Sunday, 19 May 2013

eclectic week

Sunday afternoon acoustic gigs suit me very well after a busy week. headline at 7.15. for th rock band. beats Friday's corporate dj.

All Systems Go For Shangri- la at Glastonbury

Finally we are in production for Shangri-la at Glastonbury again- everyone is very excited about this year’s developments & can’t wait to get their teeth into it with some great architecurural light installations planned... more new as it develops, see what weve done it the past here & look to the future.


The beginning of May was flat out with the major project being the press Junket for the premier of fast & furious 6. Astral stepped into the breach to produce 7 custom structures to be deployed as camera overhangs for the shoot featuring wide shots of the London skyline for the interviews. The custom builds we individual designed to fit each balcony location on the 13th & 15th floors of the park Plaza hotel Westminster. It was not on the movie that was fast & furious on this particular occasion.

Thursday, 28 March 2013

an evening with Suggs raises funds for cancer charity

An Evening with Suggs

We would like to say a very big thank you to The Gig Company for organising "an evening of frivolity and fun with Suggs and friends", which benefited Pancreatic Cancer UK, on 14th March 2013. Thanks to the generosity of everyone who attended, income generated from the evening was just under £100,000 which is a wonderful result.
The venue (Porchester Hall in London) looked stunning and fun was had by all. After dinner, music was provided by Suggs, Jools Holland, Wilko Johnson, Glenn Tilbrook and Bo Bruce amongst others.
The evening was hosted by Phill Jupitus and a money can't buy auction and gift tree raffle completed this fabulous, unique event. Massive congratulations all-round to everyone involved!
All photos below © Pete Mariner
Bo and Suggs
Bo Bruce and Suggs
Wilko
Wilko Johnson
All on stage
Jools Holland, Wilko Johnson, Glenn Tilbrook, Phill Jupitus and Suggs

James Waudby

Slip 3
Astral were selected to light the Lord Lieutenants Ball on behalf of Kent Community Foundation. The event was held on a mezzanine floor of number 3 slip, built in 1838 this immense covered slip was Europe’s largest wide span timber structure.  The project was particularly challenging since not only did we have to light the structure we also had to distribute power to two extensive heating systems since the structure below the mezzanine was open. The entire lighting systems consumed less than 13amps.

Saturday, 16 March 2013

Astral helps launch the new Blackberry Z10

Astral supplied Coemar Panorama, cable, & control to for the blackberry launch over 8 weeks at Blackberry HQ in .slough

Friday, 15 March 2013

Astral Light Suggs Joolz Holland, Wliko Johnson & many others to raise funds for Cancer Charity

what an outstanding night at the pancreatic cancer UK fundraiser last night with an awesome line up. what a privilege & an inspiration to see Wilko Johnson joining the line up of Joolz Holland, Suggs, Chris Difford & Many others



Bo Brave steals the limelight