51ST STATE FESTIVAL
51ST STATE FESTIVAL Light Design Ltd delivers seven stages of creative festival production for the fifth edition of 51st State Festival, taking place in Trent Country Park on 3 August 2019.
Following a series of meetings, which initially started at the Festival Awards 2018, Senior Project Manager, Terry Lewsey and the rest of the Light Design Ltd team set about working across the seven stages of designs and specifications for the annual dance music festival event, with the plan to showcase higher levels of production across all stages. The stages were filled with some of the world’s best DJs and artists, some that can only be described as house music royalty, so the designs and look and feel of the production needed to match this impressive line-up. All stages of the festival site and technical production management were overseen by Lewsey. The Project Manager’s first task was to set about working a main stage design that raised the bar on previous productions.
Light Design’s Milos MR2K 12m x 10m stage was available for this date which with its full mother grid was more than capable of taking the necessary weight for this type of dance music lead production; but we wanted to do something much more impressive. Lewsey worked with Glen Brown from Area Four Industries to fully integrate the standard Milos MR2K Roof system with the Milos LED screen ground support system they already stocked to make an all in a eight tower 10 leg structure that stretched out across the Trent Country park just over 30m wide. This super wide configuration then allowed a much wider production and video design, complete with IMAG screens and live camera feeds to show the stage production to the thousands of people throughout the park, all expertly controlled and mixed by Jason Madeira from 5th Dimension Graphics. To compliment this impressive stage structure and LED video set up, a design utilising the Doughty H frame system was decided upon as it allowed the design to have fixtures at lots of varying heights whilst maintaining lots of floor space for the busy change overs. The stage was 84
