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Stageco Five Times Winners at Wembley
While a few artists have been lucky enough to lucky to appear once or even twice at the UK’s new national stadium during the opening run of shows, international staging specialists Stageco have ‘performed’ at five huge concerts at the new Wembley.
First they supplied George Michael’s arena-dominating structure for the first ever concert at the new venue on 9 – 10 June. With just a week to remove that and install a second bespoke structure for the two Muse concerts on 16 – 17 June the Stageco team were at their most efficient. Following Muse, a third structure was put into the stadium for the Concert for Diana on 30 June, and whilst being the same structure, it went a major transformation to be ready for Live Earth on 7 July, then used again by Metallica on 8 July.
According to Dirk de Decker, Stageco’s project manager, the original idea was to install the same structure for all five events. However, Muse changed their plans, bringing in a specially designed tour set featuring portals, towers and truss, while The Concert for Diana and Live Earth both used a Stageco ‘Super Roof’, but even that was reversed to accommodate the spectacular designs, to give each concert an entirely different feel.
“Originally we would have set the stage up in early June and it would have stayed up until 8 July,” says Dirk. “But instead we took down George Michael on 11 June and built Muse immediately after, on 12 June. We took that down on 18 June, then went back into Wembley on 25 June for the Diana concert which used a 33 x 22 metre Stageco Superroof, holding 55 tonnes of production equipment. The cantilever normally at the front of the stage was at the back of the structure to allow the stylistic Diana stage branding as part of set designers Peter Bingham’s set and added weather protection to accommodate the orchestra at the back of the stage. Two teams worked 24 hour shifts to enable the whole roof to be dropped and turned around and re-raised in time for Live Earth for a set designed utilising recycled materials by Ray Winkler of Studio Fisher.”
Just like the performers they serve, Stageco has demonstrated its understanding for the grand occasion at Wembley this summer with a stunning series of stages for all five shows.
Stageco also provided the stages for the Live Earth concerts at the Giants’ Stadium, New York, USA and The Arena, Hamburg, Germany.
18th July 2007
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