GLASTONBURY 2017
VIDEO ILLUSIONS For the fifth consecutive year, Video Illusions supplied the Silver Hayes area with Video Production on the Sonic Stage and the Pussy Parlure. Video Illusions’ Nick Whiteoak commented: “We love the Sonic Stage first and foremost and the whole crew on Silver Hayes is such a family vibe - we all have the same pull together ethos that I’m sure most of the stages at Glastonbury have. We’ve honed the build for Sonic over the five years. Things were a lot drier this year, which made for a fantastic load-in; Jem Meluish was impeccable as ever with his distribution of site plant for the techs and power / risers.” The company provided VIL6 6mm IP65 5500 Nitts LED panels with a backdrop of 6.4m x 3.6m LED screen within the goalpost truss that cut through the stage onto the grass. Whiteoak continued: “That’s the tricky thing with the saddle span - it has basically zero weight loading per arch - so we have to drum up ways to get anything in the air. “Our VJ Tim Star used Modul8 and created a substantial amount of new content for this year’s event, also allowing for touring VJs to plug in on stage or FOH and have full control of the LED. As well as mapping the LED with the new content, we also had feeds from all the cameras to switch in and mix up what we were able to put out to the LED screens - and create more stunning live visuals / cameras.” He added: “A highlight this year was Fatboy Slim on the Satutrday night. You couldn’t fit any more people in the field for that show and there were great visuals from Bob as always. In between acts we had the live Twitter feed out to the central screen and the two IMAGs outside. These IMAGs were also showing the camera mix from Solent University, coming down to us via
HDSDI. Again we scaled and mapped it to fit the duplicated VIL6 6mm LED screens outside on the decking scaffold either end of the saddle span.” The crew, completed by Jayne Webb, Glen Gardiner, Oli Chilton, Tim Star and Jake Burchell, used Calibre LEDView730’s to scale and switch all the inputs and outputs, Blackmagic Monitors and Linsn LED Processors. Video Illusions provided the 4m x 2.5m LED screen, also VIL6 6mm, in the centre of Pussy Parlure’s stage. The crew also used a Barco Folsom Image Pro 2 HD Scaler. The stage’s VJs were Tom Harding and Sarah Penpraze. TPi www.videoillusions.net
DIGICO DiGiCo’s Mark Saunders was on site at Glastonbury, getting around to speak to the companies, sound engineers, rental companies and broadcasters making use of the brand over the weekend. He worked closely with South West Group Events across its stages, who had deployed DiGiCo S21’s with D2 Stage Racks, which were used at the monitor position and as an offline console on the BBC Introducing Stage with an S31 used as the FOH console throughout the weekend. Incoming acts that used DiGiCo consoles on the major stages included Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran and Rag‘n’Bone Man (via TPi Award winner Rob Sadler, pictured), who all carried SD7’s for FOH. Halsey’s FOH Engineer chose an SD5, as did Katy Perry’s Monitor Engineer. SD10’s were seen at Paul Carrack and Hacienda Classical’s FOH positions, as well as Liam Gallagher’s monitors. Gallagher’s crew also chose an SD9 at FOH, while Ride used an S21. The new SD12 was used across various stages by The XX (FOH and monitors), George Ezra (FOH and monitors) and at FOH by Clean Bandit on The John Peel Stage. “After the success of last year’s time at Glastonbury, is was good to come down and catch up with a lot of engineers and rental company customers again,” said Saunders. “It’s the perfect environment to get some feedback and input from the engineers already using our product, as well as speaking to potential new users.” TPi Katy Perry photo: Shirlaine Forrest www.digico.biz 68