Stage Barriers
Stage Barrier Rentals
The barricade that goes across the front of a stage. Rent it by the section for the line that has to hold a crowd leaning on it for the length of a set, not just show one where to stand.
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Specifications
One section is a panel, a brace and a floor.
A stage barrier is not a fence. The panel a crowd leans on is held by two angled legs running back to a base frame. That frame lies flat on the ground in front of the barricade — so the people pushing are standing on the thing that stops it moving. Behind the panel each section carries a step, which is where security works from and how a guest is lifted out over the top. Sections bolt to one another, so a built run is one structure rather than a row of separate pieces.
| Section size | 1 × 1.25 × 1.2 m (width × depth × height) |
|---|---|
| Line per section | 1 m (3.3 ft) of stage front |
| Height | 1.2 m (3.9 ft) at the top rail |
| Base depth | 1.25 m (4.1 ft), the braced frame behind the panel |
| Material | Aluminium |
| Connection | Bolted section to section |
| Front panel | Perforated sheet inside the frame |
| Behind the panel | A platform step at working height for staff on the line |
In action
A barricade before the show and during it.
What it is good at
Six places barricade is the right answer.
Front of stage
The straight run across the stage front, where the whole point is that the front row can lean on it for two hours without the line creeping forward.
A pit with a working gap
Set out from the stage to leave a lane behind the barricade for security, medics and photographers, which is the only route along the front once the room is full.
Wrapping the corners
The ends of the run turned back towards the stage, so the line closes onto something instead of finishing in the middle of a crowd where the pressure would find the gap.
Splitting a front pit
A second run dividing an early-entry or VIP pit from general standing, holding two crowds apart at the point where they push in the same direction.
Mix positions and cable runs
Boxing off a front-of-house position or a stack, so an audience stands against a barricade rather than against a case of equipment.
Festival stages on grass
An outdoor stage front on open ground, where the base frame does the work that ballast would have to do for a lighter barrier.
The usual add-on
Steel for everything that is not the stage front.
The stage barrier is for the pressure point. The rest of a site — the perimeter, the production compound, a street closure, the queue outside the gate — is bike rack barricade work. The two are usually on the same order because the run at the stage is only ever part of the plan. Send us the site drawing and we will split it between the two.
See the bike rack barricades