"We had a very tight timescale," explains Martin Green from AEG, owner and operator of The O2. "We were staging this series of events as part of the very high profile opening of The 02 in what is essentially a new building. Not only that, but it was organised in a matter of weeks, so we needed a fast, quality response and a very reactive one as we came to know our new venue more."
"As a result of the merger of SEGL and SRC, the group now has a much wider range of mobile stages available. To cater for The O2, we provided an SRC SL250 stage measuring 11mx11m, along with the majority of the rest of the production requirements," says SEGL's group sales director, Jane Russen.
"This particular stage had been at another venue south of the Thames the day before and was the ideal solution. We were able to load out from the previous venue overnight, arrive at The O2 in the early hours of Monday morning and were ready to go by 10am. By 7pm on the Wednesday, everything was loaded back onto the truck and ready to move out."
(Jim Evans)
