Wysiwyg Tours with Roxette

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at almost every show, although using the As well, and just as important for the Tour, all Sweden that it’s actually difficult to work same design. communications with vendors and venues efficiently with others if you don’t have it. So were enhanced and simplified by reference winning a year Perform membership was the Pre-programming for all lighting and video to the plots done in wysiwyg. perfect prize. Thanks CAST!” was all done by Brattberg using wysiwyg Perform, beginning in September 2011 in his Brattberg continues, “I was using R27 for Brattberg adds, “I’d also like to thank by Joan Lyman, previsualization studio in Stockholm. Video all the pre-programming, however, the 2012 Starlight for their great support of gear and content was created by Brattberg, alongside segment will be done in R28. I will also be great engagement in the project, and One Manager, Communications Peppe Tannemyr of Beacon. using R28 in 2012 for many other projects Two sales in Sweden, the retailer for wysi- such as the popular Peace & Love festival wyg and all of the LXworks lighting gear. Fi- Brattberg explains, “The benefit of work- plus the Swedish Melodifestival 2012.” nally, the whole Roxette band, management ing with wysiwyg is enormous. All prepro- and crew for just being fantastic profession- gramming including video content was Brattberg happened to be one of the als for being so great to work with.” wysiwyg Tours with Roxette made and adjusted in wysiwyg before we lucky winners of the daily prize drawing went to production rehearsals and it saved at the CAST booth during PLASA 2011, Upcoming Roxette tour dates can be me a lot of time since the rehearsal time winning a 1-year wysiwyg Perform Mem- found at http://www.roxette.se/tour.php was only 3 days with the band.” (The band bership. “This was just icing on the cake,” has been together for over 20 years so long explains Brattberg, “I was already using rehearsals are not necessary for the music.) wysiwyg – in fact it’s such a standard in

Calle Brattberg is the lighting designer, set designer, programmer, and operator for the tour, as well as creator of the wysiwyg is on the road again, currently on Roxette began their current world tour in The main lighting for the Fall leg of the wysiwyg design used for lighting the show. the world tour of the superstar band Rox- Feb 2011, their first world tour since 1995, Tour was supplied by Starlight in Sweden, ette. The Swedish band, headed by Marie and have so far visited Europe, Russia, consisting of 40 Martin MAC 2000 Wash, 39 Fredriksson and Per Gessle, was formed in South America, and South Africa, with the Vari*lite VL3000 Spots, 11 Vari*lite VL2500 the late ‘80s and are known for their interna- 2012 leg covering Asia, Australia, USA and Spots, 10 SGM Ribaltas, 11 Cromlech JA- tional hits, including “The Look”, “Listen To Scandinavia, for a total of over 120 perfor- RAGs, 14 Martin MAC 301 LED washes and Your Heart”, “Joyride” and the classic love mances. 18 2-lights by James Thomas Engineering. ballad “It Must Have Been Love”, which was Brattberg’s own company, LXworks, is the featured on the soundtrack “Pretty Woman” Calle Brattberg is the lighting designer, supplier of the MA2 lighting desks and signal and sold 9 million copies. The group has set designer, programmer, and operator for racks and Hippo Critter media servers by had 33 chart-busting singles and total the tour, as well as creator of the wysiwyg Green Hippo. The 2012 part of the Tour will record sales exceeding 75 million. design used for lighting the show. pick up different kits from different vendors