PILTON, UK – Over 200,000 people attended Glastonbury 2025, an impressive number indeed, but not nearly as great as the 21 million who tuned into the BBC’s coverage of the iconic festival, plus the untold millions more who engaged on social media. Tim Fawkes was very mindful of both when he ran the show he designed for The Prodigy, as the iconic rave-dance masters closed out the proceedings on Sunday evening at The Other Stage.

“Finding a good balance between the live and TV audience is always a challenge, especially at a festival like this,” said Fawkes, who has been associated with The Prodigy since 2012, first as a tech, and for the past eight years, as their designer. After all, some of the most intense looks that stir the passion of live audiences might not translate well on TV and computer screens.

Multiple features in the STRIKE V helped Fawkes achieve the desired balance at Worthy Farm. “The STRIKE V was a great choice,” he declared. “With the frost feature, it has the intensity and dispersion of a Color STRIKE M. While at the same time, with the narrow beam, you can focus that intensity in a controlled way, which looks great on camera.”

STRIKE V’s dual layers of controllable pixel mappable LED diodes also aided Fawkes at Glastonbury. “The diodes add a second gear to the show,” he explained. “I can get that background fill without all the intensity of the main cell.”

Of course, as anyone who has ever been to Glastonbury (or any other festival worth its salt), knows, the real passion of the moment boils over on the site itself. STRIKE V served Fawkes very well in this regard, as he drew on its many performance features and exceedingly bright output (up to 536 lux 5 m) to ignite the stage with rapidly changing, and fiercely searing looks, ensuring that the legendary festival’s Other Stage went out with a bang in 2025.

Flown overhead in pods, the intensely bright 180° tilting hybrid strobes, which were supplied by 4Wall Entertainment, engulfed the entire stage, as well as the audience, in blinding effects that featured plenty of ambers and reds. Taking advantage of STRIKE V’s motorized tilting capabilities, Fawkes created waves of light that moved to the get-on-your-feet music note for note. Eye candy effects created with the variable electronic frost, endowed these displays with an added dimension.

Seeing Fawkes’ show for The Prodigy on the Telly was exciting, but those lucky enough to be at The Other Stage Sunday evening were swept up in a visceral experience that they are never likely to forget. The headline in one UK music magazine summed it up perfectly: Dance Insurrectionists Close Glastonbury 2025 With One of the Most Thrilling Sets the Festival Has Ever Seen.