A joined-up production package for Leicester Pride
Leicester Pride brings live entertainment, community celebration and a large outdoor audience together in one event. Behind the programme, the production has to give performers a dependable stage, give the audience clear sound and memorable show moments, and provide the practical infrastructure needed around a busy live site.
For Leicester Pride 2026, Kapture returned for a third year supporting the event. Working alongside Pixeled, our brief was to deliver a coordinated package covering the stage, FX, audio, PA and crowd barriers. Bringing those elements together allowed the production requirements to be considered as one complete live-event system rather than a collection of separate services.
Understanding the production brief
An outdoor Pride event has several different demands happening at the same time. The stage must work for a varied live programme, the PA needs to support both music and spoken content, effects must be integrated into the show, and the audience areas need the correct physical infrastructure. Each element has its own technical requirements, but every part also needs to work with the wider production plan.
Our role was to help turn those requirements into a practical delivery route. The focus was not simply on supplying individual pieces of equipment. It was on making sure the staging, sound, effects and crowd-barrier provision supported the same event plan from build through to show day and the final load-out.
Stage and live-event infrastructure
The stage formed the visual and operational centre of the event. It provided the performance platform for the live programme and established the main production footprint around which the other technical systems could be organised.
Kapture also supplied the crowd barriers required around the event footprint. Crowd barriers are an important part of a public live event because they help define audience and production areas, support the working layout around the stage and create clear boundaries for the show team. Including the barriers within the wider package meant this practical infrastructure could be considered alongside the technical production rather than treated as an afterthought.
Audio and PA
The audio and PA provision supported the full range of content presented from the stage. A Pride programme can move quickly between presenters, live performance and music, so the system needs to handle speech and performance material as part of the same show.
For the audience, the PA is one of the most immediate parts of the production experience. The aim was clear, consistent sound that connected the stage with the wider audience area while giving the show team a dependable platform for the live programme.
FX for the show moments
FX added another layer of impact to the programme and helped turn key moments into something the audience could see and feel across the site. Effects at a live event need to sit within the wider running order and production picture, so their delivery was coordinated with the stage and audio elements rather than approached in isolation.
The result was a production package in which the technical and visual elements supported one another: the stage created the focus, the audio carried the programme and the FX gave selected moments additional scale.
Working alongside Pixeled
Collaboration was central to the project. Working alongside Pixeled meant responsibilities could be aligned across the production and the wider show team had a clear route through the different delivery areas. That joined-up approach matters on a live site, where changes in one department can quickly affect several others.
It also allowed conversations about staging, sound, effects and audience infrastructure to happen in the context of the complete event. Instead of treating each service as a standalone hire, the emphasis stayed on how the whole production would work together on site and on show day.
From build to show day and load-out
Delivery covered more than the live programme itself. The production route included the build, preparation of the stage and technical systems, show-day operation and the de-rig once the event had finished. NES supplied the load-out crew, supporting the final phase as the site moved from live event back into de-rig.
Returning for a third year gave Kapture valuable familiarity with Leicester Pride while still treating the 2026 event as its own production brief. The completed setup brought stage, FX, audio, PA and crowd barriers together in one coordinated package, supporting the performers, production team and audience areas throughout the event.
What Kapture provided
Stage: the central performance platform for the live programme.
FX: live show effects coordinated with the wider production.
Audio and PA: sound reinforcement for performance and spoken content across the audience area.
Crowd barriers: practical infrastructure supporting the stage and live-event footprint.
Production gallery
Photography by Sam Sharp.
