Headliners for this second year included the Kaiser Chiefs, Paul McCartney, Bloc Party, Ray Davies, Mark Ronson and many more.
Whitehouse & Leitch chose the two Diamond 4 Visions as the most flexible control option on the table. They were commissioned to incorporate both stage/live and TV/audience lighting into their very dynamic design. The shows were run by Siyan's team of programmer/operators - Ewan McRobb, Dom Smith and Stu Farrell - all LDs in their own right - working in close consultation with all the headlining band's own LDs.
"We use Avolites for all our major shows," affirms Whitehouse, who is also using a D4 on Justin Timberlake's Future Sex/Love world tour which is currently in Australia.
The brief for the eye-catching Electric Proms lighting rig was that it should be a highly flexible design that combined and offered two very different aesthetic requirements - those involved in lighting a TV show and also a live performance.
They flew two semi-circular trusses - one measuring 20m and one of 30m - at heights of 8 and 12m around the back of the stage area. To these were attached 12 random height 'drop' trusses made from 30 cm trussing - six per curved truss.
These two trusses contained 20 SGM Giotto Spot 400 CMYs and 17 Giotto Wash 400s, and were tastily toned with 26 i-Pix Satellite LED 'bricks'. 20 4-lite Moles were rigged to the bottom of the drop trusses along with 12 2-lite Moles and 12 Vari*Lite 3000 Spots.
(Jim Evans)
