Event lighting design and hire
Lighting that suits the occasion: a subtle wash for a dinner, a programmed show for a festival stage, uplighting and festoon across a whole site.
Every performance and every room can be improved by the right lighting, and spoiled by the wrong kind. We design the rig around what the event needs to look like, plan it in advance, and where it helps we pre-visualise the show so you can see the look before the night.
Stage and show lighting
Our stock is built around efficient, high-output LED fixtures: Chauvet Maverick MK2 washes, Ovation F-915FC LED fresnels, Rogue outdoor beams, Spectra pars, battens and floods, Elumen8 Hex pars and Tour Batten sunstrips. For theatre and precision work we add ETC Source Four profiles with gobos, Selecon fresnels and LDR followspots. Control is on ChamSys MQ70 and Zero 88 FLX consoles, with timecode where a show needs to lock to music or fireworks.
Architectural and ambient lighting
Outside the stage we supply festoon in runs from 7.5m to 100m on dimmers, battery uplighters, high-power tree uplighting, IP-rated outdoor floods and tower lights for site safety. It is often the ambient lighting, not the stage, that makes a private event or a corporate dinner feel finished.
Working within the venue
LED rigs draw a fraction of the power of conventional lighting. That lets us light listed buildings and museums from their existing floor sockets, and run a full stage rig alongside the PA on a limited supply without a generator.
Lighting in practice
Timecoded lighting for Downend Fireworks
A fully programmed lighting show, synchronised to the music and fireworks by timecode, for Bristol's biggest annual firework display.
Aerospace Bristol's 5th anniversary
Lighting for an evening of VIP drinks and dining to mark five years of Aerospace Bristol and reveal the new Bristol Fighter exhibition, run entirely from the museum's floor sockets.
Shakespeare at The Mount Without, Bristol
Litedeck platforms and high-output colour-mixing LED lighting for a sold-out Shakespeare production by Misplaced Theatre, run by the company themselves on our MQ70 desk.
Festival-style tipi wedding
A Litedeck stage inside the tipi, pixel-mapped washes and sunstrips for the band, 200m of festoon on dimmers and tree uplighting across the site, plus the power to run it all.
Shield Group corporate festival at Bath Racecourse
Full sound, lighting and power distribution for a company summer festival, with the entire setup redeployed overnight from the previous evening's show 100m down the racecourse.
Sound, lighting and effects for a 2,000-capacity boxing night
A truss-mounted PA over the ring, a full lighting rig with moving lights and haze, and CO2 jets on every corner, designed for 2,000 spectators watching from 360 degrees.
News and guides
Stage lighting investments for 2019
New Elumen8 Tour Batten TW LED sunstrips and LDR Canto 1200 MK2 followspots join the hire stock.
New Elumen8 Alu Hex Par 64 LED stage lighting
Twelve six-colour LED pars join the stock: brighter than a 650W halogen par, with amber, white and UV mixing, and a first outing uplighting a Bristol church.
Theatre lighting and sound hire
What we supply for theatre and performing arts productions: followspots, LED and tungsten stage lighting, effects and control, plus radio microphones, digital mixing, loudspeakers and processing.
Other capabilities
Discuss lighting for your event
Tell us what you are planning and we will come back with a clear recommendation and a quote. Site visits across Bristol and the Cotswolds are free.
- Call 0117 214 1470
- Email info@loudhire.co.uk
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- Warehouse Hacket Lane, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 3TY
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