The perfect storm: Inside the UK’s only live shows
It’s taken four times more toilets and a space 15 times the normal size. Meet the team who pulled off the UK’s only working arena
Feature By IQ | 19 August 2020
Selling over 72,000 tickets for a concert series that began when live shows in the UK were – strictly speaking – not allowed, is no small undertaking. But then neither is building a new outdoor arena for shows at a time when strict social distancing rules are in place.
“All the things that could have gone wrong would’ve gone wrong on the opening weekend but they didn’t,” says Jim Gee, a director at Manchester-based production company, Engine No.4.
Gee and his…
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