Bristol based lighting and visuals rental company, Fineline Lighting supplied lighting and rigging including ground support systems to five popular, action-packed stages at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. This included the Acoustic, Cabaret, Circus, Astrolabe Stages and HMS WOW at the world’s largest and highest profile greenfield music and entertainment festival … … [Read more...]
Colour Sound Rocks Block 9, Arcadia & The Glade at Glasto 2014!
West London based lighting and visuals rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment renewed its long term working relationship with the world famous Glastonbury festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, supplying lighting to three of the most ambitious, visually spectacular, innovative and popular area on site – Arcadia, Block 9 and The Glade. They also kitted out nine major bars around the site … [Read more...]
RG Jones’ guide to the sound of Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage
RG Jones will present an overview of the sound for the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, as part of the PLASA 2011 seminar programme, on Wednesday 14 September. The seminar is an entry level primer on festival sound, designed for students taking accredited performing arts courses or apprenticeships who want to deepen their understanding of how festival audio production works. Simon Honywill, … [Read more...]
i-Pix BB 2×2 Makes Live debut at Glasto 2010
i-Pix BB 2x2 LED fixtures made their live event debut on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2010 - the UK's favourite and highest profile contemporary music and performing arts festival. Twenty of i-Pix's latest BB 2x2 fixtures were incorporated into the general Pyramid production design by Fraggle (Andy Porter). They were rigged on 3 of the overhead trusses and used for camera candy and … [Read more...]
Firefly Solar powers ETC Source Fours at Glastonbury
ETC’s high intensity discharge Source Four PARs are among the lighting rig being used by Firefly Solar, the company behind the UK’s first fully mobile, fully reliable solar power solution for the events industry. The luminaires are being used by Firefly at festivals across Britain throughout the summer, with their first outing at the Glastonbury Festival at the end of June, where they were used to … [Read more...]
