Few events in British musical history can have been more eagerly welcomed by more female fans than the reuniting of the iconic and prototypical boy band Take That. The band’s Progress Live 2011 Tour reunited its five original performers – including Robbie Williams - for the first time in over 15 years as they played to packed stadiums in the band’s biggest tour to date: over 1.34 million tickets sold out in less than 24 hours.

Central to much of the show’s action was the giant figure of ‘Om’, a 20 metre high animated man, brought to ‘life’ as a primitive god-like figure during the on-stage action. In reality Om was designed and engineered by Brilliant Stages with the expert help of Andy Edwards.

Om was first revealed to the audience as he slid out in a sitting position through the central performer stage which split in two to allow his entrance. Brilliant Stages created the dividing stage along with two band pods which rolled off-stage on tracks and were sited on hydraulic scissor lifts (two under each pod) to give them vertical movement.