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Usher and Shayne Ward with Litestructures
Ushering in the busy summer season, Radio 1's Big Weekend held on May 10th at Maidstone saw Litestructures commissioned to manufacture two custom rolling base units plus a static display, all featuring the American R&B star, Usher.
The bases each carried 5m tall signboards. The centrepiece, set in a plywood frame on an aluminium pylon carried the letters 'USHER', lit by LED's and fronted in perspex. The flanking arrow signboards were made in folding aluminium plate, fringed with casino-style lightbulbs. These arrows were also underlit from a perspex lightbox housing high-power strip lights. One of the arrows also carried an apex feature in the form of a laser-cut plate with surrounding neon flex. The set will also be featured on Channel 4's T4 Special Usher on Saturday 24th May.
2006 X-Factor winner Shayne Ward is not the first of impresario Louis Walsh's protégés to rig out and rehearse at Litestructures. Regular clients Production North approached them to design and construct a 40' wide x 20' x 8' high complete stage set for Shayne's latest tour, which began in Glasgow on May 12th, having spent four days in rehearsal at Litestructures Studios.
Working to a design concept by Andy MacDonald, and principally constructed from standard LiteDeck components, the stage also features a 16' x 4' ramp, mounted on leg frames, a man-lift, and is set off by 21 polished handrails.
All in all, the 2008 Summer touring season is seeing more Litestructures metalwork and staging out on the road than ever before.
In picture: Usher
16th May 2008
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