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GLS Lighting Celebrates 10 Years at the Big Chill
Southampton-based rental company GLS Lighting celebrated its 10th year with The Big Chill festival this summer, alongside its already jam-packed festival season. GLS Lighting first worked with The Big Chill when it was still a relatively small event at the Larmer Tree Gardens near Salisbury, then attracting around 3,000 festival-goers entertained by two stages and a couple of performance spaces.
At that time, GLS Lighting provided a few bars of pars and a dozen moving lights for the whole event. Both the festival and GLS have grown in the ensuing years and this year The Big Chill celebrated 15 years with a sell-out 40,000 festival-goers at their Eastnor Castle Deer Park site. Four artics worth of lighting equipment and a team of 20 full time lighting crew were required to service eight stages, various performances spaces, bars, and of course the lighting of all the trees and lakes around the site.
GLS Lighting's input to the festival has changed and the stock has increased to suit the company's growing needs, seeing a switchover in the last five years to Robe 1200/700/250 Colorspots and Colorwash fixtures to complement the ever-growing generic inventory.
Control has expanded from the industry standard Avolites Pearl Expert/Diamond4 consoles to incorporate the Chamsys MQ100/200 series. Even the outdoor contract has prompted the development of ‘friendly' ways for lighting trees, both for the trees, and the happily inebriated punters, utilising a mix of MBIs, outdoor pars and halogen fixtures.
Besides looking after the Big Chill, over the same period GLS Lighting also supplied to the infamous Bulldog Bash at their Long Marston site (requiring over 100k of PARcans on the main stage alone), as well as Morgan Motor Company's 100 years celebrations held in the Centaur, Cheltenham Racecouse - an event that in itself deployed over 100 Source 4 profiles, over 200k of PARs, and 24 Robe Colorspot 700E ATs.
"It's been a hectic summer so far, but well worth it," says GLS director Ian Turner. ‘We've had some great events, and it's been a successful team effort - congratulations to all the festivals and crew for pulling a great year out of the past few years of mud!"
In picture: lighting for the Big Chill
28th August 2009
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