WI has supplied staging, elevators and extensive automation elements to the highly acclaimed Take That ‘Wonderland’ tour which kicked off at the Genting Arena, Birmingham, UK. The lively, colourful carnivalesque aesthetic is the vision of the band’s creative director Kim Gavin and the result of some serious creative and technical talents who have collaborated to bring action packed drama to a … [Read more...]
Brilliant Stages Build a Man For Take That’s Tour
Take That’s Progress Live 2011 Tour reunited its 5 original performers for the first time in over 15 years as they played to packed stadiums in the band’s biggest tour to date. Central to much of the show’s action was the giant figure of ‘OM’, a 20m high animated man, brought to ‘life’ as a primitive god-like figure during the on-stage action. In reality OM was designed and engineered by … [Read more...]
Take That grandMA2 to the Circus
Take That, the UK's favourite 'boyband', hit the road this summer on their massive "Circus" stadium tour, with a spectacular lighting rig designed by Patrick Woodroffe and a stage set created by Es Devlin, Take That and the tour's artistic director, Kim Gavin. The stature of the tour - produced by TPO (The Production Office) headed by production manager Chris Vaughan - reflects the massive … [Read more...]
Sennheiser UK joins the Circus with Take That
Take That’s Circus Live, one of the most successful British Tours of all time, has come to a close with a four-night residency at Wembley Stadium. The reformed boy band sold an incredible 1.2 million tickets and sold out the British Isles’ biggest venues, including Sunderland’s Stadium of Light, Dublin’s Croke Park, Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium, Glasgow’s Hampden Park and Manchester’s Old Trafford … [Read more...]
Brilliant Stages draws attention to the elephant in the room!
Following the success of the 2007 Beautiful World tour, Brilliant Stages were once again chosen to bring to life the imaginative and dramatic stage designs for Take That’s Circus Live Tour 2009. The combined creative talents of Show Producer, Kim Gavin and Set Designer, Es Devlin devised a circus-themed set for which Brilliant Stages created a total of 5 stages, in addition to several pieces of … [Read more...]