This year’s Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles proved to be
another triumph for GLP.

The ceremony, which is produced by NARAS & AEG Ehrlich Ventures LLC, recognizes
the best recordings, compositions and artists, and took place within a lighting
design undertaken by locally-based Full Flood Inc, a collective of award-winning
LD’s. TV lighting designers were Robert Dickinson and Noah Mitz.

Inventory was supplied by PRG’s Los Angeles office and included vast quantities of
GLP’s new generation fixtures including X4 atoms and X4 Bar 20’s. These were used
in performances by both Bruno Mars and Beyonce.

Full Flood also specified 20 pieces of impression X1 into custom “beacon’ housings
designed by lighting director Mike Berger for the performance by A Tribe Called
Quest. “By using the X1’s inside a domed housing we created a much brighter and
more versatile fixture while still referencing the police beacon look desired by the
creative team,’ says Dickinson.

Beyonce delivered a stunning nine-minute performance celebrating her latest
pregnancy. Her LD Cory FitzGerald worked directly with the Full Flood camp and the
Grammys’ production team, both in order to coordinate the offsite pre-build, and
integrate it within the show rig onsite.

Set on floor carts in two rows, multiples of X4 Bar 20’s created the main “wall of
light’ without being seen, he confirmed. “This formed a scenic element of smoke
and light as a backdrop for [Beyonce’s] performance, as well as accentuating the
musicality, with the complexity that the fixture offers.’

In summary he said, “The X4 Bars were essential to the look. They are incredibly
versatile and easy to work with. In fact, they are becoming a work-horse in the
industry and can really do so many jobs at once.’

However, it was the use of the X4 atoms with Bruno Mars that really caught the
eye. The set was backed and constructed with more than 340 pieces of the fixture,
which now houses an upgraded 30W light source.

This saw a rare collaboration between three of America’s finest, with Roy Bennett
designing the set, Cory FitzGerald the lighting, and Brian Jenkins masterminding the
programming.

Having first seen and tested the X4 atoms at last October’s LDI Show, this had
provided the first opportunity to fire them up in anger. “The three of us are fans of
the GLP products and we’ve been waiting to implement the atoms on the right
project,’ he said. “Of course we couldn’t just do 30… 340-plus sounded much
better!’

Full Flood’s lighting team also included lighting directors Andy O’Reilly
(Programmer), Patrick Boozer (Programmer), Ryan Tanker (Programmer), Michael
Berger and Madigan Stehly. Assistant Lighting Directors were Charles Dabezies and
Will Gossett. The gaffer was Robby Lindsay, and PRG was represented by Jason
Trowbridge (Lead Tech), and Tony Ward, Travis Snyder and Jeff Javier (Account
Leads), among others.

Hosted by James Corden, the show was broadcast live through the CBS network and
is estimated to have been seen by a total of 26.05 million viewers.