The festivals were Run To The Sun in Newquay, Cornwall; Field Day and As One in The Park at Victoria Park, Hackney, east London; We are FSTVL, a brand new 15,000 capacity dance music festival at Damyn's Hall Aerodrome in Upminster, Essex ... and down on the Brixton frontline at the O2 Academy, offering the best of drum 'n' bass, was Hospitality.
Over 700 moving lights were deployed by CSE across the weekend - mix of Robe, Martin, Clay Paky and GLP plus others - together with around 200 strobes and an eclectic bunch of other effects, all programmed, operated and tech'd by 50 regular Colour Sound crew.
This very much set the pace and format for the coming months, where Colour Sound will be one of the most prolific rental operations on the festival and event circuit - hopefully enjoying better weather than last year!.
Colour Sound's Haydn Cruickshank comments, "We have a huge fund of experience in working on festivals and EDM events, and our crews are extremely good at dealing with the unique conditions and often challenging environments."
He adds that they all really enjoy doing it! Although it's arduous work, meticulous preps help save time and enables the most efficient working practices on site. It's a routine that Colour Sound has down to a fine art ... without being complacent about it.
In readiness for the summer, the company has just invested £350,000 in new Robe moving lights and expanded into a third warehouse building, doubling their available space in Park Royal, North West London.
In addition to the festivals, 'specials packages' were supplied for Rita Ora and Bastille appearing at the BBC's Radio 1 Big Weekend in Derry; Sleeping With Sirens, Hot Chip and Hurts appearing at various festivals in Europe and additional floor packages for Mount Kimbie, Four Tet, Django Django and TNGHT at Field Day.
Lighting was also designed and supplied to a corporate show for Le Coq Sportif, staged at the new London flagship store, with lighting designed by Fletch.
(Jim Evans)
