#Parklife 2016 festival full#

Stage 3 had previously been in a big top before, so putting in the open and surrounding it with a strongly architectural feature was a completely different aesthetic approach. Pete explained that the lighting rig was selected and designed carefully to be visually appealing in daylight, dusk and darkness.

Pete and the team produced a video design for the front of the DJ riser which was clad in LED panels, and the lower sections of the arches were also clad with the same 9mm video product panels from Transition Video to dbnAudile’s design.Įither side of the central arch – above and behind the DJ – four production lighting trusses, were rigged and populated with 16 x Clay Paky QWO 800 wash moving lights, 12 x a.leda K10s with B-EYE lenses, 12 Atomics, 12 x Chauvet Nexus 4×4 panels, 24 x Sunstrips and 32 x Spectral Zoom LED PARs.Īnother three trusses were hung high right in the centre of the arches, loaded with 18 x IP rated SGM G-Spot moving lights which proved ideal for the erratic weather that permeated the weekend! dbnAudile rigged their lighting directly off the structural trusses. Each arch was around 48 metres in length from the stage to the furthest point and 18 metres tall at the highest points.Ī 5 metre high DJ riser was built in the middle beneath the central arch, partially covered for some weather protection, but apart from this, everything was open, showing off the stylish lines of the metalwork. The Rotunda Stage was an elegant new bespoke outdoor structure designed especially for Parklife by NoNonsense, comprising three enormous trussing arches bringing a real sculptural feel to the space. Moving lights on the house rig were all Clay Paky’s with 16 Mythos, 18 x Sharpies and 20 x a.leda K10s fitted with B-EYE lenses, joined by 20 x Martin Atomic strobes, 18 x 2-lite Moles and four ARRI 2Ks … all looked after by Edd Croft using an Avolites Arena for control with a TitanNet Processor at stage. The Chemical Brothers crew rigged during the day on Saturday behind a temporary black, while the stage was fully operational, adding another challenge for the crews.Ī total of 58 motors were part of the dbnAudile production supply for this stage – including 24 dedicated solely to The Chemical Brothers’ production – and some creative rigging that was required to accommodate everything! A banner truss and a video truss downstage of The Chemical Brothers’ kit was flown for Ice Cube’s show on the Saturday, which was then moved to the back and used as Major Lazer’s main screen as they closed the event on Sunday.

#Parklife 2016 festival full#

The second is an LED video surface … and the third contains moving lights and three pairs of colour changing strobes positioned on each of three levels – top, mid and bottom – of the tower.ĭbnAudile installed a full blacks truss at the back, and a series of blacks were used to mask the trusses for The Chemical Brothers. The first facade is a scenic speaker cabinet design trimmed with LED tape and with LED blinders hiding in the cones. Major Lazer also had a substantial LED screen that was flown at the back, while downstage their impressive 3-sided Periactoi-style towers – about 13ft high by 7ft wide made a huge visual impact. The Chemical Brothers’ production featured a large LED screen, moving robots, lasers and a mega-mix of lighting instruments on floor mounted structures. This entailed the three ‘house’ overhead trusses being sub-hung as high as possible in the Serious Stages Supernova roof.

DbnAudile’s Stephen Page designed a house lighting rig for the main stage performance space that allowed for the two headliners – The Chemical Brothers and Major Lazer – to bring their own touring rigs in underneath.