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GLP fixtures dominate main rig at Manchester’s Mayfield Depot

For the 14th year in succession, DBN Audile have installed the technical infrastructure for the Sacha Lord/Sam Kandel promoted Warehouse Project pop-up, through its various venues in Manchester.

Originally working under separate guises, before DBN Lighting merged with Audile, the technology specialists recently put in infrastructure at the Project’s latest home, the 10,000 capacity Mayfield Depot, which sits adjacent to Manchester’s Piccadilly Station; this includes large quantities of GLP X4 Bar 20 battens and JDC1 hybrid strobes in the main room for the four-month season which runs until January 2020.

Starting life at the old Boddington’s Brewery, the event now sees dance acts performing under a lighting rig designed by DBN Audile director Pete Robinson. “When I asked what the load limit was, since we had designed 2-tonne rigging brackets, I was told not to worry as directly overhead there were two platforms which would take 100-tonne trains each, as the building had originally been a freight depot for Mayfield Station,” he says.

“We did a one-off event in this space last year as part of the Manchester International Festival and lighting designer Stuart Bailes suggested we use X4 Bars. When we came back here we decided to use them again, and this time have upped the quantity to 52 X4 Bar 20s.” At the same time they acquired 32 JDC1s, which have also been pressed into service.

For the Warehouse Project, all the X4 Bar 20s are mounted on vertical trusses. “The main space has pillars throughout the venue and each supports a pair of Bars, hung one above the other. The remaining eight are positioned at the same height at the back of the stage behind the semi-transparent LED screen,” says Robinson.

“The Bars are run in 89-channel single pixel high resolution mode and so frequently get mapped. Most weekends we have visiting LDs coming with the artists and finding different creative ways of using them,” he adds. As each of the trusses occupies half a DMX universe (or two pillars to a single universe) the JDC1s are run in the normal 23-channel mode.

In addition to designing the rig Pete Robinson also project managed, supported by production technician Dale Wilson and house LX operator Colm Whaley.

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