Now in it's fourth year and set in the beautiful Berkshire countryside near Aldermaston, the boutique 'electronic music' mix of Glade offers a laid back funky vibe with "a strong aversion to all things corporate/mainstream and a great love of everything alternative, underground and interesting".
Lighting for the Glade (main) stage and the tented Vapour stage was supplied by west London based Colour Sound Experiment, who have serviced the Glade Festival's main venue since the inaugural event in 2004.
Colour Sound's Jasper Johns designed the Glade Stage rig based on a flexible, generic design, that could be used by all artists. The lighting was fitted to the roof shape of the Glade's new semi-open main stage tent.
Johns placed six BB units on the floor, two positioned stage left and stage right with the other two at the back, to give intense low level blasts and washes of light. "They are really smooth and incredibly bright" he comments. "Very impressive for an LED fixture". He kept the programming simple and straightforward, and the BB's along with the rest of the lighting rig, were run off an Avolites Pearl Expert.
(Jim Evans)
