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Bandit Produces Greenest Bonnaroo Yet
MANCHESTER, TN – The 2011 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN, was the Greenest one yet – with LED products from Bandit Lites lessening the power load.
Production Guru Hadden Hipsley of Lambda Productions once again called on Bandit Lites to serve as prime lighting contractor for the three-day arts and music festival. Bandit’s Dizzy Gosnell worked with Hadden, Leslie Radigan, Joel Carmichael, Steve Drymalski, AC Entertainment, Superfly Productions and Coran Capshaws Red Light Management to provide the artists with their illumination needs.
The second stage was almost entirely green this year, with a plethora of LED gear on hand. The base wash came from the GRN 6 Lamp Bars, each containing six GRNLite PARs. Each PAR is the same intensity as a normal 1000 watt PAR but with no heat produced and little power consumed. The moving wash light was the GRN Moving Wash fixture, again with no heat and little power consumption. Eight GRN 8 Lights lit the audience, also keeping in the eco-friendly vein. A handful of VL 3000 Washes and MAC 2000 Spots rounded out the look and provided imagery. Two Road Hog Full Boar consoles controlled the entire event. The system ran off such little power an entire generator was removed from the show in planning stages as the power demand was lessened.
The main stage was a unified design that met the core needs of most acts on the stage. In addition to MAC IIIs, MAC 2000 Washes, VL 3000 Washes and Atomic Strobes, there were 60 GRN Batten fixtures providing a massive stage wash. Lil Wayne LD Dan Boland and PM Curtis Battles worked with Bandit to bring in Pixelines, Atomic Strobes and MAC 2000 Beams for their portion of the show. The same team of Boland and Battles also steered the Eminem show and supplemented with more Pixielines, more GRN Battens, VL 3000 Washes, Atomic Strobes and 8-Lights. The Strokes supplemented with additional MAC IIIs and additional GRN Battens. GrandMAs were the console of choice.
Above and beyond the GRNLite gear onsite, three large Bandit touring clients were on the show, each bringing and setting up their own GRN system. The biggest was Widespread Panic with LD Paul Hoffman. Brought in special for the show were Bandit 36 Lamp Pods custom fitted with 20M Clay Paky LED Curtain and Bandit 5×5 Blasters. Several Syncrolite Arena Lites were flown. The base system was composed of curved vertical trusses of GRNLite PARs, GLP Impressions, MAC 2000 Beams and VL 3000 Spots.
The reunited Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young LD Keith Wissmar at the helm carried an old school, all GRN system that fit the band to a T. Wissmar had four 16-foot crank up towers, each with eight GRNLite PARs. The backdrop was illuminated with 24 GRN Washes, while there were a number of GRN Battens providing cross stage floor light. The Wissmar Plastic bejeweled lamp hung over Neil’s organ, and four MAC 2000 Profiles did some imaging. A custom backdrop resplendent with the Springfield tractor hung in the rear. Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay brought back the ‘60s full tilt.
Lastly, Robert Plant and The Band of Joy carried their own GRN system, designed by Chris Lisle. When you combined all of the different green LED products on site at Bonnaroo, 2011 was the Greenest show yet.
