FOH Eurovision going Nuts

Here is the lighting designer Mikki Kunttu and his operators going crazy during the live broadcast of Eurovision Song Contest in Finland earlier this year! It takes more than 200 million live viewers to make these guys nervous!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• FOH
• Eurovision
• Lights

[cue1go]

I always love working FOH

[touringmark]

who ever said FOH teams dont have fun out front its were all the fun is ........sometimes

[rocks130]

There is very little that I don't know about how to run big shows, since doing big shows is what I do for a living. If you are running the show on Grand MA's, in network, you usually just back up each session with 1 desk per session. And this is how most people operate big shows today, which is heaven compared with what it used to be like, which is what you describe, 1 back up desk per operator. Very space consuming, and very expensive. GRAND MA ROCKS! :-)

[Blackopcodered]

@rocks130 did you know that with big gigs that every light-technician has 1 console for backup they are crazy right 2 times 40 000 x amount of operators

[rocks130]

Hi Dylan. No not really. Since there was 5 Operators. So Grand MA II would not have made any difference, or any other desk.

[dylan9241]

@rocks130 Dayum, thats alot of desks for that show, and those people are fucked up, lol. Could't the Grand MA 2 Full size do the show without all the other desks?

[rocks130]

It is! There were a total of 7 Grand Ma I on FOH for lighting and video if I remember correctly. Desk 1 did key light, desk two did Hippos, desk 3 was a back up for that session, desk 4 did half the show light, desk 5 did the other half, desk 6 did audience light, and desk 7 was a back up for that session.

[Blackopcodered]

@rocks130 But they are doing something with light maybe with a Led wall or something and visual effects. im not a lighttechnician so i dont know!!!

[Blackopcodered]

@rocks130 Isnt that a grand MA console behind the first row of crew (I cant really see it good but it looks like one)

[TheGhanjamon]

@relgeiz29 This song is by Verka Serduchko at Eurovision 2007 "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" is the name of the song

[rocks130]

The front row is ALL working lighting, video and cyberhoist operators.