Jazz World featured a strong line-up including Amy Winehouse, Corrine Bailey Rae, the Guillemots, John Fogerty, Mr Hudson and the Library, Rodrigo y Gabriela and many more.
DPL's Darren Parker says, "It was a great honour to win the pitch to supply Jazz World. We had to design a flexible rig that would accommodate a wide variety of top quality international artists and the creative requirements of an array of visiting LDs. We chose the best equipment for the job which was Robe moving lights."
He adds that with the notoriously unpredictable nature of the Glastonbury weather, they also wanted really robust and reliable lights that would withstand the elements.
Pete Watts and Parker designed the production lighting rig that was utilised by all Jazz World artists, which Watts programmed into an Avo Diamond 4 console that was run for the three-day event by all the DPL crew - Mike Williams and Mike Pitt, Andy Higgins, Ben Shepherd and Darren Parker.
The 18 Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs were arranged across four trusses fitted to the arched shape of the roof of the 2.5 bay 18 metre wide Orbit Stage which offered 9m of headroom.
The units were used as washes as well as spots - maximising the full and very dynamic range of the zoom - and for all the traditional gobo and colour effects and shooting out over the audience.
Robe fixtures were also in action on other stages around Glastonbury's 600 acre Pilton site. Over on the West Dance stage, Colour Sound Experiment supplied 10 each of their new Robe ColorWash and Color Spot 700ATs. (LD Jasper Johns, operated by Jas Bhullar and Stuart "Woody" Wood") and on the East Dance stage were another 12 ColorSpot and ColorWash 700ATs.
Also in the Dance Village, eight ColorSpot and ColorWash 575 ATs supplied by Color Sound did their thing on the G-Stage and they had another five ColorWash 575 ATs for the Roots Stage, plus eight ColorWash and ColorSpot 575 ATs for the Glade Stage.
(Jim Evans)
