Follow us on Twitter Flare was honoured to be appointed as the lighting supplier for the recent opening ceremony of Westfield’s new Stratford City site. Billed as the largest retail complex in Europe, the opening show was a similarly huge event. Boris Johnson was invited to cut the ribbon with Nicole Sherzinger performing live. It turned out to be a hugely successful event with a massive turnout and over £4 million taken in the first day of trading!
As well as the main event, Flare also designed and installed lighting in numerous areas around the site including the Media Suite and John Lewis Bridge.
Flare was asked to provide lighting design and production for the “Future Flames” event sponsored by Coca Cola. The event featured artists Dizzy Rascal and Eliza Doolittle and aimed to encourage young people to become Torch bearers for the 2012 Olympics. As the show was staged during the day under a clear roof, Flare designed a visual backdrop of light using molefays and Atomic strobes supplied PRG.
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Flare were asked to provide the lighting and video design for the Datacentres awards at the Lancaster London Hotel. The 30mm pitch screen allowed versatility between the walk in Winter theme, clean presentation state and band effects while always being tied into the lighting colours and design.
Rihanna visited Westfield London to launch her new album and turn on the Christmas lights. Following last year’s successful event, Flare was invited back to provide design, kit and crew for the launch.
With thousands attending and comprehensive media coverage, the event was a huge success.
In July 2010 Skyfest came to West London. Featuring headliners “Scouting for Girls”, this festival continued on the success of the June Skyfest in Edinburgh. Flare provided lighting and video design for the main stage over the two-day event.
Flare was asked to design the lighting for two of the largest London party venues for the 2009 Christmas season. These venues were run by Ultimate Experience (www.the-ultimate.co.uk) for 6 weeks leading up to Christmas. Under the theme of “Glam Rocks!”, Ben Cash designed the lighting for Old Billingsgate Market with production by Hawthorns. The Artillery Garden at HAC was designed by David Amos working alongside LCI Productions. The theme was “Vintage Revivial”.
Ben and David have many years experience in this field and were delighted to be involved with a highly successful party season. Both designs received praise both from clients and customers.
Flare was asked to design the lighting for the “Greatest fashion show on earth” event at Westfield, London. The show featured a contemporary catwalk show and music acts including Jessie J. The show was hosted by George Lamb and produced by Westfield events.
At the end of last year Flare Lighting provided the lighting design and realisation for the ‘Mariah Carey Switch On’ event at Westfield London.
The brief was to provide a two stage ‘glitz and glamour’ lighting solutions. The first stage was to create a spectacular entrance for Mariah on the external promenade of Westfield. The second to provide lighting design for the main stage where Mariah would present from.
The promenade lighting incorporated a number of different elements. Star Flowers, VL300 spots, VL2500 washes and Colour punches were just some of the fixtures used. Along with the effect lighting there need to be enough face light as she would be on camera at all times. This was achieved by a two high powered Robert Juliat followspots with strategic placement.
In between the two areas we had tungsten Sun Guns and ‘bashers’ to help the cameras with the otherwise very flat light from the shopping centre.
The stage area needed to have enough punch to get through the high ambient light levels in the centre. The Alpha Beam 1500 was perfect for the job. This was complimented with some floor mounted JB Lighting A7 LED heads. Flare utilised the in house fixtures of VL3000s and Mac 700s to light the Grotto and to augment the effect lighting on the stage.
The event was a huge success and created a massive buzz around the area and indeed the celebrity news.
The equipment for this job was provided by White Light. Photographs kindly provided by Toby Merritt: www.tobymerritt.co.uk
Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver organised Jamie’s Big Night Out, a fundraising event for the Fifteen Foundation, at Shoreditch Town Hall in east London. The entertaiment for the night was provided by Jamie Cullum and his band.
Flare were asked by Imagine Believe Productions to design and realise the Lighting elements for this Gala Dinner which compromised of entrance, reception hallways and main dining space.
The exterior of the building was lit in the ‘fifteen pink’ which was echoed through the Hall ways to the Reception. The Reception room’s architectural features were highlighted very descrete but punchy Colour Blocks. The ceiling was treated with a collection of 70 degree ETC Source Fours.
The main Dining room was held in the main auditorium of the Town Hall and was to have Jamie Cullum’s full band performing two sets on the stage. Flare used VL 2k spots and Mac 600 washes to not only provide the band lighting but to dress the room for dinner too. There was also a collection of Source Four 50 Deg profile to dapple the room and of course the obligatory pins spot to highlight each table centre.
The beautiful ceiling of the hall was lit from the balcony with both the VL2k spots and some coloured 400w MBI floods.
As backing to the band an array of retro tungsten fittings were used including modified 5k Mole Richardson fresnels.
The event was a huge success and the organisation ended up raising over £200,000.00.
Equipment for this event was supplied by Essential Lighting.