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V Festival Event The North edition of V Festival hosted at Weston Park, Staffordshire for over 16 years is the Midlands largest music festival. The annual music event which attracts festival fans in their thousands saw headline acts in 2013 such as Beyoncé, Kings of Leon, Calvin Harris and Basement Jaxx.

Structures VIp structure including chill out bar and external decking. GL events Owen Brown has been the sole supplier of temporary structures at Weston Park since 2002 and returned once again in July 2013 for the build up to the event.

Owen Brown’s temporary structures were used for a variety of applications including a luxurious VIP guest tent that housed a chill out bar and included an external decked area to First Aid structures were needed by each of the stages. allow the stars to soak up the sun.

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Other smaller, yet essential structures included WKHßrst aid tents, one of which was needed for each stage due to their positioning. The AWe number supply ofa host smaller of individual structures hospitality were chaletsThe entrance walkways and covered company also provided the crew catering provided for use by the event personnel. access areas. areas to keep everyone ticking over, as well as the production bar to ensure all the essential personnel were kept hydrated!

To ensure that the unlucky ones who missed out on tickets were kept well informed over the 4 days, Owen Brown also provided the press tent. Structures Over 5600 m² of structures were built for the event including:

» VIP bars » General admission bars » Catering » Merchandise » Dressing rooms » Wristband exchange areas » Medical areas » Back of house, crew areas » Cleaning supplies » Luggage search areas Back of house structures for supply storage, luggage search and dressing rooms. Build We were on-site for 3 weeks in the run up to the event. A dedicated Site Manager was assigned to the build of the structures, along with a Project Manager who was the main point of contact for the client. During the event, if required stand-by personnel are left on site to address any issues.

With an event like V Festival being on such a large scale, using just one supplier for all the General catering structures and bars for the event staff and production crews were non-performance marquees and temporary provided to keep the essential personnel ticking over. structures proved the best option. Utilising a variety of hard and soft sided structures, we were able to provide a consistent, high quality ßQLVKto the event. We supply a host of individual hospitality chalets

Outcome Festival Directors Bob Angus, Simon Moran and Dennis Desmond declared 2013 to be V-Festival’s most successful year to date with 340,000 music fans descending on its Weston Park and Hylands Park sites. GL events UK Station Road, Castle Donington, Derby DE74 2NL T: 01332 850000 www.glevents.co.uk