Clay Paky Sharpys are "Made for" Scooter TourCopious Clay Paky beam fixtures have been employed by lighting designer Jerry Appelt in his 'reach out and grab you' lighting design for German techno band Scooter's European tour 20 years of Hardcore. Appelt's design with the German lighting designer rigged a mix of over 100 x Clay Paky Sharpys, 26 x Alpha Spot HPE 1500s, and 12 x Alpha Beam 1500s supplied by PRG Hamburg, in strict configurations across huge fingers of truss that reach out across the audience. "The concept behind the design was not to worry too much about the stage and really play out to the audience," says Appelt. "We built four vertical columns upstage upon which we rigged the Clay Paky beam fixtures. These columns then lead out into four 'fingers' of curved truss heavily rigged with Sharpys. The fingers are designed to reach out above the audience creating an all encompassing light show that really grabs attention and pulls in the crowd. The Sharpys were used for their fabulous laser beam and pin spot effects. The fixtures are made for this kind of music, they are fast, rhythmic and of course extremely powerful. We created rapid, techno style movements as well as huge architectural lighting looks that powered out over the audience." The Alpha Spot HPE 1500 offers an extensive effects system with 20 x gobos, 12 of which are on two rotating gobo wheels and eight that are fixed. In addition there is an animation disk and rotating prism. Scooter: 20 years of Hardcore continues on its European tour until August 2014. For more information please visit www.scootertechno.com To see more from Jerry Appelt please see www.jpappelt.de 
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