Over 15,000 people attended Aberdeen's Hogmanay Party, at which Wet Wet Wet were the headline act. It was the only large-scale event to take place in Scotland on the 31 December 2006, with others falling foul of the Scottish weather the event.
Dorothy Anderson, Aberdeen City Council's events officer says: "This year for the first time we decided to implement an entry control system to monitor the numbers attending and to ensure public safety at the event. We were looking for a quick to assemble solution that would assist us in doing this and decided that the 'Mojo Line Up Gates' would be ideal. On the night the system worked perfectly and we had a very successful event. We will continue to use the gates at future events where a similar system is required and would have no hesitation in recommending them."
At the opposite end of the country in Brighton, Mojo Barriers UK team again battled the inclement weather to install 75 metres of aluminium Mojo Barrier for Fat Boy Slim's New Year Day Big Beach Boutique. Chris Kordeck supervised two crew, overcoming torrential rain and a unique problem, in that they had to build the system across the road allowing for the natural drainage camber, then across a pedestrian island. They managed this by building up the surface with staging decks on either side of the island to ensure the system was safe to withstand the pressures applied by the crowds.
(Chris Henry)
