Heavy metal icon Black Sabbath continues its Reunion
Tour in Latin America, Europe and the UK with a large complement of Clay Paky Sharpy
and Sharpy Wash lights. The tour
celebrates the band’s reunion last year and supports their album “13,” the
first with Ozzy Osbourne since 1978.
“Sharpys are the ultimate eye candy,” declares Michael
Keller, lighting programmer for Baz Halpin, the tour’s lighting designer. “They create such a visual display that they
combat most videowalls. They’re one of
the few instruments that can cut right past them.”
Halpin is utilizing 42 Sharpys on the Reunion Tour
with two pods of 4x4s and ten fixtures on the ground, says Keller. “They’re very sturdy and rugged and have
never had a failure. They’re bulletproof
lights with very powerful lamps. The
prism is great and the gobos are amazing.
Anything you want to do with them is never an issue.”
Forty Sharpy Wash lights were deployed in Australia as
fill for a video shoot, he notes, and “they were awesome as well.”
Francesco Romagnoli, Clay Paky Area Manager for North and Latin America,
comments, “Mr Halpin and Mr. Keller have been Clay Paky users for a while and
we’re thrilled about how they’re being used for this show. We look forward to working with them again in
the future.”
A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive North American distributor for Clay
Paky.
