APPLICATION REPORT | ENTERTAINMENT
beginning to hire low numbers of staff for hoist servicing, but fundamentally no movement in the market is seen.” However, tours and festivals are showing
movement. California has scheduled June 15 as the date for the reopening of venues; firm Autumn dates have been set for the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals, suggesting that the concert and festival season may well be able to occur this year; and a 22-city US tour by renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is scheduled for October to December, to wide publicity and enthusiasm, and indications are that it will go ahead. “Las Vegas, another key indicator, has seen air travel up by 50% from one million to 1.5 million travellers per day,” says the report. “Shows are opening, restricted to 50% capacity, but while February and March this year saw only four shows open each month, eight were scheduled for April and ten for May.” Elsewhere, in APAC [Asia and the Pacific] and the EMEA [Europe, Middle East & Africa] regions, permanent installations are also beginning to show movement. London’s Royal Albert Hall, for example, is to begin hosting full-capacity concerts again this summer, from May 29. Latin America, however, terribly badly hit by the pandemic, is expected to be the last major region to rebound. Back in Europe, Northumberland-based Tiger Lifting offer a range of manual
P Tiger manual chain hoists TR7
chain blocks, lever hoists and clamps and trolleys in black for the entertainment industry – matt black housings and chains of course are favoured in the sector as avoiding the possibility of unwanted reflections of stage lighting into the eyes of the audience. “It is a sector where we are expecting rapid growth,” says UK business development manager Greg Fardell. “As the UK roadmap in the weeks ahead moves towards gatherings and live shows again, the demand is certainly there, and we will be supporting that.” For example, its manual chain hoists
are available in black in capacities from 0.5t to 5t for TV studios, music and sports arenas, production rigging and the like. The range has an exceptionally short head room for installation where every centimetre can count; it comes with Tiger’s Quad Cam Brake Pawl System, which is designed so there is always a permanent engagement of one of the reciprocal pawls in the ratchet wheel. In the unlikely event of a pawl spring failure, the design ensures the brake is always fully functional and the load is sustained without damage to the mechanism. People, it seems, want entertainment
now more than ever, and the industry is set to boom as soon as public health concerns allow it. ●
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