Bandit Lights provided the lighting for 3 of Beachside Hangout Festival’s stages, including the main stage, taking careful consideration of supplying a variety of gear that would accommodate the wide swath of artists travelling with its own packages.
“Hangout is the official start of the festival season for us and always a blast to be involved with,” stated Client Rep and Production Director Dizzy Gosnell. “There truly is not a festival like it. The brief for the main stage was for the system to be able to work for the three headliners, The Killers, Chainsmokers and Kendrick Lamar, and of course have enough toys for bands on earlier in the day to have some punch in daylight if needed. It helped enormously that the headliners had sent out their needs weeks ahead of the design, build, and prep.”
The main stage had over 200 fixtures including Martin by Harman Atomic 3000 Strobes, VL 3500 Washes, VL 3000 Spots, Chauvet Professional Illuminarc Panel 80 LED Washes, Claypaky Sharpys, 8 Lite fixtures and 4 Lycian M2 spots with 2 MA Lighting grandMA 2 full consoles for control.
“The main stage also featured our new truss weather protection system on the 60ft front truss, which got a full evacuation level storm workout on Thursday night and there was not one damp light the next morning,” Gosnell added.
“The Surf stage was fundamentally a three-truss rig, but as the stage is called The Surf Stage and is literally ten yards away from the lapping waves of the Gulf, I thought about making those three trusses a bit wavy and outlining them with the IP Elation 6bars and WW2 Cuepix blinders to emphasize the curves during the day or night,” said Gosnell.
“We had to keep the rig high as the 40’w x 22’h rear video wall obviously couldn’t have ladders or low trusses in front of it, and this approach seemed to work well. I was really pleased with the end results; the headliner LD’s for that stage really cranked that rig hard and it looked fabulous.”
The Surf Stage featured Martin Atomic 3000 Strobes, German Light Products X4S fixtures, IP65 rated Elation Professional SixBar 1000s, Elation Professional CuePix WW2 Blinders, Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrids, Chauvet Professional Illuminarc Panels, Claypaky Sharpys, and Bandit’s exclusive GRNLite Moving Washes with 2 MA Lighting grandMA 2 full consoles for control.
Bandit Lites supplied the Beach Stage with 6, 8 foot ladder trusses and outfitted with IP65 rated Elation SixBar 1000 IP65, IP65 rated Elation SixPar 100 and Elation Paladins, with Gosnell emphasized: “This stage had the Gulf behind it and minimal wind walls for protection on the stage so all the fixtures had to be IP rated, and they worked wonderfully.”
In addition to the three stages, Bandit also supplied packages for some of the artists performing, including Logic and the Chainsmokers.
Logic’s set on Saturday was outfitted with Martin by Harman Atomic 3000 Strobes, VL 6000 Beams, Claypaky B-EYE K20 and Robe CycFX8 and the Chainsmokers took the stage Saturday night with lighting designer Josh Beard using a Bandit supplied lighting package of VL 3000 Spots, Ayrton MagicDot-R and Elation Paladins.
“Geno in the shop and Terese and Ty’s crews on each stage worked so hard on this show and really did a fantastic job,” finished Gosnell. “When all is said and done, a lamp is just a lamp, and it is the people that hang it and make it work that makes the difference.”