With a capacity of 3000 and packed every night for the five-day event, Club Salamander's line-up featured international DJs including Guru Josh, Bob Sinclar featuring Big Ali, DJ K-Mixx, Inkfish and many more.
The design was a collaboration between Spantax from Robe's Norwegian distributors Live Technic, Rudi Andreas Åvitsland from Stage Concept and Kristoffer Engen from Bærum Lyd, who also supplied LED lighting and the Jands Vista T4 lighting console plus all the audio and DJ kit.
As the exclusive distributor for both Robe and Jands Vista in Norway, Live Technic was asked by Stage Concept to assist in setting up and programming Club Salamander.
The main dancefloor area was under an 11 x 13m ground support structure with a grid and several straight pieces of trussing hanging from it at various heights. These were used to rig six Robe DigitalSpot 7000 DTs, six Robe ColorWash 2500E ATs and four ColorSpot 700E ATs.
In addition to the straight truss pieces, there was a 5m diameter circular truss suspended in the middle of the ground support, rigged with 12 ColorSpot 700E ATs along with strobes and strip light battens.
Another six ColorWash 2500E ATs, eight ColorSpot 700E ATs, three exterior colour washing fixtures and 60 LED PARs were scattered around the venue to provide mood and environmental lighting. These fixtures were used extensively to uplight the surrounding trees and mountains, creating a truly magical ambience with reflections of the beautiful natural landscape reflected in the water.
The DJ 'booth' was a 7m wide by 8m tall scaffolding structure, completely clad with Chroma-Q ColorWeb that was pixelmapped, and also backlit with another four Robe ColorWash 575E AT Zooms. The DJ area was finished off with two 50" plasma screens, fed content from a HippoCritter media server.
All the networking and system setup was undertaken by Spantax from Live Technic, with the DigitalSpots and media servers run via ArtNet directly from the console. The initial setup, layout and DigitalSpot programming was also completed by Spantax.
(Jim Evans)
