UK - Shangri-La - a festival within a festival that is entirely dedicated to creativity, arts, and underground and independent culture - has been a special area at Glastonbury for many years now. It is where the NowHere stage is located and where fans of electronic music feel like they’re in a club. For the lighting set-up, designer James R. Dickson from Elixir Lighting opted to use the Cameo OTOS H5 and ZENIT W600 SMD.
“The NowHere stage is very different from the festival’s other stages. Everything here revolves around electronic music and creativity,” acknowledges James R. Dickson, who – together with his company Elixir Lighting - is responsible for the lighting design, operation, and provision of lighting technology on the medium-sized stage. “Our job was to create a nightclub in the middle of a green field. To do this, we put the lights on the stage as well as on the sides of the viewing area to enhance the lively nature of the dancing crowd.”
For Dickson, the Cameo OTOS H5 IP65 beam-spot-wash hybrid moving head plays a key role in the lighting design on the NowHere stage. “The OTOS H5 is an extremely flexible and powerful effect light. We use it for beam washes, gobos, and whenever momentum and movement are needed. It also has an IP65 rating for unproblematic use outside.”
Dickson arranged the OTOS H5 in pairs on the sides and interspersed each one with a ZENIT® W600 SMD outdoor SMD-LED wash light, which is used for strobes and wash effects. From here, both Cameo models radiate light onto the audience and the square array of 225 tube lights (15 × 15) above the audience’s heads that mimics a club ceiling.
“The ZENIT W600 SMD fixtures are the perfect lights for audience lighting,” states Dickson, who puts all 504 SMD LEDs to full use - from colour macros to pixel-based control. “The ZENIT W600 SMD really comes to life as soon as the sun sets.”
