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‘Splendour in the Grass’ lit with Robe

‘Splendour in the Grass’ is one of Australia’s premier music festivals attracting a 30,000+ crowd over the weekend around Byron Bay. Rental company Creative Productions from the Gold Coast looked after house lighting on all five main stages supplying Robe moving lights for a line-up of local and international music artists.

The house rig for the main Amphitheatre Stage featured 11 x Robe BMFL Blades and 36 x Robe BMFL Spots, with other Robe products added for floor packages, many of which were also supplied by Creative Productions.

Tame Impala’s specials package was one such example, with 12 x Robe BMFL WashBeams and 12 x MegaPointes providing the punch for a bunch of silhouetted looks created by LD Jon Derrington.

A further four Robe BMFL WashBeams were installed - complete with custom gobos - on the delay towers left and right of FOH to provide liquid oil-style projections over the band and crowd. LED Bars, strobes and lasers capped off the design that mirrored the fuzzy sounds with saturated colours and shapes.

Chameleon Touring Systems supplied the Childish Gambino floor package that featured its own stage risers and custom LED panels. Further Robe BMFLs, MegaPointes and Spikies were part of their main touring package, most of which stayed for the festival set, with Cory FitzGerald’s design being managed on the road by Sarah Landau.

Two Robe RoboSpot remote follow-spot systems were used as part of the Gambino show which featured a modified thrust stage built as part of the main stage setup (re-configured for the festival from the main tour that used five RoboSpot systems). The 72 Spikies provided dynamic looks from beneath the stage risers with their continuous pan/tilt rotation effects adding to the beam and gobo textures coming from above.

Meanwhile across the other stages, Melbourne-based MPH Australia were busy with UK hip-hop act The Streets (Mike Skinner) on the Mix-Up Stage, who used Robe MegaPointes and LEDWash 600s as a floor package of their national tour, with a design by Jon Trincas and Steve Hough of Co1ab.

At the GW McLennan Tent, Angus Stone’s other act Dope Lemon hit the stage with their all-new Robe OnePatt floor package backdrop which was custom-built by the team at MPH and due to tour beyond their Splendour set.

MPH’s managing director Matt Hansen was kept busy on the main stage too, completing the weekend with the design and operation of Matt Corby’s main stage set. The floor package consisted of Robe MegaPointe and Spiider wash fixtures.

With the last-minute cancellation of Chance the Rapper, Australian rappers Hilltop Hoods stepped up for the Sunday closing set. This meant a hasty floor package design had to be imagined by the team at Creative Productions. MegaPointes provided the base lighting and confetti and CO2 cannons sent off the 2019 event with a series of loud bangs.

After all that action onstage, everyone could grab a “cold one” at the Gold Bar chill out area, where the sea of gold mirror balls was lit with Robe Spiiders. Creative Productions also supplied site-wide lighting for everywhere else; from the backstage greenrooms to the VIP areas, information spaces such as the new Splendour Forum and the food trucks and speciality bars.

(Photos: Darren McLanders)

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