Alvis Salamander, Stalwart, Saracen, and Saladin series of 6X6 wheeled vehicles

[Weaver]

I like that - reminds me of the old Monogram Garbage Truck hot-rod/band-stage model (I have an incomplete one):



You could do a whole series of military vehicles converted for festival/performance art work. How about a bridge-laying tank using it's extended bridge as a cantilevered stage? Or a tank with two circular dance/DJ platforms, one on top of it's commander's cupola and one on the end of an arm that replaces the gun barrel, both of which counter-rotate to face the audience constantly as the turret rotates?

[PR19_Kit]

What ARE you on H?     

[Mossie]

Wonder how many pints (other substances are alledgedly available) it took to come up with the idea 

Nice to see it being used though 

Plenty available at the music festivals it frequents!

What ARE you on H?     

Probably went to the same festivals as the designers! 

If you click on the arcadia link, they do several stages that must have required a fevered imagination. The Spider is in the first pic I posted.

I'm always impressed at the amount of work that goes in behind the scenes at these things. We had filming going on in Hull several times over the last few years, and a small army of niche support companies turned up that you'd never even think of.

[NARSES2]

I'm always impressed at the amount of work that goes in behind the scenes at these things. We had filming going on in Hull several times over the last few years, and a small army of niche support companies turned up that you'd never even think of.

Absolutely Mossie. There was a big music bash at Crystal Palace Park last sunday (another tomorrow) and the support staff turned up two weeks before to start setting it all up. Then there's the burger stalls 

One of my great nieces is a 3rd assistant director on Coronation St and Emmerdal and the stuff she has to co-ordinate is amazing.

[Mossie]

I'm always impressed at the amount of work that goes in behind the scenes at these things. We had filming going on in Hull several times over the last few years, and a small army of niche support companies turned up that you'd never even think of.

Absolutely Mossie. There was a big music bash at Crystal Palace Park last sunday (another tomorrow) and the support staff turned up two weeks before to start setting it all up. Then there's the burger stalls 

One of my great nieces is a 3rd assistant director on Coronation St and Emmerdal and the stuff she has to co-ordinate is amazing.

Weirdly enough our friends sister works on Coronation Street as well. Can't remember her role of the top of my head.

[Mossie]

I'm always impressed at the amount of work that goes in behind the scenes at these things. We had filming going on in Hull several times over the last few years, and a small army of niche support companies turned up that you'd never even think of.

Absolutely Mossie. There was a big music bash at Crystal Palace Park last sunday (another tomorrow) and the support staff turned up two weeks before to start setting it all up. Then there's the burger stalls 

One of my great nieces is a 3rd assistant director on Coronation St and Emmerdal and the stuff she has to co-ordinate is amazing.

Weirdly enough our friends sister works on Coronation Street as well. Can't remember her role off the top of my head.

[rickshaw]

The Australian Army fairly regularly uses trucks as stages for entertainers who come into the field to entertain the troops.  They drive several trucks back against each other and rig blankets/other materials to hide the wheels and suspension from view.  They then rig up the sound systems and lo and behold they have a stage for the entertainers  to use, elevated up above the diggers arraigned in front of them.

[Weaver]

The Australian Army fairly regularly uses trucks as stages for entertainers who come into the field to entertain the troops.  They drive several trucks back against each other and rig blankets/other materials to hide the wheels and suspension from view.  They then rig up the sound systems and lo and behold they have a stage for the entertainers  to use, elevated up above the diggers arraigned in front of them.

For several years in it's early days, my trucker friend Bill provided the stage for the NABD biker rally in Cheshire by borrowing an empty 40-foot curtain-sider from work for the weekend and parking it in the middle of the field, at the bottom of a slight natural "ampitheatre". It worked pretty well, although being only eight feet in depth, it was a little restrictive for bands with big drum kits.

[Mossie]

They're fairly common, you can see them purpose built with drop sides to make a large stage. There was a simple version at a local music festival, a local college hired it to showcase young talent, the trailer was parked on the market green with their own sound kit.