The Team at Neg Earth Lights have had a very busy few months providing equipment both nationally and internationally, for festivals and large live events. Throughout this period, the team encountered several challenges, but were resilient, hardworking, and maintained high spirits!
We’d like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone at Team Neg for making everything we do possible!
Neg Earth Lights invests in 29 IVL Photon lighting fixtures from Minuit Une to add to our rental stock.
Managing Director, Dave Ridgway, viewed the IVL Photon at PLASA earlier this year. As one of the winners of the PLASA Innovation Award 2022, the IVL Photon is already a fixture in demand.
The Judges said that “the multitude of dazzling effects from this laser light source will bring digital fireworks to productions.”
Boasting 3 main outputs (mirror, frost and moving core), as well as 9 gobos, dimmer and RGB control for each of the 8 mirror tilts and an electronic shutter; the IVL Photon provides freedom in creativity.
Our team of Lighting Technicians received training at our HQ from Minuit Une shortly after PLASA, equipping them with the skills and knowledge to deliver high quality service to maintain the IVL Photon. A big thank you to the team at Minuit Une for the fantastic service and training.
You can now find the IVL Photon on our Stock at a Glance list.
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After a very long 8-year wait, audiences of over 400,000 descended on Dublin’s Croke Park in September to see country singer Garth Brooks perform.
Lighting Designer, Robert Peterson, enlisted the help of Neg Earth Lights to illuminate Garth & 400,000 fans over 5 shows.
Over 1000 lighting fixtures including 140 Chroma-Q Color One 100 X IP65 and 212 Martin MAC Aura XB LEDs created the country singer’s set. We also provided truss, power, distro, control & network, and atmospherics.
Lighting Designer: Robert Peterson
Photo Credit: 8 Ten, Inc.
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The fifth Laver Cup tennis tournament was held at The O2 arena in London over the weekend.
As 103 LITEC Exe-Rise hoists – with a combined lifting capacity of 118,000kg – supported a multi-truss system populated with over 340 lighting fixtures, eager spectators watched Team Europe take on Team World.
Lighting fixtures including Ayrton Domino, Khamsin and Wildsun S-25, Robe Forte and Spiider, and SGM Q-8 Flood Strobes illuminated the iconic black court.
Screen, Production and Lighting Design: Toby Harding
Production Manager: Ade Barnard
Local Production: Paul Southernwood
Production Rigger: James Wright
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Neg Earth are thrilled to have provided additional network and control equipment from Sundrax for the UK’s largest festival, Glastonbury. Sundrax, a company that usually operates in architectural, street & city, and stage & theatre lighting, provided nodes used on the stage output racks and as a part of the front-of-house input nodes provided by Neg at Glastonbury Festival 2022.
Ciarán Markey, Senior Network Technician at Neg, provided insight into Sundrax’s nodes and their debut performance at Glastonbury 2022.
“The Sundrax systems display a good and intuitive user experience on their web interface. It supplies a suitable range of settings but keeps in mind the efficiency and streamlined workflows needed for the industry.”
He continues, “Working directly with their technical sales and development team that supported the project on a 360° basis, we suggested a few new features and workflows to ensure our clients’ satisfaction and provided new ideas to the Sundrax development path.”
“We are excited about serving one of the most important festivals in the UK with our networking nodes,” expressed Dan Kurt, Sales Engineer at Sundrax. “Since we first started our business as an engineering team, we have always taken extra care to ensure that our products are reliable and fail-safe.”
“Rack-mounted ArtGate Pro by Sundrax has been specifically designed for touring and festivals. Two EtherCon ports provide additional switch functionality, PowerCON True1 input and thru output, and POE support” he continued. “We are proud to have worked with Neg on the Glastonbury Festival this year, and we are confident that many projects will come our way in the future.”
Overall, this was an incredible experience and we look forward to seeing Sundrax’s products used in further initiatives for the live events industry.
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets has been touring the world in 2022 with lighting, motors, network system and control consoles from Neg Earth Lights.
The band, led by legendary Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, are lit by a varied rig including Clay Paky Scenius Unico, Sharpy Wash, and B-Eye K25, Martin Aura XBs and Robe Robin Spikie LED WashBeams.
Designers Patrick Woodroffe and Paul ‘PK’ Kell aimed to reproduce Pink Floyd’s liquid light shows from the 1960s. Using laser projectors combined with the traditional technique of mixing oil, water, printer ink and dyes on two transparent, concaved, clockfaces the team created unique imagery and reactions each time.
The oil mixing is performed live under camera each night and projected onto the custom backdrop via Neg’s media server.
Paul Howling, Lighting Operator for the forthcoming US tour, previously led video integration and oil mixing, recently handing the reins over to Rachel Axton.
Check out Rachel’s demonstration of liquid light here.
Lighting Designer: @paul_pk_kell & @patrickwoodroffe1
Production Manager: Pat Baker
Lighting Operator: Paul Howling
Video Operator: Paul Howling & Rachel Axton
Oils: Rachel Axton
Photographer: @will_ireland_photo
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On Monday 19th September, Neg Earth Lights Limited will be closed as a mark of respect to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her family.
We have, however, ensured that we will deliver our current clients’ needs on Monday with a core operational team in support on site.
Full operation will resume, as normal, on Tuesday 20th September 2022.
We join the country and commonwealth in a day of mourning and the celebration of our Queen’s reign.
Returning to Edinburgh Castle’s Esplanade after 3 years, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo performed with the theme Voices under lighting designed by Adam Bassett.
Working closely with Technical Production Advisor, Keith Duncan, we provided over 427 lighting fixtures, 6.5km of cable, 8 distro racks, fibre network system and GrandMA3 control system.
Lighting Designer: Adam Bassett
Technical Production Advisor: Keith Duncan
Photos: The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
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It was a pleasure to supply lighting and rigging for Westlife’s 2022 Stadium Tour. Featuring the all-new Ayrton Cobra alongside Chauvet Colour M and SGM Q8 Flood strobes.
Produced by @247productions
Creative Directors @weareblackskull
Lighting Design @tim_routledge_lighting_design
Production manager @Tbyjhnsn
Lighting Programming: @polarised.reality @suluko.ltd
TV Programming: @morgantevans
Lighting Vendor @negearthlights
Special FX – @strictlyfxuk
Stage Manager: @savile
Photos: @timmsy @raykeoghmedia @andrew_takes_photos_
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It was great to see Jessie J in action on her tour of Europe this summer.
Rigged and illuminated by our equipment, the tour heavily featured fixtures such as GLP Impression FR10 Bars and SGM Q-8s.
Set & lighting design – @morgantevans of TRLD @tim_routledge_lighting_design
Lighting vendor – @negearthlights @gavinmaze
Tour Manager – @markpickard
Production manager – @jamesnecro
Lighting Techs – @_billycoates & Adam Millard
Set construction – @oxeventhouse
Set Carp – Luke Taylor
Production – @247productions
Photos/video credit: @starlitefestival @morgantevans
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