Rock'n Coke took place on 16-17 July at Hezarfen Airfield. The popular festival, which has been running since 2003, attracts major international artists which this year included Limp Bizkit, Motorhead, Moby, Travis, Paolo Nutini and Skunk Anansie.
An audience of over 50,000 people attended, with the main stage capacity catering for 25,000 fans at any one time. Stageco provided its 18m by 14.5m Boogdak stage system, incorporating two PA wings with in-built video screens.
Uluc Dundar, production director at Rock'n Coke, said, "The Boogdak roof provides perfect clearance and width of performance area for the artists. The PA wings adds to the quality of the artist's performances and helps to make the festival a big event in our territory.
"We have used Stageco's Boogdak stage since 2003, and it has become an iconic part of the Rock'n Coke festival. Its structure allows us to work easily under it; behind the scenes, the roof is very useful for the incoming band production teams for safe rigging with a good weight capacity. We are really happy to work with Stageco and its professional team, starting from first reserving the dates, to the final delivery back to Stageco's warehouse."
The stage system was then de-rigged and moved via three trucks to its second Istanbul site, the Fanta Youth Festival in Santral on 30 July.
Dirk De Decker, international project manager at Stageco, oversaw the projects. He said, "Having the two festivals so close to each other meant we could keep costs down for both events. We are very conscious that it is a tight economy at the moment, so we helped the organisers make further savings by sourcing the stage deck from the local area and saving on transport costs.
"Stageco project managers ensured the local materials were integrated into the stage to the high standards we are renowned for. The configuration of the stage, with PA and video wings, was the same at both events and we had four Stageco crew working closely with a team of local staging professionals to set up and de-rig."
(Jim Evans)
