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London · Lighting Design & Live Events

Lloyd
Trevarthen

I want to be a lighting designer. Seven events across two living rooms so far, on a 17-fixture rig I own, design and run. Before that, school theatre and an underground club night in Coventry. And nearly seven years building software, which paid for the kit.

See the rig Let me help you do something cool!
Available for lighting, sound and production work from 1 October 2026
London-based · full UK licence (B + BE) and own car · happy with nights, weekends, out-of-town calls and touring
Lloyd at a festival
Lloyd DJing at Destino, Ibiza
Lloyd at a festival under the lighting rig
Lloyd dressed up at a festival, disco ball overhead
Lloyd dancing under green stage lights, arms raised
Lloyd with friends at a festival stage
Lloyd with a group of friends at a festival
01 — Lighting & live events

Home Rave is my own event series. Seven events since 2024, across two living rooms, on a rig that packs into a car.

I'm looking for venue, crew and production work in London or on the road, including entry-level.

Home
Rave

LONDON · SEVEN EVENTS SINCE 2024 · MY RIG, MY DESIGN

Bringing the fun of the rave into the comfort of our living room — and showing off what you can do when you really commit to an experience.

No rigging points, no installed power, and a full setup and strike every time. Everything runs wireless and on batteries, so the whole rig fits in a car. I busk it live on a Wolfmix. I also DJ, and I care about good sound.

Watch Home Rave 7.0 → SoundCloud →
WHAT IT INVOLVES
Lighting design Rigging on stands & bars DMX patching & addressing Live operation Setup & strike Sound system setup DJing & Ableton production
THE RIG
17
FIXTURES
100%
WIRELESS DMX
1
UNIVERSE
4× moving-head beam 2× moving-head wash 2× moving LED bar 1× strobe / blinder 4× battery uplighter 4× battery pixel tube hazer laser

Run off a Wolfmix W1 MK2 with a Korg nanoKONTROL2 strapped to the top. No signal cable anywhere in the rig, and half of it runs on batteries — which is what makes it deployable somewhere with no rigging points and no distro.

WHERE I’VE DONE IT
Home Rave
London · 2024 – present · 7 events
My own house-party series, across my place and a friend’s. My rig and my design; the two of us run it on the night. Full build and strike every time.
Technotice
The Ivy House, Coventry · May 2019
A club night I founded and ran at an underground venue — lights and visuals on the house kit, plus the booking, the promo and the door. I DJ’d it too.
Monks Walk School
Approx. 2012 – 2015
Sole lighting designer and board operator across several years of staged productions and competitions, followspot included, and all AV for open days. Self-taught on a basic memory desk with no manual. Service to the School award; separately won a lighting design award at the Global Rock dance festival.
Creamfields
Volunteer crew, several years
Headphone Disco, including full end-to-end event days, and bar work via Festaff.
LEARNING NOW
grandMA3 ChamSys Avolites

Working through MA Lighting’s official grandMA3 Essentials course on onPC, and learning ChamSys alongside it.

AVOLITES ACADEMY — CERTIFIED
Wireless DMX TX/RX T-bar & clamp rigging Haze & laser Busking & BPM sync Can lift 25kg Licence B + BE, own car
HOME RAVE ARCHIVE
Home Rave 7.0 – NYE 2025
Home Rave 7.0 – NYE 2025
 Techno rave in my flat – Home Rave 6.0
Techno rave in my flat – Home Rave 6.0 (DJ Set)
 Home Rave 6.0 – UKG/Bassline/DnB
Home Rave 6.0 – UKG/Bassline/DnB
 Home Rave 6.0 – Sunset House/Disco
Home Rave 6.0 – Sunset House/Disco DJ set
 Home Rave 5.0
Home Rave 5.0 (Stratford Flatford)
 Home Rave 4.0 – The Laser and Lights Dance
Home Rave 4.0 – The Laser and Lights Dance
 Home Rave 3.0
Home Rave 3.0
 Home Rave 2.0
Home Rave 2.0
02 — About

I've done nearly every job around a product before leading it.

Nearly seven years at Neptune Software — I wrote the code, did the sales calls, made the training videos, ran the community, and finished as team lead of five people covering roadmapping, product strategy, internal data analytics, technical enablement and the developer community. I like building things that are technically complex but feel simple to the people using them.

Built it Sold it Taught it Led it
PRODUCT
Strategy Roadmap Technical PM AI-enabled product
DEV EXPERIENCE
DevRel Documentation eLearning
TECHNICAL
Node.js Azure REST / OData
CREATIVE
Content creation Visual comms
Career timeline at Neptune Software, 2020 to 2026: Graduate, GTM Specialist, Senior Engineer, Product Consultant, then PM Team Lead with a team of five
EDUCATION Coventry University — BSc Computer Science First Class 2015 – 2019
03 — Background

The day job that supported it.

Nearly seven years at Neptune Software: graduate trainee, go-to-market, engineer, consultant, then product team lead. It isn't the career I'm chasing now, but it's where I learned to plan a build, hit a date, brief the people around me, and take responsibility when something breaks.

MOST RECENT ROLE · 2026
Strategy & team

Led a five-person team responsible for roadmapping, product strategy, internal data analytics, technical enablement and the developer community — feeding roadmap decisions and working across most of the company to do it.

ENABLEMENT · PUBLIC WRITING
Academy Founder & Community Advocate
50+ public posts
Launches Release notes Deep dives eLearning

Founded Neptune Academy — the eLearning and certification channel, which my team went on to run — while writing and running the Neptune developer community: the 50+ launches, release notes and deep dives above.

FEATURED PRODUCT · I'M PROUD OF THIS ONE
Naia Build

Years of implementing AI systems inside Neptune, now shipped as a customer-facing product: an AI, prompt-driven app builder — describe what you need in natural language, get a working Neptune app. I helped bring it to market: go-to-market strategy, launch content and the developer-facing story. It's the same "describe it, AI builds it" pattern behind today's AI music tools — I've shipped that category, just for a different kind of creator.

See the announcement →
INTERNAL ANALYTICS · MY LAST BIG BUILD
Account analytics platform

I specified and shipped an internal analytics product that pulled ten-plus separate data sources into one role-based view of a customer account, then turned it into personalised dashboards and alerts. Adopted across the business and shaped by continuous feedback from the people using it.

04 — Contact

Need someone on lights? I'm in.

Looking for lighting, stage and production work — in and around London, or touring. Venues, crewing agencies, rental houses, festivals and one-off events. Board op and programming, lighting tech, followspot, prep and warehouse, or general crew on a get-in. If you book freelance crew, I'd like to be in the pool.

Available from 1 October 2026 — including weekdays. Nights, weekends and out-of-town calls all fine.
LinkedIn →
LOCATION
London, UK
LINKEDIN
/in/lloydtrevarthen
SOUNDCLOUD
/h_eadspace
GITHUB
/lloyd-neptune
EMAIL
trevarthen.lloyd@gmail.com
Lighting Console Chase, Strobe & RAVE MODE include rapid flashing effects
CH.01 Colour
CH.02 Effects
Intensity50%
Haze25%
Movement70%
Phase100%
Gobo0%
Prism0%
Chase0%
Tempo120 BPM
CH.03 Lasers
Intensity0%
Colour (select multiple)
Strobe
Beams / source
Pattern