We Out Here festival production

Case study

We Out Here

Technical production management for a four-day, 25,000-capacity festival: 15 stages and 22 technical areas, run from one production office.

Divisions
Production
Stages
15
Technical areas
22
Capacity
25,000
Tenure
Fourth year

Project record

The brief, and the technical scope we delivered.

Project context · technical response · delivery

01The brief

We Out Here is a four-day, 25,000-capacity music festival in Dorset, directed and curated by Gilles Peterson. Fifteen stages and 22 technical areas run at once, from the main stage and woodland dance floors to a radio studio and talks tents, each with its own technical requirements.

02Our responsibility

Soundfangled is the festival's production management company, now in its fourth year. We coordinate staging, audio, lighting, video and DJ infrastructure across the site, advance the artists' technical requirements, and manage more than 400 people, including 60 direct staff.

Crew assembling stage infrastructure at We Out Here 2026.02

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Crew assembling stage infrastructure at We Out Here 2026.

Visiting engineer operating a mixing console at We Out Here 2026.03

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Visiting engineer operating a mixing console at We Out Here 2026.

Technical response

What we delivered.

  1. 01Festival-wide technical production management
  2. 02Stage and roof structure coordination
  3. 03Audio system design and supplier integration
  4. 04Lighting and video specification
  5. 05DJ infrastructure specification and deployment
  6. 06Artist technical advancing
  7. 07Stage management
  8. 08CAD-based technical design and site planning
  9. 09Central production office through build, show and breakdown
Rhythm Corner stage lighting and screen architecture after dark at We Out Here 2026.04

04 / FramePhoto: Jake Philip Davis / Khroma Collective

Rhythm Corner stage lighting and screen architecture after dark at We Out Here 2026.

Crowds across the main arena in daylight at We Out Here 2025, with flags and the main stage beyond.05 · Site

05 / SitePhoto: Amy Fern

Crowds across the main arena in daylight at We Out Here 2025, with flags and the main stage beyond.

Wide perimeter view of Rhythm Corner stage structure, line array PA and straw-bale barrier at night.06 · Site scale

06 / Site scale

Wide perimeter view of Rhythm Corner stage structure, line array PA and straw-bale barrier at night.

In the press

What the reviews said.

Services

Services on this project.

All work

Outcome

Production

Four years, one production office.

In 2025 the build, four live days and breakdown ran to programme and on budget, with tighter control of late-night sound across the site.