Well the Facebook group for Marquee Malarkey is going well and, provided it continues to grow in this vain, we will think about putting on a special marquee event for all our fans to attend. Our marquee hire services are obviously available to all our fans, and we hope that they will hire marquees from us at some point, probably wedding marquee hire or party marquee hire since corporate marquee hire is not exactly a booming market these days! However, even for those who do not use our marquee hire services, we will be inviting them just for showing their support to our luxury marquee hire company. So keep sharing the marquee hire love on Facebook and we promise your loyalty will be rewarded in the end!
Rock on marquee hire UK!
Thursday 23 April 2009
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Marquees in Malvern - Midweek
The weather has been fantastic for the last couple of days - ideal weather for building marquees. It has been interesting week so far.. We've launched our new website, I've been busily planning all sorts - marquee lighting, transparent staging - we are going to be building a transparent dance floor over a swimming pool - plus all the usual day to day jobs.
We are preparing for a trip to Edinborough, where we are providing services for one of our corporate clients.. It'll be a long drive from Worcestershire, but hopefully we'll have a nice few days up there as the work should not be overly taxing.
Regards,
Marquee Malarkey
marquee hire, wedding marquee hire, event equipment hire
We are preparing for a trip to Edinborough, where we are providing services for one of our corporate clients.. It'll be a long drive from Worcestershire, but hopefully we'll have a nice few days up there as the work should not be overly taxing.
Regards,
Marquee Malarkey
marquee hire, wedding marquee hire, event equipment hire
Monday 20 April 2009
Sunday 19 April 2009
Marquee Focus
Creative specialists join forces with leading clearspan provider to cover pole to pole and beyond.
Marquee Malarkey, a creative marquee and events company specialising in bespoke products and services including structures, interiors, lighting and audio visual, have joined forces with Fews Marquees, a leading provider of high-quality clearspan marquees. This union makes the only truly creative, all-encompassing marquee team in the UK.
Marquee Malarkey create unique events whether inside marquees or buildings, or even out in the open. “What sets us apart is our desire to experiment, to try to make each event different, to really take our clients’ ideas and run with them” said the Head of Lighting and Sound.
Marquee Malarkey work with a diverse range of structures from extraordinary tension tents and big tops to more regular clearspan marquees. They are specialists in custom creative work. However, some of the more significant services provided include bespoke interior design and fitting, custom linings, specialist interior lighting from candles and colour-washing LEDs to intelligent dance lights with gobos, external architectural lighting of buildings, trees and other features, projection screens, DJing, VJing and P.A. systems.
They even offer a landscape gardener to prepare the surroundings for the event. “We are creative, we seek the unusual, the bespoke; we want clients with imagination and clients with imagination want us”. They cover all areas, particularly the more creative corporate events and festivals, but it will come as no great surprise that their primary market is weddings!
Fews Marquees is a long-established provider of clearspan marquees, with clients including English Heritage, The National Trust, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, University of Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, Bosch and VFestival. The majority of their private sector work is weddings. “Clean, bright and white” says company director Ian Few “…it sounds simple but so many companies don’t do it…we put significant effort and resources into ensuring our equipment is always in tip-top condition”. With purpose built stores, a fleet of squeaky-clean vehicles and one of the strictest equipment replacement policies around, it is no wonder Fews have become arguably one of the highest quality clearspan providers in the UK. One particularly buoyant member of staff said “Ian loves everything about marquees, his passion and perfectionism is infectious so everyone in the team shares his enthusiasm. We all really enjoy working here and I think this comes across in the way we do the job.”
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
The combined abilities of the two companies present a force to be reckoned with. Fews Marquees' expertise and experience in providing top-quality clearspan structures in all sorts of locations allows Marquee Malarkey to let their creative juices flow in even the most difficult environments. Between them they have the ability to meet just about any marquee requirement anywhere in the UK. More than this though, they make the bespoke and the beautiful available to a much wider section of the market. Commenting on this, Marquee Malarkey’s Creative Director said “it makes our services not only more widely available but also more cost effective with greater economies of scale…people who may have been under the impression that there is only a standard, boring marquee format will now have their eyes opened to a world of possibilities…it’s really exciting”.
There seems to be a great deal of understanding and respect between them – Marquee Malarkey obviously know a lot about marquees and Fews realise the need for, and positively desire, the imagination and vision they bring. “We started working with Fews a couple of years ago when we needed a large clearspan structure with a ring-beam floor for a private party… now we wouldn’t think about using anybody else – they have unparalleled quality standards and put 110% into everything they do” said the Creative Director. Fews share this professional admiration: “You’d be amazed what Marquee Malarkey can do…they think completely outside the box. Working together we’ve been able to produce some of the most beautiful marquees you will ever see; all the clients have been overwhelmed. I think we have learned a lot from each other and that we’re a really dynamic team.”
It is, however, not the best time in the leisure industry. They concur, in fact they appear acutely aware of it, but remain upbeat, with both traditionally appealing to the higher end of the market. Ian Few was clear about this: “We recognise the economic difficulties we face at present, but we have a shared vision and I am really looking forward to what we might achieve together in the future.”
The market certainly is not what it was, it is likely that only the strongest will survive. There can, however, be no doubt that in combination Marquee Malarkey and Fews Marquees are very, very strong and they say that the only thing that lasts is quality, which, it would seem, they have in abundance.
A discount of 10% is currently being offered for all bookings in 2010
Marquee Malarkey - New Website
Its been a long time coming, but our new website: www.marqueemalarkey.com went live this weekend.
We've put up some fabulous new photos in the gallery, information on wedding marquee hire, and a new page about equipment hire.
Regards,
Marquee Malarkey
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