Fat sounds

Published Monday 6 October 2008 at 12:20

HSL supplied all lighting equipment and crew to Loudsound Productions for Fatboy Slim’s Beach Boutique 4 show, which recently attracted some 20,000 fans to Brighton’s beach.

Lighting designer Steven Abbiss worked closely with director Tim Fleming to create some impressive visuals.

The lighting design was based on maximising the feeling of available space and adding to the perception of stage width with four drop truss wings out-rigged each side of the front stage support towers.

Starting at the top, these measured 15, 12, 10 and eight ft respectively, and were equidistantly spaced at five ft intervals. The only on-stage trusses were a sub hung 45ft front truss above Fatboy’s DJ console, and two vertical ladder beams each side, upstage of the large Lighthouse L7 screen supplied by XL Video.

Abbiss mixed the show from side stage, with all lights running off an Avolites Diamond 4, which also triggered the Hippotizer.

Beach Boutique 4 was project managed for HSL by Mike Oates, working with the Loudsound team, which included Lee Charteris (event and Fatboy production manager) and John Gray (stage manager).