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SmarT Summer for Summit
Summit Steel’s SmarTmasts have been in action at a huge variety of events and festivals around the country this summer.
Highlights include Major Sir Michael Parker’s Music on Fire son et lumière spectacular at Sandhurst Military Academy, where four SmarTmast IIs were in action flanking the main stage, flying Delta Sound’s VDOSC PA system together with a pair of SmarTmast 1’s at the edges of the area. Summit also installed twelve 9-metre masts at the back of the seating tribunes for audience lighting.
Two weekends of classical shows at Leeds Castle in Kent featured two double SmarTmast IIs and four singles, used for PA rigging for various artists included Pavarotti. The same weekend, six 12m SmarTmasts were in Jersey, providing PA and lighting positions at a medieval jousting event for Delta Conference Systems; while in London, 12 single Masts were spread along a mile of The Mall for the Olympic Torch event, supplying sound delay points for Britannia Row’s PA. (The more recent two-week series at Leeds Castle, promoted by ClearChannel under the Summer Nights brand, including Pavarotti, used Star Events Group V Towers.)
Four masts were supplied to Britannia Row Productions for PA rigging points at the opening of the Princess Diana memorial fountain in Hyde Park, designed by American architect Kathryn Gustafson.
Another five Masts were at Henley Festival of Music & The Arts, a regular Summit Steel event, where they provided site-wide PA and lighting rigging points. Summit also custom fabricated some adapted trussing platforms used as dance podiums located in the River. These were approximately a three-metre cube of truss on three-metre high legs with decking on the lower frame and lighting, PA and pyro on the upper frames.
The Somerset House summer Concert Series featured two SmarTmasts, while up in Temple Newsham Park in Leeds, five masts were supplied to Leeds Council’s series of classical and operatic performances.
SmarTmasts are hugely popular because of their neat footprint, robust construction, substantial weight loading capabilities and stylish appearance. All of these elements combine to make SmarTmast the best product of its genre on the market. They are also very quick to erect, and require no heavy machinery.
The demand for SmarTmasts has been so great this summer that Summit is currently developing a taller single mast structure, designed to suspend up to 2,000 Kg of PA at heights of 16 metres.
In picture:SmarTmasts at Sandhurst (top) and SmarTmasts at Henley.
23rd July 2004
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