Sector 6 was an enormous brand new stage and performance area at the 2016 Boomtown Festival in the UK. A brainchild of Dan Borg, the crazy set design was created from several tonnes of reconditioned scrap metal and much ingenuity as a living, moving, breathing industrial sculpture … inspired by iconic structural components from steel works, power stations, nuclear reactors, etc. all united in an … [Read more...]
HSL Rocks UK Arenas on Prodigy Tour
Lighting and visuals rental company HSL supplied lighting kit — over 300 fixtures - and crew to the UK arena leg of big beat hard-dance electro rockers Prodigy's "The Day is My Enemy" tour, working in close collaboration with lighting and show designer Andy Hurst, and also with live video specialists Video Illusions who supplied cameras and LED screens. As you would expect, the Prodigy visual … [Read more...]
CPL Helps Arcadia Morph into Bristol
Arcadia’s giant fire-breathing spider landed in the Queen’s Square in Bristol and unleashed the incredible new “Metamorphosis” show – compete with three mini-spiders, Lords of Lightening, an eye-popping mixed-media and visual extravaganza with high energy performer and DJ line up for two nights … enjoyed by over 20,000 people. Working closely with Arcadia’s technical production manager Tim … [Read more...]
HSL Extends the Family with Video Illusions
Blackburn UK based lighting and visuals rental company HSL underlines its commitment to providing full video production and touring packages to its clients by announcing a strategic working partnership with live event video designers and specialists, Video Illusions. Based in Canterbury, Kent, Video Illusions was formed in 2006 by brothers Dave and Nick Whiteoak and has rapidly built a … [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...]
