PMY Showman's Show 2026

Technology that
runs the event.

Networks, Wi-Fi, payments, CCTV, broadcast. PMY designs, builds and operates the technology behind the UK's biggest live events, then takes it all away again.

Not just festivals

Five kinds of event.
One way of working.

A festival, a golf championship, a state ceremony, a Christmas market, a West End residency. Different sites, different crowds, one partner end to end. Pick one and see what that kind of job needs.

A five-day greenfield festival on a remote farm: a resilient event network for production, media, broadcasters, ticketing, artists and security, with PMY on site for more than 15 years.

e.g. Glastonbury Festival Read the case study
  • Temporary 10Gb network
  • VoIP
  • Public and private Wi-Fi
  • Private 5G network
  • CCTV surveillance
  • Diverse-route fibre internet
  • EPOS network

A links championship built from scratch on the Causeway Coast: a temporary network for broadcast, hospitality, scoring and security, with crowd intelligence across the course.

e.g. The Open Read the case study
  • Temporary IT network
  • Crowd intelligence
  • Internet provision
  • CCTV surveillance
  • Audio visual provision

A state ceremony on Horse Guards Parade and The Mall: secure CCTV, private Wi-Fi and high-speed internet for the teams running the day.

e.g. Trooping the Colour Read the case study
  • CCTV surveillance
  • Private Wi-Fi
  • High-speed internet

The UK's largest outdoor Christmas market in Hyde Park, 2.5 million visitors over a month: a temporary network overlay for Wi-Fi, announcements, EPOS and CCTV, plus live occupancy counting.

e.g. Winter Wonderland Read the case study
  • Crowd intelligence
  • Temporary IT network
  • EPOS wired and Wi-Fi network
  • Mobile phone mast connectivity
  • CCTV surveillance

A purpose-built arena with a permanent residency: a permanent IT network and internet, EPOS, public Wi-Fi and CCTV that run show after show.

e.g. ABBA Voyage Read the case study
  • Permanent IT network and internet provision
  • EPOS network
  • Public Wi-Fi
  • CCTV surveillance
Take Glastonbury

A city that appears
for five days.

The clearest way to show what we do is to fly over one site. Worthy Farm: one of the world's largest festivals, on a farm with nothing in the ground. Every point on this map is something PMY put there.

Aerial view of Glastonbury Festival
PMY Glastonbury Festival · site view

Scroll to fly across Worthy Farm and see where PMY's technology sits, or tap any point.

Touchpoint 01 / 08

High-speed internet

Two diverse fibre connections into the site, for resilience.

2× diverse high-speed fibre
Touchpoint 02 / 08

Entrance gates

Ticket scanning and access control, plus public Wi-Fi for downloading tickets.

Touchpoint 03 / 08

Pyramid Stage

Pyramid Stage

Wi-Fi and wired connections for audio-visual and production.

Touchpoint 04 / 08

Media

Live broadcast streaming for TV, radio, online and on-demand.

TV, radio & on-demand
Touchpoint 05 / 08

Bars & traders

Resilient Wi-Fi for EPOS and RFID at every bar and stall.

PCI-compliant payments
Touchpoint 06 / 08

Sponsor activations

Wi-Fi for brand activations and marketing.

Touchpoint 07 / 08

Camping

Public Wi-Fi across the campsites.

Touchpoint 08 / 08

CCTV surveillance

An HD CCTV overlay feeding the event control room.

115 HD cameras

Eight touchpoints.
One partner, end to end.

Underneath

What the crowd sees.
What we built.

Drag across the aerial. The festival everyone photographs sits on a network nobody notices, which is rather the point.

Aerial view of Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury aerial with PMY's touchpoints numbered
What the crowd sees A festival.
What PMY built The network under it.
Scale

The numbers
behind a weekend.

Fibre by the kilometre, access points by the hundred, cameras feeding one control room. And Glastonbury is one event in the year.

Aerial view of Glastonbury Festival
15+ years delivering at Glastonbury Festival
440 Wi-Fi access points across Worthy Farm
115 HD CCTV cameras feeding event control
2.5 million visitors to Winter Wonderland in a month
7,000 end devices connected at Winter Wonderland
57 km of ethernet cabling in Hyde Park
Figures from the Glastonbury Festival and Hyde Park Winter Wonderland case studies.
What we delivered

Every service,
one partner.

Flip a tile to see what each service meant on the ground.

services · one partner
Event network Event network Two diverse high-speed fibre connections into a permanent 10Gb network, extended with temporary fibre. 35 km + 20 km of fibre
Wi-Fi coverage Wi-Fi coverage Public and private Wi-Fi across fields, campsites, bars and backstage. 440 access points
VoIP phones VoIP phones Business-class phones for the teams running the site. 350 phones
Payments Payments PCI-compliant networks for EPOS and RFID at every bar and trader. PCI compliant
CCTV CCTV An HD surveillance overlay for the control room, day and night. 115 HD cameras
Event control room Event control room Weather monitoring, traffic reporting and camera feeds on one wall. 45 HD screens
Media network Media network Connectivity for TV and radio broadcast, online and on-demand. TV, radio & on-demand
Private 5G Private 5G A licensed private mobile network for production and security. Licensed spectrum
And everywhere else

This job, or
everything we do.

Switch between what Glastonbury needed and the full range. The lit tiles are one job; the rest is what the next one might need.

Glastonbury, end to end One partner, the whole event

Connect
Fibre & internet
Connect
Temporary event networks
Connect
Permanent IT networks
Connect
Mobile mast connectivity
Wireless
Public & private Wi-Fi
Wireless
Private 5G
Operate
EPOS & RFID payments
Operate
Ticketing & access control
Operate
CCTV surveillance
Operate
Crowd intelligence (Optic)
Engage
Digital signage
Engage
Media & broadcast
Engage
Audio visual provision
Engage
Sponsor activations
Case studies

Five events.
Five very different jobs.

Each one a full case study: the brief, what we delivered, and what it looked like on the day.

All case studies
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