For singer Maro’s European tour, lighting designer Luke Edwards of Bear Bright Studios developed a stage concept built around a single recurring image: a sunrise. The brief called for a look that was warm, natural, and immersive, translating the show’s musical tone into light rather than illustrating it literally. Edwards specified ROXX CLUSTER B2 FC fixtures, supplied by L&L Stage Service, to realize the concept across tour dates in the UK and mainland Europe, including a show at London’s Roundhouse.
A concept built in iterations
The design process went through several stages before arriving at its final form. “The original concept was a sun hanging above the stage, but after a few design iterations we landed on a circle that sits half on the floor and half as a backdrop,” Edwards explains. He developed the concept together with Maro, with the sun visual carried through the full arc of the show: the opening sequence reads as a sunrise, the closing sequence as a sunset, achieved primarily through the color-changing range of the fixtures rather than through scenic elements alone.
The CLUSTER B2 FC units were positioned on the floor at the back of the stage, where they generated the sunrise glow behind the circular set piece. The same floor position gave Edwards a second use for the fixtures: as backlight shining directly through the band. “I love the brightness and colour output on these fixtures, they’re touring-friendly and genuinely robust,” Edwards says of the decision to specify them. “I really enjoyed experimenting with the different LED modes to get them as close as possible to old-school blinders.”
The CLUSTER B2 FC is a two-lite, full-color audience blinder combining RGBA and warm white LEDs in individually controllable pods, with 16-bit dimming and adjustable PWM frequencies for flicker-free camera operation. For Edwards, the dimming behavior in particular set the fixture apart from the conventional blinders it was reproducing. “The dimming curve on the LEDs is incredible, you could easily mistake them for traditional blinders,” he notes, pointing to a recurring moment in the show where the fixtures pulse in time with the music as a highlight of the design.
A different kind of show to light
Edwards describes the production as a deliberate departure from a conventional, beat-driven lighting approach. “It’s a very different kind of show, so I really enjoyed the challenge of doing something a bit out of the ordinary, lighting it in a more ethereal way rather than a straightforward 4/4 approach,” he says. The tour is scheduled to continue later this year with dates in the US and South America.
“It’s exactly this kind of use case that shows what the CLUSTER Series is capable of beyond the festival stage it’s best known for,” says Michael Staffopoulos, Global Business Development Manager at ROXX. “A touring designer pushing the B2 FC into a completely different creative context, and getting reliable results night after night, is the best validation a fixture can get.”
Luxillag, ROXX’s distributor for Belgium, supplied the fixtures to L&L Stage Service for the tour. “Luke's project exemplifies why ROXX products are raising industry standards. The team behind it combines creative vision with meticulous execution—transforming original concepts into products that genuinely enable artists and creative professionals to do their best work,” says Gianfranco Galli, Owner & Managing Director at Luxillag. “It’s exactly the kind of touring use case we like to support as ROXX’s distributor in Belgium.”
Project Information
Production: Maro – “So Much Has Changed” European Tour
Lighting Design: Luke Edwards, Bear Bright Studios
Lighting Director: Guillem Font
MGMT: Matilde Secca & Manel Secca
Tour Manager: Biel Ferré
Distributor: Luxillag, Belgium
Rental: L&L Stage Service, Belgium
Fixtures: ROXX CLUSTER B2 FC
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