Festivals & street

A festival gives you three places to intervene, and each wants something else. The entrance flow wants tall characters marking the route — Golden Trees, White Walkers, the LED tails on stilts. The stage wants an act with a beginning and an end: LED Fusion Show, Transformers V2, LED Robots Show, or the Pirate Drummers if what you need is volume rather than light. And between sets, while the crowd stands and waits, the walkabout acts do the work: Mirror Men, Disco Heads, fire jugglers, the inflatable octopus.

Outdoors, two things matter more than the costume: wind and ground. Above 40 km/h the stilts stay off — that rule is ours and it is not negotiable, and we flag it as soon as the forecast turns. On soft ground or coarse gravel we change the route, not the act. Tell us where the stage sits, where the audience comes in and what time the sun goes down; the LED costumes only start earning their keep after that.