Stage design for a local band celebrating their 10th anniversary. For this occasion the 10 musicians (11 during that time) invited all former members of the band to join them for one very special evening. An because that still wasn’t enough pain for the sound guys, several brass musicians and a percussionist were invited to participate. In the end we had 2 Keyboarders, a brass section of 7 people, 1 drummer, 2 guitarists, 1 percussionist 1 or 2 bass players (can’t even remember) an not less than 6 Singers on stage. (I was ill and could not participate, I got sick in the evening so the remaining guys had a few cm to move 
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As you can see the stage had to accommodate many musicians and instruments and this would be the reason why the first idea was rejected. The idea of a large X-shaped (X being a roman 10) came up, open to the audience on 3 sides, giving a feeling of having a party in the crowd. Unfortunately the musicians were afraid that not everybody would fit onto the stage, and communication with the audience would become to difficult. After knowing the figures of people onstage, I guess they were right.
The bad came up with the idea to use the venues (weird) shape and build a large L shaped stage, which would give a large opening towards the audience, without losing to much space. This made it rather complicated to find a way to light the show without burning most of the budget. (As the budget was needed for the Sound department and their awful expensive desks 
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The final design consisted of a 6 x 13m rig, as support for about 10 ADB F201 Fresnels, 4 Martin Mac 250 Wash and 1 Aircraft Set. Furthermore it was the mother grid for 4 trusses, each 7 meters long with 2 Martin Mac 250 Entour, 2 Molefay Blinders and 4 Eurolite Led Par36. 2 Mac 250 Wash were positioned on each side of the stage go lighten the singers. Moreover 2 Martin Atomic 3000 were installed on the sides for special effects. 2 more aircraft Sets were mounted on the floor, and a 9m x 9m L-shaped truss, mostly used to hang the backdrop; 4 more Molefay blinders were installed on the front truss.
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- The plan
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- The gig
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- Stage right view
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- Aircraft sets
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- Stage Right view
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- The drummers view
PS: I’m really sorry for the crappy pictures but I didn’t have the time to take good ones. And iPhone3G users should know how bad smartphone pictures can be
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