Adlib at TRNSMT 2024: Technical Production Overview

Summer 2024 brought another bustling, successful festival season for Adlib, one of which included the return of TRNSMT. A three-day music festival held at Glasgow Green across the 12th, 13th, and 14th of July, it attracted all the best artists – Liam Gallagher, Gerry Cinnamon, and Calvin Harris to name a few. Adlib set out to deliver a vibrant, smoothly operated festival for these artists and the 120,000+ people who came to support their favourite musicians.

Adlib provided full technical production, spanning across all the main technical disciplines – Audio, Lighting, and Video, as well as supplying a production rigger.

Visual Display Systems

Alongside the range of lights, Adlib facilitated a presentation of stunning visuals by implementing a 120 sqm ROE Visual V8T upstage video wall, flanked by 160 sqm of Unilumin UPADIIIH5 IMAGs. These video walls projected towards Glasgow Green, ensuring everyone in the large crowd had a great view of the action.

The camera package included three Panasonic UC4000s, including one with a field lens. Operating the UC4000s were Camera Operators Adrian Moore, Stu Hurst, and Greg Vickers, positioned front of house and in the pit, with an operator occasionally on stage (operating handheld).

To complete the video system, Adlib brought a Ross Carbonite Vision Mixer, giving the ability to combine multiple visual sources into one output. Having a vision mixer allowed the operator to showcase alternate camera angles from the differently placed UC4000 cameras and display and switch between any video players or graphics the artists brought for their sets. The Ross Carbonite Vision Mixer was the perfect choice; with its renowned dependability and advanced capabilities, it was able to sustain the workload required.