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Fineline provides lighting for Somersault festival

Bristol based technical solutions company Fineline provided lighting for four main music performance areas at the 2015 Somersault festival. It was the second year that Fineline has been involved as a production supplier, following their introduction to the event last year via Andy Cotton of TAO Productions. This year, the scope of their work was lighting the Main Stage, The Communion Stage, the Forrest Party non-stop dance experience and the Bandstand.

The Main Stage was 15 metres wide and housed in a tensile structure with no room to build a ground support system, so a grid had to be constructed between a triangular structure upstage and a big steel arch at the front. Fineline created a V-shaped spreader truss at the back and sub-hung another large trussing V-shape from that, coming forward and secured to the front arch. Front, mid and rear cross-stage trusses were then rigged from this grid.

The production lighting rig was designed by Fineline’s Stu England, and based around the requirements of the various headliners. The moving lights included 12 x Robe 600E Spots, 12 x LEDWash 600s and 12 Pointes, which provided all the main washes, specials and effects, together with base lighting from eight 4-lamp PAR bars, ACLs, 4 and 8-lites, strobes and key lighting via ETC Source Fours.

The ‘house’ lighting desk was an Avolites Sapphire Touch, all the dimming was Avo and the data and power distribution was a mix of Avo and ChamSys, looked after by programmer/operator Tim Williams, rigger/crew chief Ruben Pinkney and tech Chris Randall. Fineline also provided the two 12 metre PA towers - their own design - to facilitate flying the sound system.

On the Communion Stage James Box and Sam Kenyon, James Harrington and Rob Sangwell created a visual picture focusing on the oak framed marquee structure. Truss use was minimal, instead lights were rigged directly off the structure. Over 300 metres of festoon lighting was rigged in a fanned out pattern from the stage to the back of the arena. The lighting fixtures here composed eight Robe 600E Spots and eight Chauvet R2 Wash, together with assorted PARs and various LED uplighters & PARs to highlight the structure.

Forest Party united an underground rave environment with some dance sounds staged in a natural forest clearing and organically lit with a miscellany of kit spread around four PA towers and two 20 ft high lighting towers. Lights included more Chauvet R2 Beams and 12 x IP rated LED floods complete with a 2 metre mirror ball rigged in the trees, together with two fog machines and fans for strategic atmospheric engineering.

The Bandstand was an 8 metre octagonal raised stage, decorated with Pea-lites in the roof canopy and on the supports and LED PARs concealed in the roof. Fineline also environmentally lit the spoken word and debating tents, the bars and a long table feast tent, utilising a selection of LED PARs and battens, together with more festoon and LED uplighters.

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