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Fineline supplies equipment to Boomerang Hickstead

Bristol based lighting and visual specialists Fineline supplied lighting, LED screens and rigging to Boomerang Hickstead, a new two day music event staged at the All England Jumping Course and Showground at Hickstead, West Sussex, UK. Fineline worked closely with TAO Productions and event technical production manager Andy Cotton. The stage was a 16 metre Supernova supplied by Serious from which Fineline’s crew sub-hung their trussing.

Guest lighting designer’s Stephen Pollard and Vince Foster from top-of-the-bill Simple Minds (Saturday) and Jesse J (Sunday) respectively both had touring designs which the Fineline team matched as closely as possible, a plan which involved an overnight re-rigging session. Incorporated into the general production design for the event was a ‘house’ lighting scheme designed to work for all the other acts. Fineline’s Stu England led their site crew of Tim Williams, Will Dale and Ben Desousa.

Upstage, space was needed for changeovers, so the depth of the overhead lighting had to be kept relatively expedient. The back truss therefore facilitated a drape hung off the far upstage rail. A movable video truss (on motors) was rigged below it for the video wall which could be raised and lowered to get various band backline kit through and onto the stage below. On the same truss were two movable sub-hung lighting trusses, also on motors.

On the front rail, supporting band backdrops could be accommodated. Moving downstage from this were a mid and a front truss. Lighting fixtures included 20 Robe 600E Spots, 20 x LEDWash 600s, 16 x Pointes and 18 LEDBeam 100s for the moving lights, complimented by 8 bars of 6 PARs and six strings of ACLs.

Twelve ETC profiles on the front provided key lighting and specials, four 8-lite and eight 4-lite blinders facilitated some audience illumination, together with eight Atomic strobes. House lighting control was an Avolites Sapphire Touch, dimming was also all-Avo and atmospherics and distro were included in the overall Fineline package.

The LED screen supplied was Lighthouse R7, configured in a 5 metre wide by 3 metre high upstage section, a production element that remained the same on both nights. It was used for IMAG images from three Sony PMW-500 cameras also supplied by Fineline, together with a Blackmagic Atem 1 M/E 4K Production Studio. The cameras were positioned one at FOH with a long lens, one in the pit on track-and-dolly and a hand-held onstage.

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