Earth Beat Festival
Full Site Production
Location
New Zealand
Earth Beat Festival needed full festival production run as one job, not a scramble of separate suppliers: lighting, audio and staging across the whole site, built by the crew who designed it. Over five days the programme ran 70 or more acts across 8 stages, alongside 60 or more workshops, so the technical build had to hold from first load-in to final pack-out.
We took it on as a single integrated build. One inventory, one plot, one crew running the lot, so every stage spoke the same technical language and the whole site could be planned, powered and patched as one piece of work rather than eight that happened to share a field.
Challenge
Eight stages, 70 or more acts and 60 or more workshops across five days, with audio, lighting and staging needed site-wide and all coming from one coherent build. The risk at this size is fragmentation: separate suppliers per stage, mismatched kit, and no single crew who understand how the whole site fits together when something has to change mid-programme.
Engineering response
We designed and delivered the festival as one integrated production covering lighting, audio and staging across all 8 stages. The crew who drew the plot ran it on the ground, which kept technical direction consistent from the main stage down to the smaller workshop spaces. Stages were built and patched to a common standard so changeovers between acts stayed quick and predictable, and the site was planned as a whole: kit, staging and signal paths laid out so each stage had what its programme called for without duplicating effort across the build. Across five days of back-to-back acts and workshops, the work was a stable, repeatable setup the crew could maintain and adjust without disrupting the running order.
Outcome
A five-day festival delivered as one coherent build: 8 stages, 70 or more acts and 60 or more workshops carried on a single site-wide production of lighting, audio and staging, run by the crew who designed it. Planned and crewed as one job, the technical side stayed consistent across the whole site for the full programme.