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Stageco helps The Big Beast break prestigious Guinness World Record
S ZE MATTERS! It’s official! Stageco has earned the rare distinction
covering a myriad of dance genres, from mainstream
of building the world’s tallest temporary stage, as
to underground electronic programming, but it was The
recognised by Guinness World Records... not once, but
Big Beast that attracted the most attention.
twice! Still coming down to Earth after what he described as Measuring 41.268m (135ft 5in) in height, the main
“one of the biggest projects I’ve ever done”, Stageco
stage – known as The Big Beast – at the MDLBEAST
crew chief Hendrik Verdeyen talked about his time in
SOUNDSTORM 2021 EDM festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Riyadh. “All the equipment came to us in something like
on December 19th broke its own world record for the
84 sea containers – 75 were for our black steel, while the
classification after setting it at the event’s début outing
rest carried scaffolding and decking materials,” he said.
at the end of 2019. “We spent about three weeks building the whole Already one of the largest music festivals in the world,
structure and compensating for terrain that had a 3.5m
with over 700,000 attendees reportedly attending across
height difference between the ends of stage right and
four days, SOUNDSTORM hosted eight distinct stages
stage left. The stage itself was about 230 metres wide,
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