League of Gentlemen Tour

TSG were approached to manufacture the set for the League of Gentlemen touring show. The brief began at the beginning of June with basic design drawings from Duncan McLean showing the intent. This was a particularly difficult project primarily due to some of the venues being really quite small coupled with a distinct lack of spare…

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StagecraftUK Becomes Biggest Stockist of Industry-Leading OV Truss Following £400k Investment

Following a significant investment of over £400,000 StagecraftUK has become the UK’s biggest stockist of industry-leading OV Truss – meaning that its clients can take advantage of the truss’s quicker set-up and break-down times as well as its significant improvement in strength and weight loadings, over more traditional products. The OV Truss has become an…

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November Total Training Update

November Total Training Update Now that the industry is ramping up towards the Christmas season, naturally enough training activity diminishes slightly – leaving more time for attending committee meetings, when not planning 2018 and working on projects with the rest of the TSG team. The three day course is already booking into March 2018 and…

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Reinhard Bonnke Farewell Campaign, Nigeria

Coming from Germany, Reinhard Bonnke started in Africa in 1967, now 50 years later he held his final farewell to Africa. Principally known for his gospel campaigns he has been an evangelist and missionary to Africa. Reinhard Bonnke has overseen 75 million recorded conversations to Christ. The scene for his farewell was the city of…

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Total Training September 2017 Update

Total Training Update September saw Total Training working in Edinburgh delivering another 3 day course at the Festival Theatre. This was the completion of a contract that started in June. At the same time, we were delivering another 3 day course in London at the Cockpit Theatre for City of Westminster College. This is a…

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UK Rigging Ground Support Structures at Leeds and Reading Festival

UK RIGGING GROUND SUPPORT STRUCTURES AT LEEDS AND READING FESTIVAL with TSG SUPPLIED TRUSS With the festival season reaching its peak on the August bank holiday, UK Rigging was busy constructing two self-climbing ground support structures at two of the UK’s largest outdoor festivals. Reading festival received a 6 legged structure on its NME /…

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ELO Alone in the Universe Tour Wembley

For those lucky enough to have been at the ELO Alone in the Universe tour at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 24th June they will have seen a sight not witnessed in this vicinity since 1978. The classic Wurlitzer inspired flying saucer that has become the talisman of ELO was once again flying above the band…

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Total Training July 2017 Update

Total Training July 2017 Update July kicked off with a return visit to the New London Theatre to deliver both work at height training and refresher rescue training for Really Useful Theatres Group technicians from the New London and Her Majesty’s. Session included using an installed system and a more generic method that caters for…

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Still Game Live 2017 Arena Show

Still Game Live 2017 Still Game is a Scottish comedy institution and is a TV series predominantly. However, from time to time the cast decide to do an arena show in the SSE Hydro. This was last undertaken in 2014. For this version we manufactured a series of set pieces in line with the TV…

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Strictly Come Dancing 2017 Tour

Strictly Come Dancing has become a bit of an institution and to celebrate its 10th birthday on tour their designers wanted to splash out and buy a new C stage. The design of the new central dance area was agreed to be a lozenge shape which provides for larger dance area, it was also decided that the…

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