Other shows presented unique challenges of their own. For Heroes at the Honorable Artillery Company in East London, the Colourhouse team supplied 1200kVA of generated power, twenty-four hours a day, six days a week to 4500m2 of marquee covered event space spread across six acres. Luke Bennett of Luke Bennett Production Management was full of praise for the Colourhouse's team led by lighting designer David Amos. "Working with David and the Colourhouse team was nothing short of a dream. They listened to what we wanted to achieve and supplied entirely appropriate solutions. We had some late nights, early starts, muddy feet and quick turnarounds and the guys came up trumps every time."
For Let's Celebrate Success, a HSBC awards ceremony held at London's Guildhall, with its listed status and irreplaceable monuments, there were limitations as to where equipment could be positioned. Lighting designer Tim Ball started in the Courtyard, where the audience was welcomed by a military band. He matched HSBC's corporate red creating bright red triangles and then adding Flambeaux effects from Colourhouse's stock. Inside the hall, set designer Mike Woodage's stage occupied almost all of the available width to accommodate the 32-piece London Pops Orchestra; this didn't leave room for standard lighting stands. "Fortunately Colourhouse had access to ballet boom bases from sister company White Light Hire," Ball explained: "We were able to create three booms per side each with a VL2000 Wash, a Source Four profile and a Minuette profile." Source Four Pars and Strand Coda-4 groundrows then lit the back wall, while positions were found front-of-house for StudioSpot 250's. Two Robert Juliat Foxie followspots rounded out the rig. These projects represent a small sub-set of Colourhouse's work, which has also included events for Allied Domecq, Woolworths, BMW, Land Rover and others. To ensure Colourhouse can deal with any and all such events, Colourhouse continues to expand its stock of equipment, most recently making a significant investment in a new and comprehensive mains distribution system. As Colourhouse's Steve Bartlett notes: "This and the resources available to Colourhouse as part of The White Light Group, means that there can be few lighting production companies in the UK today better placed to provide such well resurfaced and seamless lighting solutions."
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
