GLP, a manufacturer of lighting fixtures for the professional lighting market, made its largest deployment of 211 “super-bright” JDC2 IP fixtures for The 1975’s headline set on the main Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival recently.
The group’s long-standing production designer Tobias Rylander and his team deployed the fixtures to convert lighting into striations of video, in order to bathe fans in “rich colour imagery” at the end of June.
Rylander said: “We more or less framed the whole stage with JDC2 and impression X5 Bars – along each side, top and bottom, upstage/downstage, on the floor, stage edge and flown. X5 Bars were also used on the downstage edge for footlights around the famous treadmill track, as well as around the video floor thrust.”
Rylander said that compressing the various visual shapes and forms into the Pyramid’s geometric shape was challenging for his team.
He added: “The Pyramid stage is not as big as people think. Our shows and architectural alleys have traditionally been the shape of a square frame and ‘box’. I really had to twist and turn things around to fit the ‘square into a triangle’. But the shape and aesthetic lent themselves perfectly.”
