Produced and managed by a pack of legends, Let Them Eat Cake was a pleasure to work on! In our first year with the festival, we were engaged to do the stage, structure and lighting design for Stage 3. We worked back and forth with the audio supplier to come up with an integrated approach for Front Fill which resulted in the use of two Funktion1 AX88's. We had to turn them sideways to really tie it all together!
Nothing says 'New Year's Party' like a huge disco ball! For this New Year's Day techno party there was no other option but to build the biggest disco ball we could afford. Turns out by importing the custom CNC routered mirror polished ACP from China that size is 5.2m diameter.
For maximum daytime effect, we went with sunstrips (nice and wide) and asymmetrically placed strobes. A pair of mac 700's were placed out front to smash prismatic gobo effects at night, a couple small profiles and a nice big wash inside.
Inside we installed over 80 disco balls of various sizes. Seriously, what else would you expect to find inside a giant disco ball? Finished off with 2 Kmart lasers for a touch of movement and people were hard-pressed to know whether to party in front of or in the stage! And party they did. They stomped the grass to dust from 2pm to 8:30pm solid. The d-floor was popin'.
The stage was a hit with festival organisers, suppliers and the public at large. We were thrilled to be involved and will definately be back next year!