Serious Stages staged headliners The Prodigy, Sonny Fodera and Skrillex at Leeds and Reading Festivals’ new Chevron Stage.
Designed and manufactured in 2024 at Serious Stages Wells HQ, the new 20m wide roof, with 8m screen and PA goalposts, was flanked by twelve 6m high scaff towers supporting giant chevron LED’s, supplied by Colour Sound Experiment. Completing a distinctive arena design a LED net curtain roof was suspended over the audience in front of the stage, creating a spectacular light-show, supplied by Special Structures Lab & Colour Sound Experiment.
Serious Stages supported Festival Republic’s desire to create a new look Chevron stage, with the introduction of the Stellar Stage. Its angled sides not only gave the crowd a different aesthetic but also accommodated the technical production elements houses on the side-of-stage.
Serious Stages also supplied the stages for the Festival Republic, Radio1, BBC Introducing and Aux stage areas. Serious also supplied the pedestrian bridge across the river traversing the Reading Festival site, the infrastructure for the custom LS23 stage at Leeds Festival, along with all of the Raised Viewing Platforms and speaker delay towers on both sites. The four-storey main stage front of house towers were fully branded on both sites. In addition to all of the technical production equipment they incorporated a third-floor Rockstar VIP bar and a guest viewing platform in front of the tower.
“I’m really proud of the fabulous work our crews, supporting the Festival Republic production teams across both sites,” Serious Stages Operations Manager, Abbey Thomas said. “It’s a major undertaking to simultaneously install two festivals, which by on-large mirror each other and our teams worked tirelessly in some tough weather conditions to deliver great looking stages.
“It was great to see our new Stellar stages for the first time at Leeds and Reading, as the new Chevron Stage. They’re a great addition to our festival and concert solutions for clients.”
