The lead up to Christmas 2011 saw mega-band, Coldplay, undertake a twelve-date European arena tour with their album Mylo Xyloto, taking with them a set designed by Misty Buckley and Paul Normandale which featured specialist pieces by UK-based, Brilliant Stages. Chris Martin’s inspiration was of the tour as a ball of energy with a warm nucleus reaching out into the audience to provide an … [Read more...]
Brilliant Stages Gets Set for Muse at Reading and Leeds Festivals
Hertfordshire-based staging company, Brilliant Stages, was responsible for creating a set featuring the signature pronged ‘pylons’ in homage to Muse’s 2001 album Origin of Symmetry for the band’s appearances at the 2011 Reading and Leeds Festivals. The music events take place simultaneously over the August bank holiday weekend and share the same bill, so Brilliant Stages needed to design the … [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...]
Muse The Resistance Stadium Tour – the next Brilliant Stage
Following the successful American, Australian & European legs of Muse’s The Resistance tour, a further 9 large-scale stadium dates have been added. Brilliant Stages created a completely new stage set for the stadium venues, based on the design concepts of Oli Metcalfe and Es Devin, with technical realisation by Malcolm Birkett, and produced by Chris Vaughan of The Production Office. The stadium … [Read more...]
Brilliant Stages Tour Europe with Tokio Hotel
Unleashing their third studio album, Humanoid, Germany’s biggest rock band, Tokio Hotel, is currently embarked on a mammoth tour visiting over 30 cities throughout Europe. Touring with them, under the guidance of Production Manager, Phil Broad, is a set built by UK-based Brilliant Stages. As Germany’s most successful band ever, with credits including Germany’s first ever Moonman, MTV VMA for … [Read more...]
