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How AEG Builds a Small City in London’s Hyde Park for BST Festival Every Summer — and Moves It Out in a Couple of Days
For its BST festival, AEG builds a small city in London's Hyde Park and then trucks it right back out. How do they do it? Jim King explains.
This year, between June 29 and July 14, the British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park Festival staged nine multi-artist evenings of music, with headliners SZA, Stevie Nicks — who was joined by Harry Styles — Kylie Minogue, Morgan Wallen, Robbie Williams, Andrea Bocelli, Shania Twain (pictured above), Stray Kids and Kings of Leon. Over the years the series has literally hosted the world’s biggest artists: the Rolling Stones — who wrote the book on Hyde Park concerts when their 1969 one drew some an estimated quarter-million people — Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Adele, Neil Young, Blur, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Guns N’ Roses, the Who, Billy Joel, Blackpink and loads more. King says that Andrea Bocelli’s performance this year, which featured an orchestra, choir and a partially seated audience (most concerts are primarily GA) was already the most logistically challenging one the team has encountered to date — even before the rainstorm hit.
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