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Blog 15
September 2019, another busy month in the world of events, conference and commercials. We started off with a commercial shoot for Roadhouse Grill, an Italian restaurant chain, quickly followed up with a very large event for Japanese clothes manufacturer Uniqlo at London’s Somerset House. We built some enclosed exhibition spaces within the fabric of the…
Blog 14
Kicking off from where we left it at the end of Blog 13, still a few weeks left at the end of June, there was enough time to squeeze in a showcase event at London’s Somerset House for The Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. We built a series of miniature monitor hides that were cleverly…
Blog 13
Hot on the heels of the last blog (three months later) here we are with number 13. No excuse, other than being ridiculously busy for the delay in getting this one online. Carrying on from where the last blog left, we’ve built a backdrop and floor for a bespoke photo booth set up in the…
Blog 12
I thought I would quickly follow up the last blog, with another one outlining what happened here in March and April. Not the busiest of months, but things ticked over with an unusually high demand for flat hires. Some set builds happened, namely a series of mirrored bar tops that left the chippies cursing and…
Blog 11
First blog of the year, only seven months in, anyone would’ve thought we were busy. Far from it in January and most of February, the tumbleweed rolled in and much workshop maintenance was achieved. A smooth running workshop doesn’t pay the bills if there’s no work, thankfully we picked up a job from a large…
Blog 10
Another busy month in November saw us branch out into the worlds of live music, television, corporate and immersive events. We kicked it off with some set pieces for a band called, Yellow Days, who were playing at The Electric in Brixton, so nice and local for us. We were offered some complimentary tickets for…
Blog 9
So, October saw the start of two very busy months here at Little Parrot HQ. We kicked it off with Britain’s Classroom Heroes, a job we do every year for The Teaching Awards Trust. It’s a merger of two different worlds as we build a conference style, awards ceremony set that is televised and airs…
Blog 8
Hello again, carrying on from where Blog 7 ended, September was a busy month here at Little Parrot HQ. We carried on our long running association with the dearly departed Big Brother, this time we provided the crew for the refurbishment of the live set, working mainly outdoors in glorious weather, the guys did a…
Blog 7
July saw us continue our association with the fastest growing event company in London currently. There massive increase in workload and lack of workshop space means more work is getting sub-contracted out to us, this time some tribune tables for a conference style event, saw us embarking on a quick last minute turnaround for them….
Blog 6
Hot on the heels of the last blog, here’s blog 6. Blog 5 took us up to the middle of June, so carrying on from there, We managed to squeeze in a few more interesting jobs in June, sandwiched between some events work. A tennis themed ‘Bunga Bunga‘ bar at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships…
