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Nottingham Splendour Festival 2025

Client: DHP

Solution: Lighting & Rigging

Location: Nottingham

The Brief

Splendour 2025 at Wollaton Hall

Splendour returned to the grounds of Wollaton Hall and Deer Park on 19 and 20 July 2025, Nottingham’s signature summer weekender welcoming tens of thousands of music fans. Across the park, the line up featured headline sets from Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Travis and Jake Bugg alongside Clean Bandit, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Natasha Bedingfield, Echo and the Bunnymen and more.

On supported the Main Stage for the 15th year, continuing a long standing partnership that has seen hundreds of artists perform at Splendour to crowds of 25,000 plus each year. Our brief was to deliver a flexible, rider friendly lighting system that looked exceptional and met the needs for each artist, their LD, and all technical requirements.

Objectives

  • Create an awesome audience experience with a dynamic, high output lighting package across daylight and after dark sets

  • Provide fast, reliable changeovers for visiting productions

  • Ensure full rider compatibility and easy cloning for guest showfiles

  • Maintain clean sightlines for broadcast and IMAG while maximising impact on the hill

  • Build a robust rig engineered for safety, speed and unpredictable weather

What we did

Tour ready lighting system:

Installed a comprehensive rig built with Chauvet, Robe and Ayrton fixtures for punchy beams, wide washes and crisp key light, balanced for both stage eye candy and camera requirements.

Rock solid rigging:

Prolyte trussing with Lodestar motors for all flown trusses.  All rigged safely within the safety tollerances of the stage structure.

GrandMA3 control:

A Centralised show control on grandMA3 with a prebuilt house showfile, universes, presets and colour calibrations to speed up visiting LD programming and cloning.

Artist Support:

Worked closely with artist teams to meet technical specs, integrate ground packages, deliver accurate patching and facilitate swift line checks and changeovers.

Expert team on site:

Our engineers, riggers, lighting designers and Production Manager handled design, install and show running end to end, coordinating with stage management, broadcast and event organisers to deliver on schedule and within budget.

On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | Production team rigging
On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | Splendour Festival lighting rig
On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | Splendour stage
On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | Lighting programming
On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | GrandMA3
On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | Splendour stage
On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | GrandMA 3 lighting console
On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | Splendour stage from FOH
On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | Splendour crowd
On Event Production Company | Live, Hybrid and Virtual Event Production | Rigging

What our clients say about working with us

 

“From initial discussions to final set-up, your creativity, expertise, professionalism, kindness and general helpfulness was inspiring. Words cannot describe how much we loved the event and working with the team at On. If we could do it all again, we would in a heartbeat”

Dan Janes

Employee relations

“Thank you for all your hard work and support with our events. They were a smash hit with the ExCo, HR team and our audience – flawless execution as per usual!“

Alexandra Pierce

Group Head of Organisational Development and Culture

Award-Winning Financial Services Provider

“Outstanding service and delivery. The team here have appreciated your entire teams’ professionalism throughout the project, your commitment to safety and the complete way in which you carried out the project.
Many thanks.”

Chris Barrow

Toyota

“ISFM was a great success – thank you and your team for always being professional and always being able to navigate the difficulties that arise.”

Jess

Head of B2B

Cirkle PR

“Once again an amazing job. I am certain that no other team of people could have made this project happen. The commitment, enthusiasm, attention to detail and team spirit make you a truly stand-out business…We’re looking forward to the next one”

Louiza Vicary

Head of Events

Global Connections

Yet again On did an incredible job with what was a logistically challenging project. The determination and “whatever it takes” attitude makes On our absolute Go-To-Production-Guys…..Stand out professionals

Siobhan Ryan

Senior Producer

“You came up with ideas, listened to what we wanted and brought this all to life to create an event that will never be forgotten.”

Paul Godfrey

Head of Operations

“On’s experience shows through in the service they provide, making it easy for our team to focus on the rest of the event. This exhibition was our main event of the year; On 100% delivered across the board making show that we will never be forgotten.”

Rachel Wyatt

Managing Director

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