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Fineline supports BBC 6 Music Festival

This year the BBC’s 6 Music Festival landed in Bristol, with lighting for two stages at nightspot Motion - one of the main venues - supplied by locally based rental company Fineline to specification and design by the event’s LD Tim Routledge.

Motion hosted two stages for the three days of live performances - headlined (in Motion) by Primal Scream, Suede and Foals, with action from the Main Stage broadcast live on 6 Music across the weekend, and highlights available to watch via the BBC’s Red Button and BBC iPlayer. Motion’s second room, the Skate Park, featured Yeasayer, Field Music, Beirut and The Invisible.

In keeping with the BBC’s desire to utilize local rental companies, Fineline was contacted by Tim Routledge to quote on the job, and once confirmed, he designed lighting for Motion’s Main Stage based on their stock. It’s the third year that Routledge has designed lighting for the event. Fineline is also the preferred lighting and visuals supplier for Motion, so their regular crew are familiar with the venue.

A bespoke 30 ft wide by 16 ft deep ground support system was installed in the Main room. Due to the roof weight loading limitations, this was anchored to the ground via its back legs with the front points picked up by motors rigged directly to the industrial crane - dating back to its days as an active marble warehouse - that runs lengthways down the building. The front truss was also flown directly off the crane.

The moving lights were all Robe, with 20 x Pointes, 18 x LEDBeam 100s and 10 x LEDWash 600s, joined by 6 x Atomic strobes, 18 x Miltec LED PARs, 10 x Showtec Active Sunstrips, 18 x ETC Source Fours with assorted lenses, 6 x 1.2 K fresnels and 16 x 4 lite Moles for audience illumination. Of these, eight of the Pointes, all the LED PARs, and the Sunstrips were on the floor.

The LED PARs were used to highlight assorted foliage set pieces decorating the stage - one of  the event’s regular visual components. The Sunstrips were used as footlight strips along the front of the stage to introduce key lighting for the low angle camera shots.

To recreate the 6 Music Festival’s signature tungsten look, 12 x 50 metre runs of festoon were strung, canopy-style, above the audience, fitted with a total of 1680 15 W clear golf-ball festoon lamps. Along with all the stage lighting, these were run from two GrandMA2 light consoles programmed and operated by Routledge’s design associate, Tom Young.

Tim Williams and Will Dale from Fineline looked after all the tech’ing, with James Harrington working as rigger. Lighting in the Skate Park area - a similar size to the Main room - was designed by Stuart England, and the rig was spread over a front truss and four 8 ft high vertical truss towers onstage. Four 6-lamp bars of PARs provided the key lighting and 12 x 2-lite Moles on the front truss were used for blasting the audience.

The moving lights comprised 12 x Chauvet Rogue R2 Beams and 12 x R2 Washes, combined with 14 x Miltec LED battens and four Atomics. An Avolites Arena for control (with Quartz backup) was programmed and run by Fineline's James Box, with James Harrington looking after dimmers.

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