Kaiser Chiefs Take Robe on Tour

UK indie rockers, The Kaiser Chiefs, are back on the road again with a four-week, sold-out UK tour just behind them.

Lighting designer, Richard Larkum, has worked with the band for the last seven years, since the release of their seminal debut album Employment in 2005. Now he is using Robe's ROBIN 600 LEDWash fixtures as part of a Kaiser Chiefs lighting rig for the first time.

The look and feel of the lighting for this leg of the tour on the theatre and concert hall circuit, was based on the slightly retro guise of 1990's lighting rigs. Eight of the 16 Robe LEDWash 600s were on the front truss washing the stage area. They were so efficient nothing else was needed to flood the area and light the band from the front top angle.

The other eight were upstage on the floor and used to blast through for a powerful array of low-level back-beams. The LEDWash 600s delivered a bright and diffuse lightsource for this very specific effect.

Larkum has used the LEDWash 600s on a few shows and tours now, including The Levellers in Spring 2011, and last year he used them on The Vaccines as well as some shows for The Prodigy in South America. Larkum commented with the Robin series, "Robe has really got it right."

The LEDWash 600s, together with other moving lights and a sprinkling of generics were supplied to the Kaiser Chief's UK tour by Lite Alternative from Blackburn, and these were all controlled by Larkum from a Whole Hog Full Boar console. Chris Lundberg worked with Larkum as lighting technician for the tour.