BBC 6 Music Festival 2016

Since the inaugural BBC 6 Music Festival in 2014 in Manchester, Tim Routledge Lighting Design has been creating the onstage look for the main stages, this 3rd year was no exception as we took to Bristol to design the headline stages at Motion and Colston Hall. Featuring some major names in music including Primal Scream, Suede, Foals, Underworld and many many more. Its a rea trat

The festival has a distinct creative look featuring a lot of foliage and trees mixed with industrial tungsten lamps and festoon and a full festival lighting rig. This year we turned to two local suppliers - Utopium Lighting and Fineline to take care of the two venues as well as other areas across the festival. TRLD works closely with production to make the design as site specific as possible each year whilst still retaining a certain look that tracks through each year. We also provide all the artiste liason relating to the visiting LDs and their needs and requirments alongside providing 2 programmers to look after each act.

The festival is hugely popular and this year the Telegraph newspaper suggested it could be one of the greatest festivals out there...