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James Loudon accents Glastonbury Circus with Chauvet

For fourteen hours each day during the festival, the Glastonbury Festival Circus Big Top tent hosted thirty different acts by a colorful assortment of aerialists, acrobats and other performers. Helping lighting designer James Loudon and his crew to ensure things progressed smoothly was a flexible lighting rig supplied by Fineline Lighting that featured twelve Maverick Storm 1 Spot and an equal number of Maverick MK3 Wash fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

Loudon, who started lighting the Circus Big Top at Glastonbury twenty years ago, ran his lighting rig on a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M. “Everything was programmed, with no busking” he says. “I designed the rig and programmed the lightshow based on the routines of the various acts. Given the volume of acts we had here everything had to be done really fast. Rehearsal and performance slots were scheduled to the minute.”

“Some companies brought their own LDs and desks with them, and we were accommodative and worked with them although we did the lot this year”, continues Loudon. “I had a great team consisting of Tom Sulat, who worked with me here last time in 2019, and a newcomer, Rory Lucas who quickly adapted to the weird work conditions and ended up plotting one of the more demanding acts on a marathon all night programming session.”

Some performances inside the tent were short five-minute affairs, while others were an hour long. The tone and tenor of the different acts also varied, with some combining comedy with acrobatics, and others being more serious in natures. Drawing on the gobo rotating feature of his Maverick Storm 1 Spots, which were hung on overhead truss grids, Loudon texturized the stage during some performances with moving patterns. Changing the shape and color of these patterns allowed him to create distinctive looks for different acts.

The rig’s Maverick MK3 Wash units were adding to the ambience throughout the tent. Positioned on the stage deck and hung on truss, the RGBW fixtures were used for aerial effects and general color washing. There was a three-dimensional space inside the tent, which was also filled up with light from the MK3 Wash. It was the first time Loudon used these fixtures.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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