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Fineline lights Snowboxx 2016

Fineline supplied lighting for two venues - Main Stage and Club XX - at the six day 2016 Snowboxx Festival staged in the French Alpine ski resort of Avoriaz. The event is a week of activities culminating in three days of music in a 4000 capacity boutique festival for lovers of snow sports and dance music. It was the first year that Fineline has been involved as a technical supplier. Stu England designed the rigs for both areas.

The Main Stage was outdoors on the slopes and comprised a 12 metre roof system beneath which England and the Fineline crew sub-hung four finger trusses running upstage/downstage. Moving lights that were rigged on the fingers included 12 x Pointes, 12 x LEDWash 600s and 12 LEDBeam 100 (all Robe) plus six Martin Atomic strobes, 12 x 2-lite Moles and a string (of  eight) ACLs in the air and another on the floor for a bit of retro beam technology. There were also four 4-way bars of PARs for general stage washes.

The two sets of ACLs were focussed to replicate a light-beam version of the double-X Snowboxx branding, so this could be incorporated into the lighting. Upstage was a truss on two motors that could be flown in and out to accommodate artist backdrops. All lights were controlled via an Avolites Arena console, and only one band brought their own LD, so Fineline’s Will Dale operated for most of the rest, assisted by James Harrington on dimmers/general technical.

The idea in Club XX was to freshen up the resort’s own venue which had a basic house lighting rig, some of which was utilised. Four of the five metres of stage width was usable, so they added six Chauvet Rogue R2 Beams, six R2 washes, 16 x Miltec LED battens, two Atomics and four 2-lite Moles, with an Avo Tiger Touch console for control.

Fineline’s package also involved the design and fabrication of a set for Club XX. A 6 metre high by 4 metre wide trussing goal post was the superstructure onto which was hung a set of inverted wooden flats cut in the shape of a mountain range with screen material in the middle. This allowed it to be lit from both front and behind giving a 3D impression created with the Miltec battens inserted into the gap between the two sets of flats. The front of the DJ booth was clad in a scenic XX logo, also cut out of a wooden flat and back-lit with Miltec LED PARs.

Looking after the club’s lighting from Fineline were Sam Kenyon and Johnny Westall. In addition to these, site wide architectural lighting strategically positioned around the site included 30 x Chauvet SlimPAR 24s which are IP rated, plus 20 x 400 W MBI floods and six source Fours used for gobo art. Fineline also lit the slopes behind the main stage with more LED PARs shooting up the piste.

There was also a small sub-venue (Igloo) which ran just for one night, for which Stu England and the team supplied four Robe Pointes, two fitted with custom gobos projecting the XX logo up the side of the mountain, plus four gas powered Flame jet machines, all run from an Avo Quartz console.

(Photos: Geoffrey Hubbel/Mickael Goncalves)

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