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Elation Cuepix Panels for Mad Cool Festival

Mad Cool Festival is a new rock and pop music festival in Spain that debuted June 16-18 at the Caja Magica tennis grounds in Madrid, with a line-up that included Neil Young, The Who and The Prodigy, and a three-day attendance that topped 100,000.

Madrid-based PRG Spain was responsible for the audiovisual production for the festival’s three main stages and incorporated Elation Professional’s Cuepix Panel LED matrices into the design for Stage Three, a 10,000-capacity stage located inside the main tennis court arena.

“The Mad Cool Festival has been one of our biggest productions this summer with 98 staff from PRG Spain, one full day of set-up and another of lighting, video and sound rehearsals prior to the three days of concerts,” says PRG’s Francisco ‘Pako’ Palazon, head of production and lighting design for the three main stages. “At Mad Cool we made use of 11 Cuepix Panels as audience blinders at Stage Three.”

Head of lighting for Stage Three was Gonzalo Plecel, who created the lighting looks and worked as lighting control operator for some of the bands playing there. He comments, “The Cuepix Panel units were positioned individually alongside the front truss-line above the stage. The different lighting designers that worked here with their bands used them primarily as blinders and also to output programmed sequences and chases with different colors according to their programmed lighting scenes for each song.”

Douglas Valecillos, lighting designer and on-tour programmer and operator for the British electronic duo Monarchy, as well as the Spanish band Leon Benavente, made use of the Cuepix Panels on two consecutive nights while operating his own lighting programming for the two bands.

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