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Colour Sound supplies nearly 500 moving lights to Secret Garden Party

Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting to 12 major stages, 24 smaller performance areas and 8 bars at the 2015 Secret Garden Party (SGP) event staged in Abbots Ripton near Huntingdon UK. This operation involved the supply of nearly 500 moving lights, 228 Dragon LED PARs and a heterogeneity of other kit, including LED screens for the Main stage and other areas.

Colour Sound’s crew of 22 were chiefed by James Hinde and Alex Ryan. Hinde co-ordinated the get-in and set up of all the operated stages, while Ryan looked after all the other areas, and together with Stuart “Woody” Wood, oversaw the whole operation during the show days. Colour Sound regular Jon Rickets was working as Technical Production Manager directly for the festival’s producers, The Dark Horses.

Main Stage lighting was designed around the specifications and specials packages of the three headline acts - Cat Empire, Jungle and Caravan Palace. Lighting included 20 x Robe MMX Spots and 20 LEDWash 600s plus 20 x Clay Paky Sharpies, moles, and 12 x Atomic Colours, complete with an Avolites Sapphire Touch as the house desk, with Avo dimming.

An upstage LED video screen was made up from 50 square metres of Colour Sound’s BT-6 6 mm high definition product. The content and cameras were all supplied by Immersive running through an Avolites Ai server. Taking care of all the Colour Sound elements including guest LDs - and lighting acts that didn’t have their own designers - were Chris Brown and Frankie McDade.

The second ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ stage lighting included a rig of 10 x Robe Pointes, 12 x LEDWash 300s and 8 x SGM XC-5 LED strobes, a bunch of Moles and Chauvet Colorband Pix LED battens. This was run from an Avo Tiger Touch with Wing by Haydn Williams and Sarah Payne.

At the “Little Horrors” all night rave venue the crew installed a large ground support system built from Litec QX30 trussing around the stage to provide all the lighting positions for 12 x Robe Pointes, 12 x LEDWash 300s more Chauvet Colorband Pix and strobes, all controlled from a Tiger Touch Pro console. Sixteen square metres of BT-20 screen was part of the package, together with one of the company’s Green Hippo media servers. Ben Everitt and Edward Blackwell ran after the lights, with Tom Harding from AV3 tech’ing the video.

On Saturday night, a site wide UV reveal was popular - people wearing UV active paint in the central areas. This was one of the reasons they needed many Dragon LED PARs (featuring RGBAW chipsets, they can produce UV). Fifty of these units were positioned either side of the lake with more dotted around various other key positions.

Ryan’s bars and small stages were all un-operated, but most were on or in custom designed structures which made rigging lights a bit more challenging, and they all had to be regularly tended and checked throughout the show days. Lighting set-ups ranged from 16 PAR cans on stands and tank traps to 12-16 moving lights for the bigger areas.

(Photos: Danny North/Richard Johnson/Justine Trickett/Andrew Whitton/courtesy Secret Garden Party)

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