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DBN supplies Lost Village Festival

DBN supplies Lost Village Festival
DBN supplies Lost Village Festival

DBN Lighting from Manchester supplied lighting, LED screen and crew to the main stage and four other performances spaces at the 2016 Lost Village Festival, plus site-wide scenic and environmental illumination highlighting hundreds of organic artworks made with natural materials found on the site. It was the second year of this boutique festival staged by Lost Ventures with site and production management co-ordinated by Andy George, Jay Jameson and Ben Atkins. DBN’s Nick Buckley project managed for them.

 

For the Main Stage, G2 built a structure in a small meadow which featured a lighting and video production design by Nick Buckley to maximise the architecture of the roof system. The installed trussing included two V-shapes either side (stage left and right) with the middle and lower elements attached to ground support towers, and a three-quarter circle truss curving around the full over-stage area and going out above the audience. Another two DBN trusses were used to fly Audile’s PA arrays.

 

The LED elements of the set were designed to extend the stage sideways with three horizontal strips of DBN’s 12.5 mm Eastar LED. In the centre, the Lost Village logo was reproduced using 18 mm LED panels. DBN’s design also took into account some specific requests from Fatboy Slim’s production and lighting designer Abbiss.

 

The whole lighting and visuals rig stayed in for the rest of the weekend so all performers had the benefit. The moving lights comprised 20 x Clay Paky Sharpys, sixteen in the air and four on the floor; 20 x CP A.leda K10s fitted with B-Eye lenses, ten on the back wall, four on the floor and the other six over the dancefloor; six CP Alpha Spot 575s on the back wall and another six on the dancefloor truss.

 

Sixteen (of 18) Martin Atomic strobes were rigged on the back wall, with the other two on the floor, and 20 x Moles were also on the back wall, a mix of 4 and 2-lite DWEs. Four ETC Source Four profiles provided DJ booth/band key-light with two PAR 64s on the V trusses for additional keys on Fatboy Slim, while four ADB 1.2K fresnels created the basic stage wash. All the video content and control was supplied by video artists and VJ Tom Bartley, and the lighting was operated and run for the weekend by DBN’s Edwin Croft.

 

A scenic design was created for For Stage 2 (“The Cabin”) - and all the other stages - by décor specialists Evolution Exhibitions, resembling a cabin tucked away in the woods. The lighting design took advantage of the Cabin’s structural ladder beams which were utilized as hanging points. The fixtures were 12 x Clay Paky Mythos and 6 x Showtec Sunstrips, positioned around the DJ booth with six strobes filling up the open stage immediately to the left and right.

 

For control programmer/operator Steve Barnett used an Avo Tiger Touch II and a BPM app to synch chases being run through the desk to the BPM of the DJ. The low hanging trees formed a natural roof canopy over the audience area, and slung around this were several strings of class A LED lanterns, made up using intelligent IMS festoon with each bulb dressed by a round white lamp shade. The DMX colour changing bulbs were individually mapped through the lighting desk.

 

Stage Three (“The Chapel”) was another scenic piece ensconced in a clearing along one of the winding woodland pathways. This stage featured an all DJ line up and ran for Saturday and Sunday of the event, looked after for DBN by Chris “Pip” Phillips.

 

Two CP Mythos moving lights were hung above the DJ booth with another two just inside the door, surrounding the DJ, with four more Mythos on the two stage wings in weather domes, shooting down the audience area. Four Sharpy Washes were squeezed in above the DJ, with another two behind the Chapel’s two windows, also blasting out into the audience.

 

Four Atomic strobes were in these same positions, with two LED PARs as key light for the DJ, and another three Spectral LED PARs a side ratchet strapped into the trees to light the front of stage. Illuminated balloons around the stage were supplied by Made Up.

 

Chris Phillips used a Pearl Expert to control the lights. Nick Buckley ran lighting at the fourth operated stage (“Lookout”) which was heavily disguised as a forest hideaway and located in “Base Camp”. This stage was larger than last year and based around a full structure, supplied, together with all the other stages by G2, with Evolution doing the site-wide stage scenic dressing.

 

The stage structure was again utilized for lighting hanging points the four CP Alpha Beam 700s, 8 x A.leda K10s with B-Eye lenses, four Atomic strobes and half a dozen Moles for audience blinding. Twenty-four strings of fairy lights on poles formed a canopy over the audience immediately in front of stage. Nick Buckley ran the lighting from a Pearl Expert console.

 

For the “Art Work” space, Ruthie Ford from Cloud Nine Décor commissioned and oversaw the making and installation of hundreds of pieces of natural and organic art dotted around the site - hanging in the trees, attached to the bushes and hiding in the undergrowth - including mirror people and tree wrapping, all of which were lit, sometimes incidentally, by the environmental lighting for which DBN supplied around 32 x SGM P5 LED floods and 60 x Spectral LED PARs.

 

DBN also supplied a self-running lighting system for “Lost Bureaux”, a small DJ intervention underneath a huge tree en route to the Lake. Four High End classic Trackspots added to Studio Due ArchiLEDs skimming up the décor and fascias, with a collection of Squirrel Cage light-bulbs dotted around running twinkling chases around the front of a building. Site wide power was provided by SWG and sound for all areas by Audile.

 

(Photos: Louise Stickkland/Lost Village Festival/Fanatic)

 

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