Radio 1 Charts Jevons, Maxedia, Maxxyz and More

Electric Fly Lighting Designer Nick Jevons used Martin Professional’s Maxxyz and Maxedia to control the lighting for Radio 1's The Chart Show Live concert at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire just before Christmas.

The special event for Radio 1 ticket winners was hosted by various DJs from the station and featured mini set performances by top-selling artists McFly, Charlotte Church, The Pussycat Dolls, Hard-Fi and Sean Paul. The concert was also broadcast live straight after Radio 1's Sunday UK Chart Show rundown.

All lighting fixtures were supplied by Bandit Lites UK and included MAC 500 profile spots, MAC 600 washlights, Atomic Strobes and Chroma-Q™ Color Blocks as well as a Maxxyz console and Maxedia digital media server.

Jevons explains the lighting brief for the event, “It was a fairly energetic evening, which I wanted to reflect in the lighting and set design, working with my business partner, Set Designer, Philip Winward. The concept behind it was a fairground Waltzer. I wanted it to be fast and frantic, the ‘scream if you want to go faster!’ idea. That’s where the Maxedia came into its own - it enabled me to create the patterns on the Chroma Q Color Blocks, lots of sweeps and swirls, which were the very rhythmical looks I was going for, and I managed to achieve that very easily. It was a joy to use, it was so easy.”

Vision Operator, Joey Jevons has used the Maxedia on several events, and it was her choice to use it this time. She is the creative side of Electric Fly and she has found the Maxedia extremely easy to use. Within 20 minutes of being shown how to use it, she was up and running.

Jevons chose the Maxedia and Maxxyz because of their ease of use and flexibility. He explains, “We loaded in at 7am that morning, there was no time for error, and we had to make sure everything was built by midday. I knew everything would be really quick to program. The Maxxyz was programmed in advance which means I could just tweak when we did the sound check. The scope was immense, it was really powerful.”

Jevons talked about the MAC lights as well. “The MACs were great too. I’ve worked with them for so long. I know exactly what they can do. I can program them blind almost. No surprises and good for quick work.”