playback wing, and Siyan crew member Nick Burlace is helping make everything rock!
LD Phil Shaw is on the road with rockers The Maccabees, and his specials kit from Siyan includes 5 x Atomic strobes, 36 x Chromalech Sunstrips, 16 x Robe LEDBeam 100s and 4 x LEDWash 600s, complete with vertical truss towers constructed from Superlite truss on wheel-bases. This is a one-person show operated by Phil using his own Chamsys console … with the exception of Latitude Festival, where an expanded system was implemented, assisted by James Hardy.
Siyan just completed Alt-Js first full production tour and now LD Vince Foster and Lighting Operators Harry Forster/Tim Smith are rocking a floor package from Siyan around the festivals, including Glastonbury, T In The Park and Latitude.
This comprises 5 x Clay Paky Alpha Washes, 12 x GLP Impression LED moving lights, 5 x BB7 LED fixtures, 24 x 2-lite Moles …. And the – almost obligatory – 8 x Atomic strobes. All these are run from a Road Hog Full Boar console, with Dan Everitt plugging it all together.
Andy Smyth is on the road with Skunk Anansie which is out until the end of August with a comprehensive rig from Siyan.
This includes 14 x Atomic strobes, 42 x Satellite LED bricks and another upright trussing tower system. On each tower are a total of 6 x GLP Impressions joined by 8 x Sharpies and 6 x Jarags.
Six Novalight High Grounds are positioned upstage in special custom cages designed by Siyan, enabling the units to be wheeled on and flown in double-stacked style.
He is using an Avo AI media server to store and map video projection elements onto an upstage gauze, for which Siyan is supplying a laptop version of the system. Both lights and AI server are being run from an Avo Titan Mobile, providing a lightweight, user friendly and ultimately portable FOH control set up.
The Courteeners is another band with which Siyan has already toured this year. They continue their summer campaign with LD Dan Hill, and doing some high profile shows including Glasto and Castlefields Bowl in Manchester.
To some extent this is a continuation of the touring rig, with special customised pods designed by Siyan which feature a 4×4 Jarag (16 in total) arrangement and each sit on top of two metre truss sections.
Other fixtures include 8 x Sharpies, 20 x Robe ROBIN MMX Spots, 30 x LEDWash 600s, 8 x SGM PALCO LED washes and 8 x BB4s, completed with a compliment of 4 x 1Kw exterior floods, 16 x 4-lite blinders, 6 x ETC Source Fours, 5 x mirror balls… and 4 x half mirror balls.
Hill is running the show on another Chamsys MQ100, which is proving one of the most popular festival desks for Siyan ‘acts of the moment’. His crew are Nick Knowles, Brian Mandeville and Jordan Cooper
Siyan’s Nick Valdez comments, “It’s really good to see so many bands taking their own lighting elements on festival runs now. It means we are seeing many inventive and expedient ways being utilised to deploy large amounts of lights onstage in an average 20 minute changeover slot! It’s interesting and also becoming somewhat competitive!”
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