(02/09/2013) Liverpool based ADLIB was delighted to supply complete visual & sound design and equipment packages to four high profile Arenas at Creamfields 2013 the UK's favourite electronic dance music festival.
Adlib again worked closely with creative and technical production specialists LarMac LIVE on the event, staged at Daresbury Estate over the August Bank Holiday Weekend.
ADLIB's Chris Neary evolved and interpreted the initial visual briefs for the massive Cream Arena, the hyperactive Skream & Benga Arena, emerging talent in the Annie Mac Presents Arena and the Hospitality area.
There is a strong local and regional affinity between Adlib and Cream, the night club that began as a cool house music experience in the heart of Liverpool in 1992 and grew into the vibrant, global brand it is today which includes staging the legendary annual Creamfields UK event.
Chris Neary designed lighting and co-ordinated visuals for all four Arenas based on the fundamentals of offering an amazing visual experience; the rigs being flexible enough to look different throughout long periods of operation and accommodating specials and the additional requirements for specific artists.
Cream Arena
This was the biggest tented space on site and the starting point for visuals was trying to make it appear bigger and wider still, extending the lighting into the auditorium to envelop the audience and further involve them in the action.
Three ground supported goal-post structures were installed and hung with video supplied by XL Video extending the sides of the stage right and left out to the edge of the tent. Neary took full advantage of these as hanging points for lighting as well, attaching Showtec Active Sunstrip fixtures on the goalposts, together with 12 x Martin MAC Aura LED wash fixtures to break up the blocks of video screen.
Onstage there was a large video wall behind the DJ booth, so Adlib rigged three trusses over the stage, and on the back two of these installed a total of 12 x Martin MAC Vipers profiles and 12 x (of their new) MAC Viper Washes. Neary wanted bright high-impact fixtures that would hold their own against the very bright LED screens. Two Atomic strobes also graced each truss.
On the front truss were six MAC Auras for front wash onstage and three 8-lite Moles for audience illumination.
Above the audience two trusses were rigged from the tent king poles running across the width of the space, each fitted with a total of 16 x MAC Vipers, 16 x Viper Washes and 8 x Atomic strobes.
The operators in Cream were Adlib's Andy Rowe and Nathan Harrison using a Road Hog Full Boar and an Avolites Pearl Expert to offer any visiting LD a choice, both consoles running expansion wings.
Annie Mac Presents
Adlib provided both lighting and LED screens in this arena for Creamfields' first lady who's talented and rising star line up included AlunaGeorge, Julio Bashmore, Eats Everything, Monki and Toddla T Sound.
The main challenge was accommodating a large visiting lighting and visuals package based around a substantial circular truss that came in overnight on Saturday for Sunday night headliners, Sub Focus.
With this in mind, Neary's house' rig was designed to leave the space as clear as possible and make the process as seamless as was practical.
The design was based on stage left and right off stage trusses each hung with a set of Pixled F-30 panels together with six MAC 301s, complete with four MAC 700 Profiles ground rigged a side.
At the back was another truss rigged off the ground support with five vertical columns of F-30 panels dropping down to about 6 ft off the deck. A row of MAC 700 washes were rigged along the top of the truss and underneath and the deck-to-screen gap was filled with a row of Mac 700 profiles sat on flightcases. In between the six gaps in the screens were two MAC 301s on 2ft drop bars so at a quick glance, the back wall could resemble a solid wall of visual material and pixels which brought massive versatility to the party.
Above the front edge of the stage was a truss with 6 x MAC 700 Washes and over the audience widthways across the room above the FOH position was another truss with another 10 x MAC 700 Washes for crowd lighting and fun!
The operators were Neil Holloway and Neil Smith, using an Avolites Pearl Expert for the lights and a Catalyst media server running all the video content, which was specially prepared by Adlib's media team for the weekend.
Skream & Benga
The original visual concept for this space involved shards of video' for the environment so Neary created an apex-down triangular LED centrepiece onstage from 17 panels of Pixled F-30, which was flanked by two trusses making V shapes either side, loaded up with Clay Paky Sharpies, MAC Auras and 2-lites Moles to delineate the architecture.
Beneath each truss on the floor were another six pieces of F-30 staggered in a 3-2-1 format from the stage edge into the centre.
Above the main triangles each side were another four MAC Auras and four Sharpies.
They used a ground support system in here and onto the legs of this rigged MAC Auras, Sharpies and Atomics, and augmented the top edges of this structure with 2-lites and Atomics the idea being to get a flexible and full-on face of lights in all directions.
They used a ground support system in here and onto the legs of this rigged MAC Auras, Sharpies and Atomics, and augmented the top edges of this structure with 2-lites and Atomics the idea being to get a flexible and full-on face of lights in all directions.
The flown front truss featured 12 x MAC700 Profiles and Washes plus 2 x Atomics, and the same fixture count was repeated on the audience truss which, as in Annie Mac Presents, traversed the space flown above the FOH position.
To widen the stage aperture, six MAC 700 Profiles were sat
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(02/09/2013) Liverpool based ADLIB was delighted to supply complete visual & sound design and equipment packages to four high profile Arenas at Creamfields 2013 the UK's favourite electronic dance music festival.
