Lighting Observation #5
1.) Monday Feb. 14th 2011, 8:15 P.M. Puglia’s City Cafe, Garden City.
2.) A tacky disco band’s attempt at stage lighting.
3.) After always wanting to check this place out, I instantly regretted the reservation I made after seeing that I was 20 years younger than the next youngest person in the restaurant, and maybe one of 5 that spoke no Italian. However, the horrendous disco band had some great lighting effects… that they decided to throw together seemingly without anybody’s advice. Reds, greens, blues, purples. Spinning dots, disco ball effects, flashing with no particular rhythm. The visual overload made me uncomfortable to the point where it was not amusing. It was painful. It was exactly how I would light a bad disco band onstage to communicate that they were bad and played disco. An accidental lesson in bad lighting.