Pearce Hire has been working at the beer festival for over 10 years. The site, managed for Pearce Hire by Steve Kane, centred around three 75m long marquees with bars running the complete length of two, serving more than 350 different real ales, ciders and bottled beers. A third marquee featured live music from different bands each evening.
Pearce Hire supplied a synchronized pair of 200kva generators to produce enough power for the festival and distributed it to all areas of the site, including the stage lighting and PA, trade stands, the two bars, toilets and catering facilities. The length of the bars and the 75m of entertainment stage, meant that the internal wiring for the festival was complex, along with the bottled beer bar requiring 25 coolers, which also had to be connected to the system.
The PA system in the music tent consisted of 12 L-Acoustics Arcs and eight SB 218 speakers with Pearce's FOH engineer, Pete Hat, using a Midas legend 48-channel desk and Andy White behind on a Soundcraft SM 20 for monitors. Camco Vortex 6 amps drove the FOH with the stage using Lab.Gruppen amps and XTA processing.
Pearce installed lighting to the whole site including 50 emergency light units, 50 x 400W MBI floodlights, 50 halogens and 150 fluorescent fittings to illuminate the site and inside the tents. In the music marquee, lighting designer John Huson operated an Avolites Pearl desk and used Pearce Hire's new digital dimmer racks to control a selection of par cans and moving lights to create the visuals for the bands.
(Ruth Rossington)
