On November 6th, Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh, launched High Speed 1, the UK's first section of high speed railway and officially opened St Pancras International Station, the magnificently restored Victorian train station in the centre of London.

The high profile event presented a particular rigging problem. Suspended AV, lighting and sound equipment could not be picked up from the space below the final hanging position, due to the fact that this was platform area and was still in use. The rigging solution provided by Unusual was to lift everything in one work zone and then to ‘drive’ it up to 150 metres down the roof structure I-beams using 5 tonne motorised beam trollies into a position where it was dead hung for the show.

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Presenting La Machine, Liverpool’s most memorable European Capital of Culture event produced by Artichoke and technically co-ordinated by Unusual, was a massive challenge. Unusual proved that an energetic mix of lateral and innovative thinking, technical expertise, close teamwork and engaging individuals with a dynamic range of skills and personalities from a wide variety of backgrounds to get behind the project can be a hugely rewarding exercise.

Behind the headline is the story of a refurbishment programme, which pragmatists saw as audacious and the more adventurous considered being achievable.

Set in the idyllic countryside just outside Oxford, Garsington Opera is a venture, where the outdoor theatre is re-created every June for a season of Opera.

“The Producers” is a heavy show squeezed into about a third of the depth of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane stage.

Unusual provide the in-house rigging service for Earls Court 1 & 2. The majority of the business in the venue is B2B and consumer exhibitions.

Images of hundreds of thousands of people on The Mall on the front pages of the National Newspapers on Monday 11th July brought back memories of The Queens Golden Jubilee in 2002.

The Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey was founded by Yehudi Menuhin in 1963 to provide the ideal conditions in which musically gifted children might develop their potential to the full on stringed instr

The raked stage and lack of stage left wing space has always been a ‘niggle’ at the Mayflower Theatre.