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Colour Sound supplies lighting for Barn on the Farm

Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting equipment to creative visual design specialist Mirrad for three stages at the 2016 Barn on the Farm festival, staged in the countryside of Over Farm just outside Gloucester. The seventh Barn on the Farm was headlined by Oh Wonder and Jack Garrett and this year the Main Stage was ensconced in a new cattle shelter for the first time, providing a semi-permanent structure that can be utilized for the event with the bonus of proper weather protection.

Lighting challenges presented by the structure included the low weight loading of the circular roof and the restricted roof height, which they worked around, presenting solutions to hang lighting over and around the sides of the stage.

The moving lights were 28 x ProLights Diamond 7 LED washes dotted around trussing at the back and sides and on floor stands onstage, together with 8 x Robe MMX Spots providing the hard edge fixtures. Eight Robe CycFX 8s were positioned upstage at the back, skimming up some wooden slatting which formed a backdrop, bringing a hint of 3D to the stage area.

Ten active Sunstrips were attached to the back truss pieces plus 2-lites, and a single truss section rigged to a structural pole at the front facilitated positions for the ETC Source Four key lights. An Avolites Sapphire from Mirrad ran the main stage lighting which was overseen by Jamie Thompson. He and the team also accommodated a couple of headliner guest LDs and their specials packages.

The event kicked off with ‘Intimate Friday’, opening just the smallest live space, The Wooden Barn Stage. Performers played on the mezzanine floor of the Wooden Barn for Saturday and Sunday nights, but for the opening night programme of ten bands including secret headliners Bear’s Den the stage was set up at ground level.

At the end of the night, the lighting rig - all six Chauvet Rogue R2 Spots, five 300 W fresnels and 8 Sunstrips of it - was carried upstairs and set up for the next day. Eleven cage/squirrel lights were added for the Saturday and Sunday sessions. This stage was looked after by Mirrad’s Kieran Gilmour who operated using an Avo Quartz with a Titan Mobile wing.

The Outdoor Stage, a compact space, was filled with six R2 Spots on truss towers at the back, 12 SGM XC-5 strobes, six 6-lites and 6 x LED PARs, three per side on the downstage corners for front light. Lighting was programmed and run by Mirrad’s Cat Bryan using the same Avo Quartz/Titan wing set up as Gilmour’s in the Wooden Barn. The Mirrad team was completed by Mel Cornish, and the site lighting was finished off with several hundred metres of Colour Sound’s LED festoon draped all around.

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