HSL Lights Massive Attack Tour of Europe

BLACKBURN, U.K. – Lighting and visuals specialist HSL, based here, supplied a floor package for the European leg of Massive Attack’s summer tour. LD Tim Oliver’s overall visual design included having lights in front of and behind the screens, and the rig was also designed to be easy to rig, break down and transport between festival gigs. As with previous Massive Attack shows, back-lighting played a key role in retaining a sense of visual mystery and magic.

SEOUL – Highlighting its new headquarters in Seoul’s new Digital Media City, Korean TV network broadcaster MBC is using eight impression Spot Ones from GLP to light the building’s exterior. The eight impression Spot Ones are mounted in locally sourced domes to protect them from the extreme weather conditions as they throw their high output beams over a distance of 20 to 30 meters.

KASTELLAUN, Germany – The Nature One music festival, which took place here July 31-Aug. 2, drew some 72,000 visitors with a roster of 300 international DJs and EDM acts. The event gave LD Thomas Gerdon the chance to use GLP’s new large-format impression X4 XL for the first time. Gerdon already had 64 impression X4 heads incorporated into the stage design but managed to work in 12 additional X4 XL fixtures.

ERKLENZ, Germany – Century-old monastery buildings provided a distinctive backdrop for the Electrisize Open Air Festival. LD Frank Zander used 24 Elation EVLED 256 panels to create four large LED screen columns to anchor the stage and then placed 12 EVLED 1024 LED panels in front of the DJ to present high-res graphics and logos. Further lighting was provided by eight Elation Platinum Beam 5R fixtures for bright aerial effects.

WARRINGTON, UK – Colour Sound Experiment supplied more than 550 moving lights plus hundreds of other lighting fixtures along with rigging and trussing for two stages at the 2014 Creamfields EDM festival, staged at Daresbury Estate, near Warrington. Colour Sound’s team was again led by crew chief Jon Rickets, and they all worked with creative and technical production specialists LarMac LIVE on the project.