Getting serious

Published Monday 18 August 2008 at 17:35

Serious Stages continued its long established relationship with the World of Music Arts and Dance Festival WOMAD, supplying three main stages for the 2008 event held at Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire.

Serious supplied the main open air arena with a stage and roofing system, and indoor stages for the festival’s Siam and Big Red tents. This consisted of one of Serious’ 15.6 metre, four arch Supernova’s - the new steel framed heavy load-bearing structure launched earlier this year. The Supernova offered 16 metres of stage depth, a trim height of 11 metres and six tonnes of weight loading per arch for sound, lighting and video production. Serious also supplied all the stage decking for this, plus two 3.6 x 2.4 metre ‘cowshed’ extensions stage left and right, to house monitors and dimmer areas.

They built 12 metre high Satellite PA towers either side of stage, a large wheelchair access platform out in the arena, and a FOH mixer riser platform.