St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2026

Designing a 4K Touring System That Works On Site

Laneway is not a single show.

It is a moving city.

Multiple stages. Multiple artists. Independent media servers arriving daily. Tight changeovers. Minimal tolerance for disruption once the first act steps on stage.

For 2026, TDC delivered LED and camera systems across Main Stage 1, Main Stage 2, and Stage 3 – including a purpose-built LED trailer solution designed for rapid deployment and touring repeatability.

The real difference this year was the infrastructure thinking behind it.

A Proper 4K Signal Path

The entire site was built around a defined 4K workflow.

Every major feed travelled over fibre:

Stage 1 & 2 to site shed
FOH to site shed
Site shed back to stages
Site shed to FOH

With vast distances onsite, copper simply wasn’t an option.

At festival scale, signal integrity is not theoretical.

If something drops, everyone sees it.

Fibre provided:

Stable bandwidth headroom
Clean signal over distance
Reduced touring risk
Centralised distribution with built-in redundancy

This wasn’t just about resolution.

It was about control.

Touring Reality

Touring means unpredictability.

Artists arrived with disguise and Resolume servers – in some cases only minutes before going live.

There is no luxury of rebuilding signal paths in those moments.

Because we were engaged early, pixel grids and system specifications were issued well before show week. Incoming servers could land directly into a known, pre-engineered environment.

No scrambling.

No guesswork.

No compromises once the first act stepped on stage.

That preparation is what protects the show.