Reading and Leeds Festival New Chevron Stage
Serious Stages Stellar Stage featured headliners The Prodigy, Sonny Fodera and Skrillex at Leeds and Reading Festivals’ new Chevron Stage, August 23-25, 2024.
Designed and manufactured in 2024 at Serious Stages Wells HQ, the new 20m wide roof, with 8m screen and pa goalposts, was flanked by six6m high scaff towers supporting giant chevron LED’s, supplied by Coloursound. 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 & Coloursound.
Serious Stages supported Festival Republic’s desire tocreate a new look Chevron stage, with the introduction of the Stellar Stage.Its angled sides not only gave the crowd a different aesthetic, but alsoaccommodated the technical production elements houses on side-of-stage. Withthe tower roof giving a 14.5m stage height, it was more intimate than theimpressive 25m TZ Main Stages with their distinctive branding and curved videoscreens supplied to Reading and Leeds festivals for headliners Blink 182, FredAgain and Liam Gallagher.
Serious Stages also supplied the stages for the FestivalRepublic, Radio1, BBC Introducing and Aux stage areas. Serious also suppliedthe pedestrian bridge across the river traversing the Reading Festival site,the infrastructure for the custom LS23 stage at Leeds Festival, along with allof the Raised Viewing Platforms and speaker delay towers on both sites. Thefour-storey main stage front of house towers were fully branded on both sites.In addition to all of the technical production equipment they incorporated athird-floor Rockstar VIP bar and a guests viewing platform in front of thetower.
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