12 years on the road - many days and even more nights - we’ve never stopped having fun doing our job, and besides we’ve collected so many interesting stories and tips, we would like to share them with you. We welcome any additional submissions of all types
Definition
Let’s have a look at the definition of a Stagehand - lat. staticum hand
A stagehand works independently of the help of strangers or instruction, he’s familiar with blue prints and stadium sketches - has more know-how of light and sound engineering than anybody else on the set - drinks a lot, a whole lot, way too much coffee - sleeps in cases (but only padded ones) and roughly wakes up in the moment when he’s being loaded into the truck.
If it doesn’t rain - there’s no Open Air happening.
The 600 qm stage is always a half-meter too wide to the right.
To number 4. Why not too wide to the left? To the left is the 5000 man tribune that also has to be moved 75cm. (Note: The same goes for every set-up with Daimler, BMW, Sony, Nike etc. road show and event.
The idiot standing in the way is Michael Jackson.
The idiot standing in the way is Mick Jagger.
The idiot you are throwing off the stage is Bill Gates.
Pyros ignite first when you stand over them.
Starlight Express and lost gaffing tape are incompatible.
During the show, silver gaffing tape holds best on the clothes of the stage crew.
The PA volume of Caught in The Act and that of the screaming girls increase at the same time- complete silence at the mix-table.
If you are alone in a hall at night, just when things are clear the electricity on your lifting platform goes out as soon as you’ve reached the highest point of the hall roof and the last security crew has already left.
Electric cable on “Dinohebebühnen” (very large lifting platforms) are either 0.5m too short or cut in two.
If it’s not that, there’s no electricity coming from the power outlet.
NEVER!! NEVVVVVEEERRR!!! Never set-up the pyros backwards into the face mask of the small dragon Tabaluga.
Never secure a 10t ground supported with cheap gaffing tape.
Never get too close to a schoolboy band singer.
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