QER SFX Bring Confetti, Streamers, and Pyrotechnics to the Pyramid Stage

Battling against pouring rain and mud that threatened to swallow flight cases, QER SFX, which has offices in the UK and USA, is proud to have survived and serviced its biggest Glastonbury festival to date. With trends in special effects rapidly becoming a staple of festival entertainment, the QER SFX team were called upon to supply bespoke visuals for Foals, Muse, and Adele on both Friday and Saturday night.

Starting with Foals on Friday night, QER SFX provided 30kg of white confetti alongside four stadium shots of white and blue streamers for the band's finale song "Two Step, Twice." In a rare moment of clear skies, the biodegradable paper flew into the air above a perfectly arranged sunset backdrop.

Closing the evening were returning headliners Muse, who became the first act in Glastonbury history to have topped the bill on all three nights of the festival. QER SFX has worked with Muse on many of their previous tours and was confident in maintaining the band's reputation for an outstanding live performance. A dazzling combination of comets and mines were fired from the towers either side of the stage for song "Globalist," while anthem "Mercy" saw 84kg of custom "drone" shaped confetti pour into the audience. For the final touch, 12 stadium shots were wirelessly programmed to release 132kg of streamers which matched the colors of the on stage visuals, arcing over the crowd in a display of red, pink, purple, yellow, and blue.

QER SFX CEO Shaun Barnett, said: "On Saturday, our sole focus was Adele. We're currently providing an arena-wide confetti storm and bespoke rain system for her world tour, so it was essential to translate the same elegance and impact of these effects to the Pyramid Stage with an added Glastonbury twist. With 28 confetti blowers stationed around the entire audience area, we completely covered the crowd with 200kg of custom-printed confetti for 'Rolling in the Deep'."

In addition to the usual 10 handwritten quotes that fans can find at her concerts, brand new Glastonbury inspired notes were added to the confetti including "Glastonbury 4 life," and "I bloody did it!"

For their final contribution, QER SFX surprised crowds with a 25' pyro waterfall for the song "Set Fire to the Rain." Lasting for 30 seconds, the effect lit up the entire stage bringing the infamous song lyrics to life for the whole audience to see.

All of QER SFX's work is fueled by expert gas suppliers and sister company, Gassed Up. This year operations coordinator Claire Webb organized the CO2 for all of Glastonbury's headliners including 56 individual canisters for Adele's bespoke confetti launch, as well as Tame Impala's debut Pyramid set and Coldplay's big Sunday finale.

Catch a glimpse of all the behind the scenes action that went into providing Glastonbury's gas and effects in QER SFX video diary here: http://www.q-sfx.co.uk/#!Glastonbury-2016/c1814/57766e1e0cf2bcae6e45273d .

Shaun said: "Next up on the festival circuit we've got British Summer Time Hyde Park and Reading and Leeds where Mumford and Sons, Take That, and Biffy Clyro will all get the QER SFX treatment. We're looking forward to it -- and as the QER SFX team has already proven, the show will go on whatever the weather -- but let's still pray for sunshine!