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MDG Me8 fog generators used for Stormzy show at Wireless Festival

MDG Me8 fog generators used for Stormzy show at Wireless Festival

English grime artist Stormzy headlined the Saturday main stage at this year’s Wireless Festival in London’s Finsbury Park. Stormzy performed in a full, bespoke production of mammoth proportions in 6 acts, created by Bronski and Amber Rimell of Tawbox.

 

Lighting designer Tim Routledge specified two MDG Me8 fog generators. The biggest of MDG’s Me Series of fog generators, Me8 is capable of pumping out 800 of fog per minute. “Stormzy’s set design called for vast quantities of dense fog for a couple of numbers, which is always a challenge in an outdoor setting where environmental factors make it difficult to keep a decent level of fog for a protracted amount of time,” says Routledge.

 

Stormzy’s vision was to create a festival show that pushed the boundaries and would be talked about for years to come. Everything was to be supersized in a huge production that was unprecedented in a festival, and which ultimately involved 48 crew, 75 performers and 6.5 trucks of equipment.

 

“We had an enormous thrust stage with inbuilt lifts, 200 strobe lights, a cage with 20 performers clinging to it, and a full orchestra for the final song,” Routledge continues. “At one point a screen was flown in - which is really unusual at a festival - from behind which we wanted to produce fog to reveal the next scene. So we really needed a fog generator that could match the huge proportions of the production.”

 

Routledge sourced two Me8 generators from production supplier PRG, which arrived direct from MDG’s Canadian headquarters a couple of days before the install, and were rigged upstage right and left at stage level.

 

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MDG Me8 fog generators used for Stormzy show at Wireless FestivalMDG Me8 fog generators used for Stormzy show at Wireless Festival

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