MRL were commissioned to manage the safety management and contingency planning for the first set of major concerts of the summer, which firmly fixed the new Wembley Stadium as one of the UK’s leading live music venues.

Julian Bentley, Assistant Director at MRL said ‘this was a really exciting piece of work and something the project team really enjoyed working on’. The Stadium, which reopened in Spring 2007, hosted pop concerts for the first time since the venue closed in 1999. Julian went on to say ‘the fact that Wembley is a new national venue makes it all the more interesting to work at, as no other concerts have gone before in recent years, so we really had to start from scratch’.

Graham Pullen; Event Director for the Diana Memorial Concert said ‘we have worked with MRL for a number of years now, mainly on high profile events. They were the natural choice this time as well.’

John Probyn Production Director for Live Nation UK Music who put on the majority of the concerts at Wembley over the summer 07 said ‘any new venue is always a challenge to the production management team, and with the complexity of a national venue like Wembley, I needed specialist technical safety knowledge of stadiums that we just don’t have in-house’. John continued ‘Stadiums present their own planning problems, so the only people I trusted to do this work were MRL.’

The summer programme of events ran without a hitch with safety and event control staffed by MRL Limited. Andy Smith, Event Manager Wembley National Stadium said ‘Working with MRL’s safety team was a pleasure. Their professional knowledge in hosting live music events in stadiums is second to none.  Building on the sound relationships we’ve built between Wembley's operations team and MRL’s project team we look forward to working with them again soon’.

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