The Nokia Rock Up & Play set-up features a stage which is open to everyone who wishes to perform. Anyone can turn up as individuals or bands and play on their own or with the house band - with predictably mixed results. The stage also attracts the more 'non musical types' who enter the air guitar competition with a signed 'air guitar' as first prize, there is also a DJ for late night moshing.
Scenic elements supplied by Stage Electrics included the main bar, DJ bar, performance stage, Q & A stage and graphics walling. The company also provided download units and phone display pods.
This year, the teams worked to demanding timescales to produce a set design to be housed within a new structure. The structure is 92ft long by 60ft wide and is 24ft high at the peak and has a usable area of 5000sq.ft clear span. Branding was applied to the structure once it was on site.
Lighting supplied included 42 Source Four Pars, 36 Par 64s, 15 Pixelline battens, 12 MAC 250 Entours, six MAC 300s and five MAC 700s controlled by an Avolites Pearl 2008 and Avolites dimmers. Lighting design was by Nick Jones with Stage Electrics project managers Simon Baker and Mike Jarvis on site.
The structure and set will again be used in August, at the Reading & Leeds Festival, Stage Electrics supplying here for the third year.
(Jim Evans)
