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Stage Electrics Stage for Nelson Mandela
On 3rd February Nelson Mandela spoke to a mass rally of an estimated 20,000 people in London’s Trafalgar Square with the primary aim of helping the Make Poverty History Campaign to have the debts of developing countries cancelled. Also featuring at the Trafalgar Square event were Sir Bob Geldof and Channel 4 presenter June Sarpong, while Jamelia provided entertainment with a live set.
Stage Electrics supplied staging for the rally including a custom-designed platform to fit on the square’s main staircase and two dedicated press platforms to support a press presence of 350.
PA equipment was also supplied by Stage Electrics, taking advantage of EAW’s KF730 and SB730 wide angle dispersion to provide wide coverage throughout the square combined with a JF260 acting as centre fill for the press pit at the front of the stage. Sound was operated by Chris Coxhead from a Soundcraft Series Five console with amplification from Lab Gruppen. System Engineer was Ben Byford.
Project Manager John Radford and the team from Stage Electrics were on site from 6am on the morning of the event. Sound checks were at 10am by which time the press platforms had been erected for the assembled media to check camera angles.
“It was a very successful event. We continue to build on our experience of working within Trafalgar Square with our last activity just three weeks prior,” said John Radford, Stage Electrics project manager
9th February 2005
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