Above: Vivid Sydney 2023, “Sonder”
A Year In Focus
It’s been another crazy busy year at Tri-Point, filled with labour intensive staging projects, blockbuster movies and major events. Here’s our latest update for your viewing pleasure!
Highlight Projects
Over the past year, Tri-Point have provided staging and temporary structures to a range of outdoor festivals and concerts including highlights such as NYE in the Park, Midnight Oil, Festival X, Relay for Life Sutherland Shire, Vivid Sydney, Opera on Sydney Harbour, and World Pride 2023.
We have completed the production rigging for a tonne of different shows, including highlights Guns N Roses, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Harry Styles, Fatboy Slim, EPIK, Transmission Festival, Festival X, RNB Fridays, Good Things Festival, Knotfest, Midnight Mafia, the Sydney Opera House 50th Birthday, the Forecourt Series 2022, and Australian Fashion Week.
Major sporting events included the NRL Grand Final, the T20 World Cup, and the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, to name a few. Tri-Point also provided production riggers and steel crew to suit a variety of theatre productions including Amadeus in Concert at the Sydney Opera House, 9 to 5: The Musical, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
This season’s film & television projects have been bountiful, and included highlights such as Mad Max: Furiosa (Film), Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Film), Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Film), The Fall Guy (Film), Mortal Kombat 2 (Film), Anyone But You (Film), ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ (TV Series), Thank God You’re Here (TV), The Voice (TV), Australian Idol (TV), Paper Dolls (TV), Under Investigation (TV), Last King of the Cross (TV), Space Princess (TV), La Brea (TV), Masterchef Australia (TV), Ten Pound Poms (TV), The Masked Singer (TV), Strictly Ballroom (TV) as well as numerous other films, television shows and TVC’s.
Mad Max: Furiosa
The aptly named black steel ‘Super Tent’ we built as a temporary studio for the filming of Mad Max: Furiosa.
Mad Max: Furiosa
Filming the new Mad Max movie at a former sand mining site in Kurnell. Truss and flyswatters for days.
Opera on Sydney Harbour
Celebrating our 10th year running providing the Water Stage for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour.
Clockwise from top left: Relay for Life Sutherland Shire, Festival X, Woochop Stage, New Years Eve In The Park, Amadeus in Concert at the Sydney Opera House, This That Festival.
Staff News
Kieren Dew finally joined the Tri-Point team! A third generation rigger and stage builder, Kieren follows in his father’s footsteps (Tri-Point Director, Graeme Dew) and his grandfather’s footsteps (Industry Legend, Reg Dew). Kieren provides end-to-end project and account management for a variety of Tri-Point major projects, seeing his projects through to fruition on-the-tools onsite.
Hannah Stewart has been one of our fab casual crew for a while now but has recently stepped into a bigger role at Tri-Point, joining our project management team in order to budget and scope her own projects and follow them through onsite.
Ciara Behan is the newest edition to the team, taking over as Operations Coordinator at Tri-Point HQ. Ciara looks after our lovely crew and acts as their main point of contact. She also coordinates a variety of daily business ops.
Equipment News
COUNTERWEIGHT
In Stock for Hire
Our stock of 1 tonne concrete ballast blocks has been growing of late, and now exceeds 250 x blocks!
Combined with our inventory of 500kg and 600kg blocks, 25kg lead ingots, and a variety of other stage weights and shot bags, we have plenty of counterweight to hire for your event or production.
Send us an email for more info.
TRANSPORT
We’ve Upgraded Our Fleet
Our fleet of trucks and vehicles has grown again this year. We’ve added three new trucks, ranging in capacity from 6 tonne to 8 tonne, and two new work utes to our fleet, allowing us to better service our Client’s and projects on location across the East Coast of Australia.
We’ve also added a new Crew Car to the portfolio too.
STAGECO CLASSIC ROOF SYSTEMS
Available Installed
Did you know that Tri-Point are proud stockists of StageCo’s superior 20m & 25m black steel roof systems?
With two 20m 3-Tower StageCo Classics or one 25m 4-Tower StageCo Classics in stock ex. Sydney, Tri-Point can provide outdoor staging to suit even the biggest of shows in Sydney and beyond.
15M BASS STAGE
Now Available With Cantilever
Our 15m Bass Stages allow for festival production rigging in a lighter heavy duty alloy roof system. Through ongoing RND, the system has been modified in recent years to include a cantilevered header, providing better weather protection for performers, and a larger area in the roof grid for rigging front wash lighting etc.
Tri-Point currently stocks 2 x 15m systems available ex. Sydney. Contact us for drawings.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our lovely Clients, Suppliers and Crew for their ongoing support, and for helping us through another massive year for Tri-Point. We can’t wait to do it all over again next financial year, see you then!
Team Tri-Point x
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