{"id":667,"date":"2025-10-16T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/12984714\/?page_id=667"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:28:21","slug":"famous-gig-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/12984714\/famous-gig-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Gig Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When planning a gig, it is crucial to do in-depth research for a variety of reasons. My research on other famous gigs will help me understand what makes a successful music event, to explore audience expectations, research promotion, health and safety, and sound setups, and to learn leadership techniques from successful event organizers and managers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tomorrowland:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This festival has become legendary across the world for this incredible team of workers who aim to put the attendees wants and needs above anything. With attendees traveling from over 200 countrys, its obvious Tommorowland has done well in apealing to a wider audiance surpassing just social and language barriers to work together on a wider level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Travel:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the main ways they do this is coordinated travel and all inclusive packages, this reduces the stress that ussually comes from such a well attended event. By offering a package that bundles the festival ticket, flights, busses the festival organisers have full controll of the of the flow of arival and departure. They also charter transportation methorthords exlusivley for the festival witch further stremlines trasportation and keeps festival managers better informed witch is all passed through to the custamor satifaction rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bradford colleges gig wont need as much thought into transportation because its a local gig. I will, however, take insparation from TOMORROWLANDS ingcredable atentian to detail to make parking and arrival as stremlined and fast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On-Site Infastructior:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tommorowland has over a doesen stages each one maticulousley designed for diferent music geners, preformers and performance styles. Each one of the stages is curated to repersent different sub-genres of eletronic music, this allows the diverse mix of atendees to freely roam and explore different &#8220;worlds&#8221; of sound throughout the festival. This Extends thurver than just music, It creates a jurney through different fantisy enviremnts. this Links to the festivals &#8220;magical universe&#8221; theme. The organisers also do this to focus on suporting the niche artists, that would not ussually have a large platform, expessualy the performers who spessualise in a more underground genre that would not be suitable for the main stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Main stage- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Orbyz main stage was inspired by Tomorrowland Belgium&#8217;s 2025 theme of the same name, which is set in a magical, icy universe being slowly unveild as glaiciers melt to reveil a hiden civilisation. They exacute this so well over a multi year project deadline by starting with concept scetches. this lead time allowes for detailed egeineering, intricate fabrication and coordination of the imence technical complexity. The full time workers of TommorowLand painstikingly help to plan and build the cathederal like figures witch tower over the event, often being 40 meiters tall and 160 meiters wide. they are not only backdrops but elaberate stages witch stand out far more than most festivals generic screens and lighting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Organisers not only focus on physical infastructure but also modern technical emements that can personise each artists set to there tropes and themes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=07p-uHtAaOo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=07p-uHtAaOo<\/a> This video from 2024 TommorowLand is a great example of the use of lights, pyro, and vissuals. During Alesso&#8217;s set the lights where strobing and flowing as part of the set, this shows how well the lights are baked in to enhance the infastucture. The coordination between all different factors require exrordinary comunication between many, many people. They comunicate by many ways to ensure everyone is kept in the loop; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For short, important messages such as scedual changes they use SMS, this works well due to not needing a wifi signal to recive them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To create breifs and timelines, staff use Project manager soft wear like monday.com. This keeps internal teams and external partners alined reducing the need for endless emails <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other tools such as microsoft teams are used for project collaboration within the team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Health And Safety:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drug use- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In line with belgian law drugs are sticky banned from all festival oremaces and they have a zero tollerance pollicy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A way they encourage a safe and respectfull drug free policy is by scattering drug amnesty bins at the enterance and through checks where you can use the bin to avoid fines and enter the festival. This works well because it allines with the festivals aim to create a honest fun for all system where atendees can come farward and correct mistaces. For the people who do take drugs in, if\/ when there caught and the drugs are seised they are tested on site, if they are found to be toxic, preventative warning can quickly be sent out to minimalise drug related injerys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leadership Skills:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TommorowLand is widley considers to be a well managed festival. With notable success in crisis managment, this was shown by how they managed the fire of the main stage in 2025. Happening just 2 hours before the gates opened, the haste that a replacment stage was built has been called a &#8220;crisis managment miracle&#8221;. The fesativals collaberation with emergancy servaces quickly put an end to the fire with no fatalitys, there comprahensive planning means there well prepared to put together an amazing show ready to handle any issues that may arise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When planning a gig, it is crucial to do in-depth research for a variety of reasons. My research on other famous gigs will help me understand what makes a successful music event, to explore audience expectations, research promotion, health and safety, and sound setups, and to learn leadership techniques from successful event organizers and managers. 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