UK - Serious Stages’ Stellar Stage featured headliners The Prodigy, Sonny Fodera and Skrillex at Leeds and Reading Festivals’ new Chevron Stage earlier this month.
Designed and manufactured in 2024 at Serious Stages Wells HQ, the new 20m wide roof, with 8m screen and PA goalposts, was flanked by 12 6m high scaff towers supporting giant chevron LEDs, supplied by Colour Sound Experiment. Completing a distinctive arena design, a striking LED net curtain roof was suspended over the audience in front of the stage, creating a spectacular light show, supplied by Special Structures Lab and 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 side-of-stage. With the tower roof giving a 14.5m stage height, it was more intimate than the 25m TZ Main Stages with their distinctive branding and curved video screens supplied to Reading and Leeds festivals for headliners Blink 182, Fred Again and Liam Gallagher.
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 FOH 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.
Serious Stages operations manager, Abbey Thomas, said: “I’m really proud of the fabulous work of our crews, supporting the Festival Republic production teams across both sites. It’s a major undertaking to simultaneously install two festivals, 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.”
