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Festivals — Northern Rivers

Festival lighting across the Northern Rivers

Stage lighting, site festoon, lasers and immersive installations for Northern Rivers festivals — from Byron Bay to Bangalow, Mullumbimby, Lismore and the Yelgun festival belt.

Home of festivals

This region taught us festival production

The Northern Rivers is Australia's festival heartland — North Byron Parklands at Yelgun alone has hosted the country's biggest camping festivals — and it's where our crew earned its stripes, with credits including Splendour in the Grass and Beach Club Byron Bay. That means we know this region's specific production realities: greenfield sites with zero infrastructure, summer downpours that turn paddocks to soup, long generator runs, and communities that expect events to tread lightly. We light festivals of every scale here, from boutique gatherings outside Bangalow and Mullumbimby to community events in Lismore and Ballina, supplying stage rigs, site lighting and operators as one package. The full offering is on our festival lighting page.
Festival stage glowing at night on a Northern Rivers greenfield site

Greenfield builds

Lighting a paddock into a festival site

Most Northern Rivers festivals start as a paddock, and the lighting plan is what turns it into a place. We design the whole site: warm festoon over bars, food rows and chill-out zones, tower lighting on the main routes so crowds move safely after dark, UV and colour on art installations, and stage rigs with moving heads and full DMX operation for the music itself. Feature moments — lasers over the crowd, projection on a silo or scaffold wall — are what the region's audiences have come to expect, and we build them in from the start rather than bolting them on. Every fixture is IP-rated, tested and tagged, and rigged to keep running when the weather rolls in off the ranges, because up here it will.
Laser beams sweeping over a festival crowd in the Northern Rivers

Regional logistics

A crew that's already on the road here

The Northern Rivers is part of our standard service run — the same corridor that covers our Byron Bay wedding and event work — so festival sites from Brunswick Heads to Nimbin aren't a special trip, they're the neighbourhood. We scout greenfield sites before quoting, coordinate with your staging, power and site crews on the build schedule, and stay across the bump-in so lighting lands at the right moment. Compliance paperwork comes standard: test-and-tag certificates, insurance and rigging plans formatted for council and safety-officer sign-off. For multi-day events we run daily pre-show checks and overnight lockdown. Send your site, dates and capacity through the contact page — quotes back within 24 hours, and we'll flag anything in your plan that regional experience says will bite.
Colour-washed festival stage during a night set in the Northern Rivers

Frequently asked

Yes — our crew's credits include Splendour in the Grass and Beach Club Byron Bay, alongside a decade of AV and events work across the region. This is home ground.

That's the standard Northern Rivers brief. We plan generator loads, cable runs and rigging from scratch, scout the site before quoting, and design the whole plan around your site map.

The rig keeps running. Everything is IP-rated, tested and tagged, and rigged for wet weather, with bump-in scheduled around the radar and wet-weather procedures for show days.

The whole region — Bangalow, Mullumbimby, Brunswick Heads, Lismore, Ballina, Nimbin and the Yelgun corridor all sit inside our regular Northern Rivers run, with travel built into one firm quote.

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