Serious Stages continued its 19 year relationship with the WOMAD (World of Music Arts & Dance) Festival, supplying three main stages for the 2008 event held at Charlton Park, Malmesbury in Wiltshire.

Serious supplied the main open air arena with a stage and roofing system, and indoor stages for the festival's Siam and the Big Red tents.

WOMAD 2008 featured over 70 live acts from 35 countries around the world, in one of the most colourful and eclectic line ups of the summer.

Main Stage

This consisted of one of Serious's 15.6 metre, 4 arch Supernova's - their new steel framed heavy load bearing structure launched earlier in the year. The Supernova offered 16 metres of stage depth, an impressive trim height of 11 metres and a massive 6 tonnes of weight loading per arch for sound, lighting and video production.

Serious also supplied all the stage decking for this, plus two 3.6 x 2.4 metre ‘cowshed' extensions stage left and right, to house monitors and dimmer areas.

They built 12 metre high Satellite PA towers either side of stage, a large wheelchair access platform out in the arena, and a FOH mixer riser platform.

The Siam Stage & Red Tent stages

The Siam Tent was the 3-day event's second stage, and consisted of a 15.6 metre wide by 15.6m deep Serious decking system located inside a massive Kayam style tent. Serious also constructed a FOH mixing area and wheelchair access platform.

Artists appearing in here included Lee ‘Scratch' Perry and Little Axe, Sheikh Taha, Monajat Yulchieva & Asif Ali Khan and many more.

The Big Red Tent featured another 15.6 metre wide Serious decking system.

The Serious team of 8 led by Jeremy "Moz" Mosdell took 4 days to build the different structures.

Serious has also worked with WOMAD on their events in Spain and Gran Canaria.