Adlib delivers integrated audio, lighting, and video for Greg Davies’ "Full Fat Legend" tour

The Requirement

Arena-scale comedy tours require exceptional audio clarity to ensure vocal intelligibility throughout the venue. The production team needed a flexible system capable of adapting to various room dimensions, specifically accommodating both long and short room configurations.

Visually, the tour required high-definition IMAG (Image Magnification) relay to ensure the performer’s expressions were visible to all audience members. The lighting design needed to provide a clean theatrical focus on stage while delivering high-impact effects for audience engagement and walk-in sequences. The technical infrastructure had to be robust enough for rapid deployment across a demanding tour schedule.

The Lighting System

The lighting rig was designed to provide a layered visual environment, separated into dedicated truss systems for stage and audience illumination.

Inner & Outer Trusses

Stage lighting (Inner Truss) featured 16 x Martin MAC Ultra Performance and 16 x Martin MAC Aura XIP fixtures, providing precise theatrical focus and colour wash.

Audience and effects lighting (Outer Truss) utilised 16 x Martin MAC Ultra Wash and 16 x Robe MegaPointe fixtures. High-impact audience lighting was reinforced by 40 x Chauvet Strike Array 2 blinders.

The Video System

The visual package centred on a high-resolution LED relay and a multi-camera 4K workflow.

LED Surfaces

Adlib supplied four ROE Black Quartz 4.6mm LED screens, each measuring 6m x 4m. These provided clean, high-brightness IMAG feeds to the arena audience.

Camera Channels & PPU

The camera package featured four Panasonic UC4000 4K broadcast channels equipped with Canon UJ90 field lenses. A specialised RF camera setup utilised a Sony FX6 mounted on a DJI Ronin RS3 Pro gimbal with an advanced ring and DJI Combo Transmission.

Vision mixing was handled by an Adlib 4K PPU system featuring a Ross Carbonite Touchdrive TD2S panel and a Ross Ultrix router.

Rigging

The rigging infrastructure was designed for speed and safety. The tour utilised Tyler GT+ PreRig Truss and Total Fabs OV40 trussing. The flown systems were suspended using a combination of 1T and 2T EXE Rise D8+ hoists.