In just three years, Constanta, Romania’s Beach Please has become the largest urban music festival in Europe drawing hiphop, pop and electronic headliners. The 2024 show, held 10 to 14 July, featured a 82m by 26m stage with a lighting rig comprising 430 moving light fixtures. To match the level of production, Stage and Lighting Designer, Andrei Predut of APart Productions selected 36 Claypaky Skylos solutions.
Predut positioned the Skylos in groups of six placed at key points in the 3D decor. “As soon as we let the beams lose on the sky during the setup and programming time, we got instant reactions of awe,” Predut reported. “Crew from all departments started a pilgrimage to FOH so they could inquire about this never-before-seen breed of fixture. The second wave of reactions was from all the guest lighting designers – positive, to say the least! We got reports from people who spotted the beams from distances of over 35km away.”
Predut added: “It was a privilege to be the first lighting designer in Romania to have access to such remarkable gear. Skylos was everything I expected it to be and more: sharp beams, vibrant colours and extremely powerful. It definitely was the right tool for the job as it got instant and powerful reactions and has remained an anchor in all our subsequent conversations about lighting design for festivals.”
Arena Events provided the Skylos fixtures from Motion Gear in Germany. Bogdan Gradisteanu of Marbo in Bucarest is the Romanian distributor of Claypaky lighting.
