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The Best Parties organised without a fuss.


College and University Balls organised and produced to the highest standards.

Large Country house lit for the arrival of guests and lets face it to show of to the neighbours!


Enter in Style.

Walkways and red carpets lit for the entrance of guests.

Even boring white marquees look fantastic when lit.

LED dance floors can make even the most boring school hall a party venue.

Patterned gobo's projected onto the roof of a marquee.

Event Lighting and Special Effects

Capability Events are experts at lighting events and parties. Using the latest technology and the best of the established lighting fixtures we can paint your event to your design and look or design something from scratch. We have extensive experience and the people to take your ideas and transform them into a visual extravaganza. Take a look at all our pictures of recent events on this page. All these pictures feature our designs and equipment. It is important to understand that other suppliers often use pictures which are not from their own events.

Outside Lighting

Using waterproof fixtures and power distribution we can light up any building or feature to paint it to your corporate colours or for your sponsor. We often project logos to promote companies or raise brand awareness at events. You can see from our pictures that we are expert at lighting large country houses. We can do this from a distance or up light from the base depending on the guests view point or the effect required. Where needed we plan cable runs and power distribution to maximise safety and minimise costs. We have also moved into LED lighting to provide fantastic colour changing capability as well as a drastic reduction in the power needed and heat produced. We liaise with county house owners to produce lighting designs that reflect the grandeur of the building but also protect the heritage of the structure.

Inside Lighting

There are plenty of companies splashed across the internet who profess to light your event. However you should look for those that have the experience and lighting show designers to make the kit that they will hire you work to it's maximum impact. Too often a company has all the gear and no idea. This oft repeated phrase is very apt when talking about some lighting companies. You should also be careful of companies who will hire you the lights and equipment but who don't have the designers. It's like buying a box of paints and then hiring them out. That does not make you and artist, just a painter and decorator! Capability Events have lighting show designers and production staff who's first passion is in making each event look the best. We light buildings, structures and marquees turning them into party venues or launch venues depending on what the client requires.

Special Effects

We put together special effects from fireworks and real flame effects to snow machines and waterfalls. Often the major work in special effects is in the planning and deciding what can be done within the budget of the client. We are expert in running with ideas and producing effects to wow and entertain even the most jaded guests.

A packed dance floor on New years Eve 2006. 700 guests ate a 3 course silver service meal and danced the night away to a band and disco. Midnight fireworks and glitter cannons ensured that no one missed the coming of the new year.

Glitter is fired into the air to celebrate the climax of the party.

Real flame cannons at the entrance to a large ball in a Big top marquee.

Black and White gloss dance floor and bar await the arrival of guests.

The three pictures here show the different effects that can be achieved with lighting a building using City Colour up lighters. These allow the front of the building to change colour throughout the night.

At this student ball we put in a BBQ to run all night for free for the guests and lit the surrounding chapel and college buildings with up lighters to create a different mood for the guests who see these buildings every day.

Large Country house lit for the arrival of guests and lets face it to show off to the neighbours! We also put in real flame torches to pick out the garden features.

3000 people cheer to the arrival of the main band of the night. Two of our large flame cannons fire to the left and right of the stage lighting up the facade of the Court. The band are almost obscured by the smoke machine and crowd blinders. This was probably the most exciting moment of the night. We we're lucky with the weather as both the stage and dance floor we're open to the stars.

The inside of the Old Engine Shed in Bristol. This is a very drab building during the day but when properly lit as it is here it is transformed. We used plenty of Macs for this as well as remote haze machines to create the depth of field in some of the gobo effects.

Different event but the same venue as the picture above this one. Both ends of the building were picked out in blue.

Another example of a good gobo projection at the Hollyoaks Birthday Party. The event took the award for this years most packed bash. We think someone got carried away with the invitations. Most of Chester turned up. Including 20 dwarves dressed as oompa loompas!

The projection was fitted into a Mac 500 and moved around the floor and walls. To be honest nobody really noticed as it was so rammed and everyone was weirdly obsessed with the oompa loompas. It was a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Party.

A good example of how different colours can change the mood of the party. Here the colour scheme was all whites and sky blue washes. The Star Cloth and Mac in the roof really make this industrial building look fantastic.

These two large, very white, slab sided marquees are transformed with the use of large oil wheel projectors. This was a very simple but very effective use of a small number of lights to really make the marquees look different. Guests approached the party via a long drive and commented that they could see the marquees for over a mile away heightening the sense of a great party to come.

Dancers on a LED floor. This is very difficult to photograph as one photo can never show the full effect of the changing colours.

Our favourite ride at this year. Tethered hot air balloon rides. A full sized balloon rises to about 50ft giving rides to guests and lighting up the entire area. Here all the light on the house and garden comes from the balloon flame. We also use just the balloon burner without the canvas on top as a massive flame thrower. Very effective when used at outdoor events.

The Morgan logo projected onto the side of their new building. This is a good example of a basic gobo projection. Companies branding can be projected and moved about venues to catch the guests eye.

Big Balls held in a Big Top. A real party atmosphere.

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