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Above: The NFL Kick Off with Train’s Patrick Monahan and Ellie Goulding. Below: Nocturnal Wonderland and EDC Orlando.
transit schedule would have caused a ripple effect, reaching far across the San Francisco bay area. Stageco US was pleased to be part of the team that brought to the stage such world famous acts as San Francisco’s own rockers Train and UK chart topper Ellie Goulding. “It was our pleasure to have the opportunity to work in the historic Market Street area, by the waterfront, with the good people of the city of San Francisco,” said Stageco US project manager Jon Hawkins. “Our congratulations go out to the NFL and P.E.D.G. for their hard work in realising this event.” DANCING DUO Our US office was also busy in September and November with two of the big jewels in Insomniac’s dance festival crown. First up was Nocturnal Wonderland which celebrated its 20th anniversary with another incredible production over three days at San Manuel Amphitheatre in San Bernardino, California.
A job that was virtually all based around scaffolding structures, it required eight trailers of gear and in the absence of US crew – who were all out on other assignments – an eight-person crew headed by Andreas Deubach fulfilled all requirements. Meanwhile, in November, Farley Gross led a team of 11 at Tinker Field in Orlando where they built the touring version of the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) 2015 Crystal Village stage, complete with its signature wise owl that peers over the excitable crowd. With 15 trailers of equipment at their disposal, the crew built the stage – a downscaled version of the main stage at EDC Vegas last June – over a fourday period. Following EDC Orlando on November 5th-6th, Stageco rebuilt this stage at at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City in February and will continue at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey in May and will return to Milton Keynes National Bowl, UK this July.
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SPRING 2016
Photography © Stageco US, Jon Bauer & Mike Torres
This year’s NFL Kick Off took place in San Francisco at the Justin Herman Plaza and marked the beginning of the much anticipated 2015-2016 American football season. On September 6th and 7th, Stageco teamed up with the NFL, design company Performance Environment Design Group and the local unions on an ambitious endeavour to provide a top quality performance stage within an extremely short schedule. The crew completed construction and were ready for the live broadcast on September 10th. Stageco US’s Jim Ramacus and his crew erected four custom towers, a custom-shaped deck with FOH-style tech huts, a cable bridge spanning one of Downtown’s busiest sidewalks, and the FOH area with its large lighting array. Although the equipment amounted to just five trailers, it was the access that made this project difficult. The event was in the heart of the Downtown transit area, meaning that everything had to be timed perfectly. Any disruption in the