Czech Republic - Czech rental company High Lite Touring supplied 50 x Robe MegaPointe moving lights for the main Love Stage at the 2025 Beats for Love festival, currently the largest electronic dance music festival in central Europe, staged annually at Ostrava in the Czech Republic at the former Dolní Vítkovice steelworks.
This year’s event saw a diverse line-up creating some high energy in this setting, steeped in industrial atmosphere.
The Love Stage design was a tightly co-ordinated collab between the festival’s creative team and High Lite Touring, with a lighting design by Václav Olšar from High Lite Touring. Impressive décor and multiple LED screens were integrated into this visual environment, providing a spectacular centrepiece for the event.
When it came to lighting, there was some input from visiting artists, but Václav was largely left to imagine the lighting scheme himself, creating a design that would cover the vast set and work well for everyone playing across the four days. A major inspiration for the aesthetic was the theme of love and unity.
The 50 MegaPointes were rigged around the set, positioned in between the various décor elements, and were chosen for their brightness and wide range of features which enabled sharp, piercing beams to subtle prism and gobo effects to striking aerial moments.
The MegaPointes stood out clearly amidst around 450 other lights on the rig, plus all the LED screens making up this overall visual extravaganza.
“MegaPointes are an ideal balance between compact dimensions and powerful visual effects, and a perfect tool for large-format festivals like this,” commented Václav, adding that a major task for him in designing the main stage was that it needed to embrace the requirements of multiple international artists.
“There is serious pressure to ensure that we have a versatile rig that measures up to the best international standards,” noted Václav.
This 2025 line-up included some of the greats of the genre, including Axwell – well known as one third of the Swedish House Mafia – who was playing Beats for Love for the first time, and other electronic stars like king of trance Armin van Buuren and Belgian duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike also making their debut appearance at the festival.
Timmy Trumpet thrilled music fans with some spontaneous live trumpet improv and drum & bass aficionados tuned in to an incendiary set by Sub Focus, who were one of many highlights in that genre.
High Lite Touring, who are based in Ostrava, Czechia’s third city and industrial heartland, have been supplying lights to Beats for Love since 2016.
The company has a lot of Robe in its inventory, mainly MegaPointes, BMFL WashBeams, and RoboSpot systems, and this kit is constantly busy.
The Beats for Love stage construction took nine days to complete and involved nearly 100 people, with the show running handled by 44 specialists from all technical disciplines – technicians, audio engineers, lighting designers, media server operators, laser operators, audio, video, and lighting technicians, stage managers, operators for special effects and pyrotechnics, and stage crew.
It is one of a number of festivals High Lite Touring has supplied over a very busy and enjoyable summer in 2025.