Out and About Adlib
Goodison Park Everton, UK
5 Lighting the ground
Premier League Football Club Everton’s Goodison Park ground has been brought to life by the lighting division of Adlib (the Liverpool UK based technical solutions provider).
The venue for this project was Premier League Football Club Everton’s Goodison Park ground. The idea was from the Blues Chief Operating Officer, Denise Barrett- Baxendale who deals with Everton’s community based activities. The project focused on creating a huge visual impact for Everton supporters by lighting up the Park End stand ahead of important fixtures versus West Bromwich Albion, Oldham Athletic and Wigan Athletic. This architectural lighting scheme was designed by Pete Abraham from Adlib Lighting. It was powerful, impactful, quick and easily deployable. Abraham comments “The results are really eye-catching, and it’s great to be working closely with one of our high profile local football teams, adding a bit of a different visitor experience to the matches and events that can be enjoyed by everyone.” It followed on from a guerrilla style Adlib supported projection project which had taken place at key strategic sites around the city of Liverpool during December 2012 when for the 12 days before Christmas Everton turned the city Blue. It was difficult to find the right location for the lighting fixtures as they couldn’t be placed in the standard positions around the base of the ground as it would be swarming with people in the build up to
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games. Abraham then came up with the idea; a curtain sider truck, pre-loaded and pre-rigged with all the lighting, which could simply be driven into the correct position and powered up via a generator. To get the coverage across the whole stand he chose 30 Martin MAC 301s, 12 MAC Auras and 12 MAC Vipers, the latter being used for gobo projections, with the 301s and Aura to wash the general area. These were all rigged in meat-racks, positioned inside the trailer and anchored to the floor. Once on site and in position, the lights were fired up and pre-set focuses were tweaked, producing an eye-catching spread of colour and images across the exterior of The Park End stand, with a signature colour of Everton blue. A searchlight effect was created using another 7.5 tonne truck containing 12 Clay Paky Sharpies, parked up and pointing away from the ground. All lights were programmed and controlled locally via an Avolites Pearl Expert, which was crewed by one Adlib technician and one of their new apprentices.
Contact Adlib T: +44 (0)151 486 2214 W:
www.adlibsolutions.co.uk
www.a1lightingmagazine.com
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