Following a successful event at last year’s festival, XL Video, working with Technical Producer, Nick Diacre, has once again produced a significant achievement in 180˚ live mapping for Shangri-La’s Heaven Stage at the Glastonbury festival 2015. The Heaven structure was built organically by Andrew Cross and his team, onsite at the festival, only a few days before the event, and the … [Read more...]
CPL Returns to Glasto for Arcadia Spectacular and Hell
West Midlands based Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) returned to Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts as part of the incredible and unique Arcadia Spectacular, for which the west Midlands based company provided Panasonic projection onto the legs of the giant spider. The massive construction lurked ominously on what is now a designated area of the site set aside for the … [Read more...]
Fineline Celebrates 25 Years
Clocking up a landmark quarter of a century of business in the industry, lighting, rigging and visuals rental company Fineline celebrates its 25th glorious year in 2015, with a schedule that is already action packed with a wide range of work from music tours and festivals to corporate events. The Bristol based operation was founded by Darren Wring in 1990 as a lighting rental and touring … [Read more...]
CPL Projects for Arcadia at Glastonbury 2014
Arcadia took their magic mix of metal, mechanical engineering and madness to the 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts (‘Glasto’ to those who know and love it!) with the return of the giant spider – around 12 metres tall and 40 metres wide - and an even bigger and better show than previous years! More than 50,000 party people enjoyed Arcadia’s superlative music line up each … [Read more...]
XL Video For Shangri La at Glastonbury
XL Video supplied creative video projection and control to the Shangri La area at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts at Pilton in Somerset, UK, helping to give this popular immersive, interactive fictional world a real edge. XL’s Nick Diacre project managed two specialist video installations working for technical producers PF Events and their Technical Production … [Read more...]
