This included three spectacular themed areas - The Village Green, Piazza and Carnival - all of which were hugely popular and a large part of the new look event staged by AEG. The event included Main Stage concert performances by The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Jennifer Lopez and Lionel Richie over 10 days.
The North Stages featured five intimate performance spaces - The Village Hall, The Bandstand, The Barclaycard Unwind Theatre, the Sony Music Unlimited stage and the Carnival 'Float' stage, complete with a programme of cool and emerging bands which could be enjoyed by music fans in 150 - 450 capacity venues, effectively extending their entire day and musical experience in the Park.
The scenic facades of the three areas were also tastefully architecturally lit, taking on another dimension after dark. Additionally, producing 'ambient lighting' across the whole audience area was also part of the brief from AEG Live.
The tented band stage in the Village Hall featured a variety of performers and had to be lit for daylight, which included fresnels, Showtec Sunstrips and Robe LEDWash 600 moving lights, with an Avolites Pearl Expert console for control, operated by CSE's Sam Akinwale.
The architectural lighting elements here included The Old Vine and the Kings Head pubs and The Windmill Bar, where a selection of LED PARs were positioned behind the windows. The Hyde Park Saloon bar had colour changing LED tape attached around the windows.
The Barclaycard Unwind Theatre was an integral part of the Piazza area, located in a large Spiegel tent and featuring another line up of 'hotly tipped' acts.
The lighting rig included 12 Martin MAC 250 Entour and 12 Robe LEDWash 300 moving lights, chosen for their small size, 24 x LED PARs, two Atomic strobes and four 2-lites, all run from another Avo Pearl Expert operated by Jasper Johns.
The 'secret' Sony Music Unlimited stage behind the Whisky bar was lit with four GLP Spot One moving lights plus generics with another Avo Pearl for control.
The Left Bank Bar was dressed with LED tape to produce colour changing effects
The heat and the action was full on in Havana, with a host of Latino bands getting the party started on the Carnival stage, lit with eight GLP Impression zoom LED wash lights in domes, with smoke machines providing some Latin steam as the temperatures rocketed on both weekends. Along the nearby balcony a bunch of high powered Lanta 48 Aura LED PARs were scattered to enhance the Cuban Brothers' performances.
This was all programmed and run by Stuart Barr utilising yet another Avo Tiger Touch. The weather domes were happily not needed as all 10 days of events on the site basked in the glorious heat wave hitting the UK.
The Havana and Santa Clara bars received the very effective LED tape treatment - a team from Colour Sound visited the scenery workshops in Oxfordshire during the build, fitting the tape and practical lights to the various set flats as they were nearing completion. This concession was also lit with generic and LED PARs dotted around.
Above the Carnival stage and in front of the Havana Bar, several runs of Colour Sound's bespoke high powered IMS LED Festoon was slung between the palm trees.
The entrance to the VIP area was enhanced with LED uplighters, with more LED fixtures strategically placed around the AEG Hospitality Bar, while the main site Hospitality area was augmented with Martin 400 Exterior LED units.
A second VIP Guest and the main Press Area entrance was highlighted with Robe MMX Spots in weather domes
